FINTECH SEMINAR SERIES

Dr. Alfred MA is a FinTech practitioner and researcher. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University, and an MPhil and BSc in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a CFA charter holder, Professional Risk Manager (PRM), Associate of Society of Actuaries (ASA), and Chartered Engineer (CEng). He has more than 5 years of full-time and part-time teaching experience in quantitative finance area in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University. He has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Financial Data Science, and Journal of Trading.

Robert Lui is Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader, Capital Market Services Group Hong Kong Offering Services Leader, and Audit & Assurance partner of Deloitte China.

Overseeing Deloitte’s digital asset program in Hong Kong, Robert works closely with regulators, trading platforms, custodians, and asset managers on licensing, compliance review, and security token offering projects. With over 20 years of professional experience, he has led over 50 IPO engagements with listed companies, growth enterprises and overseas corporations in a broad range of industries, covering audit & assurance, digitalization, and mergers & acquisition services.

As a Member of the HKSAR Government’s Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development, Robert plays an active role in supporting the growth of Hong Kong’s digital asset and Web3 ecosystem. His other key external appointments include Divisional President of Greater China for CPA Australia, Board Director of the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, and Council Member and Court Member of the City University of Hong Kong.

Brit Blakeney is Senior Vice President in the Digital Advisory & Wealth Management group for the Asia Pacific Region of Franklin Templeton. Based in Hong Kong, Brit is focused on driving the digital product and tech-enabled distribution strategy, working with internal partners and clients. Brit also oversees research, commercial partnerships, strategic acquisitions, and investments into distribution related fintech firms in Asia.

Prior to this role, Brit was Head of Innovation and Ecosystems for DBS Bank Hong Kong. Brit has also held senior positions at major data & analytics, media and internet companies, such as Dun & Bradstreet, AOL and Univision, and helped launch and run several successful internet and financial startups.

Brit holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Georgetown University and also studied at the Université Stendhal in Grenoble, France. She is on the WealthTech and InvestTech committee of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong, a member of Women in Tech Hong Kong, a founding Advisory Committee member of CEFAR (CUHK Engineering, Fintech and Applied Research Academy), Greater Bay Fintech Talent Initiative Advisor, and is a regular speaker at industry events across Asia.

Transaction Banker of the Year by The Asian Banker (2018)

SME Banker of the Year by The Asset (2018 & 2023)

John is currently responsible for Hang Seng wholesale banking cash management business and strategy with coverage across sales, product management, digital banking channel development and client implementation. He has thorough knowledge and solid experience on commercial banking.

John is a solid commercial banking executive with proven track record in delivering exceptional strong and sustainable business result. He possesses over 30 years of banking experience and specialized on transaction banking. Prior to joining Hang Seng Bank in 2015, John spent 25 years with Standard Chartered Hong Kong and China. He has successful career span in leading business transformation and managing changes effectively. He is an active influencer on digital innovation and latest banking development eg like CBDC.

John has strong leadership and has Asia Pacific working experience in Hong Kong, China and a few APR countries. He got multi-cultural appreciation in working with people of different nationalities and background. He was named Transaction Banker of the Year by The Asian Banker and SME Banker of the Year by The Asset in 2018 & 2023 respectively.  John holds an MBA from the Henley Management College in the UK.

Derrick has 25 years of regional P&L management experience in AI powered regtech, fraud prevention, cloud computing, AI/ML, Azure gaming infrastructure, enterprise data center, product management, managed security, data protection and managed services in Asia Pacific and global markets, responsible for direct sales, BD, partner sales, presales, product management, delivery and customer success.

His previous roles include GM, Apps and Infra, Azure at Microsoft Asia. Derrick's current role is General Manager for International Business, Digital Technologies in Ant Group. He leads a team of BDs, solutions architects, engineers and developers to grow the business from 0 to 1: productize, localize, deliver and manage various innovative fintech solutions and services (AI powered eKYC, eKYB, AML, fraud prevention, MPC credit rating, super-app, etc) for both internal Ant Group and external FSI, telco, govt customers.

Emily has 10 years of experience in the financial data industry and currently works in Bloomberg. She is a staunch proponent of integrating the academia with industry practice – Emily is a university part-time lecturer and pioneered the development of finance laboratories in Hong Kong universities. She is an executive committee member of a number of professional and industrial organisations. Emily is an executive committee member of the HKUBBA Association, a member of the Chartered Market Technician Association, an external professional advisor for UOW College and a former committee member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong. She routinely speaks in university guest lectures and industry conferences on technology, data and technical analysis. She served in the HKSAR Government as an Assistant Secretary, who is responsible for policy formulation, resource allocation and the promotion of the interests of the HKSAR.

