Masterclass in

FinTech

Programme Directors
Venkatesh Panchapagesan & Abhishant Pant

Dates
12-14 August 2019

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING


Masterclass in FinTech
Dates
12-14 August 2019
Programme Overview
Innovation cycle is reducing the life cycle of a business.
In today’s time, an entire industry can go out of the
market in less than 5 years. To balance the technology
led redundancy occurring across domains and regions,
leaders and managers of existing businesses need to be
aware of the opportunities and challenges posed by these
innovations to stay relevant with their value proposition.
Those who seek to disrupt these businesses need to
harness the potential of these exciting new options to
take on issues that traditional business models can rarely
address.
FinTech is making a radical dent in the Banking and
Financial Services (BFSI) sector. While it is providing
exciting solutions to old difficult-to-solve problems, it is
also challenging the existing mindset and legacy business
models in ways that are fundamentally changing the
landscape of this sector. Every part of the sector, from
plain vanilla lending to financial advisory business is
being impacted by FinTech. Understanding its potential
is therefore imperative for not only growth but for survival.
FinTech is challenging incumbents in the financial sector
as they have:
• Unique Design and User Interface
• Faster Time to Market
• Massive Outreach
• Real-time offerings (Providing greater value
with each interaction)
In this Masterclass, we plan to provide a window into
the opportunities and challenges posed by FinTech to
various parts of the financial industry. While we plan to
provide an overview of the current disruptors across the
industry, we will cover in detail three established financial
sector domains – payments, lending and investment. In
addition, we will be bringing in innovative FinTech leaders
in these three domains to share their experience and
view of the future. Our goal is to educate and empower
professionals to tap into the potential of this exciting new
innovation sweeping the BFSI sector.
PROGRAMME DIRECTORS
Professor Venkatesh Mr. Abhishant Pant
Panchapagesan Founder: The Fintech Meetup
Finance & Accounting
Abhishant is a Mumbai based Fintech
Dr. Venkatesh Panchapagesan is an expert, he runs “The Fintech Meet-up”
Associate Professor of Finance and also premier Fintech consulting practice. He
heads the Real Estate Research Initiative has worked with
at IIM Bangalore. He has gained more • Visa as Sr. Director & Head of
than 20 years of experience in academia and in global Financial Inclusion for India and South Asia
financial services industry after completing his PhD in • M-pesa as part of the founding team at
Finance from the University of Southern California. His m-pesa in India and has more than a decade of
current research interest includes Real Estate, Market hands-on experience of payments landscape. 
Key Topics to be covered: Microstructure and Mutual Funds. His teaching focus
• Rise of Fintech and its unique value proposition includes Investments, Financial Markets and Real Estate He is known for grounds-up experiments in Fintech
• Indian and Global Fintech Landscape Investment Management. Landscape
• Overview of Prior to joining IIMB in September 2011, he was with • The Fintech Yatra: A 9000 km 90 Days Road trip
• Payments the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, wherein he met with 500 fintech startups during the
• Lending where he led efforts to revamp trading analytical journey.
• Investment (Wealth Management / Equity infrastructure. He has also worked with Goldman Sachs • Mumbai Fintech Accelerator : India’s largest public
Markets) Asset Management in New York between 2005 and 2008 pvt. Partnership led accelerator in association with
• Insurtech overseeing trading research for their quantitative hedge Govt of Maharashtra , NPCI etc.
• Open Banking funds. He was a Finance Professor at the Olin School of • He is extensively covered by Media both India (TOI,
• Blockchain Business at Washington University in St. Louis from 1998 HT, ET, Zee News, India News ,Mid-Day etc ) and
• Agri-Fintech to 2005 and has published in top peer-reviewed academic abroad (BBC, Dagnes Nayhter) for his The Cashless
• Fintech Future Fast Forward and practitioner journals of the world. He was also invited Journey experiment .
to be the NASDAQ stock market’s economist for a year.
He believes Mutual sharing of Gyan and having dialogue
He is certified in India as a Chartered Accountant and a is the key to explore self and and world more.
Time allocation: Cost Accountant, and holds a postgraduate management
degree from IIM Calcutta.
• Foundational concept clarity (25%)
• Grass-root learning of The Indian Fintech He is the recipient of: IGC Research Grant for ‘Estimating
landscape (15%) Economic Value of Regularizing Land Tenure to the
• Deep dive into important FinTech business Urban Poor – Evidence from India’, 2016; IGC Research
models in three domains (40%) Grant for ‘Can Governments Increase Revenues by
• Direct view from founders on the opportunity Lowering Taxes? A Study of Competing Policies to
landscape (20%) Reduce Tax Evasion during House Purchase in India’,
2014; IGC Research Grant for ‘Effectiveness of Eauctions
Who should attend: in Emerging Economies’, 2014; NSE-NYU Stern Initiative
for the Study of Indian Capital Markets Grant for ‘Do
Mid/Senior professional with 10 + year experience looking Regulatory Hurdles on Algorithmic Trading Work’,
to adapt to the Fintech-led BFSI world. 2013 (previously called ‘Impact of Regulatory Tax on
Algorithmic Trading’), and NSE-NYU Stern Initiative for
the Study of Indian Capital Markets Grant for ’Do Indian
business group owned mutual funds maximize value for
their fund investors?’, 2012.
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