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MSc in Finance (Fintech & Financial Analytics) exhibited in the Fintech week 2021

With commitments to help develop the Fintech ecosystem, the program exhibited in the Fintech week in Hong Kong. Stay connected with the Fintech industry is vital to the programme and the students. Thanks to all visiting our booth, including but not limited to Mr. Authur Au, Deputy Commissioner for Innovation and Technology and Mr. Paul Pong, Chairman and Founder of the Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia in the picture above.

November 3, 2021

China’s Fintech Prospects by Bloomberg Intelligence

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.

October 12, 2021

IFTA Fintech Achievement Awardees Campus Sharing

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.

September 16, 2021

IFTA Asian Fintech Business Plan Competition Award Presentation

Congratulations to students from the Fintech class (offered by the Department of Finance and Decision Sciences to MSc in Corporate Governance and Compliance Program, with our Associate Director, Ms Queenie Lee, being the lecturer/mentor) for being the champion of the competition. Team Chain Green composed of Ai Xu, Kar Yan Yeung, Tsz Yan Ng and Chan Zheng put together a proposal with ESG focus, which is currently under consideration by IFTA to put in some funding. Please find enclosed video clip with an overview of the winning project from the team, comments on the role of universities in Fintech development in Hong Kong by Mr Darron Sun, Vice Chairman of IFTA and sharing from Mr Benjamin Wong, Founder of Transwap & one of the jurors on his view of the secret to success.

September 3, 2021

MSc in Finance (Fintech and Financial Analytics) Program Orientation and Industry Sharing

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.

September 3, 2021

HKBU BBA graduate named “Star in the Making” in IFTA FinTech Achievement Awards

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.

August 19, 2021

Visit to the Cyberport, the Digital Tech Hub of Hong Kong

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.

June 23, 2021

Blockchain Olympiad – winning teams from HKBU

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

June 19, 2021

The developments of artificial intelligence

Our adjunct professors Dr. Dorothy Chau and Mr. Jason Lau joined the conversation at the session titled “The Talent Deficit: When AI Demand Far Outstrips Supply” at the WSJ Pro Artificial Intelligence Executive Forum organized by The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Themed “Unlocking value in the new normal”, the virtual forum was held on 31 March 2021.

April 1, 2021