Central bank fintech experiments and the remaking of money relations in Singapore

2025-10-22 - 2025-10-22

Emily H. C. Chua

Hybrid (online & in-person)

Date & Time：2025/10/22 14:00-16:00 (GMT +8)

Venue：R106A, HA Building 2, Guangfu Campus, NYCU

Format：Hybrid (online & in-person)  

Speaker: Emily H. C. Chua (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, National University of Singapore)

Discussant: Jacob Hjortsberg (Department of Business Humanities and Law, Copenhagen Business School)

Moderator: Allen Chun ( International Center for Cultural Studies, NYCU)

 

Zoom Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83595764550?pwd=VOKprnRPSZf7cF6ebidcbyqBqVLwfL.1

ZOOM ID: 835 9576 4550

Password: 062844

* The event will be conducted in English.

 

【Abstract】

New financial technologies, or “fintech,” are not only changing what banks and businesses do, but also how ordinary money users think and feel about money. This talk considers the state-led development of a thriving fintech sector in Singapore and the experiments this national economic strategy enrolls citizens in. It argues that the expansion of both expert and lay fintech knowledges reconstitutes present economic problems as conditions that are unsolvable by money in its current forms, and encourages people to relate to the novel arrangements that their fintech usage puts them in as the makings of a better future.

 

Organizer: 

National Yang-Ming Chiao-Tung University International Center for Cultural Studies (ICCS-NYCU) 

－ Sub-project I: The Geopolitics and Cultural Economy of Societal Relations in a New Greater China　

－　Subproject II: The Chip Era and Digital Governance 

Funding Source:　

Higher Education Sprout Project, Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan

 

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