PM Modi to inaugurate inFinity forum today
New Delhi, Dec 03: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate InFinity Forum, a thought leadership Forum on FinTech, today at 10 AM via video conferencing.
The event is being hosted by International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), under the aegis of Government of India in collaboration with GIFT City and Bloomberg on December 3 and 4, 2021. Indonesia, South Africa and the U.K. are partner countries in the first edition of the Forum.
InFinity Forum will bring together the leading minds of the world in policy, business, and technology to discuss and come up with actionable insight into how technology and innovation can be leveraged by the FinTech industry for inclusive growth and serving humanity at large.
The agenda of the Forum will focus on the theme of 'Beyond'; with various sub themes including FinTech beyond boundaries, with governments and businesses focussing beyond the geographical boundaries in the development of global stack to promote financial inclusiveness; FinTech beyond Finance, by having convergence with emerging areas such as SpaceTech, GreenTech and AgriTech to drive sustainable development; and FinTech Beyond Next, with focus on how Quantum Computing could impact the nature of Fintech industry in the future and promote new opportunities.
The
forum
will
witness
participation
from
over
70
countries.
Key
speakers
at
the
Forum
includes
Finance
Minister
of
Malaysia
Tengku
Zafrul
Aziz,
Finance
Minister
of
Indonesia
Mulyani
Indrawati,
Minister
of
Creative
Economy
Indonesia
Sandiaga
S
Uno,
Chairman
and
MD,
Reliance
Industries
Mukesh
Ambani,
Chairman
&
CEO
SoftBank
Group
Corp.
Masayoshi
Son,
Chairman
and
CEO,
IBM
Corporation
Arvind
Krishna,
MD
and
CEO
Kotak
Mahindra
Bank
Limited
Uday
Kotak,
among
others.
NITI
Aayog,
Invest
India,
FICCI
and
NASSCOM
are
some
of
the
key
partners
to
this
year's
Forum.
About
IFSCA
The International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA), headquartered at GIFT City, Gandhinagar Gujarat, has been established under the International Financial Services Centres Authority Act, 2019. It works as a unified authority for the development and regulation of financial products, financial services and financial institutions in the International Financial Services Centre (IFSC) in India.
At present, the GIFT IFSC is the maiden international financial services centre in India.