Feature Stories

Students of the Business School were extremely successful in participating and organizing case competitions in 2018. They have not only organized two major contests, but also won multiple local and international competitions. With strong support and generous sponsorship from the private sector, the School again organized two major case contests. Designed for ... Read More

Over the past one year, the Business School’s engagement with industries and in direct collaboration with commercial organizations has grown richer and deeper. Two partnerships highlight the value nurturing the talent required by today’s economy. First, the University signed a major cooperation agreement with the China Construction Bank to provide corporate ... Read More

As an indication of the importance of FinTech to Hong Kong’s prospects, the first award made to the Business School under the Research Grants Council’s Theme-based Research Scheme (TRS) is for research in this field. The project will examine the impacts of FinTech on individual investors, financial institutions and the industry to establish a roadmap for ... Read More

By CHEN Yanzhen, Assistant Professor, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, HKUST Business School AI may enable computers to detect meaning from voices. We humans are good at detecting meaning from the nuances of voices, and we are often proud that we can infer information implicitly conveyed, and sometimes ... Read More

By Allen HUANG, Associate Professor, Department of Accounting, HKUST Business School FinTech companies complain about disclosures, but investors can find them useful if they understand them. Accounting is fundamentally about information. In addition to the numeric information in the financial statements, there is a large amount of unstructured textual ... Read More

By HUI Kai-lung, Deputy Head and Chair Professor, Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management, HKUST Business School Blockchain has inspired a wave of digital innovations, but businesses need to think more deeply about the way it is used. In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto published an ingenious paper sketching the idea and ... Read More

By K.C. CHAN, Senior Advisor to the Dean and Adjunct Professor of Finance, HKUST Business School Former Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, the Government of HKSAR (2007-2017) Rigorous application of regulatory principles without stifling true innovations should form the solid bedrock of a sound FinTech policy. Regulation is often seen to play ... Read More

The innovations and rationalizations made possible by digital technology continue to transform the financial services industry. To help prepare skilled professionals and entrepreneurs who will shape a tech-driven future, three HKUST schools have combined their strengths to create a new master’s degree in Financial Technology (MSc in FinTech) Program. For ... Read More

HKUST has a growing reputation for nurturing the entrepreneurial and technical talent fueling the FinTech revolution. Here, four alumni share insights on the tech, from blockchain to AI and from robo-advisory services to digital payments, they have harnessed in their businesses. Mike GAULT and Guardtime “Blockchain provides a mechanism for verification ... Read More

“Behind each of those machines is a human who has somehow taught that machine how to behave.” Lukas PETRIKAS, Co-head of HKEX Innovation Lab Established only last year, HKEX’s Innovation Lab brings in-house talent together with FinTech startups to work on solutions for Hong Kong’s market operator. But despite the opportunities digital tech opens up, Lukas ... Read More