At the invitation of IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde, the Shanghai Finance Institute (SFI) and the Institute of Digital Finance (IDF) at Peking University held a seminar with the IMF on Fintech in China on June 18, 2019 in Washington D.C. The theme of the seminar was "Technology and Financial Services: Frontiers of Digital Payments".
The Seminar consisted of four panels, and experts and policymakers had discussions on data privacy and protection, competition and cooperation between banks and non-bank payment institutions, micro-credit in the era of big data and the prospects of financial technology.
This is the second time that the Chinese delegation had a Fintech dialogue with its international counterparts and shared their experiences on Fintech development on the international stage.
