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FINANCE
A British multinational banking and financial services company with more than 1,200 branches and outlets across more than 70 countries. In the era of digital finance, the Virtual Bank of Standard Chartered obtained the virtual bank license issued by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). Deniz Güven, the CEO of the Virtual Bank by Standard Chartered explained interesting concepts like "Heart Share", "Generation Moth" and the significance of them in penetrating the virtual banking market.
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An accounting organization and globally the largest professional service network by revenue with headquarters in London. Deloitte entered the battlefield of blockchain with the establishment of Asia Pacific Blockchain Lab, bringing advisory in blockchain implementation, audit, taxation for enterprises. Dr. Paul Sin, Leader of Deloitte Asia Pacific Blockchain Lab revealed how we can utilize blockchain at the stage of tech convergence and shared some interesting use cases with the HKMA.
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https://www2.deloitte.com/cn/en/pages/financial-services/solutions/asia-pacific-blockchain-lab.html
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KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax and Advisory services.
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PwC is the second largest professional services firm in the world with headquarters in London. PwC is the first "Big 4" accounting firm to found crypto team, providing advisory services in blockchain and cryptocurrencies. Henri Arslanian, PwC Global Crypto Leader; Felix Kan, Partner of PwC Assurance in Cybersecurity and Lim Shu Ning, Director of PwC Singapore Venture Hub shared with us the latest development of PwC in blockchain, cybersecurity for 2020.
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https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/industries/financial-services/fintech-survey/crypto-services.html
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Ernst & Young (EY) is a multinational professional service firm headquartered in London. As one of the "Big 4" accounting firms, Jimmy Ong, Asia-Pacific Blockchain Leader at EY shared the key use cases of EY Opschain, blockchain in taxation and the use of zero-knowledge proof in public blockchains.
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https://www.ey.com/en_gl/blockchain
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DBS is a leading financial services group in Asia with a presence in 18 markets. Headquartered and listed in Singapore, DBS is in the three key Asian axes of growth: Greater China, Southeast Asia and South Asia. DBS provides a full range of services in consumer, SME and corporate banking. As a bank born and bred in Asia, DBS understands the intricacies of doing business in the region’s most dynamic markets. DBS is committed to building lasting relationships with customers, and positively impacting communities through supporting social enterprises, as it banks the Asian way.
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Founded in 2006, Natixis chose Hong Kong as the Corporate & Investment Banking’s headquarters for the Asia Pacific. Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) has sparked interest in recent months, Dr. Alicia Garcia Herrero, Asia Pacific Chief Economist at Natixis revealed the implication on monetary policy, financial stability brought by CBDCs.
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https://www.natixis.com/natixis/jcms/j_6/en/home
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AMTD is a Hong Kong-based comprehensive financial institution and offers service including investment banking, asset management, and strategic investment. Listed on the New York Stock Exchange in August 2019, Calvin Choi, Chairman of AMTD revealed the success of the Hong Kong homegrown investment bank and the competitive edge of AMTD's virtual bank, in collaboration with Xiaomi.
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Swiss Capital Group is world’s leading Royal and Swiss heritage multifamily office, sovereign wealth investment bank, Princely advisory to His Excellencies and humanitarian programs. Swiss Capital Group is poised to be world’s top crypto investment bank, liquidity provider and technology innovator, enabler, incubator with group’s best practice, best-of-breed fintech and proprietary resources, nurturing Swiss Capital GEM aiming to contribute 20% share of global crypto market capitalisation, circulating cryptomoney supply, liquidity provision and transaction turnover - an aggregate in excess of $2 Trillion before 2025.
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BMI Coinstreet Digital Limited (“BC Digital”) is a BMI Group’s company, a joint venture between BM Intelligence (“BMI”) and Coinstreet Partners. By combining extensive professional experience and industry best practices from traditional capital market and the innovative FinTech eco-system and distributed ledger technology, BC Digital is driving the forefront of the fintech industry by providing professional, fully compliant, one-stop, end-to-end asset tokenization and STO advisory service and solutions.
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MoneySQ, a revolutionary company that disrupted the financial market, made history in 2017 by becoming the first crowdfunding and online lending platform in Hong Kong. Since then we made further business evolution by establishing a Smart Lending Platform utilizing OpenAPI integration with financial system providers allowing access to financial data with sophisticated business intelligence tools to extract, consolidate, transform and visualize key financial performance indicators. Our Smart Lending Platform creates a financial ecosystem that connects all players with the like of SMEs, up and downstream business partners, buyers, sellers, logistics companies, financial institutions and credit report agencies.
