The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) puts great efforts in striking a right balance between retaining appropriate flexibility for innovations and ensuring that customer interests are properly safeguarded during the course of fintech development. The Fintech Facilitation Office, established by the HKMA in 2016, facilitates the healthy development of the Fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong and promotes Hong Kong as a Fintech hub in Asia.

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has established the Fintech Contact Point to enhance communication with businesses involved in the development and application of financial technology (Fintech) which intend to conduct regulated activities or virtual asset-related activities in Hong Kong. Under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO), no person shall carry on a business in a regulated activity without a licence granted by the SFC.

The purpose of the Fintech Contact Point is to facilitate the Fintech community's understanding of the current regulatory regime, and to enable the SFC to stay abreast of the development of Fintech in Hong Kong.

The development of financial technology ("Fintech") is important in strengthening the role of Hong Kong as an international financial centre. Against this background, the Insurance Authority ("IA") has been closely monitoring the development and application of technology in the insurance industry ("Insurtech") and proactively assisting market participants to tackle Insurtech-related regulatory issues.

BlockUnion (HK) Limited (“BlockUnion”) is a leading Web3 ecosystem platform in Asia, built on the principle of “Connect to Empower”. With over a decade of investment and project experience in the Ethereum and Web3 ecosystem and a committed presence in Hong Kong and pan-Asia, BlockUnion focuses on community building and connection, ecosystem service and acceleration, technology research and advisory, and innovation investment and incubation.

BlockUnion serves global Web3 ecosystems building their Asia footprint, enterprises and financial institutions adopting blockchain and digital assets, and the regional builder and venture community. Our work includes long-standing support for Chainlink and Xinghuo BIF (星火链网), and the launch and operation of Hong Kong Ethereum Community Hub in alliance with the Ethereum Foundation. The team pairs institutional capital markets experience with crypto-native expertise, connecting partners across community, ecosystem, capital and policy.

DCS DeCard is a card and payments infrastructure platform powered by DCS Group, providing card issuing and payment solutions for businesses, partners and consumers.

Through its card-as-a-service (CaaS) offering, DCS DeCard enables partners to launch and scale branded card programmes and QR payment solutions with streamlined compliance, flexible programme design, and faster time-to-market. DeCard Business Account extends these capabilities directly to mid-market and enterprise businesses, providing corporate cards and spend management solutions for employee and operational expenditure.

DCS DeCard also offers its consumer-facing card products, DeCard and DeCard Luminaries, enabling users to spend stablecoins at more than 150 million merchants worldwide.

Backed by over 50 years of card-issuing heritage, DCS Group is a diverse group of payments companies providing secure and innovative solutions.

Forthright Securities Company Limited (“Forthright Securities”) was established in Hong Kong in August 2015. As a “next-generation internet brokerage ”, the Company upholds three core pillars—Dedicated Advisory, In-depth Research and AI-Driven Investing—to provide global securities and futures brokerage services to individual and institutional investors. It is a licensed corporation of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (CE No. BGP713), licensed to carry out Type 1, Type 2, Type 4, and Type 5 regulated activities. In May 2026, it completed a licence condition upgrade, adding virtual asset-related business qualifications. In capital markets, the Company offers Hong Kong IPO underwriting, international placing and capital markets intermediary services, and has acted as underwriter, joint bookrunner, placing agent and overall coordinator on listing and placing transactions, including China Feihe and Jihai Resources. In July 2026, the Company unveiled a four-floor flagship investor experience space at Sheung Wan, deepening its integrated “online + offline” service model. In the same year, it was named “Outstanding Next-Generation Internet Brokerage” at the Hong Kong Economic Journal Financial Excellence Awards 2026. Driven by “AI + Advisory,” Forthright Securities is committed to becoming a next-generation internet brokerage that better understands clients, delivers faster service and provides stronger investment research.

FundPark is a Hong Kong-born fintech company dedicated to empowering the next generation of digital entrepreneurs to realise their growth ambitions and scale globally.

Over the past decade, FundPark has evolved from a fintech start-up into an AI-enabled growth platform that connects technology, data and institutional capital to support fast-growing businesses in the digital economy. Through proprietary risk models, AI and real-time operating data, FundPark helps businesses access the insights and growth capital they need to move faster and scale smarter.

Today, FundPark supports businesses across Asia and beyond, having connected more than 40,000 merchants with over US$10 billion in financing, enabled through more than US$1.25 billion in institutional funding capacity backed by leading global financial institutions. As AI lowers the barriers to entrepreneurship, FundPark is helping ensure more businesses have the opportunity to scale, innovate and compete in the global economy.

IBM is a leading provider of global hybrid cloud and AI, and consulting expertise. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain a competitive edge in their industries. Thousands of government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and consulting deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's long-standing commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service. Visit www.ibm.com for more information.

