FINTECH: OVERVIEW
Albert Wang
CTO, LionRock FinTech
SO, WHAT’S FINTECH?
▸ Finance + Technology
▸ “New financial industry that applies technology
to improve financial activities”
▸ Technologies, Methodologies, Companies,
Business Models, New Services …
NUMBERS
NUMBERS
‣ 26 Unicorns
‣ # Source: CBInsights
FINTECH UNIVERSE
Payments
InvestmentsInsurTech
P2P Lending
Digital Banking
Crowdfunding
FinTech
Blockchain/
Cryptocurrency
RegTech
INFRASTRUCTURE & KEY TECH
Cloud Computing AI, ML Mobile Computing
IoT Cyber-Security
Blockchain &
Cryptocurrency
Data Science &
Analytics
AR
API Movement
VR
U.S. PATENTS RELATED TO FINTECH (2015)
PAYMENTS
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE IT ONE MORE
TIME? YOU MAY HAVE BLINKED AND
MISSED IT.
Tim Cook, 2014
PAYMENTS
All-in-OneMobile PaymentsOnline Payments POS Payments
HOW DOES APPLE PAY WORK?
▸ No credit card information is
ever stored on iPhone or
Apple servers (even in
encrypted form).
▸ EMV Payment Tokenization
TOKENIZATION
CASHLESS PAYMENT, AND BEYOND …
DIGITAL BANKING
BANKING IS NECESSARY, BUT BANKS
ARE NOT.
Bill Gates, 1994
STILL BANKING, BUT BETTER
▸ Money Deposits,
Withdrawals, and Transfers
▸ Checking/Saving Account
Management
▸ Applying for Financial
Products
▸ Loan Management
▸ Bill Pay
▸ Account Services
LEADING PLAYERS
Digital Banking Virtual Banking 3-party Platforms/Vendors
INVESTMENTS
DIGITAL WEALTH MANAGEMENT EVOLUTION
▸ Online portfolio
management solution that
aims to invest client assets
by automating client
advisory.
ROBO-ADVISORS: KEY TECHS
Advice/Engagement Asset Management
‣ Interactive UX
‣ Chatbot
‣ NPL
‣ Voice Recognition
‣ eKYC
‣ User Profiling
‣ eSignature/Contracts
‣ Model Management
‣ Big Data
‣ Machine Learning
‣ Artificial Intelligence
Data Platform
CROWDFUNDING
DON’T EVER UNDERESTIMATE WHAT ONE
PERSON’S GENEROSITY WILL DO.
Raise the Roof
CROWDFUNDING MODELS
Source: FATBit
‣ Reward-based Model
‣ Donation-based Model
‣ Lending-based Model
‣ Equity-based Model
P2P LENDING
P2P LENDING
P2P LENDING - KEY TECHS
Source: PwC
BLOCKCHAIN /
CRYPTOCURRENCY
VIRES IN NUMERIS.
STRENGTH IN NUMBERS.
BitCoin Motto
BLOCKCHAIN EXPLAINED
▸ Decentralized
▸ Digitalized
▸ Cryptographically Sealed
▸ Consensus-based
▸ Chronological &
Timestamped
BLOCKCHAIN STRUCTURE
IOTA - TANGLE (DAG)
‣ Scalability (500-800 TPS)
‣ Fee-less
‣ IoT Friendly
BROADER APPLICATIONS
INSURANCE TECH
INSURTECH ECOSYSTEM
Blockchain
Machine
Learning
IoT
Big Data
INSURTECH ECOSYSTEM - CHINA
REGULATION TECH
WE THE PEOPLE WANT OUR MONEY
SAFER THAN OUR SELFIES.
PayPal, 2014
REGULATION TECH
Questions?

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