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Weissman Center for International Business

International Business Seminar:

, Professor of Finance, NYU Stern School of Business

FinTech in Sub-Saharan Africa: What Has Worked Well, and What Hasn’t

Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 12.30pm

Weissman Center, 108 East 26^th street, 8^th floor

Lunch will be served

From: Professor Lilac Nachum, Department of Marketing and International Business

Seminar paper abstract (provided by the speaker):

The FinTech sector has begun to grow rapidly in sub-Saharan Africa. I document far greater adoption of social media, digital currency, ride sharing, and other FinTech applications in countries with a common law legal heritage compared to those with a civil law system, suggesting that legal origin plays a critical role in setting the stage for growth through entrepreneurship in the developing world. The electrical, telecom, and Internet infrastructure required for FinTech has been built out more extensively in common law countries. Financial inclusion outcomes are also better in emerging markets that have a common law heritage.

Speaker Bio:

Professor Yermack’s primary research areas include boards of directors, executive compensation, and corporate finance, areas in which he has published extensively in leading academic journals in Finance, Accounting, Economics, and Law. He is a Faculty Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and has been a Visiting Scholar at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. He completed his PhD in business economics at Harvard University. For more information about Dr. Yermack’s impressive background, visit here: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/david-yermack

If you wish to meet the speaker in person after the seminar, please contact Professor Nachum at lilac.nachum@baruch.cuny.edu and specify your time preferences.

I hope to have as many of you attending the seminar and look forward to a stimulating engagement (no need to RSVP – just come).

Interested to learn more about our series? Please enroll on our Blackboard site:

We encourage faculty with interest in our series to visit out dedicated area on Blackboard and enroll themselves to the cite. This provides full access to past and future seminars’ material and to e-mail updates about forthcoming seminars.

If you are interested login in to Blackboard, and go through the following steps:

Scroll down in the box on the left side of the screen (under CUNYfirstMyInfo)

Under ‘organization search’ type ‘international business’ and click go

The IB seminar series appears as ‘Weissman Center international business research program’.

Point your mouth at the Organization ID and you will get an arrow on the right side of the ID.

Click on the arrow and click on enroll

Click submit

Click OK

You need to follow this process only once. Once you are enrolled, you will find a link to the ‘Weissman Center international business research program’ under ‘my organization’.

Lilac Nachum

Professor, International Business

Executives Educator and Global Business Adviser

www.LinkedIn.com/in/lilacnachum