2020 CUHK CONFERENCE ON FINANCIAL TECHNOLOGY –
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09:30 – 17:30
Webinar
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Prof. LAU Wing-Cheong, Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Topic: Anomaly Detection for E-Payment Activities via Scalable Graph Representation Learning
Wing Cheong Lau is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering and the Director of the Mobile Technologies Centre (MobiTeC) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wing received the B.S.(Eng) degree from the University of Hong Kong and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. Before returning to academia, Wing worked in the US industry for a decade: He was a Member of Technical Staff with the Performance Analysis Department, Bell Laboratories, Holmdel, New Jersey, where he conducted research in high-speed network protocol design and performance analysis. Wing also had a stint with Qualcomm, San Diego, California where he designed the architecture and protocols for the Next Generation Wireless Packet Data Networks and actively contributed to the standardization of such protocols in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and 3GPPs. While on leave from Bell Labs, Wing taught at the University of Hong Kong and served as the Associate Director for the MSc Programme in E-Commerce and Internet Computing. Wing’s innovations have led to the granting of 19 U.S. patents. Related research findings have culminated in more than 120 publications in major international conferences and journals. His recent research interests include: Security and Privacy of Online Social Networks and Mobile Payment Systems, Graph Representation Learning and its applications, Resource allocation and Optimization for Big Data Processing/ Cloud Computing Systems, Authenticated 2D barcodes. Dr. Lau is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of ACM and Tau Beta Pi. He has served as a TPC member for ACM MobiHoc, Sigmetrics, IEEE Infocom, SECON, WiOpt, ICC, Globecom, WCNC VTC and ITC. He was also a Guest Editor for the Special Issue on High-speed Network Security of IEEE Journal of Selected Areas in Communications (JSAC). For their work on Single-Sign-On SDK security, Wing and his team received the 2018 Internet Defense Prize (2nd-runner up) from USENIX and Facebook.
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Ms. Frankie TAM, International Technology Lawyer, Eversheds Sutherland
Topic: When Banks Meet DeFi (Decentralised Finance) – Chance or Challenges?
Frankie Tam is an international technology lawyer qualified in Hong Kong, New York, and England & Wales. Her practice covers a wide array of commercial and tech-related matters, including significant technology outsourcing transactions, Fintech, Regtech and blockchain services agreements and data privacy matters.
Frankie is a member of the Vetting Committee of Hong Kong Innovation and Technology Commission’s General Support Programme, where she advises the Government on merits of technology projects. She is on the advisory board of the Stanford University’s Responsible Digital Leadership project. She teaches Regtech and Fintech programmes at postgraduate degrees, and has extensive experience sharing at professional bodies’ CPD programmes and industry conferences. Frankie has mentored distributed ledger technology companies at accelerator programmes.
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Prof. Seen-Meng CHEW, Assistant Dean for External Engagement, CUHK Business School
Topic: Security Token Offering – New Way of Financing in the Digital Era
Prof. Seen-Meng Chew is the Assistant Dean for External Engagement and an Associate Professor of Practice in Finance at CUHK Business School.Before joining CUHK in 2018, Prof. Chew was a Vice President at J.P. Morgan in Hong Kong, where he worked with the Vice Chairman of Asia Pacific to market China’s investment opportunities to senior international clients. Before Hong Kong, he worked as an economist at the Singapore offices of International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Morgan Stanley, analysing the economic policy and outlook of South East Asian countries. And prior to returning to Asia, he was a consultant at a prominent consulting firm, NERA Economic Consulting, in Chicago, where he advised multinational corporations on their international pricing strategies.
Passionate about higher education, Prof. Chew strives to incorporate his industry knowledge and experience into the classroom at CUHK, where he teaches current fintech trends, mergers and acquisitions, and global macroeconomic strategy. To maintain industry ties, he currently serves as a non-executive Director at Actelligent Capital, an asset management firm; and an Honorary Research Advisor at FinFabrik, a fintech company.
His written work has been published in well-known business journals such as the Asia Asset Management Journal, Financial Times, and the International Tax Review. He also has substantial lecturing experience at universities in the US, Hong Kong and Singapore, in economics and finance courses.
Prof. Chew received a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago in 2007, where one of his thesis advisors was Prof. Gary Becker – the 1992 Nobel Laureate in economics. He also holds an MPhil in economics from the University of Cambridge, and a BSc in economics from the London School of Economics.
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Dr. Florian M. SPIEGL, Co-Founder & COO, FinFabrik
Topic: Security Token Offering – New Way of Financing in the Digital Era
Florian is a broadly experienced entrepreneur and FinTech practitioner. He is a co-founder of FinFabrik, a Hong Kong-based FinTech company that develops capital markets software platforms. FinFabrik solutions power businesses in retail trading, algorithmic trading and wealth management, including digital assets such as crypto currencies and crypto securities.
