On November 17, HKUST celebrated the opening of the Shaw Auditorium – a brand new hall with state-of-the-art facilities supported by a generous donation from the Shaw Foundation Hong Kong (SFHK). This new landmark is set to turn HKUST into an arts and culture hub that offers a new place of learning and gathering for the community and expand our humanistic ... 閱讀更多

The Michael G. Gale Medal for Distinguished Teaching is the highest accolade in teaching at HKUST. It is presented to only one faculty member each year. This year, Jeevan JAISINGH, Associate Professor of Business Education in the Department of Information Systems, Business Statistics, and Operations Management (ISOM), receives the prestigious award. The ... 閱讀更多

Last month, HKUST announced a new partnership with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) to pioneer a new Sustainable Financeelective course for our MBA students. The partnership marks HKEX’s first collaboration with an Asian university to offer an executive education program in the field. Launching in Spring 2022, the “ Sustainable Finance with Business ... 閱讀更多

As an international financial center, Hong Kong has been enhancing a robust anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (“AML/CTF”) regime in accordance with the recommendations of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) – an inter-governmental body that sets international standards for combating ML/TF and oversees global compliance. On November ... 閱讀更多

A huge congratulations to Year 4 student Justin Pak-Hin CHAN, BBA (Accounting & Finance), for winning the Champion title in the Ernst & Young’s Young Tax Professional of the Year 2021 (Greater China Final). By bringing together students from all over the world, the competition aims to foster a next generation of tax leaders. “Tax is a lifelong learning ... 閱讀更多

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 ... 閱讀更多

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 ... 閱讀更多

Jointly organized by the BSc programs in Quantitative Finance and Sustainable and Green Finance, the QFIN and SGFN Speaker Series 2021-22 featured experienced industry speakers and covered a comprehensive range of sustainable and green finance topics. The first session was held successfully on October 27. Dr Calvin Lee KWAN, Head of Sustainability and Risk ... 閱讀更多

This September, the HKUST Business School MSc Virtual Week gave participating students around the world an insightful taste into the opportunities that they could have at the School’s Master of Science programs. Watch the program information webinars for more information. Students had the unique opportunity to connect with professors and alumni from ... 閱讀更多

Coming from various continents around the world, the MSc in Global Finance (MSGF) Class of 2021 has committed themselves to their studies during this challenging time. After a year of hard work, the cohort presented its final module of integrative project group presentation – the capstone module of the MSGF program – in a real-time mixed mode format. The ... 閱讀更多