ADBI Call for Papers: Bridging Investment Gaps Through Fintech

Call for Papers

Organisation: Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

Closing date: 30 June 2020

The ADBI is calling for papers on the topic of 'Bridging Investment Gaps Through Fintech' for their conference in Singapore on 10-11 September 2020. The application deadline is 30 June 2020. Click here to apply.

Rapid advances in financial technology are opening ways to bridge long-term investment gaps. For example, fintech can increasingly help to address the estimated multi-trillion dollar infrastructure investment gap in Asia and the Pacific by facilitating project identification, design, financing, implementation, and insurance, thereby attracting private investors and minimizing related risks. Digital tools such as peer-to-peer based lending, blockchain technologies, big data, tokenization, cryptocurrencies, and crowdsourced financing can also help to mobilize the long-term finance needed by groups such as small and medium-sized enterprises and women-led startups.

The conference will bring together policy makers and researchers to explore issues, opportunities, and challenges embedded in fintech and identify possible policy considerations at national and regional levels to narrow existing financing gaps.

Empirical and theoretical paper topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• How fintech can improve the domestic and international mobilization, distribution, and allocation of financial resources to address development gaps and long-term investment needs.
• How fintech can facilitate infrastructure investment, including in areas such as project identification, design, financing, implementation, and insurance.
• Policies and regulations needed to promote the long-term investment benefits offered by fintech, while minimizing the potential challenges and risks, such as ensuring consumer protection, data privacy, and financial stability.