Thanks to the senior analyst from Bloomberg Intelligence to share with our students the latest Bloomberg Fintech research. He shared with our students the latest outlook of Ant Group under regulatory squeeze. In particular, the impact on Ant group in the Alibaba-Tencent Tie up. The China Online Insurance prospect was also discussed.
Many thanks to IFTA for putting together the sharing session for our students. Special thanks to the speakers Mr Stephen Fung (Chief Innovation Evangelist, NFC Touch Limited), Mr. Calvin Cheng (Founder & CEO, Wizpresso), Mr. Howard Wong (Head of RegTech Advisory & Chief FinTech Evangelist, FORMS Syntron Information (HK) Limited, Mr Tony Lam and Rex Tsang
(Founders, Algogene Financial Technology Company Limited) for their sharings on Digital Transformation with NFC Technology, LegalTech application - IPO verification, Central Bank Digital Currency & Tokenized Economy and Algorithmic Trading. Our students got a lot of insights from their experiences.
Many thanks to Dr Dorothy Chau (Director of Tencent), Mr Darron Sun (Vice Chairman of IFTA), Mr Rico Tang (Senior Manager of Cyberport), Mr Benjamin Wong (Founder of Transwap) and Dr Samson Tai (our Professor of Practice) for joining the MSc in Finance (Fintech and Financial Analytics) program's orientation and sharing their experiences with our students on 3 September. More than 40 students joined us on campus with 20+ online.
Congratulations to David K.T. Ho (BBA Entrepreneurship and Finance, 2020). Supported by the program, he was honoured with the ‘Star in the Making’ award by the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA) in the FinTech Achievement Awards 2020. He was one of the only two awardees in the category this year.
The ‘Star in the Making’ award recognizes students for innovative projects or ideas that could positively transform the FinTech industry. In 2019, Ho teamed up with two other HKBU business graduates to come up with the FOODCHAIN idea to offer financing solutions for small and medium-sized enterprises, a much-needed service, especially during the pandemic.
Thanks to Mr Antony Chan of Cyberport for arranging the visit to our students, Mr Edward Chan, Head of Partnerships, ZA Bank, and Mr William Yeung, CEO of MediConCen for their wonderful sharing on virtual banks and Insurtech. Students were inspired and they also very much enjoyed the tour of Smart-Space Fintech and CyberLab afterwards.
Congratulation to OKONKWO Emeka Kingsley, AWUNI Mathias, OLUOKUN Adeola Folarin Of MSc in Finance (Fintech and Financial Analytics) for winning the Bronze Award. They put together Credify, a blockchain-based platform to decentralize the verification of academic credentials. Two other teams from HKBU got the awards of merits. Well done All.
https://2021.hk.ibcol.org/#award-winners
