Buttonwood Gathering: Finance and Economics Forum 2015

Key Topics

• 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?

Who should Attend

Economic policymakers and regulators in government, central banks, multilateral institutions.