[Online & Offline] The Future of FinTech: A Transformative Industry Go back »
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Time2020-09-03 | 16:00 - 17:15
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Venue:Online - Zoom Online Meeting Platform and in-person from the European Chamber Shanghai Office
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Investment in the fintech sector has remained strong even in the face of turmoil and volatility in global markets and despite macroeconomic concerns. Demand for fintech innovations by financial institutions has continued to grow.
FinTech can bring numerous benefits to both consumers and businesses. . Fintech has grown for several reasons: changes in expectations about financial services and consumer behaviour; a more affordable infrastructure spurred by Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and cloud computing; digital currencies and mobile technologies and their effect on reducing barriers to entry to the financial services industry. Fintech, thus, has continued to transform the global financial landscape. On the other hand, FinTech innovations can pose risk for consumers and businesses, with the increasing need of protecting the privacy of customers’ information in an online environment.
In this context, China has been at the forefront of the industry’s growth. China is the largest fintech market in the world, in 2018 it accounted for 46% of all fintech investments globally. China had the right conditions to promote this incredible development: traditional banking systems were not well-developed and the regulatory environment was far less constraining towards fintech businesses. These two factors combined boosted the industry in China.
The European Chamber is pleased to invite renown experts of the industry to offer insights, trend analysis and predictions for the evolution of the sector, as well lessons to be learnt from the Chinese model. We welcome Dr. Bonnie Buchanan, Head of Department of Finance and Accounting, Professor of Finance, University of Surrey (United Kingdom), Michael Moon, Managing Director, Payments & Trade Markets, Asia Pacific, SWIFT, Piyush Singh, Managing Director, Head of Financial Services Asia Pacific and Africa, Accenture, and Diego Garcia Fernandez, Head of Business Development Alipay Spain Wallet. and David Wen, Professor at the International Business School at Zhejiang University. Join us Thursday 3rd September, 4:00am-5:15pm (GMT+8) online via Zoom.
Agenda
4:00pm – 4:05pm Introductory Remarks by Peter Ling-Vannerus, Chair of the European Chamber’s Banking & Securities
Working Group and Chief Representative at SEB
4:05pm-4:55pm Interactive Dialogue
- Piyush Singh, Managing Director, Head of Financial Services Asia Pacific and Africa, Accenture
- Diego Garcia Fernandez, Head of Business Development, Alipay Spain Wallet
- Michael Moon, Managing Director, Payments & Trade Markets, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
- Professor Bonnie Buchanan, Head of Department of Finance and Accounting, Professor of Finance,
University of Surrey (United Kingdom)
- David Wen, Professor, International Business School, Zhejiang University, Ex-Chairman, ITU Focus Group
on Digital Fiat Currency
4:55pm-5:10pm Q&A Session
5:10pm-5:15pm Closing Remarks by Peter Ling-Vannerus, Chair of the European Chamber’s Banking & Securities
Working Group and Chief Representative at SEB
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Speakers
Mr. Peter Ling-Vannerus
Mr. Peter Ling-Vannerus
Peter Ling-Vannerus is responsible for developing and managing the Bank’s Business in Northern China, as well as monitoring the political and economic development of China for SEB. He studied at INSEAD and Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Mr. Piyush Singh
Mr. Piyush Singh
Profile:
Senior Managing Director and leads Accenture’s India Business in addition to being responsible for Growth and Strategic Relationships for Asia Pacific, Africa, Middle East and Latin America.
Piyush joined Accenture in 2006 and has worked across Europe and Asian Markets..
Piyush has worked in the areas of business strategy, transformation, cost reduction, business re-alignment and outsourcing of IT and operations functions. His primary focus has been on Financial Services Industry.
Experience:
Piyush is working with organisations in sectors of Banking, Insurance and Energy across the APAC and LATAM region driving Change and transformation both in the areas of Digital as well as structural simplification and cost reduction.
Before that he was Accenture’s head for Financial Services business in Asia Pacific. Piror to that he was part of the leadership team at Lloyds Banking Group that led the LBG-HBoS Integration Programme. He has worked across a number of other Financial Services organisations including Barclays, American Express, RBS and brings extensive experience of working with their Boards and shaping their business strategy and key change and IT programmes. Prior to joining Accenture Piyush had held some other senior roles including the Head of Supply Chain for Scottish Widows (Life Insurance) and member of Management Board for Xansa (UK based technology and outsourcing firm).
Piyush did most of his education in India (Mayo College and Delhi University) and holds a Masters in Business Administration from ENPC Paris.
