Dialogue with Fintech Professionals: The Latest Fintech Development in Hong Kong and Their Application in Business

We are excited to have awardees from IFTA Fintech and Innovation Awards 2021/2022 to share with us their achievements in Fintech & their outstanding Fintech products or services. IFTA Fintech and Innovation Awards has been exhibiting extraordinary achievements made by companies and individuals in the Finance and Technology industries since 2018. This year in HKUST, awardees from “Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and CEP”, “Regulatory Tech” and “Wealth Tech” are invited to share their experience and the latest development in the Fintech industry.

Dialogue with Fintech Professionals: The Latest Fintech Development in Hong Kong and Their Application in Business
Date: 15 November 2022 (Tuesday)
Time: 5:00pm – 6:30pm (via Zoom)
Speakers: Awardees from IFTA Fintech and Innovation Awards 2021/2022

Sharing Highlights:

• “The Path to Entrepreneurship” by Ms. Irene Wong, Founder of IX Fintech Group Limited
• “ABCD Tech for Regtech – ESG, GBA and more!” by Mr. Andre Leung, Co-founder & CEO of Aereve Co Ltd
• “Opening the doors to Artificial Intelligence for everyone – My Startup Story in WealthTech” by Ms. Rebecca Lim, Founder and CEO of AutoML Capital

All HKUST students and staff are welcome to join! 
Register by 11 Nov 2022 (Fri)

About the Speakers:

Ms. Irene Wong 
CPA, CGMA, Founder of ixAsia Limited and ixFintech Limited

Irene is the Founder of ixAsia Limited and ixFintech Limited, two companies specialized in financial products and trading (including digital assets), with award-winning Fintech platforms and solutions, such as the ixOption Platform and the ixCrypto Index. She has over 25 years’ experience in the finance industry doing hedge fund trading, indexing, and creating financial products. Prior to founding ixFintech and ixAsia, Irene served as Head of Trading at various global hedge funds, Head of the Hang Seng Index Company, and Senior Vice President of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Some of her achievements include the HKEX Stock Options Revamp Project, obtaining no-action relief on stock options products from the US and Taiwan SEC, FTSE/ Hang Seng Index Series project and executing a record number of contracts on the Hang Seng Index Options when she served as an open out-cry floor trader at Morgan Stanley during the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Between 2001 and 2003, Irene managed the operations and business development of the Hang Seng Indexes Company Limited. She is currently a member of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Fintech and Regtech task forces.

Mr. Andre Leung 
Co-Chair, GreenTech & ESG Committee, The Fintech Association of Hong Kong
CEO and co-founder, Aereve Co.Ltd

Andre is CEO and co-founder of Aereve Co Ltd. (Regtech & ESG startup) and Co-Chair of GreenTech & ESG Committee of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong. Andre studied undergraduate Mathematics at Oxford University and EMBA from Kellogg-HKUST. Armed with technical and business experience gained in the UK, US and APAC, Andre recently invented patented NLP-based technology on Chinese characters fuzzy logic, impacting traditional and new era of Green KYC AML process for financial institutions globally.

Ms. Rebecca Lim
Founder and CEO of AutoML Capital

Rebecca is the founder and CEO of AutoML Capital, a Wealth Tech company that leverages its proprietary machine learning algorithm to perform Asset Management and Investment Services. She is a physicist by training and obtained her undergraduate and master degree in Physics from the University of Oxford, specialising in Atmospheric Physics and Particle Physics. Prior to her Entrepreneurship, she had 12 years of experience in Banking and Finance across Sales & Trading and Private Banking (Hong Kong and London) in the area of Market Risks, Derivative Pricing and Portfolio Management. She co-founded Automated Machine Learning in 2017 and developed the self-learning AI Engine “ML Brain” that was later used by AutoML Capital. She is a recent awardee of the Hong Kong Professional Elite Ladies Selection 2022, a prestigious and recognized award for women displaying exemplary professionalism, ethics and achievements in their work, dedication to their families and contribution to their communities.