It is a great pleasure to welcome all of you to our first meeting of the FinTech Forum. I. Information Technology and Financial Services Today's Forum focuses on information and financial services. Indeed, financial activities make full use of wide-ranging information technologies created throughout human history, and financial industries have almost always developed parallel to advances in various techniques and infrastructure related to information processing. Money, which constitutes the basic infrastructure for financial activities, physically symbolizes information pertaining to value in the form of metal or ... (full story)