Emily is an avid volunteer and scales the cultivation of financial and technological inclusion and literacy through her networks. She led Government-subvented volunteer organisations. Her work on youth development has been featured by the Government for public recognition.
 

Dr. Chib is a seasoned Capital Markets professional with 27 years international experience with leading banks based in Hong Kong, New York and Toronto. He is the Asia CAO - Financial Institutions Sales & Solutions at Citi based in Hong Kong.

Dr. Chib is also passionate about Responsible Finance, ESG, Diversity & Talent. He is engaged with several committees and industry associations including the Co-Chair of the COO Markets committee at ASIFMA; FinTech Association of Hong Kong, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and various ESG and Citi Talent related task forces. He is also involved with several mentorship programs.

Dr. Chib received his Doctorate degree in Business Administration in October 2020 from City University of Hong Kong in Organizational Behaviour and leadership with a focus on the younger generation within Financial Services. He has a MBA (Executive MBA) and a BSc. in Quantitative Economics (with honors) from University of Toronto.

Charlotte Wong is a seasoned banking and technology professional with over 20 years of experience. Since joining HSBC in 2001, Charlotte has held several key leadership positions across technology teams globally and regionally, in the domains of Global Markets, Securities Services and Wholesale. She is recently appointed as the Chief Information Officer Hong Kong of HSBC, leading the technology and transformation agenda to deliver faster, easier and more secure digital banking.

Charlotte graduated from the University of Hong Kong with a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science and Information Systems, and she also holds a Master of Engineering Degree in System Engineering and Management from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Charlotte is very passionate in education, especially how technology could enable quality and assessable education. Outside her professional role, she volunteers as a Girl Guide/Scout commissioner and leader and is an active member in the global Girl Guiding and Scouting movement, in advocating leadership development for girls and young women. She is also pursuing a Master of Education degree and acts as the technology advisor of an EdTech start-up in Hong Kong.

Mr. Robert Lui is the Hong Kong Digital Asset Leader, Southern Region Government Affairs Unit leader, Capital Market Services Group-Southern Region Offering Services Leader and Audit & Assurance partner of Deloitte China. He has over twenty years working experience in Deloitte China. Over the years, Robert has provided audit & assurance, digitalization, merger & acquisition services to listed companies, growth enterprises and overseas companies. In addition, he is responsible for the affairs and relationship with the Government Units and the development of the Greater Bay Area.

Being the Capital Market Services Group Leader of Deloitte China Southern Region, Robert assisted more than fifty entities in their initial public offerings in The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

Dr. Chib is a seasoned Capital Markets professional with 27 years international experience with leading banks based in Hong Kong, New York and Toronto. He is the Asia CAO - Financial Institutions Sales & Solutions at Citi based in Hong Kong.

Dr. Chib is also passionate about Responsible Finance, ESG, Diversity & Talent. He is engaged with several committees and industry associations including the Co-Chair of the COO Markets committee at ASIFMA; FinTech Association of Hong Kong, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and various ESG and Citi Talent related task forces. He is also involved with several mentorship programs.

Dr. Chib received his Doctorate degree in Business Administration in October 2020 from City University of Hong Kong in Organizational Behaviour and leadership with a focus on the younger generation within Financial Services. He has a MBA (Executive MBA) and a BSc. in Quantitative Economics (with honors) from University of Toronto.

Jennifer is a highly respected accounting professional and Fintech leader who has taken on senior management roles for over two decades. She is recently elected as the Global Council Member of ACCA for 2022-2025. In 2021, she was winner of the Outstanding Women Professionals and Entrepreneurs Award and was named by the Fintech Magazine as one of Fintech’s Top 100 Leaders in a global league table. In 2019, she was named ACCA Advocate of the Year, both for Hong Kong and Greater China, and was the Chairlady of ACCA Hong Kong for 2021/22. Jennifer is also the consultative and advisory panel member of Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation and the EXCO Member of the FinTech Specialist Group of Hong Kong Computer Society

Dr. Alfred MA is a FinTech practitioner and researcher. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from Columbia University, and an MPhil and BSc in Mathematics from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is a CFA charter holder, Professional Risk Manager (PRM), Associate of Society of Actuaries (ASA), and Chartered Engineer (CEng). He has more than 5 years of full-time and part-time teaching experience in quantitative finance area in the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong and Lingnan University. He has published more than 20 articles in peer-reviewed journals including Journal of Computational Finance, Journal of Financial Data Science, and Journal of Trading.

