Latest development on FinTech and the opportunities for Hong Kong

Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) ICT Advisory Committee invites Dr. Toa Charm, GCE Consulting’s Managing Partner, to give a briefing session on FinTech development in Hong Kong. The members of the HKTDC ICT Advisory Committee are all senior management of local and international ICT companies such as HSBC, IBM, Microsoft, PCCW, etc.  They provide advices to HKTDC to shape the future business of Hong Kong through ICT perspectives.

Professor Andrew C. F. Chan, Director of eMBA Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, has invited Dr. Toa Charm to share his experience on big data and how big data synergies with Prof. Chan’s well-known “Left-Right Circles” theory, with his eMBA program’s current students and alumni.  Dr. Lawrence Wong also participated in this seminar and shared his views in the Q&A session as well. 

Professor Andrew C. F. Chan, Director of eMBA Program, Chinese University of Hong Kong, has invited Dr. Toa Charm to share his experience on big data and how big data synergies with Prof. Chan’s well-known “Left-Right Circles” theory, with his eMBA program’s current students and alumni.   Over 100 people attended the seminar and asked quite a lot of sensible and practical questions on how Hong Kong companies can make use of big data.  Dr. Charm had a very interactive Q&A session with the students.  Dr. Lawrence Wong also participated in this seminar and shared his views in the Q&A session as well.   The feedback was very positive.  The organizer of CUHK eMBA Annual Conference was one of the participants and had invited Dr. Charm to moderate a panel discussion on big data in the annual conference in Oct 27, 2015.

How important is Big Data to Human resources? What really is Big Data? THong Mian Hui She invited Dr.Toa Charm to share his experience on the “When Big Data Meets HR” in the Big Data Forum in Guangzhou China on Sep 13, 2015 in Shenzhen.

大数据对人力资源（HR）有什么重要性？大数据到底是什么？人力资源专业人士和高管经常会问这些问题，但他们无法得到正确的答案。创新及领先企业已经利用大数据来帮助回答如下关键人力资源和业务问题：

With the rise of Internet Finance and Big Data, there is a Fin-tech (financial technology) boom around world.  Fin-tech is bound to bring a shock to the current financial system . Dr. Toa Charm, who has worked in Great China, Asia-Pacific, American and many other top multinational companies as  senior manager, is invited to share his first view on fin-tech. Hope this may help the financial industry in Taiwan to face the challenge of trend.

隨著互聯網金融與大數據的興起，全球陷入Fin-tech (financial technology，金融科技)熱潮，Fin-Tech對現行的金融體系勢必帶來一場震撼。高盛預估，金融科技產業將從華爾街金融業手中搶下4.7兆美元營收和4,700億美元獲利。但這場革命其實也是源自現有金融機構內的科技創新，將改變傳統付費、借款和投資的方式。

面對金融3.0的衝擊，隨著實體銀行的減少，金融服務邁入虛擬化趨勢，未來行動通訊、網路、社群媒體、物聯網及開放資料（open data）等，都會影響銀行業務發展。金融3.0的關鍵，在於如何在金融商品的創新、服務管道的便利與理財風險之中，做好平衡發展，傳統金融機構面臨全新的數位化挑戰。

湛博士先後任職於大中華區、亞太區以及美國等多家頂尖跨國企業高階經理人的宏觀視野，會就此課題分享第一手觀察，幫助台灣金融業界面對趨勢挑戰之佈局與因應。