The Shanghai Bund Conference was selected as one of the "Top Three Financial Technology Summits in Asia" Finance | Technology | Asia
Recently, Asia Tech Daily selected three noteworthy Asian fintech events: the Shanghai Bund Conference, Hong Kong Fintech Week, and Singapore Fintech Festival. This media believes that the three major conferences are not only windows to showcase the financial technology capabilities of the Asian region, but also promote knowledge exchange, communication networks, and collaborative innovation.
The Hong Kong Financial Technology Week is renowned for its extensive ecosystem, the Singapore Financial Technology Festival is renowned for its grand scale, and the Shanghai Bund Conference is highly anticipated for its forward-looking topics and technological prowess. These three distinctive conferences will be held intensively from September to November, becoming a business card and stage for these three major cities to showcase their strength.
In recent years, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Shanghai have been fiercely competing as Asian financial centers, as evidenced by the competition in hosting technology conferences. According to the GFCI33 report released in March this year, although Shanghai ranks third in Asia in the banking industry, it surpasses Hong Kong and Singapore in investment management and financial market trading, ranking first in Asia. Relying on abundant technological resources and market size advantages, Shanghai has always been a strong competitor to Asian and even international financial centers.
As early as the 1920s and 1930s, banks, commercial banks, and associations began to gather along the Huangpu River, making Shanghai the financial center of the Far East. With the development of digital technology, the global financial industry has undergone tremendous changes. Shanghai once again grasped the technological change and led the tide. For example, Alipay, which grew up in Shanghai, surpassed PayPal, the international payment tool, as early as 2009, to become the world's largest electronic payment platform by virtue of a series of technological innovations such as fast payment.
With the increasingly close integration of finance and technology, Shanghai regards building an international financial center and a globally influential technology innovation center as an important goal for urban development. The Bund Conference emerged in this context. Three years ago, the first Bund Conference opened and permanently settled in Shanghai. Global renowned technology experts, top scholars, and industry leaders gathered by the Huangpu River, attracting thousands of media attention and coverage. Nowadays, the Bund Conference has gradually developed into a new business card for Shanghai's technological innovation, and is also an important benchmark for observing China and even global technological innovation.
The Asia Technology Daily believes that Shanghai is continuously narrowing the gap with the world's top financial centers New York and London, driven by inclusive technology. In addition, the attention and exploration of technologies such as artificial intelligence and Web3.0 have also enabled Shanghai to move from financial technology to broader cutting-edge technological fields.
The second Bund Conference will be held from September 7th to September 9th at the Shanghai World Expo Park. The conference is themed "Technology · Creating a Sustainable Future" and has set up 36 insights forums, bringing together over 500 influential technology leaders and experts, focusing on cutting-edge technology topics such as big models, anti quantum cryptography, human-machine intelligence, and Web3.0. The conference will also build a platform for international exchange and industrial development, helping Shanghai to build an international financial center and a globally influential technology innovation center, taking its core functions to a new level.