The conference, running yesterday and today, is organised jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and by the Journal of Business & Economics.

It features papers on:

·   “Fintech Lending: Financial Inclusion, Risk Pricing, and Alternative Information    

·   “Fintech, Regulatory Arbitrage, and the Rise of Shadow Banks”

·    “The Law of One Bitcoin Price?”

·   “Blockchain Disruption and Smart Contracts”

·   “The Price of a Digital Currency”

·   “The Economics of Distributed Ledger Technology for Securities Settlement” 

·   “Competition in the Financial Advisory Market: Robo versus Traditional Advisors”

·   “Does FinTech Affect Household Saving Behavior?”

·   “Integrating the Troublemakers: A Taxonomy for Cooperation between Banks and Fintechs”

·    “Financial Regulatory Implications of Artificial Intelligence”

·   “Market Design with Blockchain Technology”

·   “Between the Lines: Decipher the Firms’ Fundamentals with Artificial Intelligence”

   “Law, Trust, and the Development of Crowdfunding”

·   “Profit Sharing: A Contracting Solution to Harness the Wisdom of the Crowd”

·   “Financing Efficiency of Securities-Based Crowdfunding”

The speakers are from universities, companies and other institutions from (in no particular order) the US, Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Australia, China and India – and perhaps other countries.