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Buttonwood Gathering: The Valley Meets the Street

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Date: 20-Oct-15 to 20-Oct-15
Location: 10 on the Park at Time Warner Center / United States
Category: Banking, Finance & Investment Conferences & Trade Fairs

In five years time, the finance sector will be very different from what it is today. A range of new products, built on recent innovations spanning mobile money and robo-advisors to bitcoin and the block chain, and new players alongside older ones will create new opportunities to serve customers better, to profit more. These changes will also potentially bring dangers, such as even greater incidence of cyber crime, that will require better, smarter regulation. These changes have big implications, not just for banks, insurers and investment firms, but also for the wider economy served by the finance sector.

Join The Economist Events to explore how fintech is already transforming many core banking functions, such as deposits, loans and processing payments. Investment in innovative financial technologies has tripled since 2008 and analysts predict that it will continue to grow at an unprecedented pace. Business and retail consumers are starting to see benefits. Lending Club is facilitating over $1 billion of peer-to-peer loans a quarter. Small businesses are increasingly turning to such "crowd-based lending" to secure cheaper loans. Bitcoin is just one way, and perhaps one of the least significant ways, in which blockchain technology may change the world.

Exhibitors

Nick Beim, Partner, Venrock Wences Casares, Founder and chief executive, Xapo John Clippinger, Chief executive, ID3 and research scientist, MIT Media Lab Bob Diamond, Founder and chief executive, Atlas Merchant Capital; former chief executive, Barclays PLC Steve Ellis, Head, Innovation Group, Wells Fargo Matt Flannery, Co-founder and board member, Kiva Deborah Hopkins, Chief innovation officer, Citigroup; chief executive, Citi Ventures Gad Goldstein, Executive managing director, K2 Intelligence; founder and chief executive, K2G Global Chris Larsen, Chief executive, Ripple Labs Renaud Laplanche, Chief executive and founder, Lending Club Andrew Lo, Professor, MIT Blythe Masters, Chief executive, Digital Asset Holdings Amy Nauiokas, Founder and chair, Archer Gray; founder and president, Anthemis Adam Nash, Chief executive, Wealthfront Tayo Oviosu, Founder and chief executive, Paga JP Rangaswami, Chief data officer, Deutsche Bank Lawrence Summers, President emeritus and Charles W. Eliot University Professor, Harvard University Barry Silbert, Founder, Digital Currency Group and SecondMarket Mack Gill, Chief executive, Millennium IT, London Stock Exchange Group Brett King, Author and host, Breaking Bank Kristine Pontoppidan, Head of section, Danish Ministry for Business and Growth Louise Pentland, General Counsel, Paypal Pat Grady, Partner, Sequoia Capital Jalak Jobanputra, Founding partner, FuturePerfect Ventures Rory Eakin, Founder and chief operating officer, CircleUp

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