IBM opened for business in Hong Kong in 1957, and has since been an essential partner of Hong Kong's growth and transformation. Visit https://hongkong.newsroom.ibm.com/ for more information about IBM China/Hong Kong Limited.

About Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Limited

Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Limited (SFC CE No.: BJB333) is a member of the Mirae Asset Financial Group. Its parent company, Mirae Asset Securities Co., is one of the largest securities firms in South Korea. Established in Hong Kong, Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Limited serves as an important platform for connecting clients to global markets, supported by Mirae Asset’s international network, investment expertise and long-standing commitment to innovation.

Guided by the Mirae Asset 3.0 vision, Mirae Asset Securities (HK) Limited is focused on building a client-first, future-ready financial services platform in Hong Kong. As a Permanent Innovator, Mirae Asset continues to develop responsible, trusted and globally connected investment solutions, while contributing to the long-term development of Hong Kong as an international financial centre and regulated digital asset hub.

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Unlimit is the global financial infrastructure for the borderless agentic economy. Designed to bridge the gap between fragmented local markets and the future of autonomous commerce, Unlimit provides the programmable operating layer for the world’s most ambitious businesses.

Through an integrated technology stack, the platform unifies global payment acceptance, programmable financial accounts, and digital asset rails into a singular financial layer. By mapping hyper-local payment ecosystems directly into its architecture, Unlimit enables businesses to move value and settle transactions instantly across continents.

Built on decades of hard-won regulatory depth and an extensive global license portfolio, the platform provides direct access to a massive global infrastructure. With major hubs in London, San Francisco, Singapore, São Paulo, and Mexico City, Unlimit is building the infrastructure that makes global expansion a matter of code, not geography.

For more information, visit www.unlimit.com.

AppliedAI is a technology company building AI-native workflow systems for highly regulated industries including banking, fintech, insurance, and healthcare. Backed by strategic investors including Mubadala, Palantir, and G42, we focus on institutional-grade AI designed to operate within strict regulatory and security constraints.

Our flagship platform, Opus, automates and supervises mission-critical, document-heavy processes with embedded governance, auditability, and human oversight.

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) is founded in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. As Hong Kong’s largest government-funded research and development centre, ASTRI is a key force and super connector driving innovation and technology advancement in Hong Kong, the Greater Bay Area, and the global innovation ecosystem.

Committed to bringing high impact research from lab to market, ASTRI advances interdisciplinary, market driven R&D that delivers practical innovations for industry and meaningful benefits for society.

Its technological strengths and capabilities enable AI powered, cross disciplinary ICT and advanced materials solutions across Smart City, FinTech, Digital Health and Life Sciences, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASIC) and Advanced Electronics, New Energy and Energy Storage, and Green and ESG Technologies.

With enhanced scale and capabilities, ASTRI is uniquely positioned to elevate Hong Kong’s innovation capacity, accelerate technology commercialisation, and drive societal and economic progress through world class applied research.

Beosin is a RegTech company specializing in blockchain AML analytics and security, serving virtual asset service providers, Web3 companies, law enforcement agencies, and regulators worldwide. Its solutions cover blockchain AML analytics, virtual asset investigations and fund tracing, and smart contract security audits. Backed by more than 20 years of cybersecurity expertise, Beosin has built an on-chain data infrastructure covering 61 blockchains and more than 5.2 billion address labels. Beosin has audited over 4,500 smart contracts and remediated more than 85,000 security vulnerabilities. With ISO 27001 and SOC 2 certifications, Beosin serves regulatory authorities across more than 20 regions, over 200 VASPs, and more than 4,500 Web3 projects globally.

Wholly owned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) Government, Cyberport is Hong Kong’s digital tech hub and AI accelerator, with a vision to empower industry digitalisation and intelligent transformation, to promote the digital economy and AI development, and to foster Hong Kong to be an international AI, innovation and technology (I&T) hub. Cyberport gathers over 2,400 companies, including 30 listed companies and 10 unicorns. 40% founders of on-site companies come from the Chinese Mainland & 27 countries and regions.

Cyberport, with Hong Kong’s largest AI Supercomputing Centre and AI Lab as the engine, has been building the AI ecosystem with industry-leading AI companies and over 500 AI and data science start-ups. Through development of tech clusters, namely AI, data science, blockchain and cybersecurity, Cyberport empowers industries across smart city and government, banking and finance, digital entertainment, culture and tourism, healthcare, education and training, property management, construction, transportation and logistics, green environment and more, while hosting Hong Kong’s largest FinTech community. Commissioned by the HKSAR Government, Cyberport has implemented proof-of-concept and sandbox schemes, subsidisation for digital tech adoption, industry tech training and start-up incubation, to drive technology R&D, translation and commercialisation, thus propelling digital transformation and intelligent upgrade across industry and society.

