How will FinTech change the future of financial services?
Answers on 2 April 2019, Palais Brongniart, Paris, France at the Advances in Financial Technologies and Applications to Investment Solutions for Individuals Conference
Written on 13 Feb 2019.
EDHEC-Risk Institute, KAIST, Princeton and Tsinghua Universities have joined forces to host an international series of conferences on financial technologies as a forum to facilitate discussion among all interested parties (academics, practitioners and regulators) around the world.
After successful events organised in Princeton in 2017 and Seoul in 2018, EDHEC-Risk Institute is pleased to be hosting the "Advances in Financial Technologies and Applications to Investment Solutions for Individuals" conference, which will be held in Paris on 2 April 2019 at the Palais Brongniart – a flagship monument on Paris' historic landscape as it was the home of the French Stock Exchange for nearly two centuries. Attendees will have the opportunity to have informal discussions in the Espace Corbeille, which is harks back to the ambience of the original Stock Exchange. This new space, managed by our endorsing partner La Place, is the recently-launched Fintech meeting point for companies and organisations involved in the fields of banking, finance, insurance and technology. The conference also receives the endorsement of Fintech France and the Louis Bachelier Institute.
Leading experts from the US, Asia and Europe will be featured at the conference, including, Lionel Martellini (Director of EDHEC-Risk Institute), Changle Lin (Adjunct Professor, Tsinghua University), John Mulvey (Professor and founding member of the Bendheim Centre for Finance at Princeton University), Laurent Calvet (Professor at EDHEC Business School) and Woo Chang Kim (Associate Professor at KAIST).
The conference sessions will include presentations on the following themes:
- Mass Production, Mass Customisation and Mass Distribution of Improved Retirement Solutions with Digital Goal-Based Investing Technology
- Modelling Investor Behaviour Based on Micro-Level Big Data and AI Systems
- What Do Large Datasets Reveal about Household Financial Decisions?
- Decentralised Enterprise Risk Management: Optimal Capital Allocation for Global Diverse FinTech Organisations
- A Case Study on Enhancing Income Security via Financial Technologies
The conference will also include two workshops in parallel sessions, conducted by official partners Samsung Asset Management and Amundi.
The conference will close with a roundtable session entitled "The Rise of Robo-Advisors: A Threat or an Opportunity for the Wealth Management Industry?", moderated by Yuri Bender from the Financial Times.
Further information on the conference, including the conference programme, can be found at the dedicated webpage here.
About EDHEC
Operating from campuses in Lille, Nice, Paris, London and Singapore, EDHEC is one of the world’s top 15 business schools. Fully international and directly connected to the business world, EDHEC commands a strong reputation for research excellence and the ability to train entrepreneurs and managers capable of breaking new ground. EDHEC functions as a genuine laboratory of ideas and produces innovative solutions valued by businesses. The School’s teaching is inspired by its research work and a focus on “learning by doing”, all with the aim of equipping people with the skills to succeed in business.
