This INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) is fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19
Prof Vasant Dhar is a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University where he is the Director of the PhD program. He is also the founder of SCT Capital Management, one of the first systematic machine-learning-based hedge funds, with a track record of over 20 years.
Dhar’s research answers two related questions: (1) when should we trust AI machines that learn from data, and (2) how should we design machines in different domains to be sufficiently trustworthy for decision making?
His research has addressed these questions in a number of areas, most notably, in financial markets.Dhar has authored over 100 research papers, as well as articles for publications such as the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Wired, and the Harvard Business Review. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, National Public Radio and other media.
Regulation of FinTech and disruptive innovation are widely recognized that such FinTech developments have many benefits that increase the provision of financial products. However, it is also a challenges for financial regulators to balance the launch of FinTech innovation against ensuring that the operation can be done in a safe markets environment. One way is to apply AI to reshape the field of legal professional. AI in legal service can be applied in contract analytics, due diligence and e-discovery.
The seminars will explore different ways in which emerging technology in financial markets could be regulated without stifling innovation. Adopting appropriate regulatory measures in response to FinTech initiatives is of significant importance for Hong Kong to ensure it retains its position as a leading international financial centre.
Prof Ross BUCKLEY is the KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney. He is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and leads a $2.7 million five-year research project into the regulation of the data revolution. He chairs the Digital Finance Advisory Panel of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission. He has consulted to governments departments in well over ten nations, including the U.S., and has twice been a Fulbright Scholar, at Yale and Duke.
Open banking is expected to be one of the most important FinTech development and is going to remodel the traditional banking and business environment. Facing the wave of the FinTech revolution, it is important to understand how the decentralization of blockchain technology improves and reshapes the business model with smart contracts to handle the traditional issue of information asymmetry. To enhance the financial inclusion of online and mobile payment service, banks are encouraged ( or required) to share data with third parties through an application programming interface (API). This concept of sharing of data upon different actors in the banking sector through blockchain network is often referred as an important part of Open banking. To catch up with the FinTech development, it is important that we understand the mechanism that customers manipulate their business in multiple places with multiple sources using open banking service.
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are widely used to handle massive amounts of data in financial markets. In recent years, AI and machine learning has played a significant role in the FinTech landscape, such as in auto loans, auto financial evaluation, auto financial risk analysis, auto financial information exchange, and auto investment. As AI and machine learning are making more and more automatic financial decisions (for example, programme trading), there has been increasing discussion on the role of human judgment . To catch up with the FinTech development, it is important that we have the knowledge to evaluate the financial predictions of artificial intelligence and machine learning so that humans can control the rapid advances in FinTech.
The seminars will provide participants with the knowledge of open banking and the financial predictions of artificial intelligence and machine learning so that we can catch up with the rapid advances FinTech.
Booth’s Zhiguo He, September 6, 2016. (Photo by Jean Lachat)
Prof Zhiguo HE is a Chinese financial economist serving as the Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where he has taught since 2008. He serves as the Director of Becker Friedman Institute-China and Co-Director of the Fama-Miller Center. He is also a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, member of the academic committee at the Luohan Academy, and special-term Alibaba Foundation Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University. He earned his Ph.D. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
His work has been published in leading academic journals, including American Economic Review, Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, and Journal of Financial Economics. He is serving as Associate Editor for both the Journal of Finance and the Review of Financial Studies. He has been named a 2014 Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow and has won numerous awards for his outstanding scholastic record, including the Lehman Brothers Fellowship for Research Excellence in Finance in 2007, the Swiss Finance Institute Outstanding Paper Award in 2012, the Smith-Breeden First Prize in 2012 and the Brattle Group First Prize in 2014.
I would like to express my my heartfelt thanks to Prof Martin OBSCHONKA (Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia) andProf Satish NAMBISAN (the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University)for accepting our invitation to be the speaker of the IIDs Digital Entrepreneurship Seminars.
Prof Martin OBSCHONKA
Prof Satish NAMBISAN
Prof Martin OBSCHONKA Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Prof Satish NAMBISAN The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Martin OBSCHONKA is Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. He is a psychologist working in the research fields applied psychology, entrepreneurship, vocational behavior, economic culture, and social, economic, and technological change. He is currently Director of the Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research. In 2018 he was appointed as International Faculty Fellow at MIT Sloan School of Management. He is also Chair of the Academic Committee of the annual ACERE conference (Australian Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Exchange). He is Associated Editor of Small Business Economics and International Journal of Psychology and is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Vocational Behavior, Current Research in Ecological and Social Psychology,and Management Review Quarterly.With his focus on person-environment interactions and transaction, his research aims at advancing the knowledge of psychological and economic factors and mechanisms relevant for human agency in context.
His research involves projects on entrepreneurial development over the lifespan, entrepreneurial regions and culture, public policy, human capital, personality, geographical psychology, organisational behaviour, well-being and stress, and social and economic change. He has an interest in interdisciplinary projects, cross-cultural perspectives, innovative data and methods, and also in the practical application of new scientific knowledge.
He has published his research in psychology journals (e.g., Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Personality, European Journal of Personality, Journal of Vocational Behavior, European Psychologist), entrepreneurship journals (e.g., Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship: Theory & Practice, Small Business Economics), economics journals (e.g., European Economic Review, Industrial and Corporate Change), economic geography journals (e.g., Regional Studies, Environment and Planning A), finance journals (Journal of Baning & Finance), and interdisciplinary journals (e.g., PLOS ONE).
