AMTD: Sole strategic partner of Hong Kong FinTech Week, working together to build “Smart city, Innovation Bay Area”

Hosted by InvestHK of the government of Hong Kong, jointly supported by Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Securities and Futures Commission, Insurance Authority, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX) etc, AMTD Group as the sole strategic partner, “2018 Hong Kong FinTech Week” was taking place in Hong Kong and Shenzhen from 29th October to 2nd November 2018. FinTech Week attracted more than 8,000 senior executives and featuring over 200 of the world's top FinTech founders, investors, regulators, and academics, presenting the growing strengths of Hong Kong in the field of FinTech globally. Hong Kong FinTech Week is the world's first cross-border FinTech event.

1) AMTD Innovation Hub Tour

The five-days long FinTech Week was unveiled on 29th with the event “AMTD Innovation Hub Tour “hosted by AMTD Group, to discuss the innovation and development of Fintech in Hong Kong together with the FinTech experts, industry investment leaders and education experts from globally, including Victor Lam, Government Chief Information Officer of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Prof. Philip Chan, Deputy President and Provost of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Rachel Freeman, Manager, FIG Advisory - Asia & Pacific of IFC, Soul Htite, Co-founder and former CTO of Lending Club, Founder and CEO of Dianrong, Prof. Wilson Tong, Director, AMTD FinTech Centre of PolyU Faculty of Business, Michael Wong, Associate Professor of Finance of City University of Hong Kong, Kwan Wing Keung, Assistant IT Director of the University of Hong Kong, Maggie Ng, Co-Founder & CEO of FinEX Asia, Norma Chu, Founder and CEO of DayDayCook, Irene Leung, Chief Operating Officer of i-CABLE Communications, Max Liu, Co-founder & CEO of EMQ etc.

2) AMTD FinTech Centre: FinTech and Beyond

In the afternoon of 29th October, “FinTech and Beyond “hosted by AMTD FinTech Centre of PolyU, attracted many industry and academic experts, including Charles D'Haussy, Head of Fintech at InvestHK of the government of Hong Kong SAR, Dr Hungyi CHEN, Asia-Pacific Region Manager of Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance of University of Cambridge etc., to exchange opinions regarding the global trends and applications of FinTech innovation.

3) Hong Kong FinTech Week Kick-Off Ceremony

In the evening of 30th October, 2018 Hong Kong FinTech Week Kick-Off Ceremony held at HKEX, Charles Li, Chief Executive of HKEX and Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group were invited to attend and gave opening remarks to welcome all guests. “There’s great potential to develop FinTech and build smart city in Hong Kong, hoping that this cross-border FinTech event can play an important role for the FinTech development in Hong Kong and the Greater Bay Area” mentioned by Calvin Choi.

4) AMTD Hub

Form 31st October to 1st November, Main Conferences of Hong Kong Fintech Week was grandly opening, AMTD specially setup “AMTD Hub” at the centre area of Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Hall, to showcase the development and achievements in the field of Fintech and new economy promoted by AMTD to all the guests and audiences.

31st October, Paul Chan, Financial Secretary of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR visited AMTD Hub, and communicated cordially with Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group. Paul highly appreciated the contributions and results of promoting FinTech innovation and development of capital market that led by AMTD. He also looks forward to viewing more contributions bought by AMTD for building Hong Kong as smart city.

Other guests also visited AMTD Hub, including Dr. Annie Wu, Former Standing Committee Member of CPPCC National Committee, Lifetime Honorary Board Member of World Trade Centers Association, Honorary Consul of the United Republic of Tanzania in Hong Kong and Macau, Founder of Beijing Air Catering Co., Ltd., the first Sino-foreign joint venture company in China; Fanny Law, Member of Executive Council of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks; James Lau, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury; Andrew Wong, Permanent Secretary for the Financial Services and the Treasury (Financial Services) of Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau; Dr. Bernard Chan, Under Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development; Joseph Chan, Under Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury; Charles D'Haussy, Head of Fintech at InvestHK of the government of Hong Kong SAR; Dr. Charm Toa, Chief Public Mission Officer of Hong Kong Cyberport; Hong Feng, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Xiaomi, Chairman & CEO of Xiaomi Finance; Liu Wei, Head of Financial Service Office, Xiaomi Corporation etc.

