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@firsa.eu

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Mapping FinTech trends and regulation in the European Union. www.firsa.eu

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 14/04/2026

Happy to see our most recent tutorial on RSelenium featured in RWeekly (2026-W16)! The screencast below shows a minimal example of what can be done with automated browsers. Use responsibly! Tutorial: firsa.eu/posts/rselen... Follow RWeekly rweekly.org #Rstats #OpenScience #DataVisualization

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 08/04/2026

Want to an easy way to learn web scraping? 🤖 Check out this new tutorial on Selenium in R. It covers how to automate web browsers to collect data from dynamic websites ➡️ firsa.eu/posts/rselen... #RStats #RSelenium #WebScraping #DataScience

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 23/03/2026

What are the odds you own crypto assets? 📉 How is financial literacy related to ownership? 📖 Our new dashboard lets you simulate the probability of recent crypto-asset ownership based on a statistical model. 🔗 dashboard.firsa.eu #bitcoin #rstats #shiny #crypto #fintech #OpenScience

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 20/03/2026

📄 New FIRSA working paper. Are crypto holders really more overconfident? Using recent EU-wide data, I find the answer depends a lot on how overconfidence is measured. Pre-print version, comments welcome. 🔗 firsa.eu/posts/crypto... #FinTech #OpenScience #EUData #RStats

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 15/01/2026

Who owns crypto in Europe? Join the FIRSA Academic Roundtable (link below) to learn more about research on FinTech (CBDCs, Crypto, Regulatory Sandboxes) from top scholars. 📣 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius) zoom.us/j/9443773243... Passcode: 995511

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 14/01/2026

🚨 Academic roundtable on fintech regulation. Join the conversation with Colin Chia (University of Victoria), Ghita Chraibi (University of Virginia), and Vytautas Kuokštis (Vilnius University). 📣 (TUE) 20 Jan · 10:00 CST (Chicago) / 18:00 EET (Vilnius) 🔗: zoom.us/j/9443773243... #fintech #finance

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 01/12/2025

💡 What are NFTs? NFTs are unique digital tokens on a blockchain that certify ownership of a specific item. Unlike crypto coins, they aren’t interchangeable. 🔗 Demystifying NFTs Report (2021): blockchain-observatory.ec.europa.eu/document/dow... #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU #NFT

Shares of total NTF sales (2021). Source: EU Observatory and Forum on Blockchain

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 29/09/2025

💡 What is a regulatory sandbox? A regulatory sandbox is a framework that allows firms to test innovative financial services in a controlled environment under the regulator’s supervision. 🔗 Read more on the FIRSA website: www.firsa.eu #FinTech #DigitalFinance #EU

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FIRSA @firsa.eu · 22/04/2025

Zero-shot classification and natural language inference (NLI) offer a powerful way to analyze political texts without labeled training data. This tutorial shows how to classify sentences using a pre-trained transformer model. Google Colab Link: colab.research.google.com/drive/1gCZBy...

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