Masterclass in

FinTech

Programme Directors
Venkatesh Panchapagesan & Abhishant Pant

Dates
12-14 August 2019

FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

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