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The Paulson Institute Explores Possible Applications of Fintech at the IFF 2019 Annual Conference’s Global Fintech Summit

In November, at the 2019 International Finance Forum (IFF) Annual Conference in Beijing, the IFF and the Paulson Institute launched The Global Fintech Summit.  The Summit moderated by Deborah Lehr, Vice Chairman and Executive Director...

Green Fintech Prospects on the Horizon

The Paulson Institute is focused on how to deploy fintech for sustainability. Are there ways that the technologies used by financial institutions in their businesses could be tied to greening initiatives? Is there replicability and...

Fintech Opens New Possibilities for Green Finance

At a recent event on green fintech hosted by the Paulson Institute and the Research Center for Green Finance Development of Tsinghua University, leading experts discussed some of the pilot projects currently being tested in...

Finding Ways to Engage Fintech to Promote Green Finance Development in China

The Paulson Institute’s Green Finance Center and the Research Center for Green Finance Development of Tsinghua University cohosted a recent roundtable discussion in October on “Engaging Fintech to Promote Green Finance Development in China” in...

The Green Team Speaks to…ERIC JING

Eric Jing is the Chairman and CEO of Ant Financial. He earned a bachelor degree in engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and an EMBA degree from the University of Minnesota. He previously worked with...

The Green Team Speaks to…Doug Miller

The Paris Agreement entails a global consensus for addressing sustainable development, but again, how can we pay for it? In this video interview series, the Paulson Institute’s Green Finance Center explores with leaders in the...

Paulson Institute Co-Convenes Fintech and Green Finance Roundtable

China has the world’s largest and fastest growing market globally for fintech. This growth of giants like Ant Financial and Tencent in this space are transforming the traditional financial industry. Fintech is increasingly becoming the...

Issue #4 — February 2018

Ant Financial and the Greening of Fintech

By Phylicia Wu Financial technology, colloquially known as fintech, is the underlying infrastructure of recent global headlines—bitcoin’s dramatic ebbs and flows, the proliferation of mobile bike-sharing, and the growing issues of micro lending in China....

“Ant Financial and the Greening of Fintech”