Sept 2017 – M21媒體空間
In spite of the adverse weather conditions, this year’s Global Youth Entrepreneurs Forum was successfully held on 13 and 14 June. It was gratifying to see the enthusiasm of 1,000 participants from over 30 regions and countries who gathered in Hong Kong and Qianhai, Shenzhen (E Hub) to learn, share and experience. In this video, Dr. Toa Charm Ka-ieong (湛家揚博士), Chief Public Mission Officer of the Hong Kong Cyberport Management Company Limited, shared his views about FinTech.
Nov 2017
Tencent Holdings-backed WeChat Pay is ramping up its expansion outside mainland China with new initiatives to extend the use of its mobile payment services to taxis and merchants in Hong Kong.
WeChat Pay Hong Kong unveiled a series of payment solutions for daily transactions, announcing that its service can now be used to pay for taxi fare and settle bills in the city.
Read More: http://www.ejinsight.com/20171101-wechat-pay-hk-launches-expanded-features-for-taxi-payment/
The 3rd Episode of HK FinTech Series at Metro Finance Radio Channel Features TNG’s Founder and CEO, Mr. Alex Kong (江庆恩) Alex Kong (江庆恩) founded TNG https://lnkd.in/fUTF-yJ – a leader in the eWallet market. TNG is a Cyberport’s incubatee and now has business all over Asia. TNG’s current valuation is over 500M USD. They just raised 115M USD in their Round A exercise. If you would like to learn more from Alex as well as understand the payment market and entrepreneurship experience in Asia, you don’t want to miss this air time of Alex.
Part 1 (Nov 5, 2017) https://lnkd.in/fMqde2x
Part 2 (Nov 5, 2017) https://lnkd.in/f2ccKMM
This series will be featured with FinTech leaders and will be broadcasted every Sunday from 1pm to 2pm at the Hong Kong Metro Finance Radio Station. Previous 2 episodes can be found here. https://lnkd.in/fNCkeSn
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AI was flourshing at Cyberport this week. Stay tuned to leverage our AI ecosystem no matter you are start-ups, students, enterprises, investors, partners, etc.
1. We broke the world’s record with over 1,100 students playing Chinese Chess with AI;
2. We selected the best 3 start-ups for the Alibaba Jumpstarter AI/Big Data track out of hundreds of contestants all over world;
3. We launched the 2nd B4B Challenge with great enterprises and data partners;
4. We supported the pitching day of Zeroth.AI accelerator with participating teams from all over the world;
5. Our Cyberport AI start-up Find Solution AI showcased their AI for education to Chief Secretary of Adminstration of HKSAR Government
Read More: http://www.cyberport.hk/Cyberport_AI_Innovation_20171006/index.html
Oct 2017
At the world’s biggest debt dealer, traders can have trouble making sense of all the action as it happens. So JPMorgan Chase & Co. is bringing in artificial intelligence to give them a picture of the whole trading floor — and even predict where markets are going.
Read More: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-10-22/jpmorgan-taps-ai-startup-to-help-traders-predict-market-moves
Cyberport FinTech Series (新城財經台金融科技大本營) with 10 episodes is now on Hong Kong Metro Finance Radio Channel every Sunday from 1pm to 2pm. I am a guest host for this series. I will invite influential FinTech leaders and innovators to share their views in this series.
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Oct 2017
Four major banks have joined a trade finance initiative launched late last year by Switzerland-based UBS and tech giant IBM.
Bank of Montreal (BMO), CaixaBank, Commerzbank and Erste Group are now taking part in the project, which is being built on top of the open-source Hyperledger Fabric framework. The platform, dubbed Batavia, was first unveiled in October at the Sibos banking conference in Geneva.
Read More: https://www.coindesk.com/new-banks-join-ubs-backed-blockchain-trade-finance-platform/
Sept 2017
HKMA chief executive Norman Chan lays out plan designed to usher in ‘a new era of smart banking’ in the city.
While digital innovation has been traditionally focused on wealth and banking, Dr. Charm, Chief Public Mission Officer, Cyberport, Hong Kong, offers a view into some of the ways in which the FinTech industry is attempting to challenge or empower the Asian asset management industry. This event was filmed at the Thomson Reuters APAC Buy-Side Summit 2017 on Wednesday, 17th May 2017.
Dr Toa Charm talks about the Hong Kong Fintech Ecosystem and how Cyberport is supporting the Citi HK Fintech Challenge.