His research received international media attention (for example, studies in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Vocational Behavior, European Economic Review, Small Business Economics, Journal of Personality, Social Psychological and Personality Science, and Journal of Business Venturing Insights), with a Nr. 1 Altmetric score for media coverage in news outlets of all studies published in the top 20 innovation and entrepreneurship journals (Google Scholar journal ranking). Media outlets that covered his research include The Times (UK), Harvard Business Review, The Times of India, The Boston Globe, Forbes, The Atlantic, Inc. Magazine, The BBC, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Huffington Post, Popular Science, Time Magazine, Spiegel Online, FocusOnline, Handelsblatt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Tagesspiegel.
Recently, Springer Nature selected his entrepreneurial personalities in political leadership study as one of 2018’s most influential studies published by Springer Nature. In 2019, The Australian ranked him among the top performing 40 researchers in Australia who are less than 10 years into their research career (he is in the top five in the category: business, economics, management).
Satish NAMBISANPh.D. is the Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University. His current work focuses on how digital technologies and digital platforms shape innovation, entrepreneurship and international business. His work has appeared in several leading business journals including Academy of Management Review, Organization Science, Management Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Entrepreneurship Theory & Practice, MIS Quarterly, Research Policy, Harvard Business Review and MIT Sloan Management Review. He is the author of The Global Brain (Wharton School Publishing). His new book on digital globalization will be published by MIT Press in 2021. Dr. Nambisan serves as a Field Editor for the Journal of Business Venturing.
Digital Entrepreneurship, Financial Technology (FinTech) and Financial Regulation (FinReg) is about to change our society, economics and business ecosystem. This IIDS project invites top scholars from overseas to present seminars and being keynote of an international conference on essential topics related to the evolution of digital entrepreneurship, FinTech and FinReg. This IIDS project consists of six seminars (from Sep to Nov, 2020) and an international conference (24 Mar 2021). All the events will be open to other institutions and to the public. This INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) is fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19)
I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to all speakers and participants for your support and contribution to this IIDS project. All events (Six Seminars and Conference) had successfully completed. The IIDS project received over 200 registrations. On average around 100 participants join us online/offline in each event. The project website have received over 1000 visitors globally and more than 3000 views for the last 9 months.
All of your contribution made the IIDS project success and it was a great pleasure to see so many of you joining us. Hopefully you enjoyed the IIDS events and you can take the opportunity to extend your networks.
Six seminars (Sep to Nov 2020)
The New Digital Landscape of Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship Network in the Digital Era
Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Auto Finance
Blockchain Technology and Smart Contracts
AI in Legal Service
FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation
Seminar Speakers
Prof Satish NAMBISAN, The Nancy and Joseph Keithley Professor of Technology Management at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University
Seminar: The New Digital Landscape of Entrepreneurship (Sep 2020)
Prof Martin OBSCHONKA, Professor in Entrepreneurship at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Seminar: Entrepreneurship Network in the Digital Era (Sep 2020)
Prof DHAR Vasant, Professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University.
Seminar: Evaluation of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Auto Finance (Oct 2020)
Prof Zhiguo HE, Fuji Bank and Heller Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Seminar: Blockchain and Smart Contracts (Oct 2020)
Prof John ARMOUR, Professor of Law and Finance at Oxford University and a Fellow of the British Academy and the European Corporate Governance Institute
Seminar: AI in Legal Service (Nov 2020)
Prof Ross BUCKLEY, The KPMG Law — King & Wood Mallesons Professor of Disruptive Innovation, and a Scientia Professor, at UNSW Sydney.
Seminar: FinTech and Disruptive Innovation: A New Era of Regulation (Nov 2020)
International Conference 24 March 2021
The conference will provide researchers with a channel to stimulate discussions of research experience and knowledge of Digital Entrepreneurship, FinTech and FinReg.
Conference Keynote Speaker : Opening Session
Prof Longbing Cao
(The Data Science Lab: www.datasciences.org) is a professor and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (at professorial level) at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).
Conference Keynote Speaker : Closing Session
Dr. Oriol CAUDEVILLA
The fellow at the Digital Euro Association (D€A) in Germany. He is a FinTech Advisor, Consultant and Researcher (in Digital Banking and Finance, Central Bank Digital Currencies, Blockchain and Crypto).
Conference Panel Discussion: Insights from industry practitioners
Invited Speakers
Brit Blakeney Anghelakis, Executive Director, Innovation and Ecosystems, Consumer Banking Group, DBS Bank (HK) Ltd
Topic: Digital Transformation and Cultural Shifts, which comes first?
Mr. Cheney Cheng, Managing Partner, Altive Group; Chairman, Apoidea Group
Topic: Document possessing through AI Solution: The current state and the way forward.
Mr. Eric Shun-Kuen Chan, Deputy CEO of CNBCB (HK) Capital Ltd
Topic: How does, and Could, Technical replace human intelligence? An insight from using Traslateral RegTech in conducting stronger AML/CFT Control
Mr. Andre Leung, CEO of Aereve
Topic: How does, and Could, Technical replace human intelligence? An insight from using Traslateral RegTech in conducting stronger AML/CFT Control
Conference RoundTable Discussion :The Evolution of Digital Entrepreneurship
Invited Speakers
Rono KWONG, Group Chairman, Asia Interactive Content Holding Limited
This INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS) is fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (RGC Ref. No.: UGC/IIDS15/B01/19)
Hong Kong Shue Yan University 50th Anniversary Celebration
The objective of Inter-Institutional Development Scheme (IIDS) is to enhance academics’ research capability in the local self-financing degree-awarding institutions and keep them abreast of new developments and challenging research topics in relevant fields.
This INTER-INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT SCHEME (IIDS), “The Evolution of Digital Entrepreneurship, FinTech and FinReg“, is fully supported by a grant from the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China.