5) Calvin Choi’s keynote speech during Hong Kong FinTech Week

Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group was invested to give a keynote speech during the Hong Kong FinTech Week. He mentioned in his speech, AMTD Group is a Hong Kong-based comprehensive, diversified, innovative financial institution with business coverage across the world. AMTD is always committed to promoting the development of capital market and technology innovation in Hong Kong. AMTD is committed to cultivating more scientific and technological talents with innovative spirit and global vision, helping innovative companies to go from “under the Lion Rock” to the world. “We must promote the "Hong Kong story" and promote Hong Kong as a world innovation center” said by Calvin Choi.

Then, strategic partner of AMTD Group - Hong Feng, Co-Founder and Senior Vice President of Xiaomi, Chairman & CEO of Xiaomi Finance gave a keynote speech which is based on “Smart Internet is the new drives of FinTech”. Hong Feng shared the unique business model of Xiaomi and the start of developing financial services business. Hong Feng is optimistic about the development of FinTech and smart city in Hong Kong and mentioned “Xiaomi eyeing Hong Kong for FinTech expansion”.

6) Regional Bank + Strategic Cooperation Alliance

31st October, AMTD Group established the Regional Bank + Strategic Cooperation Alliance in Hong Kong together with Zhongyuan Bank, Jiangxi Bank, Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank and Bank of Qingdao. Inauguration ceremony held at the “Hong Kong Stage” of Hong Kong FinTech Week. Calvin Choi, the Chairman and President of AMTD Group, Dou Rongxing, Chairman of Zhongyuan Bank, Chen Xiaoming, Chairman of Jiangxi Bank, Yi Xuefei, President and Vice Chairman of Guangzhou Rural Commercial Bank and Lu Lan, Secretary to the Board & Executive Director of Bank of Qingdao jointly attended the signing ceremony and announced the establishment of the Alliance, jointly together to promote cross collaboration in capital markets and financial innovations and technological advancement areas.

7) AMTD Group · Tiger FinTech Strategic Cooperation Partnership

1st November, AMTD Group formally announced the establishment of its strategic partnership with Tiger Fintech in the areas of TMT investment banking. Calvin Choi, the Chairman and President of AMTD Group and Wu Tianhua, the founder of Tiger Fintech, confirmed on site for strategic partnership at the “Hong Kong Stage”. The strategic partnership between the two is widely believed to bring changes to generate better user experience for global capital markets clients and to further promote the upgrade of traditional financial services. Tiger Fintech recently announced to invest in AMTD Group, which enables puts AMTD to keep pace with the Group alongside other unicorns with market value over US$1 billion in Hong Kong.

8)Discussing the innovation and development of FinTech

During the two day of the main conference, AMTD invited industry experts to hold a variety of keynote speeches at the AMTD Hub to discuss the innovation and development of FinTech in Hong Kong with FinTech experts and industry investment leaders from all around the world, including Dino Setiawan, CEO of AwanTunai; Maggie Ng, Founder & CEO of FinEx Asia; Hua Shuo, CFO of Zhaogang.com Inc.; Yuan Hui, Founder and Chairman of Xiaoi; Simon Cheng, President of X Financial; Gao Xiang, Senior Director of Strategic Investment and Public Relationship of Royole; Roger Lo, Head of Strategy & Business Development of Appier.

9) GBAIG announced to establish Hong Kong International Headquarters, set up GBAIG (Overseas)

2nd November, activities of FinTech Week took place to Shenzhen, James Lau, Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury of the Government of Hong Kong SAR and Liu Daping, Deputy Director of the Development of the Shenzhen Municipal Government Financial Services Office gave welcoming speech, Calvin Choi, Chairman and President of AMTD Group was invited to give keynote speech and announced Greater Bay Area investment Group (GBAIG) will set headquarters in Hong Kong on behalf of Board Director and Senior Vice President of GBAIG, Chairman and President of GBAIG (Oversears). In the next three years, GBAIG will invest 20 billion RMB in Hong Kong, Macao and countries alongside the “Belt and Road” with GBAIG (Overseas) as core, to help Hong Kong build a “smart city” and promote investment exchange, international cooperation and development between the Greater Bay Area and the major international economies.