Dr. Jing Wang - Assistant Professor Of Interactive Media & Business At NYU Shanghai

Published: Nov. 22, 2019, 8:22 p.m.

b'In our latest podcast, Anna Li (WG\\u201920) is joined by Dr. Jing Wang, the Assistant Professor of Interactive Media & Business at NYU Shanghai. As China has been in the forefront of financial innovation and received a lot of venture funding in the FinTech space, the Wharton FinTech Club invited Dr. Wang to discuss the FinTech landscape in China as well as the evolving regulatory environment in the region. Dr. Wang focuses on studying how information technologies reshape the financial domain in the global context. At NYU Shanghai, Professor Wang teaches the course "Understanding Financial Technologies"\\xa0and mentors students in\\xa0the Program on Creativity and Innovation.\\xa0Prior to joining NYU, she taught at Tulane University in Louisiana. Her writings are published on peer-reviewed journals and business and financial news.\\xa0\\xa0\\n\\nIn this interview, Dr. Wang covers the following:\\xa0\\n1.\\tOverview of the rapid financial innovation that has taken place in China over the last couple of years and how the regulatory environment has supported and then contained the rapid development of FinTech companies\\xa0\\n2.\\tOverview of the main regulatory bodies in China for FinTech (see details in Dr. Wang\'s forthcoming article in\\xa0The China Quarterly)\\n3.\\tComparison of the FinTech companies in the US versus China and how the regulatory framework differs in the two countries\\n4.\\tThe difference in regulatory controls between China and Hong Kong\\n5.\\tHow social scoring is implemented in China and how the government collaborates with FinTech/Tech firms to set those standards\\n6.\\tChinese government oversight on different sub-sectors within FinTech (i.e. P2P, payments, wealth management, etc.)\\n7.\\tRegulation of virtual currencies in China\\n8.\\tTypes of companies that will experience headwinds and tailwinds from Chinese government policies'