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FinTech Futures
Tue, 05 Sept
|X101, Level 1 NUSpace
Join us for this public lecture exploring the interface between finance, digital technology and everyday life
Time & Location
05 Sept 2023, 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
X101, Level 1 NUSpace , Hunter St &, Auckland St, Newcastle NSW 2300, Australia
About the event
REGISTER HERE - Fintech Futures Tickets, Tue 05/09/2023 at 5:00 pm | Eventbrite
Navigating the world of finance, credit and debt has become a normalised and unavoidable feature of young people’s lives. Financial technologies (fintech) represent a significant shift in the economic landscape, and the rapid pace of their development has outstripped both research and regulatory efforts. While some of the regulatory challenges posed by fintech have been mapped out, little is known about how people engage with fintech, including the specific financial information that they access and how fintech shapes their financial practices and sense of wellbeing.
Digitisation is changing how everyday finances and services are organised and experienced. Buy now pay later (BNPL) services have changed modes of payment and (mis)understandings of debt, but also opened young people to be able to engage with financial instruments easily. Share trading apps such as Raiz and Robinhood, Crypto platforms CoinSpot…