The University of Michigan Center on Finance, Law, and Policy hosts large-scale conferences each year to bring together experts from academia, government, and private industries to address a wide number of issues.
Annual Conferences
Financial Stability Conferences
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Global Systemic Risk Keynote speaker: Gillian Tett, U.S. managing editor of the Financial Times |
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Functions and Firms: Using Activity and Entity-based Regulation to Strengthen the Financial System Conference How should regulators pursue an activities-based approach to promoting financial stability? |
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FinTech Risks and Opportunities: An Interdisciplinary Approach As internet technology has become available, FinTech has evolved rapidly. How can we balance the opportunities FinTech presents with its risks to financial stability? |
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Explore how big data can be used to enhance financial stability and address other challenges in financial markets. |
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Interdisciplinary Approaches to Financial Stability How can methods from diverse fields, such as system analysis, agent-based modeling, and data visualization and security, can be used to better identify, measure, monitor, and mitigate risks in the financial system? |
Other conferences
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Central Bank of the Future Central Banks are increasingly playing an important role in financial inclusion. As technology continues to change the financial sector, however, there may be new ways in which these institutions undertake this work. Please join us for our Central Bank of the Future conference on October 2nd and 3rd, 2019 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Topics will include, among other areas, technology and financial inclusion, digital currency (fiat and non-fiat), AML and financial inclusion. Speakers and attendees will include individuals from standards-setting bodies, central banks and other financial regulators, and policymakers, as well as futurists and technologists, and other financial ecosystem stakeholders. |
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Consumer Protection in an Age of Uncertainty What legal and regulatory questions are raised by recent technological developments and the challenges facing consumers in a shifting policy environment? |
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September 14-15, 2017 Economics meets law, finance, public policy, and psychology. Learn how government units and the private sector are designing new financial products, re-writing investment rules, and using technology to better protect consumers and spur innovation — and what those changes mean for small businesses and our overall economy. |