Conference Agenda

Session

FinTech in Household and Small Business Finance

Time:

Saturday, 14/Mar/2026:

1:30pm - 3:15pm

Session Chair: Nagpurnanand Prabhala, Johns Hopkins University

Location: Aegean

Presentations

Data as Collateral: Open Banking for Small Business Lending

Tong Yu

Tsinghua University

Discussant: Shashwat Alok (Indian School of Business)

Interoperable Payment Infrastructure and Retail Investment

Meghana Ayyagari¹, Pulak Ghosh², Nirupama Kulkarni³

¹George Washington University; ²Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; ³Centre For Advanced Financial Research And Learning

Discussant: Taisiya Sikorskaya (University of Chicago)

Fintech Access and Consumption Smoothing

Xavier Giroud¹, Yingju Ma², Neng Wang³, Long Chen⁴

¹Columbia University; ²University of Cambridge; ³Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business; ⁴Luohan Academy

Discussant: Yessenia Tellez (Virginia Tech)