Financial innovation presents a significant opportunity that goes beyond its impact on financial services firms; the entire economy can benefit. Prof Anne-Laure Mention, Director of the Global Business Innovation Enabling Capability Platform at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, is a prolific contributor to the Open Innovation literature, with a keen research interest in FinTech. Find more from Prof Mention on Twitter , and her personal website.Find more on the Open Inno Train at https://www.openinnotrain.eu/Read more about her work in Research Outreach.Read her most recent papers :Exploring how social interactions influence regulators and innovators: The case of regulatory sandboxes. Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 160, 120257. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2020.120257 The Future of Fintech. Research-Technology Management, 62(4), 59-63. Available at: https://www.doi.org/10.1080/08956308.2019.1613123