[March 16, 2016]

Vancouver FinTech Conference Sells Out in Record Time and Launches FinTech Association of Canada to Develop Global Business Opportunities for Canadian Startups

The second annual FinTech Conference in Vancouver - FinTech2016.com - on April 14, 2016 sold out in a matter of weeks. FinTech2016 is organized by the Digital Finance Institute, a Canadian think tank for FinTech to drive financial technology forward in Canada by bringing global thought leaders in FinTech and innovation to Canada to share their expertise and knowledge with Canadian startups and helping to create relationships with global organizations that will lead to business opportunities for Canadian entrepreneurs in financial technology.

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Christine Duhaime, Founder of Digital Finance Institute. (Photo: Business Wire)

The Conference will be preceded by a gala event on April 13, 2016, to launch the new FinTech Association of Canada and release a FinTech Report that analyzes the opportunities for British Columbia to lead in financial technology.

Stellar roster of international speakers in FinTech

"We're pleased that FinTech2016.com sold out so quickly and it's a reflection of the stellar speakers in FinTech coming to share their expertise with Canadian entrepreneurs, such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Visa, Cisco (News - Alert), PayPal, SAP and NTT Data", said Christine Duaime, the Founder of the Digital Finance Institute, a prominent financial crime lawyer from Toronto and expert on financial inclusion. "Developing a supportive ecosystem for entrepreneurs, innovators and financiers is critical to driving investment in FinTech to Canada as banks shift digitally to ensure FinTech jobs get created and remain in Canada" she said. "It's fantastic to see such growth in FinTech in Canada in just one year since we organized the first FinTech Conference."

Broad range of topics including access to Iran and Asia

The Conference covers a range of topics from the bank innovation, blockchain technology, RegTech, financial inclusion, security and privacy issues, financing for startups, payments. It will also include a special session on access to markets in Asia and Iran.

For more information on FinTech2016.com, please visit http://www.FinTech2016.com. For more information about the FinTech Association, please visit http://www.FinTechAssociationCanada.org.

About the Digital Finance Institute: Launched in 2014, the Digital Finance Institute is the first institute in the world devoted to FinTech. It focuses on financial innovation, financial inclusion and diversity in financial services delivery. It organizes FinTech Conferences in Canada and Iran, helps to support the FinTech ecosystem in Canada, launched the FinTech Awards in 2015 and provides research and education for financial inclusion solutions. With NTT (News - Alert) Data, it co-creates the popular FemTech Leaders series that promotes women in FinTech around the world, and wrote the first White Paper on Women in FinTech released in 2015. It also works towards refugee payment technology solutions for financial inclusion. The Digital Finance Institute is one of the only Canadian organizations speaking on FinTech at Innovate Finance in London and Money 20/20 in Copenhagen in 2016.

For more information, visit http://www.digitalfinanceinstitute.org or follow us at @dfinstitute.

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