The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) today (31 October) co-organised the seventh edition of the city’s flagship fintech event, Hong Kong FinTech Week 2022, with Invest Hong Kong.

"I would like to share with you some of my thought on the Central Bank Digital Currency, or CBDC."

The seventh edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) kicks off today as an in-person event from 31 October to 4 November. Organised by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Elevandi [1] , the theme of SFF 2022 is ‘Building Resilient Business Models amid Volatility and Change'.

Hong Kong’s commitment to supporting innovation in the global virtual assets community is likely to be the overarching theme of the upcoming policy statement. Due to take place between October 31 and November 1, compliance teams should ensure they keep up with the remarks made at Hong Kong FinTech Week by regulators and government officials.

Speech by Mr Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the FinTech R:Evolution 2022, organised by France FinTech, Paris, 20 October 2022.

“Huarui FinTech Salon” (No. 2), jointly hosted by Shanghai Huarui Bank, International Monetary Institute (IMI), Renmin University of China(RUC) and RUC FinTech Institute, was held on August 30 afternoon online. The theme of the salon was “Blockchain technology development and its application trend”. The keynote speech was delivered by Cao Feng, Member of the China FinTech 50 Forum (CFT50). The following experts attended the salon: Deng Di, Chairman of Taiyi Group; Sun Xi, Senior Expert of Ant Group Research Institute; Yang Dong, Executive Dean of Blockchain Research Institute, RUC; Wu Entao, Managing Director of South China Sea Cooperative Innovation Development Fund. The event was moderated by Qiu Zhigang, Senior Research Fellow of IMI and Professor of School of Finance, RUC.

Banks have stepped up efforts to provide more effective support to small businesses by using financial technologies and better sharing enterprise credit information among lenders and government agencies, as China endeavors to promote high-quality development of inclusive finance.

Technology adoption continues apace, but full-scale digital transformation will require banks to rethink how they operate