2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference opens on October 19; central bank-side digital RMB system and digital RMB smart contract ecosystem service framework expected to be released during the event

PANews reported on October 15, citing Beijing Daily, that the 2026 Financial Street Forum Annual Conference will be held from October 19 to 22 on Beijing's Financial Street, with more than 400 guests from over 40 countries and regions in attendance. This is the 15th edition, approved by the State Council, with the theme "Openness, Cooperation, Inclusiveness — Building a New Global Financial Development Ecosystem Together." The annual conference plans to hold 21 thematic events across the main forum and parallel forums, as well as 3 special conferences. Among them, the Insurance Conference will be hosted by the National Financial Regulatory Administration for the first time, and the Investment Conference will make its debut, forming a special conference matrix together with the FinTech Conference. More than 100 achievements, including a credit risk control strategy sandbox agent and a quantum fusion algorithm intelligent evolution platform, will be unveiled for the first time. The annual conference will expand to an African sub-venue for the first time, conduct a first-ever three-way link among Beijing, Hong Kong, and London, and hold 7 events across 5 overseas sub-venues in Hong Kong, London, Paris, Toronto, and Nairobi.

The FinTech Conference 2026 will further innovate its format and expand its scale, setting up 13 thematic events around cutting-edge topics such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and digital-intelligent finance. Within the framework of the conference, the People's Bank of China will host the Chengfang FinTech Forum and hold a seminar on AI financial applications and risk prevention and control, and will continue to hold a series of activities such as the FinTech application scenario competition. Related achievements such as the central bank-side digital RMB system and the digital RMB smart contract ecosystem service framework are expected to be released.