The digital economy emerges as the new booster for global economic recoveryand financial technology (fintech) becomes a vital component for advancing the digitaleconomy Hence, it is imperative to expedite financial technologyinnovation, whichplays a leading role in the digital transformation and upgrading of thousands ofindustries. Along with the advancement of data science, fintech is transitioning fromtraditional lT-driven to data- and artificial intelligence-driven. Consequently fntechexperiences an evolution from the "digitalization stage" to the "digitalization andintelligentization stage". The DaSE has been working intensively on distributeddatabases and blockchain systems for fnancial transactions, industry prosperity indexforecasting and trading systems for financial investment, intelligent monitoring anddecision-making systems for financial risk control, in close collaboration with theindustry.it has achieved rich scientific research achievements and has beensuccessfully applied to many felds such as banking and securities.
