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In a collaborative effort to explore the potential of the Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs), the School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School), in partnership with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR) under the ... Read More

Co-organized by the Center for Business and Social Analytics (CBSA) at the School of Business and Management of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) and Wisers Information Limited (Wisers), the Analytics Challenge @HKUST has returned this year to promote data analytics skills in risk management among tertiary students ... Read More

Dean Professor Tam Kar-Yan (right) and Associate Professor Yang Yi of HKUST Business School announce InvestLM — Hong Kong's first open-source large language model for financial generative AI applications. A research team at the School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) has developed ... Read More

As Hong Kong strives for carbon neutrality, HKUST Fintechstic, the annual fintech education event organized by the Business School of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) in celebration of the Hong Kong FinTech Week, has engaged participants to explore the topic of achieving sustainable development goals (SDGs) through ... Read More

The School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) today announced that two of the School’s experts in fintech — Dean Professor TAM Kar Yan and Associate Dean Professor Allen HUANG, have joined the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA) Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Expert Group to help ... Read More

The School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) found that 41 percent of Hong Kong people prefer not to hold virtual assets (VAs) [Note 1], up by 12 percentage points from a previous survey, in the aftermath of an alleged financial fraud that involved a cryptocurrency platform in mid ... Read More

The Kellogg-HKUST Executive MBA (KH EMBA) program, offered jointly by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, is ranked No.1 in the latest Financial Times EMBA Ranking. The KH EMBA program has maintained its prominent status as the global leader by clinching the top spot for ... Read More

A team of four undergraduate students from National University of Singapore was crowned the champion at the HKUST International Case Competition (HKICC) 2023, excelling among peers from top business schools around the world in coming up with creative business solutions. The second place went to the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the ... Read More

Pilot runs from 16 to 22 September Forms part of an industry exercise led by HKMA to deep dive into use 0cases, designs and implementation relating to Hypothetical e-HKD Highlights real-world use cases for CBDCs application in retail The School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) and HSBC ... Read More

The School of Business and Management of The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST Business School) today launched the Wisers-HKUST Tourism Index (Tourism Index) in collaboration with Wisers Information Limited (Wisers) in support of Hong Kong’s tourism growth following the resumption of normal travel between Hong Kong and the Mainland. As ... Read More