Fintech and Islamic Finance

1. Digitalization and Disruption in the Financial Sector.- 2. Fintech Emergence & Global Evolution.- 3. Fintech as Disruptors & Empowering Financial Industry.- 4. Emergence of Shariah-Tech and its Landscape.- 5. Application of Blockchain in Islamic Finance Landscape.- 6. Crypto Currency & Islamic Finance.- 7. Smart Contract & Islamic Finance.- 8. Fintech Regulation.- 9. Challenges & Success Factors for Fintech in Islamic Finance.

Nafis Alam is Associate Professor of Finance at Henley Business School, University of Reading Malaysia. His research is focused on Fintech, banking regulation, corporate finance, Islamic banking and finance. He is a research affiliate of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK and contributes regularly to a global industry report on Fintech and financial regulations. He holds a PhD in Banking and Finance from Monash University, Australia.




Lokesh Gupta has more than 18 years of experience in the sector of Financial Technology in Conventional and Islamic Banking Domain as a Techno Functional. He is also the Co-Founder of RM Applications Sdn Bhd. Currently, he is involved in asset liability management, Basel III reporting, data mart development as well as remittance and payments solution implementations in the South East Asia region. He has also co-authored books and publishedarticles in Islamic Banking and Finance.






Abdolhossein Zameni is Lecturer of Finance at Henley Business School at the University of Reading Malaysia. He obtained a BSc in Industrial Engineering at Mazandaran University of Science and Technology, Iran and his MBA in Finance at Multimedia University, Malaysia. In 2014, he was awarded a PhD in Finance by the National University of Malaysia (UKM).