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TECHNOLOGY
Aleph Zero is a blockchain ecosystem solving the speed, scalability, cost, and security challenges.
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BURSTPAY - Eco-friendly & Smart Blockchain Payment Solution, helps mCommerce & users who care about data privacy & ownership, to make a trustless transaction instantly & globally, and to secure & automate your trade or refund by smart contract. Features Easy & Fast - Transact instantly. Get confirmed in minutes. Secure & Fair- Robust BURST Blockchain Payment that Reward & Pay Back. Green - Transaction validates by Solar energy. Borderless - Shop around the World. Reach New Markets. Censorless - No Bank Freezing Accounts. Serverless Solutions. Trustless - No Middleman Platform. No Custody Risks.
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Blockchain Solutions Limited (BSL), is a new technology start-up founded in 2017, with the vision of being the pioneer and market leading One Stop Solution Provider for clients and corporations both globally and locally. We are partners of IBM, R3 Corda, and Hitachi as we focus on applications with different blockchain platforms. In 2019, the HKSAR government has opened 3 blockchain project tenders and BSL awarded 2 of them. Also, Blockchain Solutions was awarded the first HKSAR government initiated blockchain project. The mission of BSL is to leverage the research and development team to enable business entities to fully transition and maximize the benefits through the various applications of the distributed ledger technology (DLT). Through technical expertise, BSL offers consulting services and industry-leading solutions.
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Based in Switzerland, Cardano Foundation works closely with IOHK to design and build Cardano. In our conversation with Nathan Kaiser, Chairperson (ad interim) of Cardano Foundation explained the state of on-chain and off-chain governance and the state of blockchain regulation.
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https://cardanofoundation.org/en/
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Digital Transaction is a blockchain company that uses our high performance blockchain platform & applications to fit the needs and demands of industries in the new digital era. Our layer 1 blockchain ParallelChain™ can achieve speeds of 100,000 TPS which supports our three main industry specific chains, ConstructionChain, PreventiveChain, and ChattelChain working with industry leaders to bring blockchain technology solutions to enterprises.
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DFINI is a solution provider focused on the decentralized finance sector. We develop decentralized finance solutions that allow established institutions to adopt distributed ledger technology and provide open finance platforms that empower individuals around the world to engage with new and restructured financial systems.
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Founded by Ethereum's co-founder Joseph Lubin, ConsenSys Hong Kong aims to build Ethereum blockchain infrastructure and applications for new economic systems. The company partners with Forbes Global 2000 companies, non-profits and governments to deploy public and private blockchain solutions. Charles d'Haussy, Director of Strategic Initiatives at ConsenSys shared with us the role of ConsenSys on the growing Ethereum and DeFi ecosystem.
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Concordium is a science-based proof-of-stake blockchain created with business applications in mind. It is the first blockchain with identification built into the protocol to meet regulatory requirements, while delivering a user-friendly platform that can handle smart contracts. Concordium is developed by professionals with global multi-sector experience and in collaboration with the Concordium Blockchain Research Center Aarhus (COBRA) at Aarhus University and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH). The network will eventually be fully decentralized, the code open source, and further development orchestrated through an advanced governance mechanism.
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Hyperledger is an open-source community focused on developing a suite of stable frameworks, tools and libraries for enterprise-grade blockchain deployments. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, and includes leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology. Similar to The Linux Foundation, Hyperledger has a modular approach to hosting projects. The Hyperledger greenhouse hosts developing business blockchain projects from Hyperledger Labs (seed) to stable code ready for production (fruition). All are invited to contribute to the greenhouse; collectively advancing industry goals of distributed ledger and smart contracts.
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Hedera is the only public ledger that uses hashgraph consensus, a faster, more secure alternative to blockchain consensus mechanisms. Hashgraph works efficiently to verify transactions while ensuring the highest standard of security to prevent malicious attacks. Hashgraph achieves high-throughput with 10,000+ cryptocurrency transactions per second today and low-latency finality in seconds from its innovative gossip about gossip protocol and virtual voting.
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R3 is an enterprise blockchain software firm working with the world's leading financial institutions. R3 launched Corda in 2016 which is the key driver of enterprise blockchain adoption. In our conversation with Carl Wegner, Wegner explained the various initiatives of R3, including Project Lionrock Inthanon, a CBDC initiative announced by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Bank of Thailand.
