Dr Kemp presented to the plenary session on “Data Protection for Financial Services Consumers in Developing Countries: Alternatives to the Flawed Consent Model”, highlighting weaknesses in the traditional “informed consent”, or “notice” and “choice”, approach to consumer data protection.

Dirk Zetzsche , Ross Buckley, Douglas Arner, and Janos Barberis discuss the implications of the shift from financial intermediary (FinTech) to data intermediary (TechFin) for incumbent financial services firms, FinTech startups and regulators.

Dr Cheng-Yun Tsang presented on "Global Development of Financial Regulatory Sandbox" at a semianr on "FinTech Innovation Experiment and Sandbox" co-hosted by FinTech Research Center of National Chengchi Univeristy and Taiwan Academy of Banking and Finance on March 1, 2017.