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2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogues: From Fintech to Insurtech in China and the US: Consumer-Facing Financial Innovation and Economic Change hosted by IMTFI and the School of Social Sciences, UC Irvine and in partnership with the Fudan-UC Center on Contemporary China.
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Understanding fintech from the U.S. to China (Filene Blog Post)
On September 28-29, the 2018 California-Shanghai Innovation Dialogues hosted by UC Irvine brought together scholars, policymakers, and industry professionals from across the globe to discuss the ethics and broader social impact of emergent technologies, from insurtech to blockchain to roboadvising. Filene’s newest Fellow, Bill Maurer, gave a talk analyzing the burgeoning cryptocurrency ‘ICO’ phenomenon focusing on the power of big data and digital platforms to create seemingly totalizing systems. Here, Maurer teases out some of the major financial innovations headed our way and the socioeconomic implications that credit unions should be attuned to.