The 2nd Asia Finance Forum: FinTech and Sustainable Development 2017 | Asian Development Bank (ADB) | 8 November 2017 | Manila, Philippines

The conference, in collaboration between ADB and ADB Institute, aims to discuss the growing importance of digital finance and its cross-cutting impacts on sustainable development goals including poverty reduction, inclusive economic growth, inequality mitigation, as well as having an impact on addressing thematic issues such as hunger, health, education, gender, energy, infrastructure, and climate change.

The conference will build on the 2016 ADB Conference on Financial Inclusion in the Digital Economy and focus on:
new developments in digital financial services and its impact on sustainable development goals; the role of infrastructure, governments, multilateral development bank programs and the use of digital payments; innovations in digital financial solutions that are impacting access to finance, including agricultural value chains; how alternative data is being used to support digital finance, the new opportunities and trade-offs and the challenges for policy makers and regulators; digital finance and health especially the new developments in insurance; the role of financial literacy and consumer protection in the digital age; addressing the balancing act regulators are faced with: prudential, market side, risk governance, against creating an appropriate enabling to support innovation via the test-and-learn and sandbox approaches as well as the potential role of cross-border/international recognition for fintech approvals;