student of our leading program. The Fintech Law in Asia 2016

Many Fintech platforms converged on Nagoya, Japan for a promising
gathering of Fintech practitioners and scholars from many countries in Asia
for the 2016 Fintech Law Asia conference on Wednesday April, 27- 29. This
conference is organized by Hung-Yi Chen, D2 student and co-organized by Pawee Jenweeranon, M2
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student of our leading program. The Fintech Law in Asia 2016 Conference closed on April 29 in Nagoya
after three days conference and workshop in the issues related to Fintech law in Asia.
At the opening of the conference, Dr. Robert Wardrop, Executive Director, Cambridge Centre for
Alternative Finance, Universtiy of Cambridge and Professor Yoshiharu Matsuura, Director of the
Leading Graduate School Program, Nagoya University gave the opening remarks for welcoming all
participants from many countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China and Thailand.
The discussed topics for three days conference
and workshop includes various topics such as the
development of Blockchain Technology and
Crowdfunding in Asia and also P2P lending which
are being recognized by the regulators and
government authorities in many Asian countries.
Pawee Jenweeranon, a M2 student of leading
program, has presented his recent research topic
entitled, Regulatory Framework for Virtual
Currency : Focusing on Bitcoin in Asian Countries.
The Fintech Law in Asia 2016 Conference reflected the
current existential questioning about the future of
regulatory framework for the financial technology in
this region including perspectives from legal scholars,
researchers and Fintech platforms.
Hung-Yi Chen, a D2 student of leading program, has
presented his recent research topic entitled,
Regulatory Overview of Peer-to-Peer Lending and
Crowdfunding in Asian Countries.
JIRATHAWORNLERK Aunthicha, a Graduate Student,
Department of International Cooperation Studies in
Governance and Law, GSID, Nagoya University, has
presented her recent research topic entitled,
Development of Legal Instruments to Support the
Access to Finance for Small and Medium Enterprises
in ASEAN Economic Community.
This event cannot be successful without the
support and participation from Graduate School
Students of Nagoya University (GSL). NANDASIRI
Diani, a M2 student of leading program, worked
perfectly as a conference host.
Some other students participated in the event as
the conference staffs to accompany our
guests/speakers and assist in the related
procedure - THONGMEENSUK Salintorn, a D1
student of leading program, RATANACHAREE
Warittha, KHANPRUKSA Suwalak and TURATHONG Theethat. Cissy Sun a D1 student of leading
program also participated in the workshop and discussed in the related issues from the aspect of her
research specialization.
Besides, we also appreciated great contribution from
Kenji Hoki(Senior Manager, KPMG), Ken
Kawai(Special Counsel, Anderson Mori &
Tomotsune), Tomoyuki Sugiyama (CEO, Crowdcredit),
Zoe Zhang (CEO and Founder, GoLend.hk), Angelld
Quah (CEO and Founder, ALIX GLOBAL SDN BHD),
Eddie Lee (Managing Director, New Union SG
Investment Pte Ltd), Will Mahon-Heap (CoFounder/NZ Manager, Equitise), Kotaro Yamabe
(Legal Director, Music Securities), Mattias Karnell
(maneo), Kaz Ohmae (CEO, Crowd Securities Japan,
Inc.), Yo Narita (Head of Investment Management,
Loadstar Capital K.K.). They have made an informative and comprehensive presentation in our
conference.
After the three days event, we also received several comments from our participants,
Kotaro Yamabe (Legal Director, Music Securities, Inc.)
The FinTech Law Asia conference was very exciting. I learned a lot from listening to and talking with
academics, lawyers and representatives from other crowdfunding platforms in Asia. I realized that,
although our business models and national regulations may be different, we face many common
problems (such as how to protect investors’ rights) and that it is very useful to learn how other
platforms are trying to deal with these problems. I think this is a very interesting topic and I am
already looking forward to next year's conference.
Yo Narita (Head of Investment Management, Loadstar Capital K.K.)
It was a great honor to present at the event and learn what our market participants are doing and
thinking. It was also a great chance to revisit our current business model from third party point of view.
I would like to thank the organizing team for this great event and other participants, who travelled a
lot to participate in this event. I look forward to participating in any next event organized by the team.
Kenji Hoki(Financial Services, KPMG AZSA LLC, Japan)
This event actually has provided unique opportunities for me to interact with Fintech ventures in “Asia”
in addition to Japan and academic experts in this area as well as learn about impacts and challenges
from various perspectives on not only business but also social and cultural changes.
It is inevitable that this three days conference cannot be achieved the purpose to promote the
exchange of knowledge and experiences, and facilitating relationships in the area of Fintech without
supports from the media and all of participants.
This event would be the first step for the development of Fintech Law in this region.
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