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

1: George Washington University; 2: Indian Institute of Management Bangalore; 3: Centre 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

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

Discussant: Yessenia Tellez (Virginia Tech)