(FINTECH) and its applications
2021-06-15

Brief introduction of the Reporter:

Sun Qian, PhD in Economics, is currently a distinguished professor and doctoral supervisor of Fudan University. He studied at Peking University, Fudan University, William Paterson College and Arizona State University, and successively received bachelor's degree, master's degree in business administration, and doctoral degree in economics. He has taught at the School of Business of Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and Xiamen University.

He is engaged in research on capital markets, corporate finance, international finance and auditing for a long time, and has written many books. He has published more than 30 papers in the international leading academic financial journals included in SSCI such as Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Journal of Banking & Finance. Most of his research is related to China and has a certain influence in the international academic community.

He is a member of the Asian Shadow Financial Supervisory Committee. He was the vice chairman of the Asian Finance Society, the vice chairman of the Asian Finance Society, and the deputy director of the Finance Teaching Steering Committee of Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education and serves as the editorial board of Journal of Corporate Finance and many domestic and foreign academic journals.


The Abstract of the Report: The basic concepts of financial technology, provide relevant cases of FINTECH (Alipay, P2P, Papadai, robo-advisor, credit evaluation, inclusive finance, etc.), discussing the financial application of blockchain (application of blockchain technology in exchanges, supply Chain finance, smart contract), pointing out the future academic research direction of FINTECH.

Half an hour free discussion of the writing and publication of financial journal papers.