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Mars Chain is the product of a well-composed team of seasoned developers and entrepreneurs with vast experience in the blockchain space and the global banking industry. Its businesses include stablecoin, digital currency exchange, mining, media, digital asset management, and more.
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Founded in 2015, Input Output HK (IOHK) is an engineering company that builds cryptocurrencies and blockchains for government entities, academic institutions, and corporations. Charles Hoskinson, CEO of IOHK compared the progress of Proof-of-Stake by Ethereum and Cardano and he explained Cardano's effort in Africa in driving mass blockchain adoption.
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trustME was founded in early 2018 as a technology company with an avowed mission to establish itself to be the technology innovator in Hong Kong. Since then, trustME has made a significant impact in the technology scene in Hong Kong, notably in the Fintech areas where we excel in the innovation with blockchain, AI, and data-driven financial analytics. trustME has launched a business blockchain platform “trustME” in 2018, the first of its kind in Hong Kong to bring transformative and distributive innovation across industries. The company's expertise in blockchain permitted them to provide a unique blockchain solution to different industries and offer unparalleled and expert blockchain consulting services to diverse industries.
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Streamr’s mission is to replace centralized message brokers with a global, decentralized peer-to-peer network for real-time data. By relying on cryptography instead of trust, the open-source network enables data sharing and monetization in IoT and smart cities, business consortia, individual crowd selling through Data Unions and the Web 3.0.
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STO Global-X (STGX) is a Singapore-based technology company that offers an institutional-grade, white-label marketplace solution for broker dealers, licensed institutions and regulated marketing operators. STGX offers end-to-end asset tokenization and life cycle management in a secure and compliant manner, including asset tokenization, initial offering, post-offering management, secondary trading and on-going asset management modules. STGX platform can tokenize a wide spectrum of asset types, including fixed assets, real estate, commodities, derivatives, equities, debts, cashflows and investment funds, etc.
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Sign.net enables secure verifiable eSignatures We want all users who interact with our brand to always bring back the idea that at the core of what we do is to help them make better decisions. A better decision could take on various meanings for different groups: 1) Better equipped 2) Build trust that forms reputation 3) Efficient execution 4) Verifiable accountability.
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Wecan creates business value by improving data quality, data management and data ownership through decentralized technologies.
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Avanza Innovations is the latest venture of Avanza Group of Companies – n 20 year old technology power house that has 300 customers across 45 countries, and processes 16 million transaction every day. Avanza Innovations was established in 2017 to focus on nascent technologies such as Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Robotic Process Automation and Smart City Projects. Within a few months of its incorporation, Avanza Innovations has achieved major successes by winning city wide projects in blockchain, AI across verticals such as Digital Government Transformation, Financial Regulation & Supervision, Health Care, Supply Chain and many more. Avanza has developed and delivered 20 plus production-grade blokchain networks for tier-1 government entities and regulators where each implementation is either a city-level or national-level platform.
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Riverr has developed an online trust management system. It helps people in hazardous situations, where lives and large amounts of money are at stake, to show they know how to operate safely. Riverr does all that using an online platform, a digital credential and certificate wallet and a skills marketplace linked to an ecosystem of accredited testing and training providers.
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B2lab, innovative start-up, is a centre of expertise and development of solutions based on blockchain, cryptography and ai. B2lab offers multiple cross-cutting solutions for every need through the implementation of a variety of blockchain platforms. B2lab is a development and testing centre of smart contracts. B2lab is also b2lab academy, the training factory, to promote and disseminate the blockchain ecosystem by proposing solutions with a high level of customization.
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TiENCHAT is a social network built on modern blockchain technologies but also integrates many popular features including a multi-wallet, dApps, and even an intuitive crypto exchange platform.
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Fjord Power is a Joint Norwegian & British Partnership established to provide energy intensive blockchain operators with access to The European Economic Area and renewable energy at low costs to improve the sustainability of their operations.
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Kalima is a third-generation consortium blockchain with an innovative consensus, Kalima brings Blockchain and AI solutions at the edge and on mobiles. Kalima's mission is to securely collect, transport, store and share IOT trusted data in real time with devices, services, and mobile workers. The Core of the solution is the Kalima blockchain, dedicated to the Internet of Things.
