13:45-17:30, July 4th, Multifunction Hall, 13th Floor, Guanghua Tower
Moderator: Yi Huang (Professor of Finance at Fudan University)
As an information-based industry, Fintech has long been expected to drive financial innovation. To date, to what extent has Fintech truly transformed the financial system and financial practices? In what areas has it fallen short of expectations? What challenges and limitations does it face? How should we anticipate the future development of Fintech? Can AI become a new engine for financial innovation?
Session 1: Frontier Practices and Exploration of Fintech (13:45-14:45)
· Hao Huang (Senior Vice President at Ant Group) - "AI+Insurance: Technological Revolution Creates New Service Experience"
· Zixia Sheng (CEO of New Hope Financial Services) - "Risk Management of Supply Chain Finance through The Lens of Big Data"
· Fan Zhang (Chief Operating Officer at Zhipu AI) - "Exploration and Best Practices of LLM"
14:45-15:00 Coffee break
Session 2: Fintech Frontiers in Academic Research (15:00-16:20)
· Wei Xiong (John H. Scully '66 Professor in Finance and Professor of Economics at Princeton University, Fellow of the Econometric Society) - "The Big Tech Lending Model"
· Bernard Yeung (President of Asian Bureau of Finance and Economic Research, Distinguished Professor in Finance and Strategic Management at NUS and SUSTech) - "Fin-Tech & Low-Hanging Fruits: Legal Reform, Technology and Bank Lending"
· Hui Chen (Nomura Professor of Finance at MIT Sloan School of Management) - "Market for Manipulable Information"
· Liyan Yang (Professor of Finance at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto) - "Man versus Machine: Implications of AI-Powered Trading for Financial Markets"
Panel Discussion (16:20-17:20): Zixia Sheng, Fan Zhang, Wei Xiong, Bernard Yeung, Hui Chen, Liyan Yang
Concluding remarks (17:20-17:30): Bengt Holmström (Professor of Economics at MIT, 2016 Nobel Laureate in Economics, online)
