Yan is Project Lead for the Digital Trade Portfolio at the World Economic Forum focusing on e-commerce and cross border digital payments. Yan has extensive private sector experience in financial services, e-commerce, cross border investments and capital markets through her prior roles as senior legal counsel for Ant Financial/Alipay and lawyer at Shearman & Sterling LLP. Yan received her B.A. in Economics and Political Science from New York University and her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School.
In our globalized era, the ability to transfer funds internationally underpins many pillars of our world economy; from a family member sending remittances home to large corporations condu...
Payments are the backbone to the global trade and the digital economy with many innovations coming out of the private sector.
In the second half of 2022, China unveiled the details of its data export regulations, providing further explanations to its existing laws and regulations on data.
数字货币正在增长：市场价值超过2万亿美元，涉及15,000多个品类。2021年，萨尔瓦多甚至将比特币作为其法定货币。
Digital currencies are growing: the market is valued at more than $2 trillion and involves more than 15,000 varieties. In 2021, El Salvador even adopted Bitcoin as its legal currency.
Globally, there is an accelerated shift towards digital payments and the ownership and use of digital currency. These innovations have also kickstarted long-overdue conversations not just...
Last week was big for digital currencies with the Davos Agenda taking place and, separately, the release of the third BIS survey on central bank digital currency (CBDC).
COVID-19 has accelerated the digitization of the economy. As the need for social distancing grew, digital payments, which used to be nice-to-have, transformed into a daily necessity in ma...
The spread of COVID-19 across the globe has changed many people's lives. As more and more people are asked to stay home, many activities have been forced to move from offline to online (O...
在新冠病毒疫情期间，数字支付一直在维持经济运行，并帮助人们减少与病毒的接触。
在新冠肺炎疫情期间，科技在封城和隔离时期，对保持社会正常运转方面发挥了至关重要的作用。这些科技可能会产生比新冠肺炎疫情本身更深远的影响。
During the coronavirus crisis, digital payments have been keeping economies running and helping people reduce contact with virus.
Pendant la pandémie de COVID-19, les technologies jouent un rôle crucial pour maintenir notre société fonctionnelle en période de confinement et de mise en quarantaine. Et ces technologie...
Durante la pandemia de COVID-19, las tecnologías están desempeñando un papel crucial para mantener en funcionamiento nuestra sociedad en una época de confinamientos y cuarentenas. Y estas...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, technologies are playing a crucial role in keeping our society functional in a time of lockdowns and quarantines. And these technologies may have a long-last...
