In this keynote presentation, Chakravorti discusses how FinTech and big tech firms are increasing competition in the payments space. Entry into payments, often allows these non-bank providers the ability to offer loans to underserved consumers and small merchants. In the rest of the talk, Chakravorti discusses the effectiveness of certain...
Chakravorti gave the dinner keynote at FinanceCom 2022 at the University of Twente in Enschede, The Netherlands. His talk was titled, The Impact of FinTech and Big Tech Firms on the Way We Pay.
Chakravorti speaks at CAFIN at UC Santa Cruz and Lam-Larsen FinTech Initiative at Lam Family College of Business, San Francisco State University joint conference on FinTech.
In his role as Chief Economist at Ripple, Bob Chakravorti participated on a high-level virtual panel to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic and financial inclusion sponsored by CAREC and Astana International Finance Center.
Bob presented preliminary findings from a forthcoming World Bank working paper to the DFS & Tax Working Group at the International Centre for Tax and Development.
Chakravorti presented his paper with Joey Biasi, titled "The Future of Cryptotokens," at the World Banking and Finance Symposium in New Delhi in December 2019.
Bob presented a paper on crypto tokens and discussed a finance paper at the World Finance and Banking Symposium in New Delhi, India in December 2019. The conference was attended by financial faculty and professionals from around the world.
Bob gave three lectures at the National Institute of Bank Management in Pune, India in December 2019. He taught students on cryptocurrency, the current state of FinTech, and micro, small and medium enterprise lending and FinTech. The lectures were attended by finance professionals from various parts of India.
As part of training of Indian senior bankers, the National Institute of Bank Management located in Pune, India, invitedChakravorti to teach three courses. This course is on the evolution of FinTech in India and beyond. Specifically, the presentation focuses on how FinTechs provide greater access to payments, lending, and investments...