Andreas Kind heads the Shanghai Lab of IBM Research - China and coordinates the research agenda on Financial Services and Security across emerging market regions. Andreas co-led IBM's 2015 Global Technology Outlook on payment innovation and blockchain. His current focus is on Cognitive Finance and FinTech innovation. In his previous positions at IBM he led Systems Management Research in the Computer Science Department of the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory as well as the Systems Research Department at IBM Research - China in Beijing.