Bridging China and Global Fintech Innovation
Session Overview
Bridging China and Global Fintech Innovation
The global financial system is being reshaped by digital currencies, tokenization, and AI. Understanding this transformation requires moving beyond headlines to examine real strategies in action—particularly in China, one of the world's most significant and misunderstood fintech laboratories.
This summit demystifies China's fintech evolution, examining what's working, what's replicable, and where digital paths diverge. Topics include digital currency infrastructure, payment system design, regulatory approaches to innovation, tokenization models, and AI integration in financial services.
The goal is practical dialogue: how different markets are solving similar problems, where convergence creates opportunity, and where collaboration makes sense. Sessions connect global perspectives with insights from China's digital finance experiment to identify what's transferable and what's context-specific .
The Future of Finance: A Tale of Two Digital Currency Strategies (Keynote)
This report analyzes the global competition between state-led central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) and private-sector stablecoins, focusing on the contrasting strategies of China and the United States. It highlights how China’s digital yuan (e-CNY) advances monetary sovereignty and cross-border initiatives like the mBridge project, while the U.S. GENIUS Act reinforces dollar dominance through regulated stablecoins. The report also examines how Asian financial hubs, particularly Hong Kong and Singapore, are innovating within this landscape by establishing regulated environments and fostering digital asset ecosystems. Ultimately, these developments are reshaping global finance, with profound implications for monetary systems, cross-border payments, and geopolitical influence.
Building the Next Global Framework: How Should Nations Coexist in the Age of Digital Assets?
The global financial system is at an inflection point, with digital assets—from Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) and stablecoins to tokenized securities—evolving at different speeds and under divergent regulatory philosophies worldwide. This panel can bring together central bank governors, finance ministers, and leading technology architects from key regions to explore a critical question: How can countries develop their own digital asset ecosystems while ensuring interoperability, security, and trust across borders?
Experts will share groundbreaking initiatives from their regions—whether in cross-border CBDC pilots, regulatory sandboxes, or tokenization of real-world assets—and discuss the practical challenges of aligning diverse national strategies. The conversation will focus on actionable pathways toward a more connected, efficient, and inclusive global financial infrastructure, without sacrificing national sovereignty or financial stability.
Digital Transformation of China’s Finance Industry
This keynote speech will systematically review recent digital practices in key sectors of China's financial industry, such as banking and insurance. We will analyze specific cases of digital initiatives by commercial banks, examining how they enhance operational efficiency and improve customer service. Additionally, we will explore innovation-driven transformations within the insurance industry and other related sectors. The discussion aims to reveal how digitalization is reshaping the financial ecosystem and driving comprehensive improvements in both efficiency and convenience.
Host / Speakers
Dr. Chloe Yang
Financial Digitalization: Strategy, Practice, and Collaboration
This theme directly sets the stage for a practical discussion on the three key pillars of transformation, enabling a focused exchange of real-world experiences from different markets.
Primary Concern Addressed: Managing risk and proving trustworthiness. The discussion centers on the "how" of responsible implementation as regulatory scrutiny intensifies globally.
Finance & Fintech
Finance and fintech are converging—capital structures are changing, technology is reshaping infrastructure, and competitive dynamics are shifting globally.
The finance track examines how capital moves: venture capital and private equity models, pre-exit liquidity mechanisms creating alternatives to traditional exits, investment structures enabling growth without forcing early sales, and the role of strategic versus financial capital in scaling companies.
The fintech track covers where innovation is happening: digital assets including real-world asset tokenization and blockchain infrastructure, China's digital finance ecosystem and what's replicable elsewhere, global payment systems and cross-border infrastructure, AI in risk assessment and compliance, and regulatory frameworks that enable innovation.
Sessions bring together investors, founders, regulators, and corporate strategists examining what's working, what's changing, and where capital meets technology.