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Kwegg.com is a blockchain-based wallet and loyalty infrastructure. Kwegg provides the world's most powerful and easy-to-use blockchain wallet APIs. Kwegg blockchain platform aims to design a sophisticated financial model to enable an incentivization economy for businesses. Kwegg provides rule engine to configure rewards for consumers capturing their activities in the system translating into blockchain-based reward points. Kwegg provides further flexibility to chose the blockchain of their choice as per their partnerships and use cases.
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Omnibasis is a business management solution to run your sales, marketing, commerce, and operations powered by Blockchain technology.
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stake2earn is a professional blockchain validator in POS networks, offering you complete staking services, transparency, stability and security for different cryptocurrencies.
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Digital Asset is on a mission to create the global economic network of seamlessly interconnected businesses. By building a state-of-the-art platform and developer tools and leveraging the best modern infrastructure providers, we can change how businesses interact. Ambitious teams — from startups to the enterprise — are joining the network to build fundamentally new applications that span industries.
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DIGITAL ASSET
iSunOne is a global digital asset management platform, with AUM exceeding 2 billion USD as of December 2019. Providing better banking on blockchain, iSunOne integrates a global crypto debit card, built-in exchange, collateral loan and staking service for seamless one-stop experience. iSunOne users enjoy the safety and privacy to send each other secret messages and photos, as well as simultaneous gifting or instant paying with BTC, ETH, USDT, XTP and 20+ other assets.
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Hex Trust is the Asian leader in enterprise-grade custody for digital assets. Led by innovators from the institutional financial services space, Hex Trust has built a proprietary platform that delivers a modern custody solution for financial institutions, asset managers, and corporations to safely and efficiently operate in the blockchain ecosystem. ZeroKey(TM), a proprietary technology, enables seamless transacting and fast access to assets stored on multiple blockchains, while maintaining the highest levels of security of cold storage solutions. As a registered Trust Company under the Hong Kong Trust Ordinance and holding a Trust or Company Service Provider (TCSP) license under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance, Hex Trust offers a truly end-to-end digital asset servicing solution.
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A Fintech firm that specialized capital markets software for the digitization of alternative and illiquid assets. During our conversation with Florian Matthaeus Spiegl, COO of FinFabrik, Spiegl explained the importance of asset digitization and the market potential of digital asset-backed securities in Hong Kong.
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Coinstreet Partners is an award-winning decentralized investment banking group and consultancy firm in the F.M.T. (Finance, Media & Tech) field, providing a business eco-system for the new era of digital economy. As a leading player in digital asset and FMT (Finance, Media & Technology) areas, Coinstreet focuses on five business segments: Token Finance Consultancy, Digital Asset & Wealth Management, PR Media & Investor Relations, Digital Asset Tokenization & Trading Platform, and Decentralized Finance & DLT Solutions.
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GlobalSTOX Limited (GSL) is a rising star fintech company incorporated in Hong Kong. It has been striving to innovate the financial market infrastructures with the cutting-edge technologies, including the Artificial Intelligence (AI), Blockchain, and Internet of Things (IoT) technology. GSL has a strong team including Mr. Alec Tsui, the former Chief Executive Officer of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. It currently operates a virtual assets trading platform named APX.HK, fully compliant with the rules and regulations in Hong Kong.
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As a member of BC Group (Stock code: 863 HK), OSL is Asia's leading digital asset platform providing SaaS, brokerage, custody and exchange services.
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Securosys SA is a technology company headquartered in Zurich, Switzerland. Securosys secures data and communications, which the products are developed and manufactured in Switzerland and with vested European partners using a trusted supply chain. There are no backdoors. The flagship product of Securosys is the Primus Hardware Security Module used to protect the Swiss banking system SIC, blockchain and crypto assets solutions, and Public Key Infrastructure Systems.
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Matrixport, span off from the crypto giant Bitmain and officially established in February 2019, is a one-stop crypto financial services platform offering digital currency trading, institutional custody (branded as "Cactus Custody"), lending as well as asset management to both institutional and retail customers. The digital currencies traded on its platform include bitcoin, bitcoin cash, ethereum, litecoin, Ripple, Tether, USD Coin and many others. Matrixport was co-founded by Jihan Wu and John Ge, who were both mining industry veterans and co-founders of Bitmain.Matrixport has 150+ staff globally with global headquarters in Singapore and offices in Hong Kong, Zurich, and Moscow. With rich industry resources and leading technology capabilities, Matrixport aims to make crypto easy for everyone and create the next generation of digital financial service experiences. Matrixport's vision is to enable a more open and equal financial system using blockchain technologies.