Florian’s area of expertise also covers Artificial Intelligence in Wealth Management, particularly applying Deep Learning across the Investment Management services stack. His passion is to enable financial inclusion by leveraging technology.
With his first company started as a student, he has seen both failure and success as a founder across different industries. In his corporate career, he worked in Digital Banking at Credit Suisse and as a management consultant for The Boston Consulting Group. Florian holds a PhD in Political Economics and is a founding member and co-chair of the AI Committee of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong.
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Mr. Herman CHENG, Head of Digital Banking, Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Topic: FinTech Reshaping the Future of Wealth Management
Herman is the Head of Digital Banking for Hang Seng Bank and is responsible for the digital business of the Bank’s Wealth and Personal Banking, which includes the overall sales & propositions, customer engagement, strategy of digital innovation, transformation and fintech development, digital product and platform development, data and analytics, as well as daily operation.
He is a seasoned Digital and Technology executive with extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience in both the United States and Greater China / Asia region. His areas of expertise include digital business start-ups, financial and operations management, consulting, business development and digital marketing, mergers and acquisitions, and vendor management.
He has an Electrical Engineering degree from Purdue University, and an MBA from Butler University.
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Ms. Rosita LEE, Head of Investment Products and Advisory Business, Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Topic: FinTech Reshaping the Future of Wealth Management
Rosita Lee is responsible for overseeing the development, selection and due diligence of wealth management products for distribution to personal, corporate and institutional customers. She covers investment funds, structured products, investment FX and asset management for the Bank. Rosita also supervises the provision of advisory and sales support services to frontline staff and investors.
Concurrently, Rosita is a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hang Seng Investment Management Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hang Seng Bank. In this capacity, she is responsible for overseeing the product and sales development of its institutional and wholesale businesses. She is also a Director and Chief Executive Officer of Hang Seng Investment Services Limited, and a Director of Hang Seng Qianhai Fund Management Company Limited.
Rosita has over 20 years of diverse experience in the financial services industry. Before joining Hang Seng, she held positions with various functional responsibilities at an international bank. Rosita holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences degree from The University of Hong Kong, a Master of Science degree in Global Finance jointly awarded by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and New York University STERN Business School and is a Certified Financial Plannercm. With a strong commitment to serving the community, she is currently a Non-Executive Director of the Financial Reporting Council; the Chairman of the Arbitration Panel under the Securities and Futures (Leveraged Foreign Exchange Trading) (Arbitration) Rules of Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission; a member of the Board of Trustees of The Hong Kong Jockey Club Music and Dance Fund; a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Sir David Trench Fund for Recreation; a member of the Correctional Services Children’s Education Trust Investment Advisory Board; a member of Legal Aid Services Council; and a member of China Committee of Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Rosita is also invited as a Member of Beta Gamma Sigma (HKUST Chapter) and a Member, Hong Kong Academy of Finance.
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Prof. Darwin CHOI, Associate Professor, Department of Finance, CUHK Business School
Topic: Alpha Go Everywhere: Machine Learning and International Stock Returns
Prof. Darwin Choi is Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School. Before joining CUHK, he was Assistant Professor of Finance at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) from 2009 to 2016. He received his PhD degree in Finance from Yale University in 2009 and BS in Economics and BS in Engineering degrees from the University of Pennsylvania in 2004. Prof. Choi’s research interests include behavioural finance, mutual funds and hedge funds, climate finance, and labour, focusing on how market conditions and investor psychology influence capital allocations. His work has been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Markets, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization.
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Prof. Griffin Wenxi JIANG, Assistant Professor, Department of Finance, CUHK Business School
Topic: Alpha Go Everywhere: Machine Learning and International Stock Returns
Prof. Wenxi (Griffin) Jiang joined The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Business School in 2015 as an Assistant Professor of Finance. He obtained a PhD in Financial Economics from Yale University in 2015 and a bachelor’s degree from Renmin University of China in 2007. His research interests include asset pricing, institutional investor, and behavioural finance. His research papers appear at the Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Finance, and Review of Financial Studies. He teaches undergraduate course FINA 3010 Financial Markets at CUHK and is the recipient of the Faculty Teaching Excellence Award (2017-18).
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Mr Adam WIELOWIEYSKI, Managing Director, Head of Collaborative Intelligence & Analytics, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited
Topic: How Technology and Data are Reshaping Finance
Adam is Head of the Data & Analytics team at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, responsible for the adoption of data and analytics inside the Group, and managing the data engineering, governance and science teams. Prior to joining HKEX in 2017, he was a quantitative strategist at Goldman Sachs, and a fund manager investing in European real estate. Based in Hong Kong since 2007, he holds a degree in Computer Science from Imperial College, London and an MBA from HKUST Business School.
