Buttonwood Gathering: Finance and Economics Forum 2015 covers topics such as:
- Can crowd finance empower a new generation of entrepreneurship, by lower the cost of capital and improving access to money through innovations such as peer-to-peer lending and equity crowdfunding?
- Is traditional money in its final days, and if so, what does that mean for everything from shopping to crime?
- What does all this mean for traditional financial service providers?
- Will financial services optimised for mobile phones accelerate economic growth in the developing world?
- Which are the upstart companies to watch, in Silicon Valley and beyond?
- What are the strategies that should be embraced to avoid falling victim to the forces of creative destruction?
Buttonwood Gathering: Finance and Economics Forum 2015 brings together economic policymakers and regulators in government, central banks, multilateral institutions.