FinTech and SupTech in China

This book starts from the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators in

China, and defines the concept and connotation of FinTech and SupTech in the form of topics,

analyses the main problems in the development process, and discusses in depth the future

development and regulatory tendency of FinTech and SupTech.

In recent years, with the in-depth application and cross-domain integration of information technology

in the financial world, FinTech has rapidly developed and has been widely applied, which

brings us an important enlightenment: technical factors will bring fundamental changes for

the development of the modern financial industry. While improving financial efficiency, it has

an impact on the core financial problems such as information matching and mutual trust

solving, making it urgent to improve financial supervision capacity and regulatory efficiency

through information technology to effectively guarantee financial security. At present, many

Chinese financial institutions have applied technologies to their daily operations and

management, such as accurate customer identification, enhanced process tracking, intelligent

marketing, and product process transformation, so as to simplify financial service processes

and shorten service cycles. Meanwhile, the financial regulators in China, such as PBOC,

CBIRC, CSRC, have also applied technologies to the area of financial regulation, in order to

reduce the cost of regulation, and promote the efficiency and effectiveness of regulation.

In General, this book both pays attention to practical application and theoretical, which is a useful

reference book for theoretical research and practical work, and also helps readers to

understand the application of technologies in financial institutions and financial regulators in

China.

Zhao Dawei, Senior Research Fellow, Ph.D. in Economics, is currently the Deputy Secretary General of the FinTech Research Center of the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China. He holds Bachelor, Master and Doctorate degree of economics all from Central University of Finance and Economics. In 2009, funded by China Scholarship Council, as a visiting scholar, he went to the State University of New York. After Dr. Zhao has join into the People's Bank of China Financial Research Institute in 2011, he has won the First Award of the “Youth Research Project 2019" of the People's Bank of China, the First Award of the "2017-2018 the PBC FinTech Research Project" by FinTech Committee of the People's Bank of China, and the First Award of the "2018 FinTech Youth Thesis" by FinTech Research Center of National Institution for Finance & Development. With a long-term focus on FinTech and RegTech, Dr. Zhao has published more than 50 academic papers. As the author and coauthor, Dr. Zhao has compiled “Technology Rebuild Finance: FinTech Utilization and Perspective”, “Chained Future: Blockchain Theory and Application”, “Development Trends and Supervision of FinTech”, “China FinTech Anuual Report (2018, 2019, 2020)”, “Annual Report on China's RegTech Development (2019, 2020)”, and other works

Yuan Jia, Ph.D. in Economics, is currently the Senior Research Fellow in the Financial Research Institute of the People's Bank of China. He holds Master and Doctorate degree of economics from University of International Business and Economics in China, and as a visiting scholar in Indiana University in 2011 in the US. His research focuses on international economics and finance, macroeconomics and fintech. Dozens of his academic papers and articles have been published in top domestic journals such as Journal of Financial Research, and he has a book named “Globalization Dividend and the Changing Distribution of Income”.

Chen Wei, graduated from UIBE with a master’s degree in law. He now works at Fangda Partners and once served in the PBOC Head Office. His research interests lie primarily in asset management and FinTech. He has published many articles in CSSCI journals, Financial News, China Banking and Insurance News and some other national academic journals. Mr. Chen is also the translator of CNY Internationalization and Product Innovation published by Collins and Good Practice for Financial Consumer Protection published by China Financial Publishing House. He has presided over a youth academic project of the PBOC Shanghai in 2019 and an academic project of the Shanghai Society of Finance in 2020. With rich experience in asset management, he has provided legal services on data governance and data protection for internationally renowned hedge funds, joint venture fund companies, banking financial institutions, FinTech companies and wealth management companies.