Virtual Conference on ‘Fintech and COVID-19’ ADBI, Tokyo 30 March to 1 April, 2021 [JST Timezone] Final Agenda Day one 30 March: 16:00-19:30 Tokyo time 16:00-16:10 Opening Remarks Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and CEO, ADBI Bryan Zhang, Co-founder and Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance 16:10-16:40 Keynote speaker Jin Chuan Duan, Jardine Cycle & Carriage Professor of Finance; Executive Director, Asian Institute of Digital Finance, National University of Singapore Title: “Sharing Credit Data while Respecting Privacy – A Digital Platform for Fairer Financing of MSMEs” Chair: Herman Smit, Associate Director of Data and Analytics, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance 16:40-19:00 Session 1: COVID-19, Fintech, the Macroeconomy and Regulation Session Chair: James Villafuerte, Senior Economist, ADB 16:40-17:20Paper 1: The COVID-19 Pandemic and Indonesia’s Fintech Markets Presenter: Eric Sugandi, Project Consultant, ADBI Discussant: Hasanul Banna, Research Fellow, University of Malaya 17:20-18:00Paper 2: COVID-19, Digital Transactions and Economic Activities: Puzzling Nexus of Wealth Enhancement, Trade and Financial Technology Presenter: Muhammad Ayub Khan Mehar, Economic Advisor, Employers' Federation of Pakistan Discussant: John Beirne, Research Fellow, ADBI 18:00-18:20Break 18:20-19:00Paper 3: Formulating a Fintech Strategic Roadmap to Spur a Post-COVID Inclusive Recovery Presenter: John Vong, Managing Director, International Centre for ASEANA Management Discussant: Ross Buckley, Scientia Professor in Law, University of New South Wales 19:00-19:30 Keynote speaker Pinar Ozcan, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Director of the Oxford Future of Fintech Initiative Title: “Open banking, Fintech Entrepreneurship and the Pandemic: Friends or Enemies?” Chair: James Villafuerte, Senior Economist, ADB Day two 31 March: 16:00-19:20 Tokyo time 16:00-16:30 Keynote speaker Amy Neale, Senior Vice-President for Fintech and Enablers, Mastercard Title: Fintech for Choice, Access & Inclusion Chair: Bryan Zhang, Co-founder and Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance 16:30-19:00 Session 2: Financial System Digitalization, Cryptocurrencies and COVID-19 Session Chair: John Beirne, Research Fellow, ADBI 16:30-17:10Paper 1: Towards a Data-Driven Financial System: The Impact of COVID-19 Presenter: Nydia Remolina, Research Associate, Centre for AI and Data Governance, Singapore Management University Discussant: Lin Lin, Assistant Professor in Law, National University of Singapore 17:10-17:50Paper 2: COVID-19 Impact on Cryptocurrencies and Traditional Markets: A Difference- in-differences Approach Presenter: Antonis Ballis, PhD Fellow, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Discussant: Sayuri Shirai, Professor of Economics, Keio University, Japan 17:50-18:10Break 18:10-18:50Paper 3: Stress Testing Banks’ Digital Capabilities: Evidence From the COVID-19 Pandemic Presenter: Vesa Pursiainen, Assistant Professor, University of St. Gallen Discussant: Yiping Huang, Professor of Economics and Deputy Dean of the National School of Development, and Director of the Institute of Digital Finance, Peking University 18:50-19:20 Keynote speaker Feng Zhu, Senior Research Director, Ant Financial Title: COVID-19 and Digital Finance: Impact and Prospects Chair: Raghavendra Rau, Co-founder and Academic Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance and Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance, University of Cambridge Day three 1 April: 10:00-13:30 Tokyo time 10:00-10:30 Keynote speaker Ratna Sahay, Deputy Director, Monetary and Capital Markets Department, IMF Title: “The Promise of Fintech: Financial Inclusion in the Post COVID-19 Era” Chair: Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and CEO, ADBI 10:30-12:50 Session 3: Digital Financial Inclusion, MSMEs and COVID-19 Session Chair: Peter Morgan, Vice-Chair Research, ADBI 10:30-11:10Paper 1: Safety Net and Pandemic: The State of Social Benefit Payments during COVID- 19 Presenter: Abu Shonchoy, Assistant Professor, Florida International University Discussant: Paul Vandenberg, Senior Economist, ADB 11:10-11:50Paper 2: Agent Banking-Led Digital Financial Inclusion for Direct Cash Transfers through COVID-19 and beyond: Experience from India Presenter: Alreena Renita Pinto, Rural Development Specialist, World Bank; and Amit Arora, Senior Financial Sector Advisor, World Bank Discussant: Krishnan Dharmarajan, Executive Director, Centre for Digital Financial Inclusion 11:50-12:10Break 12:10-12:50Paper 3: MSMEs, Fintech and COVID-19: Evidence from Bangladesh Presenter: Monzur Hossain, Research Director, Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies Discussant: Asami Takeda, Project Consultant, ADBI 12:50-13:20 Keynote speaker Douglas Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law at the University of Hong Kong Title: Digital Finance, COVID-19, Financial Inclusion and Sustainable Development: Building Better Financial Systems Chair: Bihong Huang, Economist, IMF 13:20-13:30 Closing Remarks Tetsushi Sonobe, Dean and CEO, ADBI Time allocation Keynote speeches: 30 minutes (20 minutes speech plus 10 minutes Q&A) Paper presenters: 40 minutes (20 minutes presenter, 10 minutes discussant, and 10 minutes Q&A) .