SMU Associate Professor of Information Systems (Practice) Paul Griffin was interviewed about the breadth of initiatives by SMU to nurture innovators and disruptors of the digital age. He answered questions on what he fintech ecosystem is like at SMU; the mandate around fintech research, innovation, and entrepreneurship; the FinTech track at SMU’s Master of IT in Business programme and the SMU Academy and how these are different from SMU’s previous programmes in financial services at SMU. He was asked what collaborations SMU has put in place with financial institutions and start-ups; how SMU addresses the talent shortage in fintech; where fintech specialists will come from; how the question of domain versus agility and new technology will pan out; and whether technology for the fintech industry will become a commodity?