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Tether is a token backed by actual assets, including USD and Euros. One Tether equals one underlying unit of the currency backing it, e.g., the U.S. Dollar, and is backed 100% by actual assets in the Tether platform’s reserve account. Being anchored or “tethered” to real world currency, Tether provides protection from the volatility of cryptocurrencies.
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Liquefy is a venture-backed and award-winning FinTech platform which enables the issuance of tokenized securities backed by real assets, to bring in a new world of accessible investments. We aspire to be the next-generation wealth manager, leveraging blockchain technology to offer a full suite of financial products.
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"Swiss Capital GEM - world’s first gold standard cryptocurrency & crypto-central bank in the multibillions scale. GEM as a proprietary gold standard and capital-backed cryptocurrency - is the divine ultimate adoption of blockchain technology into the global currency market and crypto central banking." Cited by Swiss Capital Group Chairman The Honorable Gary Sum.
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Formed in 2018, SGR by Sögur is a digital coin built to provide a self-sustaining, democratic and global currency. An algorithmic monetary model exposes SGR holders to carefully modelled volatility - using stabilisation mechanisms to temper risk in fast-changing and unpredictable market conditions, while creating an opportunity for sustainable intrinsic value growth, thanks to the bonding curve model. Sögur has assembled a group of subject matter leaders, including experienced entrepreneurs, financial professionals, technology experts, economists and academic researchers.
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BDAM was launched in 2018 through a team of veteran entrepreneurs, It is composed of government, legal, corporate, financial industry experts, and blockchain industry lead development team, and is about to launch a large-scale online and offline payment gateway solution that applies blockchain infrastructure to real consumer life.
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HKbitEX is a leading digital asset exchange. Headquartered in Hong Kong, HKbitEX is committed to providing a compliant and regulated digital asset spot trading and over-the-counter (OTC) trading platform for global professional investors. HKbitEX is one of the first organizations in Asia-Pacific to apply for a ‘virtual asset trading platform license’ from Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), which will further enable us to offer compliant, secure and reliable digital asset trading services to global professional and institutional investors.
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Innovative Payment Solutions Inc. (OTCQB: |PSI) is a digital payment technology service company offering cutting-edge solutions for consumers and service providers. It is focused on building a 21st century payment solution IPSIPay, based on its proprietary fintech payment architecture. Incorporated in 2015 and headquartered in Northridge, California, the Company has spent the last five years perfecting its payment platform through its operations in Mexico, and is now targeting the unbanked population of SoCal and beyond.
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GOVERNMENT/ACADEMIC
Hong Kong Cyberport aims to be the hub for digital technology thereby creating a new economic driver for Hong Kong. As an innovative digital community, Cyberport houses over 380 companies engaged in blockchain, cybersecurity, big data etc. Charles Lam, the senior manager of FinTech and blockchain cluster at Cyberport, shared with us the key indicators of successful startups, Cyberport's collaboration with leading enterprise blockchain solution providers and the blueprint for a Smarter Hong Kong.
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HKSTP aims to provide support every step of the way to help technology startups turn their dreams to life. To date, there are over 810 technology companies and 8,700 R&D practitioners in HKSTP. In our conversation with Peter Mok, Head of Incubation and Acceleration Programme of HKSTP, Mok explained the significance of STEP, core incubation programme and Hong Kong's unique positioning of FinTech.
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Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) gained university status in 1994 and is one of the leading universities in Hong Kong. To nurture FinTech talents, HKBU offered Master of Science in Finance (FinTech and Financial Analytics) including electives in blockchain and cybersecurity. In our conversation with Prof. Aris Stouraitis, Department Head of Finance & Decision Sciences at HKBU, Stouratis emphasized the practicability of the FinTech Masters and he offered 5 advice for FinTech graduates.
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https://www.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/main/index.jsp
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Enlighten people with blockchain values - Founded in 2017, and supported by Cyberport HK. iHashing specializes in the development and application of artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, cloud development, and digital marketing. iHashing is committed to provide education, adoption, and application of blockchain technology for mCommerce. Their services currently include: solution and development of IT applications, infrastructural services, Blockchain Software development, Smart Contract Audit, Cryptocurrency trading support, software technology consultation and digital advertisement. Their clients across Asia extend to Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Thailand, and Taiwan.
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COMMUNITY
Blockchain Asia provides technical, legal and regulatory advisory services to help clients developing a realistic view of blockchain and how blockchain can be used to improve the efficiency of business operations.