Mr. Diego Garcia Fernandez
Mr. Diego Garcia Fernandez
Diego is responsible for business development at Alipay’s Spain e-wallet and has served roles at Alibaba Group in China, South-East Asia and Europe. Before Alibaba, he attended law school in Spain, worked at Procter & Gamble’s finance division in London and earned an MBA at China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. Outside of work, Diego is passionate about sailing, teaching and triathlons.
Mr. Michael Moon
Mr. Michael Moon
Michael Moon joined SWIFT’s Singapore office in 2012 and leads its payments and trade functions in Asia Pacific. In this role, he partners with the payments and banking industry to deliver next-generation payment and settlement solutions. Michael manages SWIFT’s strategic initiatives in Asia Pacific, many of which are reshaping the payments landscape globally. These include SWIFT gpi for cross-border payments and SWIFT’s instant payment system solutions in Asia Pacific (including the New Payments Platform in Australia for domestic real time payments). Michael works extensively with the wider payment ecosystem of retail and corporate payment providers, new industry entrants, financial crime, compliance and fraud solutions. He further collaborates with industry on new technology adoption such as cloud, APIs and matters of standards and governance in the industry.
Michael’s career in the financial services and payments industry spans 20 years, and has seen him hold positions in business development, product management, strategy and marketing functions, across China, India, the US, Australia, Singapore and South East Asia.
He joined SWIFT from American Express, where he led group strategy and business development for its network, merchant and B2B businesses in Asia Pacific. Prior to American Express Michael worked in the Australian banking industry with Citi and Commonwealth Bank.
Michael has lived and worked in Singapore since 2007 and has an MBA from the Australian Graduate School of Management in Sydney.
Prof. Bonnie Buchanan
Prof. Bonnie Buchanan
Professor Bonnie Buchanan is the Head of the Department of Finance and Accounting at the Surrey Business School and a Professor of Finance. She is also a member of the Centre of Digital Economy at the University of Surrey. In 2018-2019, Professor Buchanan served as the Fulbright-Hanken Distinguished Chair of Business and Economics at the Hanken School of Economics, Finland. Prior to this, Professor Buchanan worked at Seattle University where she was the Howard Bosanko Professor in International Finance and Economics and the George Albers Professor. She also served as the MSF program director and MBA program director at Seattle University.
Professor Buchanan has published in leading international journals including the Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Business Ethics, American Business Law Journal. Her research on shareholder proposals has been recognized with the Hoeber Memorial Award for Outstanding Article in American Business Law Journal and her work has been cited in the Financial Times. She has research expertise in FinTech, AI in financial services, securitization, CSR and law and finance. Professor Buchanan has also taught in Australia, Russia and Finland. She is currently the Editor in Chief of Journal of Risk Finance. Professor Buchanan has received numerous grants including ones from the Alan Turing Institute and SWIFT Institute on AI and FinTech issues.
Professor Buchanan also appears in the media on FinTech issues. She has also testified at the US House of Financial Services for the AI Taskforce.
Mr. David Wen
Mr. David Wen
Dr David Wen is a professor at the International Business School of Zhejiang University. After obtaining his Ph.D from Oxford University, he has worked at NTT Communication Science Laboratory in Japan, before appointed the youngest Associate Professor in Tokyo Science University. When visiting Stanford University as a visiting professor, he decided to apply his research to build solution for challenging and impactful ventures in the real world. He started as a security architect at ActivCard (now HID Global) and was responsible for the design of the Identity Management Solution for the Department of Defense’s Common Access Card (CAC) program. He went on to become the product manager, program manager and Chief Scientist at Fortune 500 companies such as Dell and SAIC, managing the deployment of US Federal Government’s Personal Identification and Verification (PIV) program at NASA, DHS, FDA. He is one of the main contributors who enabled the most advanced Digital Identity Management solution for the entire US government by the 2008 deadline set by President George Bush in HSPD-12. In September 2011, he co-founded eCurrency Mint Ltd, applying his extensive experience building nationwide security program to the solution of a Central Bank Issued Digital Currency. He helped coin the term Digital Fiat Currency working as the US expert to ISO Technical Committee 68 (SC 2) for digital currency security, and elected chairman of the International Telecommunication Union’s Focus Group on Digital Fiat Currency, working with central banks and telecom regulators from People’s Bank of China as well as over 40 Central Banks around the world. He co-authored the first “Digital Legal Currency” book published by People’s Finance Publisher and is used as textbook for graduate studies. He has also numerous patents in US.
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