【学术讲座】Landscape, Efforts, and Theoretical Impacts in FinTech Research

Date & Time:10:00-11:30,October 28^th, 2019

Venue: Room 402, Tongji Building A

Language: English

Speaker:

J. Leon Zhao, Chair Professor of Information Systems, Director of Center on Global Internet Finance, City University of Hong Kong

ABSTRACT

According to investopedia.com, "financial technology (FinTech) is used to describe new tech that seeks to improve and automate the delivery and use of financial services. At its core, fintech is utilized to help companies, business owners and consumers better manage their financial operations, processes, and lives by utilizing specialized software and algorithms that are used on computers and, increasingly, smartphones." FinTech may include many sectors such as supply chain finance, retail banking, fundraising and nonprofit, mobile payment, and investment management, as well as the development and use of crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin and Libra. Recently, several economics and management journals have jumped into the FinTech fray in a more concerted manner by publishing special issues closely related to FinTech, such as Journal of MIS (2018), Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (2018), Review of Financial Studies (2019), and Information Systems Research (ongoing).  In this talk, the speaker will survey the landscape of FinTech research and discuss two of his research projects in FinTech. In addition, he would like to explore with the audience on whether or not there will be theoretical impacts in Finance and Economics from recent technological disruptions.

Speaker’s Bio

J. Leon Zhao is Chair Professor in IS, City University of Hong Kong where he was the head of IS in 2009-2015. He was Interim Head and Eller Professor in MIS, University of Arizona before joining City University of Hong Kong. He holds Ph.D. from Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. His research is on information technology and management, with a particular focus on Blockchain, FinTech, workflow, e-learning, and e-commerce. He has served as AE for ISR, ACM Transactions on MIS, IEEE Transactions of Services Computing and guest editors for MISQ, ISR, DSS, among other journals. He is director of Center on Global Internet Finance and Lab on Enterprise Process Innovation and Computing. He received IBM Faculty Award in 2005 and Chang Jiang Scholar Chair Professorship at Tsinghua University in 2009. He is founding Co-EiC for Journal on Financial Innovation, which is based in SWUFE Since 2015. He is one of the founding co-chairs of CSWIM, which is now a very popular international conference in the IS research community of China.

All the faculties and students are welcome to attend this lecture!