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Finance, Technology and Disruption
Digital disruption in finance
Speakers
Renowned academic and finance expert Raghavendra Rau examines why technology is disrupting finance. He discusses how information has been processed in the past and the differences today. His talk covers how technology handles three problems – imperfect information, asymmetric information and behavioural biases that are inherent in finance. Finally, it deals with the issues we are likely to have if the technology does too good a job of eliminating these frictions.
In collaboration with The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Bangalore.
About The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Bangalore:
The Oxford and Cambridge Society of Bangalore was formed in 2004 with the aim to facilitate contacts among its members as well as with similar societies in India and abroad. The Society has no territorial restrictions and welcomes alumni from anywhere. Our Society aspires of the most active alumni societies in Bangalore, organising academic, social, cultural and sporting events on a regular basis to promote interaction and exchange between Oxbridge alumni with different interests.
Speakers
Raghavendra Rau
Raghavendra Rau is Sir Evelyn de Rothschild Professor of Finance at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. He is co-founder and Academic Director of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance. His research focuses on how market participants acquire and use information. He is a past president of the European Finance Association, and a past editor of Financial Management. He serves on numerous academic editorial boards including the Journal of Corporate Finance, and the Journal of Banking and Finance. Besides the University of Cambridge, Raghu has taught at universities around the world, including the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Sciences PO), Paris-Dauphine, ISB, the University of Luxembourg, Purdue University, the University of California at Los Angeles, and the University of California at Berkeley. Raghu was Principal at Barclays Global Investors, then the largest asset manager in the world, in San Francisco from 2008-2009. His research has frequently been covered by the popular press including the New York Times, the Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Economist, among others. In 2015, he also won the Ig Nobel prize in Management, an award given to research presented in a humorous yet thought-provoking manner.