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Bitwork is a blockchain community-based company that assists all blockchain companies in the community to develop their unknown market value. Through a Business-to-Business-to-Customer (B2B2C) complete ecosystem model, Bitwork aims to create a channel for the reciprocal transaction of products or services.
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Blockchain Australia Solutions is a leading technology company that provides Consulting and enterprise solutions on blockchain platforms. Blockchain Australia Solutions works with corporates, enterprise and ASX clients around the country. We help you to grow an idea into a fully functional product. At Blockchain Australia we are dedicated to the growing industry of Blockchain and pride ourselves as established technology leaders with a passion for delivering enterprise solutions that have the potential to transform businesses, industries, and our society as a whole. Our mission is to become leaders in the Australian Blockchain and cryptocurrency trading domain. We are eager to help businesses grow, and we share a passion for coding, creating, and connecting people to the future of technology.
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Institute of Financial Technologists of Asia (IFTA) is founded by FinTech professionals in 2017 as a non-profit organization, which aims to lead the global development of FinTech talent with the highest standards of ethics, education and professional conduct. IFTA strived for this goal with the creation of the Chartered Financial Technologist (CFT) and the IFTA FinTech Achievement Award. Paul Pong, the Chairman of IFTA explained the significance of CFT and how IFTA expands to the Asia-Pacific market with 3 key initiatives.
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NexChange gathers a global team of experts from finance, technology and media that have come together to design an O2O platform to connect the innovation industry. NexChange aims to foster the blockchain ecosystem via a number of events such as <a href="https://www.hkblockchainweek.net/">HKBlockchainWeek</a>,<a href="https://www.fintecho2o.com/">FinTechO2O</a>,<a href="https://www.healthtecho2o.com/"> HealthTechO2O</a>,<a href="https://www.blocko2o.com/"> BlockO2O</a>.
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STO Lab is a global business alliance network and eco-system for sourcing and distributing high-quality STO projects in international markets. The consortium consists of corporate members from different industries, key eco-system enablers and service providers along the value chain, and financial institutions and accredited investors. Together with its consortium members, STO Lab aims to derive a multi-country fully compliant ways and best practices in asset tokenization process.
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UNICEF promotes the rights and wellbeing of every child, in everything we do. Together with our partners, we work in 190 countries and territories to translate that commitment into practical action, focusing special effort on reaching the most vulnerable and excluded children, to the benefit of all children, everywhere.
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We´re a non-profit institution based on 3 pilars: Research, Social and Market (Business with: a) Blockchain application b) Consultancy c) Consortium and others.
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NZ Blockchain Forums brings together business owners, thought leaders and executive management from a range of sectors and industries across New Zealand to share and discuss how to use and apply blockchain technologies, engaging business management with practical know-how and insight into the use and application of blockchain technologies. Our forums are designed to link blockchain technology experts with business owners, management teams, investors, developers, associations and regulators –– promoting a dialogue and understanding around blockchain and its future role and impact on the New Zealand economy and its industry sectors, including: dairy, beef & lamb, seafood, horticulture, beverages, organics, export logistics, taxation and finance, education, tourism, forestry, art, media and health.
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REGTECH
Blockpass offers digital identity verification for businesses that participate in regulated industries, including crypto wallets and exchanges, virtual banks, traditional financial institutions and gaming.
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PROPTECH/AI
smartME is a technology company with an ambition to anchor itself to deliver technology transformation to create an innovative and sustainable platform driven by blockchain technology. The company's prime focus is to provide an easy and yet secure and reliable method to manage property listing, selling and renting in Hong Kong. smartME was created with one simple aim, to reinvent the real estate from an archaic process and to use a novel approach to reshape the real estate industry that will not only streamline the existing large manual process but provide a more secured, cost savings and transparent process based on the advanced technology.
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RealKey automates processing and underwriting of mortgage through a web-based mortgage process facilitator that centralizes and simplifies both documentation collection and review to reduce touches (back and forth) with underwriting by getting documents and data direct from the source through APIs and OCR. RealKey stores all data and documents securely and centrally for all parties to access. A review of data is automated through algorithms coupled with machine learning to improve accuracy over time.
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A leading property agency in Hong Kong with nearly 40,000 employees and more than 2,000 offices in 39 cities in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Macao. Centaline Property has been a pioneer in PropTech back in 2015, and they collaborated with Microsoft and TFI Blockchain to unveil the first blockchain platform for second-hand property sale and purchase in Hong Kong. Alex Shih, vice chairman of Centaline Group shared with us the role of blockchain to property agents, operations of property agencies and the latest PropTech roadmap of Centaline Group.
