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Supported by InvestHK and Finnovasia, this year’s Hong Kong Fintech Week was successfully concluded through a hybrid format and brought more than 20,000 attendees together and over 4 million online views. Engaging with industry experts is one of the most effective ways for students to gain valuable and practical knowledge while improving their networking ... Read More

Earlier this month, the Fintechstic 2021 Case Competition was successfully held as a closing event for this year’s Fintechstic event series. Fintechstic 2021 was jointly organized by the HKUST Fintech Research Project and AQUMON and supported by InvestHK. Through a series of online and physical activities spanning 1.5 months from September to November, over ... Read More

Recognizing the growing need for fintech talent, HKUST has signed an MoU with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) to form a new partnership and collaborate on talent development as well as research and application to the advancement of fintech. A mentorship network will also be established under the Industry Project Masters Network (IPMN) of the HKMA ... Read More

Themed “ Scaling Fintech Future Together”, the Hong Kong FinTech Week 2021 successfully concluded between November 1 and 5 in a hybrid form, comprising both physical and virtual formats. Our faculty were honored to join many respected speakers in several panels to share their insights into various timely topics. In the panel on “AI and Big Data Adoption in ... Read More

Organized by the Fintech Research Project, the first two industry talks of the 2021-22 academic year were held successfully and provided 100 students with the latest information on market trends and practical fintech knowledge. The first industry talk was held in September. Dr Paul SIN, Consulting Partner of Deloitte China and Deloitte’s Asia Pacific ... Read More

This year, the month-long event Fintechstic 2021 has broadened its scope by opening its doors to the public and all full-time students at local universities. Jointly organized by the Fintech Research Project of the HKUST Business School and AQUMON and supported by InvestHK to celebrate Hong Kong Fintech Week 2021, the event has attracted nearly 200 ... Read More

The Fintech Research Project has organized two industry talks in April to explore top trending skills in the current fintech job market. On April 21, Miss Florence LAM from Financial Career Insights shared the latest market trends and highlighted the importance of data analytics and python programming skills for fintech jobs. She also discussed the ... Read More

On April 8, the Hong Kong Academy of Finance (AoF) launched the new Thematic Program on Fintech and Digitalization to deepen participants’ understanding of fintech and inspire them to promote adopting fintech in their organizations. Celebrating the launch with the webinar on “Fintech, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning”, Professor TAM Kar Yan, Dean ... Read More

Prof Allen HUANG from the Department of Accounting and Prof YANG Yi from the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics and Operations Management (ISOM) developed a deep-learning based language model, based on Google’s BERT that is customized to financial text data. FinBERT, created by the two professors as part of the research under the Fintech ... Read More

Over the years, our faculty members have published articles on local media outlets, sharing their insights with the public. We’re delighted to announce the launch of our recently published book FINTECH – Reshaping the Future of Finance Services 《金融科技重塑金融未來》 Published by the HKUST Business School, the book features articles previously published in a ... Read More