Finance China 2022 Agenda
Thursday 25 August 2022, Beijing, China
Registration
08:30 – 09:00Welcome address
Cindy Yu, Director, CEO, Greater China, The Asian Banker
Emmanuel Daniel, Chairman, The Asian Banker
Opening Keynotes
Steven Barnett, Senior Resident Representative in China, International Monetary Fund (IMF)
Li Yang, Chairman, National Institution for Finance and Development; Member, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Richard Koo, Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute
Leadership dialogue: The opportunities and challenges for China’s financial services industry in an age of upheaval
The turbulence posed by the pandemic as well as factors including geopolitical conflicts and deglobalisation pose critical threats to the global economic recovery and world order reshaping.
In the face of these complex and uncertain times, what are the recovery barriers for world economy and China? Can the world start to rebuild the trust and cooperate from digital technologies and sustainable development? How China’s financial institutions comply with regulations to identify and mitigate risks, deepen reforms and opening-up, rebuild the resilience of the financial system to support the economic growth back to the normal track?
- Global economic recovery in the face of persistent uncertainties
- China's economic outlook in the second half of the year
- An accelerated integration between digital economy and real economy
- Building a new China’s financial ecosystem to promote highquality growth
Speakers/panellists include:
Richard Koo, Chief Economist, Nomura Research Institute
Zhang Jun, Dean, School of Economics, Fudan University
Xu Qiyuan, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Session chaired by:
Hu Jie, Professor of Practice, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Tea/Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00Boosting digitisation in financial services
Finance is undergoing a further profound digital transformation, from internal organizational structure; to the business models; and the extension of external cooperation. We will have traditional financial institutions, fintechs and technology companies to discuss how they embrace partnership to meet diversified needs of customers in the digital era; as well as how they maintain strong innovation ability on the basis of complying with regulations.
- The roadmap of next-gen digitisation of banks
- Digital ecosystem building-up strategies for financial institutions and fintechs
- The relationship among technologies, products and customers
Speakers/panellists include:
Zhang Yongqiang, Expert, Internet Finance, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China
Zhang Yu, Vice President and General Manager, Banking Business, Tongdun Technology
Session chaired by:
Hugh Zeng, Research Manager, The Asian Banker
Luncheon
11:45 – 13:00Architecting the future infrastructure of finance
Financial institutions continue to invest heavily in technologies to accelerate their digital transformation and improve their core competencies. On the other hand, they are actively developing new products and services as the development of new technologies and new concept, such as metaverse.
- Leveraging cloud to create new business frontiers
- Can 5G and IoT possibly integrate with AI and blockchain to form a new ecosystem?
- Rebuilding personal data privacy with blockchain and AI
- Breaking data silos
Speakers/panellists include:
Shen Yan, Deputy Director, Institute of Digital Finance and Professor of Finance, National School of Development, Peking University
Margaret Hu, President of Marketing and Solution Sales, Global Digital Finance, Huawei
Hata Fan, Deputy General Manager, Technology Development for the Distributed, Webank; Head, WeBank Blockchain
Session Chaired by:
Hu Jie, Professor of Practice, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Using Regtech for compliance and risk management
The rise of regulatory technology (Regtech) presents opportunities to unlock significant benefits for banks, clients, and regulators. In this session, we will focus on how regtech can amplify compliance and risk management strategy to establish a stable and healthy financial ecosystem.
- Applying new technologies to enable proactive compliance and risk management
- Early warning system for risk identification
- Deploying regtech against financial crime through know your customer (KYC) and anti-money laundering (AML)
Speakers/panellists include:
Liu Jinmiao, Vice General Manager, IT Development Center, Ping An Bank
Li Zhen, Assistant General Manager, Tianyi E-commerce
Chen Yajuan, Chief Operating Officer and General Manager, Analytics and Empowerment Business Unit, WISECO Technology
Session Chaired by:
Bush Pu, Research Manager, The Asian Banker
Tea/Coffee break
14:45 – 15:15Further opening-up of the financial sector
Speakers/panellists include:
Zong Liang, Lead Researcher, Bank of China
John Gong, Vice President, Strategy and Research, University of International Business and Economics – Israel
Hu Jie, Professor of Practice, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Session Chaired by:
Hugh Zeng, Research Manager, The Asian Banker