Workshop: The Future of Fintech in China – Hong Kong

With funding accounting for 49% of total global investment in the first quarter this year, China is beginning to set a mark for itself and to tackle the international stage to be the leader in FinTech and the next innovation hub.

This full day workshop comes at a crucial time when China is taking an increasingly vital role in global finance. It offers a unique and important opportunity to learn about innovations from senior managers and experts from the most successful Chinese FinTech companies including Lufax, Tencent, AntFinancial and many more.

Topics will cover regulations surrounding FinTechs in China, the development in the P2P lending, robo-advisors and blockchain.

Agenda

09:30 – 10:00 Registration

10:00 – 10:20 Opening Remarks

Overview of China’s FinTech Landscape and Fireside Chat

Briefing by Gregory Gibb, CEO, LuFax and moderated by Paul Schulte, Founder and Editor, Schulte Research

10:20 – 11:40 Coffee Break

11:40 – 12:20 FinTech regulation in China and the rise of RegTech

China’s FinTech has blossomed in the last few years, by the end of 2015, the market size of  the internet finance sector was more than CNY12T ($1.8T). This attracted a lot of the attention from media, investors and more importantly the regulator. Understand more how China’s regulator navigate the FinTech landscape.

12:20 – 13:00 P2P Boom

China’s P2P lending business has seen growth like never before, increasing from five into more than two thousand platforms in less than a decade. Join us for a sneak peek into China’s booming P2P lending business. Learn how China reached over 80 billion CNY transactions in a single month and the success stories behind the companies in the country with the most P2P platforms.

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 15:00 China’s wealth management

China is home to more than one million high-net-worth individuals, twice as many as in 2010, this sparked a frenzy in the wealth management sector in China with thousands of asset management companies popping up every month. Find out how China’s leading wealth management companies is innovating it’s business to have more personalized asset allocations and more diversified portfolios.

15:00 – 15:40 Blockchain behind the Great Wall

China is starting to realize the multitude of applications for the blockchain technology. Following the statement that PBOC is looking into cloud computation, secure chip and blockchain technology as means to create and operate an electronic cash network, blockchain has really taken on center stage in China.

15:40 – 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:40 Credit market: The Spur of On-Line Banks in China

China’s first online bank grew to 11 million customers and extended more than 9 Billion Renminbi with its product. Learn how did they leverage using their large social customer base. Also learn how they uses social-based scoring to profile its borrowers.

Case-studies on online banks in China

16:40 -17:00 Closing remarks and key takeaways

What’s next for China? What will it mean for the rest of us? Will the stream of funding boom for China Fintech companies continue despite the regulatory uncertainty?

17:00 – Certificate Presentation