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Prof. CHOW Sze-Ming, Sherman, Associate Professor, Department of Information Engineering, CUHK
Topic: Can We Securely Outsource Big Data Analytics with Lightweight Cryptography?
Sherman Chow joined the Department of Information Engineering at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in November 2012 and received the Early Career Award 2013/14 from the Hong Kong Research Grants Council. He was a research fellow at the Department of Combinatorics and Optimization, University of Waterloo, a position he commenced after receiving his Ph.D. degree from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. During his study, he interned at NTT Research and Development (Tokyo), Microsoft Research (Redmond), and Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory.
His main interests are in Cryptography, Security, and Privacy, with publications in AsiaCrypt, CCS, EuroCrypt, ITCS, NDSS, S&P, and Usenix Security. He served on the editorial board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (TIFS) for four years, on the program committee of AsiaCrypt in a consecutive of six years and 200+ other conferences, including CCS, Crypto, ICDCS, Infocom, PETS, PKC, TheWeb, Usenix Security, Cryptographers’ Track at the RSA Conference, and Financial Cryptography.
He is a European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Fellow (2019, inaugural), and named as one of the 100 Most Influential Scholars (Security and Privacy, 2018) by ArnetMiner (AMiner). He served on the award committee of The Caspar Bowden Award for Outstanding Research in Privacy Enhancing Technologies in 2019. He is also a founding member of IEEE SMC’s Blockchain technical committee and a research committee of the Hong Kong Blockchain Society.
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Mr. Philip YU, Lead Solution Engineer, Tableau
Topic: See & Understand Data with Agility
Philip Yu has been in the industry for a decade, working both on architecture planning and implementation of data technology, covering both frontend and backend.
A graduate of Computer Science, he has then worked with governmental and financial corporations on enabling them to take advantage of the agility and insights that data technology can bring.
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Mr. Nike KONG, Chief Information Officer, Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Topic: How FinTech Transforms Organizations
Nike Kong, Chief Information Officer of Hang Seng Bank, is responsible for technology services within the bank and its subsidiaries including Hang Seng Indexes. Nike has over 30 years of technology management experience in the financial services industry, taking on various senior roles in the HSBC Group including the recent two years leading the IT function of Hang Seng Bank. Nike has extensive knowledge in enterprise system development and technology change management across different segments including retail, commercial and investment banking. Nike holds a Bachelor of Mathematics Degree from the University of Waterloo.
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Ms. May WONG, Head of Communications and Corporate Sustainability, Hang Seng Bank Ltd.
Topic: How FinTech Transforms Organizations
May is a seasoned communications professional with more than 30 years of experience in Hong Kong and international markets. She began her career as a television journalist/broadcaster which laid solid foundations for her transition to specialise in corporate communications with particular expertise in strategy development and crisis communication. In her current role, May oversees the development and implement of Hang Seng Bank’s strategic communications and corporate responsibility programmes for both external and internal audiences. May is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of strategic corporate communications at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.
Heading the communications functions in a number of leading organisations in Hong Kong, May embraces the need to stay current with fast-changing communications trend and keeping ahead of the curve in delivering what audiences and stakeholders want and expect. She has pioneered the use of social media as a new and targeted channel of communication for publicly-listed companies in Hong Kong, including, most recently, Hang Seng’s exciting Go GingerOnion! initiative for younger audiences.
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Mr Chris LEUNG, Cognitive/AI Practice Leader, Hong Kong, IBM Services
Topic: AI-powered Recruitment
Chris HF Leung is currently the Cognitive/AI Practice Leader at IBM Services, Hong Kong. He has extensive managerial experience and proven track records in driving business transformation and innovation with Cognitive/AI, Advanced Analytics, Big Data and other exponential technologies. Playing the role of Project Delivery Executive/Cognitive Solution Lead, Chris leads and mentors the project team in cognitive solution design, conversational AI adoption, insight/information governance, digital strategy and roadmap definition, target operating model design, business process re-engineering, change management and Agile/Innovation program management for clients.
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Dr Lucas HUI, Chief Technology Officer, ASTRI
Topic: Advanced technology to support FinTech and Smart City
Dr Lucas Hui is an internationally renowned expert in applied research in cybersecurity, data sciences and trust management, with vast leadership experience in collaborative projects in complex, multi- stakeholder situations across technological, organizational and geographical boundaries.
Dr Hui completed his Bachelor of Science in Computer Studies and MPhil in Computer Science with HKU. He also holds a Master of Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis.