About 280 overseas and local leaders from across the financial industry, business and public sectors attended the forum.
Over 100 participants, including AoF Members and the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Plenary Members and their delegates attended the closed-door seminar.
– Moderator:
Eddie Yue, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong
Monetary Authority and Chairman of the AoF
– Speakers:
Ayman Al-Sayari, Governor of the Saudi Central
Bank
Agustín Carstens, General Manager of the Bank for
International Settlements
Klaas Knot, President of De Nederlandsche Bank
and Chair of the Financial Stability Board
François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the
Banque de France
Mr Eddie Yue, Chairman of the AoF and Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) delivered the opening remarks, highlighting the AoF’s achievements throughout its five-year journey. The FLP graduates then received their certificates from the Directors of the AoF in recognition of their completion of the nine-month programme.
It was then followed by a panel discussion on “Preparing Hong Kong Financial Leaders for the Global Stage”, featuring our Fellows Dr Norman Chan, Senior Adviser of the AoF, Dr Moses Cheng, Non-official Member of the Executive Council and Dr Anthony Neoh, Co- Chairman, Asian Academy of International Law. The panel was moderated by Mr Arthur Yuen, Deputy Chairman of the AoF and Deputy Chief Executive of the HKMA.
The AoF/HKIMR jointly organised a hybrid seminar with HKIB on “DeFi, Metaverse, Digital Assets and Web3: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Industry”. It was well-attended with about 20 participants in person and 400 online.
The HKIMR delivered a presentation on frontier technologies and their implications for the financial services industry.
As the supporting organisations of the AIMA APAC Annual Forum 2024, the AoF/HKIMR hosted a panel session on “Frontier Tech: Shaping the Future of Finance” at the Forum.
The AoF was pleased to be a supporting organisation for the Asian Actuarial Conference 2024 organised by the Actuarial Society of Hong Kong.
At the Hong Kong FinTech Week, the AoF/HKIMR hosted a panel discussion on “DeFi, the Metaverse and Generative AI: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Service Industry”.
The AoF/HKIMR hosted a seminar on “DeFi, Metaverse, Digital Assets and Web3: Opportunities and Challenges for the Financial Services Industry” in collaboration with the AICPA & CIMA.
The HKIMR delivered a presentation on “Innovations in Financial Services”.
Dr Xing Yujing, Senior Adviser of the HKMA and former President of the Shenzhen Branch of PBoC spoke about the perspectives of Mainland China’s regulatory approaches and what Hong Kong could do to better facilitate the future developments of the Greater Bay Area.
Seminar on “Accelerating the Development of a National Common Market, and Leveraging Hong Kong's Advantages and Role” by Dr Wei Wang from Development Research Center of the State Council.
Progressing into the last phase of this year’s Programme, the 2024 cohort had interactive dialogues and fireside chats with distinguished leaders from the financial industry and regulatory bodies in Q4 2024.
Dialogue with Julia Leung
Chief Executive Officer of the Securities and
Futures Commission
Dialogue with Prof Huang Ping
President of the Chinese Institute of Hong Kong,
Director of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Dialogue with Mary Huen
Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer,
Hong Kong and Greater China & North Asia,
Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited
Dialogue with Norman Chan
Senior Adviser of the AoF
7 visiting scholars visited the HKIMR during Q4 2024.
A series of seminars were held to facilitate knowledge exchange among researchers from local and overseas institutions on topical issues in the monetary and applied research fields.
Organisers: Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR), European Central Bank (ECB) and Bank of Finland Institute for Emerging Economies (BOFIT)
Speaker:
Li Cheng
Professor of Political Science and Founding
Director of the Centre on Contemporary China
and the World at the University of Hong Kong
Topic:
China-US Relations: 2025 and Beyond
Speaker:
Weijian Shan
Executive Chairman & Co-Founder of PAG