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HKAI LAB is a not-for-profit initiative that is fully funded by Alibaba Hong Kong Entrepreneurs Fund (AHKEF). The platform gathers academics, scientists, and entrepreneurs in AI to focus on advancing the frontiers of AI with cutting-edge technologies as well as helping startups to utilize AI technologies. Timothy Leung, Executive Director of HKAI Lab revealed the AI talent shortage in Hong Kong and how Hong Kong can utilize resources to cultivate AI talents in the future.
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SingularityNET is a full-stacked, decentralized Artificial Intelligence (AI) network that served as an AI-as-a-Service (AaaS) Marketplace. Dr. Ben Goertzel, the mastermind behind SingularityNET, revealed the state of artificial superintelligence, the partnership with PayPal and the future of AaaS marketplace.
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TODA/IP is an internet protocol enabling implementations of complete Autonomous Decentralized Governance. By enabling each network packet to have unique global identifier while belonging to a data structure that can ensure the belonging of the packet is to a single signing public key. Toda.Network is a platform built on TODA/IP to accelerate implementations and deployments. The Founding team of Toda.Network includes Silvio Micali, a renowned Turing-award winner.
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CRYPTO TRADING/INVESTMENT
A Hong Kong-based Over the Counter (OTC) trading center of digital assets. Wincent Hung, Director of Genesis Block Hong Kong shared with us Hong Kong's positioning of Bitcoin ATMs and the key for qualified crypto custodians in Hong Kong.
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Bitfinex is a digital asset trading platform offering state-of-the-art services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers. Founded in 2012, Bitfinex was one of the first professional platforms set up to accomodate for the booming interest in cryptocurrency trading. Since then, our team has gained invaluable experience whilst cementing our spot as the go-to platform for digital asset traders and institutions.
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AAX is the world’s first digital asset exchange to be powered by LSEG Technology. Offering OTC, Spot, and Futures trading, quoting more than 70 cryptocurrency pairs and listing 5 perpetual futures contracts for Bitcoin, Ether, Litecoin, XRP, and EOS, which can be traded with up to 100x leverage, AAX provides a secure, deeply liquid, ultra-low latency and fully compliant trading platform.
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Currency.com is the world’s first regulated tokenised securities platform. It’s a one-stop place to trade 1,700+ tokenised assets including stocks, indices, commodities and FX pairs with crypto and fiat at competitive prices. We offer tightest spreads and up to 1:500 leverage. We ensure deep liquidity and split-second order execution (50 M/sec). Cutting-edge trading on charts and 75 accurate technical indicators to spot the best trading opportunities. Currency.com award-winning platform is fully regulated and compliant with the best-in-class security standards.
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AlphaWallet is an open-source production-ready and easy to customise white-label wallet for your business. Leverage blockchain and tokenization faster, and launch your MVP in 1/5 of the time and cost compared to alternative solutions.
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TideBit is a leading crypto asset exchange supporting fiat currency based in Hong Kong. Founded in February 2017, TideBit is the only digital asset exchange in Hong Kong that accept HKD, USD and EUR deposits and withdrawals. Trusted by millions of users from all over the world which allows TideBit to become one of the largest digital asset exchanges in Asia.
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OKEx is a world-leading digital asset exchange, providing advanced financial services to traders globally by using blockchain technology. Serving millions of users in over 100 countries, OKEx shared with us the 7 keys to assess IEO projects and emerging crypto markets like Turkey.
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Huobi Group is a leading global digital asset financial service provider, with cumulative turnover exceeding 1.2 trillion USD as of August 2019. In August 2018, Huobi Group acquired Hong Kong-based listed company Pantronics Holdings Ltd (01611.HK). As one of the leading crypto exchanges, Ciara Sun, Chief of Staff at Huobi Global shared with us the state of crypto exchanges and future plans of Huobi Global.
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Fusang is the first fully-regulated group in Asia providing an end-to-end platform enabling all investors everywhere to invest into digital securities. Our platform is comprised of: (1) Fusang Exchange; (2) Fusang Vault; and (3) Fusang Digital Identity–allowing us to deliver a seamless experience for both issuers and investors.
