How can French enterprises get a deeper understanding of the particularities and complexities of the Chinese market, so as to better adapt to and integrate in an era of digital transformation？How can Chinese companies fully understand and adapt to the French market, to better "go global" in an era of globalization? This forum will invite representatives from China and France’s governments, business communities, and academic circles to engage in in-depth discussions on these questions and more. In the process, they will promote bilateral business exchanges along with the stable and far-reaching development of Sino-French relations, jointly helping to write a new chapter of cooperation for the future.

• 2023-11-16 | 16:00 - 19:00
• China Europea International Business School (CEIBS)

Forum Background

The comprehensive strategic partnership between the European Union (EU) and China turns 20 this year. Over the past two decades the EU and China, two of the world’s leading economies, have engaged in mutually beneficial cooperation in a win-win manner and achieved significant success in fields such as politics, economy, culture, and science. As of the end of 2022, EU-China bilateral trade volume reached $847.3 billion, with each side the second-largest trading partner of the other. The stock of two-way investment between China and the EU has exceeded $230 billion, benefiting people on both sides and contributing greatly to world peace and economic prosperity.

Looking ahead, the two sides hold great potential for cooperation and share common interests in promoting economic growth and financial stability, coping with the energy crisis, curbing inflation, and pursuing green and digital transitions. As such, they have decided to set up a financial working group under the China-EU High-Level Economic and Trade Dialogue (HED) mechanism to strengthen cooperation in financial areas such as financial liberalisation, infrastructure, and regulation, as well as sustainable finance and fintech. However, some tension does exist within the relationship – EU authorities have recently opened an anti-subsidy investigation into Chinese electric car imports, for example.

• 2023-11-14 | 16:30 - 19:10
• CEIBS Shanghai Campus

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to join the Business Delegation Visit to Zhejiang Province with a tentative date of Wednesday, 25th November 2020.

• 2020-11-25 | 10:00 - 18:00
• Hangzhou, address be shared prior to the event

Investment in the fintech sector has remained strong even in the face of turmoil and volatility in global markets and despite macroeconomic concerns. Demand for fintech innovations by financial institutions has continued to grow.

FinTech can bring numerous benefits to both consumers and businesses. . Fintech has grown for several reasons: changes in expectations about financial services and consumer behaviour; a more affordable infrastructure spurred by Artificial Intelligence (AI), big data and cloud computing; digital currencies and mobile technologies and their effect on reducing barriers to entry to the financial services industry. Fintech, thus, has continued to transform the global financial landscape. On the other hand, FinTech innovations can pose risk for consumers and businesses, with the increasing need of protecting the privacy of customers’ information in an online environment.

In this context, China has been at the forefront of the industry’s growth. China is the largest fintech market in the world, in 2018 it accounted for 46% of all fintech investments globally. China had the right conditions to promote this incredible development: traditional banking systems were not well-developed and the regulatory environment was far less constraining towards fintech businesses. These two factors combined boosted the industry in China.

The European Chamber is pleased to invite renown experts of the industry to offer insights, trend analysis and predictions for the evolution of the sector, as well lessons to be learnt from the Chinese model. We welcome Dr. Bonnie Buchanan, Head of Department of Finance and Accounting, Professor of Finance, University of Surrey (United Kingdom), Michael Moon, Managing Director, Payments & Trade Markets, Asia Pacific, SWIFT, Piyush Singh, Managing Director, Head of Financial Services Asia Pacific and Africa, Accenture, and Diego Garcia Fernandez, Head of Business Development Alipay Spain Wallet. and David Wen, Professor at the International Business School at Zhejiang University. Join us Thursday 3rd September, 4:00am-5:15pm (GMT+8) online via Zoom.

• 2020-09-03 | 16:00 - 17:15
• Online - Zoom Online Meeting Platform and in-person from the European Chamber Shanghai Office

Amidst rising political tension between the U.S. and China, China's financial sector has been undergoing accelerating transformation towards further opening-up its €39 trillion financial services industry, where even a small fragment of the market may be lucrative. In this sense, the upcoming event comes to show a model example of a foreign company seizing an opportunity and leading the way in what it was an untapped market for foreign companies until now.

The European Chamber is pleased to invite you to the second event of the series "The Future of Finance", which will take place on Monday 10th August 2020 at 4pm (GMT+8) and where Fritz Quinn, VP, Public Affairs and Communications, Japan, Asia Pacific and Australia at American Express, will share with participants American Express' experiencing obtaining the approval for their clearing license in China.

• 2020-08-10 | 16:00 - 17:00
• Online - Zoom Online Meeting Platform

As the financial services market in China continues to open up to foreign firms, foreign banks, insurers, and asset & wealth managers, interesting opportunities begin to arise. There are a number of challenges along the entire life-cycle, from the outset of thinking through the optimal entry strategy, to designing the operating model, through to navigating the local regulatory regime, and eventually building and scaling up a profitable franchise in China.
The European Chamber is delighted to invite you to the first event of the series "The Future of Finance", which will take place on Monday 27th July 2020 at 5pm (GMT+8). Participants can join online via Zoom or in person from the Shanghai Chapter of the European Chamber.

• 2020-07-27 | 17:00 - 18:30
• Either offline attendance in the Chamber's office or online through Zoom