On September 12, the final of 2013 Newcomer Business Case Analysis Contest kicked off at the PBC School of Finance of Tsinghua University (PBCSF). Among the final judges were PBCSF's leadersguests including Executive Associate Dean LIAO Li, Associate Dean ZHAO Cen, former chairman of GF Fund Management MA Qingquan, CEO of YeePay TANG Bin,co-foundervice president of Yunyun (Beijing) Information Technology SHENG Jia.

The Winning Team

The final continued the mode of "study demo + Q & A" used in the preliminaries. By probing into various business modes, the teams conducted systematic analyses of hot issues at present such as the outlook of Internet finance. The teams analyzed the business modes of companiesPersonal Capital (financial service company), Crowdcube (crowdfunding platform), Seedrs (crowdfunding platform)Wealthfront (online financial advisor), as well as the possibility of developing their business in China.

Team 12 led by Li Jinxin, a newcomer in 2013 stood out to grab the title.

Liao commented on the contest, praising the teams' innovativenessconfidence, hoping that they will continue their study on Internet finance,expecting them to offer more creative ideasconcepts.

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The preliminaries of the contest came first on the 11th. All the newcomers in 2013 were divided into 22 teams,four teams made it to the final. The contest explored development of mature Internet finance modes abroad, covering a wide range of fields such as crowdfunding platform, online investment software, mobile financing terminal, virtual currencythird-party payment platform.