Alfred is now a managing director in CASH Algo Finance Group (CAFG) which started the first algo trading strategy in 2009 and officially entered the FinTech space at HKSTP in 2016. CAFG obtained the various FinTech awards including Fintech of the year 2018 (start up) by etnet. It managed funds both in Hong Kong and China. CAFG has also been training new algo trading strategists in Hong Kong and organized two times inter-university algo trading competition with participants from top universities in both Hong Kong and China including Peking University, Tsinghua University, and Fudan University.

Emily is a Buyside Solution Specialist and leads the APAC news advocacy strategy in Bloomberg. Emily is a staunch proponent of integrating the academia with industry practice - she is a university part-time lecturer and pioneered the development of finance laboratories in Hong Kong universities.She is an Executive Committee member of a number of professional and industrial organisations. Emily is an Executive Committee Member of the HKUBBA Association, a Member of the Chartered Market Technician Association, an External Professional Advisor for UOW College and a former Committee Member of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong. She routinely speaks in university guest lectures and industry conferences on technology, data and technical analysis. She served in the HKSAR Government as an Assistant Secretary, who is responsible for policy formulation, resource allocation and the promotion of the interests of the HKSAR.

Emily is an avid volunteer and scales the cultivation of financial and technological inclusion and literacy through her networks. She led Government-subvented volunteer organisations and her work on youth development has been featured by the Government for public recognition.

Peter is Currently part of the Asset Management, Venture team. Previously, Director of Innovation, for the Asia region, within the Wealth & Personal Banking business at HSBC including Hong Kong Fintech Week program, RISE, = Women in Tech Program.

Prior to that spent 15 years at Intel Semiconductor. Held positions in Product management, Branding & campaign development, Retail engagement and sales, Social media community creation, developed, launched and managed multiple USD100M+ products across Asia for Intel Semiconductor, including Centrino, Core2Duo, Core2 Quad, Xeon Processors.

Dan is a director of the product specialist group at Fitch Solutions, a member of Fitch Group. Fitch, S&P and Moody’s are the big 3 credit rating agencies. Dan has over 20 years’ credit-related experience including 17 years at Fitch and S&P in a variety of roles, such as product & market management, credit risk modeler, regulatory compliance consultant, and solutions architect. Before his career in credit rating agencies, Dan worked as a risk consultant and corporate credit analyst at E&Y and DBS Bank.

He holds 2 masters degrees, one in Finance and another in Information & Technology Management. He is currently pursuing his doctoral degree with a research topic about bank credit ratings.

Dr. Chib is a seasoned Capital Markets professional with 27 years international experience with leading banks based in Hong Kong, New York and Toronto. He is the Asia Pacific COO - Financial Institutions Sales & Solutions at Citi based in Hong Kong.

Dr. Chib is also passionate about Responsible Finance, ESG, Diversity & Talent. He is engaged with several committees and industry associations including the Co-Chair of the COO Markets committee at ASIFMA; FinTech Association of Hong Kong, Canadian Chamber of Commerce and various ESG and Citi Talent related task forces. He is also involved with several mentorship programs.

Dr. Chib received his Doctorate degree in Business Administration in October 2020 from City University of Hong Kong in Organizational Behaviour and leadership with a focus on the younger generation within Financial Services. He has a MBA (Executive MBA) and a BSc. in Quantitative Economics (with honors) from University of Toronto.

Working as technologist for over 20 years from retail insurance to commercial banking and wealth management industries. He has gained a lot of exposure in various technology architecture and platforms. In recent years, he focused on the Asia-Pacific region and leveraged customer-centric design principles. He has developed a few key digital products including WeChat mini-banking, trade finance blockchain platform and other digital banking products for retails and ultra-high net-worth individuals. 

In livi bank, he is now fully dedicated to promoting financial inclusion and delivering secure, safe and customer-centric banking experience to HK customers.

Stephen is the Wealth and Personal Banking Head of IT of Hang Seng Bank, one of the leading bank in Hong Kong. Stephen oversees the IT services under Wealth and Personal Banking business, while spearheading the fintech innovation to improve the delivery and use of financial services, also to cultivate the bank innovation culture.

Stephen’s path has taken him from a career as an application engineer to life as a IT head and an innovator. His previous works have brought him to gain experience from various organizations, ranging from local bank, Government, European bank, US bank and Chinese bank. Over his 20+ years’ experience in Banking sector since, Stephen has played different roles including Application delivery, IT service management, IT management and Innovation. He believes that entrepreneurial culture can transform big organization and drive business growth via continuous innovation.