Hong Kong is tightening up cyber security and risk assessment to protect the banking system from financial fraud. The initiative will be overseen by the newly established Fintech Facilitation Office, ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-22
Not only the stock market bubble burst in China last year. It was also the year the mainland’s internet lending bubble burst. Almost 900 peer-to-peer lending platforms went belly up last year, three t ...More
EJ Insight2016-03-01
Norman Chan Tak-Lam, chief executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), wrote recently in his blog that technological innovation can foster “financial inclusion”. At first glance of the artic ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-23
About 500 investors of Ezubao, a peer-to-peer lending platform, protested at the headquarters of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, China's top anti-corruption agency, in Beijing. They ...More
EJ Insight2016-02-03
Ireland, which has won accolades for getting its economy back on track after a post-2008 downturn, is now aiming to expand its external trade by strengthening links with China, particularly in food in ...More
EJ Insight2016-01-24
As venture capital investors, we are constantly looking for positive fat tails, companies that have the potential to generate extreme positive outcomes. At the same time, not all fat tails are positiv ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-29
When young entrepreneurs have their boots on the ground, they will have full confidence to present their ideas to the world. "We are always told by our mentors that our products should not be detach ...More
EJ Insight2015-12-24
The investment industry calls startups exceeding US$1 billion in market value “unicorns”. Recently, the stock prices of several unicorns have come down sharply following the listing of the firms, sugg ...More
EJ Insight2015-11-27
Fifty-two Hong Kong students grouped into 18 teams will leave for the US on Friday to participate in a one-week boot camp that aims to enhance the youngsters' ability in problem solving, product desig ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-25
Experts had pointed out that although Hong Kong is among the top three global financial centers in the region, its investment in financial technology (FinTech) doesn't figure in the top three slots. ...More
EJ Insight2015-09-21
Financial technology, or FinTech, is a line of business based on using software to provide financial services, financial information and various technical services across an entire ecosystem. A sophi ...More
EJ Insight2015-08-29
"Fintech" is is a relatively new buzzword that is used to describe technology-enabled financial transactions. Peer-to-peer lending and third-party payment services such as Alipay and Tenpay are good e ...More
EJ Insight2015-07-27
As the rise of financial technology is being touted as a game-changer for the world's financial industry, many cities are aspiring to become global FinTech hubs. Hong Kong is no exception. In March, t ...More
EJ Insight2015-06-13
Bullish investors are pushing up stocks in mainland China and Hong Kong. Financial technology (also known as fintech, the use of software to provide financial services) and the internet are two of th ...More
EJ Insight2015-04-20
Hong Kong must dig deep into the financial technology sector during China's 13th five-year plan period (2016-2020), leveraging the city's well-established financial infrastructure and highly educated ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-17
Cyberport will focus on the financial technology sector in the next three years to bolster investment and activity in the government-backed technology hub, according to the head of the company that ma ...More
EJ Insight2014-12-10
Horizons Ventures, a private investment arm of tycoon Li Ka-shing, is likely to invest in a financial technology start-up in the near term after investing in three financial technology companies, acco ...More
EJ Insight2014-10-10