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Trade securely and directly between BTC and any ERC20 with atomic cross-chain swaps. SIBEX is a Swiss non-custodial decentralized OTC marketplace that allows users to trade cryptocurrencies peer-to-peer between blockchains with no third-party involvement. SIBEX solves issues such as front-running and reduces the trading cost of capital by providing an institutional-grade dark venue for digital asset procurement and liquidation by enabling cross-chain transactions. Based in Zug, Switzerland & in Hong Kong, SIBEX is trusted and backed by industry leaders such as Zurich-headquartered SIX Group (Swiss Infrastructure and Exchange) and Fenbushi Capital, the first and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firm in Asia. Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS), users can be assured that their personal data and keys are always secured. SIBEX technology relies on cross-chain atomic swaps to enable users to settle trades directly peer-to-peer between blockchains.
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TRAMS DEX is a decentralized Automated Market Maker for digital assets with focus on providing liquidity for various crypto currencies.
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Standard Kepler is Asia's leading blockchain financial services provider, offering market changing research insights, in addition to holistic advisory, brokerage, and custodian services. Headquartered in Hong Kong, Standard Kepler’s management team previously served in JP Morgan, Macquarie Capital, State Street, and KPMG.
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Swartz, Binnersley & Associates is an award-winning grass roots Hong Kong law firm boasting comprehensive corporate and dispute practices. Our partners have over 40 years of combined experience in Hong Kong having served clients locally and globally. We are committed to supporting start-ups through to large international companies, and aim to make your business, our business. We deliver comprehensive and clear-cut advice. Our corporate team specialises in fintech and regulatory matters, where we are well placed to assist emerging companies structure and launch compliant, licenced operations. We have worked with clients on various instructions, such as regulatory related matters on behalf of boutique investment firms, series fundraising on behalf of emerging telecommunication companies, and structuring advice for Securities & Futures Commission and Hong Kong Monetary Authority licenced entities.
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GIANTHOUSE was started by the spirit of turning imaginations into reality. It is an IT production house specialized in the development of web and mobile applications, as well as providing customized IT and blockchain solutions. GIANTHOUSE is venture-backed and its clienteles range from large corporates to early-stage startups.
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DLA Piper is a global law firm with lawyers located in more than 40 countries throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, positioning us to help clients with their legal needs around the world. We are a pioneer in serving technology clients and companies that use technology, having established a presence in the heart of Silicon Valley over 50 years ago. Our Hong Kong-based Blockchain and Digital Assets group offers strategic advice on a global basis to address the needs of companies implementing blockchain technology solutions and creating and deploying digital assets.
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The IBA was established with the purpose of mutual assistance in the field of business development, networking, cooperation and a joint approach to defending the interests of the members of the alliance. It also seeks to raise awareness of the importance of the blockchain technology among the professional and lay public, and, therefore, organizes various events and training courses. It also cooperates with the government authorities in the field of the relevant legislation. We are a key player in the process of creating a setting that will transform India into a global blockchain destination. The members will work harmoniously and in unison for the benefit of the individual and collective business development of blockchain companies. We are the most influential voice in the blockchain industry. It is a not-for-profit organisation that promotes evidence-based adoption of Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) across the public and private sectors.
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Blockadvise Corp is a Blockchain Consultancy and deployment agency. We will research and select the right blockchain solution for your supply chain application. We then work with you and our preferred solution provider partner to deploy and administer the perfect blockchain ecosystem that is both scalable and cost effective.
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Eneri Visions operates on a culture built around the belief that what is good can always be made better. That is why we focus on delivering services and products that maximize and optimizes efficiency in your network as well as in your operations. We achieve this by delivering a suite of critical end-end services (Cloud, Data Center, Cybersecurity, AI) either collectively or individually, whichever maximizes your competitive edg
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CoinCodex is one of the largest crypto listing websites with over 1 million monthly visitors. CoinCodex offers the complete cryptocurrency market coverage with real-time coin prices, charts and crypto market cap featuring over 7,000 coins on more than 300 exchanges.
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Coincheckup provides price quotes, detailed charts, analysis, price performance and investment stats for over 3,300 cryptocurrency. CoinCheckup was founded as a response to unreliable market data across different aggregators.
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DappRadar has become the starting point for dapp discovery and analysis and acts as a distribution channel for dapp developers that are looking to reach new consumers. Tracking over 3,000 dapps across 14 blockchains, including Ethereum, EOS, TRON, and ONT, with plans to expand to others. The free DappRadar Portfolio Tracker also provides actionable insights into your activities on Ethereum.
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