The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue

 

“Where policymakers, capital providers and think tanks converge to shape the future of financial technology.”

 

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue is a timely first-of-its-kind call for policymakers to share their strategic perspectives on FinTech regulations, including sectors of interest and concern as well as their view on emerging risks. Conversely, the Dialogue is an equal measure call for investors to share the likely direction of capital, including sectoral investment outlook, opportunities, challenges, and risks. Above all, the dialogue is an ask for both parties to share expectations more openly.

Going Global in 2023

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue,
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The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue: 2022

In 2022, Elevandi launched the inaugural Capital Meets Policy Dialogue on Nov 1, as a curtain-raiser to the Singapore Fintech Festival (2022). The Dialogue received an overwhelming response from all stakeholders – capital providers (venture capital, private equity, family offices, corporate venture capital and M&A), capital facilitators (investment banks and private banks) as well global policymakers.

2022 Distinguished Speakers

2022 Agenda

Keynotes: The Rising Strategic Importance of Capital Meeting Policy

Investments in FinTech have raised U$1Tn since 2010 in over 35,000 deals. Investor capital hence has been a significant source of innovation, customer experience improvements, financial inclusion, cost reduction, and value creation. Plus, timely launches of regulatory sandboxes have played a consequential role in fuelling innovation.

Now, with boundaries between innovators, social networks, digital platforms, and finance blurring, these introduce vulnerabilities and financial stability challenges, leading to regulatory considerations and scrutiny.

Hence, an open and continuous dialogue between capital providers and policy makers is additionally needed to better align market outcomes with policy objectives.

How can that then be done better? How does an investor and business operator approach this? Importantly, what is the policymaker’s perspective?

Panel Discussion: Capital Provider’s Perspective

In 2021, more than 20% of venture dollars went into FinTech start-ups globally. This year, market conditions are dramatically different in every sector, including FinTech – public and private valuations are down. In addition, there is regulatory scrutiny on fast growing FinTech sectors – whether in Web 3 or BNPL – which has impacted investment outcomes. Consequently, capital providers are deliberating each investment with more caution.

Are there lessons, good and otherwise, that investors in both private and public markets have now learned?

If harnessed better, can these lessons help minimise policy risk to capital, while continuing to fuel innovation, and ultimately driving more sustainable value creation?

Panel Discussion: Policymaker’s Perspective

FinTech innovation and adoption is moving at a dizzying pace.

Consequently, regulatory considerations range from minimising risky retail behaviour to financial market stability, to market abuse and money laundering.

How can market outcomes be better aligned with policy objectives?

How can policymakers better participate in driving innovation such that investors are able to deploy risk capital in a relatively more informed manner?

What role can a more active dialogue between investors and policymakers play?

And if so, how could it be modelled?

Invite-only Event Brought 250 Decision-makers Together

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Exceptional Insights

Visit “Insights by Elevandi” for insights from the keynote speakers:

Sheila Bair

Role of a regulator in supporting innovation while ensuring appropriate oversight

Mohandas Pai

What are the implications of the exponential growth of technology for users, investors and regulators?

Jorge Familiar

Balancing innovation and regulation

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue: Going Global in 2023

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Africa

June 2023

africa

Europe

June 2023

africa

Asia

November 2023

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The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue: 2022

In 2022, Elevandi launched the inaugural Capital Meets Policy Dialogue on Nov 1, as a curtain-raiser to the Singapore Fintech Festival (2022). The Dialogue received an overwhelming response from all stakeholders – capital providers (venture capital, private equity, family offices, corporate venture capital and M&A), capital facilitators (investment banks and private banks) as well global policymakers.

250 decision makers from the public and private sectors

Overwhelming positive feedback

Exceptional insights generated

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue saw thought-provoking discussions by leading experts. Visit “Insights by Elevandi” from insights from the keynote speakers: Sheila Bair (Former Chair, FDIC), Mohandas Pai (former Director, Infosys) and Jorge Familiar (Treasurer, World Bank).

Our Invited Participants

Capital Providers

  • Partners / MDs / Principals / EDs from VCs and PE
  • MDs / EDs from Corporate Venture Capital arms
  • Single / Multi-family offices
  • UHNWIs / HNWI
  • Heads of Wealth Management products
  • Investment Bankers
  • Corporate M&A divisions
  • Senior investors from Sovereign Wealth Funds, Pension funds, Insurers and other Financial Institutions

Policy Makers

  • Senior Regulators
  • Senior Central Bank officials
  • Senior finance ministry officials

The Story

Key innovation hubs got established firmly and globally – Singapore, New York, London, Berlin, and Hong Kong emerged as centres of choice. These centres attract innovators, talent, and capital, which helps create greater employment and economic growth.

Two key participants of the changing financials services ecosystem, namely Innovators and Investors, engaged actively through this phase, propelling innovation, challenging status quo, and winning early adopters.

Equity investment in FinTechs has raised a compelling $1Tn since 2010 across ~35,000 deals[1], with the majority raised in the past 5 years. Innovators were able to see their solutions mature as adoption continued to widen, helped in no small part by timely regulatory facilitation e.g., through launch of sandboxes, and by creating new-age challengers e.g., issuing of new digital bank licences.

However, not unexpectedly, this exponential growth and adoption of technological innovation, has also introduced new types of risks, both to end-consumers and only in small part, as yet, to the overall stability of the financial system. This, alongside the urgent need to address critical risks like from climate, has caused regulatory challenges.

The next few years are set to be pivotal to our ability to survive, and thrive. Hence, it is now critical that an open, active and direct dialogue begins to take place between investors and policymakers, that channels the innovators’ focus and competencies in areas that matter most.

The Capital Meets Policy Dialogue will enable capital providers to understand and influence regulatory direction, sooner and better. Concurrently, regulators too will be able to understand and supervise new business models sooner. Ultimately, regulators are able to better answer – what, when and how to regulate so that innovation thrives, capital thrives and so does humanity.

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