Less than a month until HKFinTech Week Nov 4-8, 2019 starts
Asia’s most anticipated FinTech event of the year – Hong Kong FinTech Week is back on November 4-8 in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. As a Supporting Organisation, Innovation Hong Kong can offer you 15% off tickets using the discount code INHK15. To register and get your discounted tickets please click here:
What to expect this year
Attendees will hear from fintech experts around the world, meet industry experts from the world’s most innovative fintech companies and experience China’s Silicon Valley via organised company visits in Shenzhen. Exhibitors will be able to showcase their latest technology solutions and meet the fastest growing fintech startups from across China, Asia and the world.
Moving to a bigger venue
This year, Hong Kong Fintech Week will see a doubling in the venue size as it moves to the AsiaWorld-Expo, a reflection on the success and growth of the event which is now one of the world’s leading fintech trade shows. The new venue will accommodate in excess of 8,000 attendees, 100 exhibitors and over 200 world-class speakers from more than 60 economies across Asia, mainland China and globally.
The new venue is appropriate given the growing importance of Lantau. It’s strategically located close to the newly opened Zhuhai-Hong Kong-Macau highway – and world’s longest sea bridge – which is symbolic of the fintech connection and collaboration between Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area, a key theme of Hong Kong Fintech Week. On the final day of the week, the event will move to Shenzhen, where international attendees will have a rare opportunity to visit and meet with executives of the most innovative fintech companies that are headquartered in so-called China’s Silicon Valley – Tencent, Zhong An, WeLab and WeBank.
Featuring the newcomers to the industry
The finance industry is changing rapidly not only in Hong Kong but globally and this years event will feature many of the newcomers which are coming from outside the traditional finance industry. These companies bring new skills, capabilities and market understanding to the mix. Airlines, telecom, computer gaming companies, mobile messengers, smartphone producers, ride sharing apps and others are getting involved.
Virtual Banks
Digital-only banks (or virtual banks) operate without physical branches, offering an alternative customer experience and lowering costs, all aimed at a new audience that wants on-the-go convenience 24/7.
Hong Kong Fintech Week will feature over 15 digital-only banks from across the world: from Africa to Asia, Europe to the US. And, of course, the eight Hong Kong virtual banks which received banking licenses from Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) earlier this year. These eight banks are poised for launch, so the week will present an opportunity to learn more about what they will offer and also to compare with what their peers are doing in other parts of the world.
Digital Insurers
Online insurance is a fast-growing area within the sector, offering new products, new risk -management tools and affordable bespoke packages, which are opening up new hitherto untapped and under-insured markets. In Hong Kong, they operate without agents, branches or bancassurance distribution. Hong Kong Fintech Week will feature digital insurance companies from across the world. These will include Hong Kong’s first digital insurer, Bowtie, which was granted its license by the Insurance Authority late last year
Emerging Technologies: AI, Big Data and Blockchain
Hong Kong Fintech Week this year will focus heavily on emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and blockchain. Following the HKMA’s success with its launch of a trade finance platform built on distributed ledger, the importance of blockchain technology is growing fast across the spectrum of financial services, including regulation, supervisory technology, KYC and cybersecurity. The huge potential – along with the risks – of AI, big data and machine learning technologies in finance will be high on the agenda for the week.
Global Fast-growing Fintech Companies
Hong Kong is becoming one of the most attractive destinations for global fintech companies. This year’s Hong Kong Fintech Week will feature more than 10 global fintech unicorns (fast-growing startups with valuation over US$1 billion).
With over 100 companies coming to Hong Kong to exhibit and demonstrate their technology, including delegations from the UK, Ireland, Switzerland, Israel, Nigeria, New Zealand, Japan and Luxemburg, Hong Kong Fintech Week will also host this year the final stage of the FintechHK Global Competition co-organised by Invest Hong Kong and Alibaba Entrepreneurs Fund that took place across six locations globally.
Key Tracks:
Key Speakers
- Kristo Käärmann, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, TransferWise
- Kathryn Petralia, Co-Founder and President, Kabbage
- Kenneth Lin, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Credit Karma
- SG Lee, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Toss
- Alex Twigg, Co-Founder & Chief Information Officer, Judo Bank
- Jeffrey Cruttenden, Co-Founder, Acorns
- Lizzie Chapman, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ZestMoney
- Joseph Lubin, Founder, ConsenSys
- Calvin Choi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, AMTD
- Greg Gibb, Chief Executive Officer, Lufax
- Wayne Xu, President, ZhongAn International
- David Rutter, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, R3
- Mikaal Abdulla, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, 8 Securities
- Deniz Güven, Chief Executive Officer, Virtual Bank, Standard Chartered
- Ryan Fung, Chief Executive, Hong Kong, Ping An OneConnect Bank
- Yuji Kusunoki, Managing Executive Officer, Rakuten and Chief Executive Officer, Rakuten Securities
- Charles Li, Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Can you afford not to be there ?
- Here is the link again and the discount registration code to enjoy your 15% discount courtesy of Innovation Hong Kong:
discount code: INHK15