Also as “State-level Scientific and Technological Enterprise Incubator” and Hong Kong’s key incubator, Cyberport supports entrepreneurs with funding and office space, extensive networks of enterprises, investors, technology corporations and professional services for business growth and expansion to Chinese Mainland and overseas markets, all-round facilitation for landing in Hong Kong, talent attraction and cultivation, ready as a launchpad to take start-ups in any stages of development to the next level.

 Dyna.Ai is a leading AI-as-a-Service company headquartered in Singapore, delivering enterprise-grade AI solutions that turn advanced AI into measurable business results. The company provides AI-powered products and services that enhance customer experience (CX), improve employee experience (EX), and optimize core business operations, with solutions designed for practical enterprise deployment. With a global presence across Asia, the Middle East, and the Americas, Dyna.Ai powers financial institutions, contact centers, and more enterprises worldwide. For more information, visit www.dyna.ai.

eSign.AI is a global e-signature and digital trust platform empowering businesses with secure, compliant, and intelligent digital solutions. Supporting compliant e-signature applications across 112 countries and regions, it offers identity verification, bulk signing, API/SDK integration, and AI-driven contract processing to meet cross-border needs. eSign.AI is actively expanding in Southeast Asia and worldwide, delivering efficient, secure digital signing solutions for finance, manufacturing, retail, HR, technology, and more.

The Financial Services Development Council (FSDC) was established in 2013 by the Government of the HKSAR as a high-level advisory body to engage the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of the financial services industry of Hong Kong and to map out the strategic direction for the development.

In September 2018, the FSDC was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee. This change allows it to better discharge its functions through research, market promotion, and human capital development with greater flexibility.

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INF is a global enterprise AI company dedicated to building enterprise AI operating systems and AI agents. As a pioneer in trustworthy generative AI, we aspire to be the most trusted partner for enterprises operationalizing AI at scale. Our products convert the general intelligence of AI models into organizational intelligence—knowledge owned by the enterprise, embodied in agents that execute real-world work.

We are among the first globally to bring trustworthy generative AI into production for critical financial infrastructure. We embed trust directly into our technology, delivering the reliability, auditability, controllability, and cost-effectiveness critical workflows demand. Our products enable customers to accumulate and compound organizational intelligence, ensuring long-term value accrues to the enterprise.

Recognized by prominent market leaders, we serve clients across Asia, including Hang Seng Indexes Company, leading global and regional financial institutions, a major global stock exchange, a leading Southeast Asian AI infrastructure operator, and a biotech firm, while actively expanding into new regions. "

Lark (Feishu in Chinese) is an Al work platform by ByteDance, an Al-ready, all-in-cone workspace that brings together collaboration, organizational management, and productivity tools, with Al deeply embedded into how work happens, making it truly usable and deployable at scale and empowering every individual to work in new ways for the Al era.

Our 154 AI official solutions are trusted by industry leaders, driving measurable business impact (3000+ client-built solutions) across industries including 90% of top 10 automakers (by market cap), 80% of top 20 NEV makers, 56% of CE & appliance lighthouse factories; 80%+ of leading tea-based drinks brands, 77%+ of beauty groups, Top 3 hotel groups; Leading Al unicorns & chipmakers, 80% of top 10 embodied Al players; End-to-end coverage for top global healthcare enterprises. (*All metrics are benchmarked against leading China-based enterprises, including top listed companies and globally expanding Chinese firms).

Longbridge Group is an AI-native financial technology company building trusted infrastructure that connects investors, financial institutions, AI and global financial markets.

Its integrated ecosystem comprises Longbridge Securities, an AI-powered online brokerage; LongPort, an institutional-grade trading technology and infrastructure provider offering multi-market and multi-asset solutions; and Longbridge AI, a next-generation AI-native financial data and investing platform. Together, they are redefining how individuals and institutions access, understand and interact with financial markets.

Founded in 2019, Longbridge operates licensed financial businesses across multiple jurisdictions. It holds 22 financial regulatory licences or qualifications across the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and other markets, and has secured more than US$150 million in strategic investment from leading global financial institutions and investment firms.

Longbridge’s vision is to make investing a seamless part of how people use AI every day by building trusted infrastructure for the future of intelligent investing.

As part of the NTT Group, a leading global technology company, NTT Com Asia is committed to building a smart and sustainable world through innovation.

We empower businesses to accelerate their digital and AI journeys by unlocking the full potential of data. From smart digital infrastructure, technology services to leading-edge AI solutions, we enable organizations to navigate the evolving challenges of a data-centric world.

SIGONE is a cybersecurity company developing SWIPDA, a passwordless access platform for financial institutions and enterprise environments. SWIPDA enables secure PC and business-system access through smartphone-based approval, while its Vault protects passwords, API keys, tokens, and other sensitive credentials with granular access control and full auditability.

At the core of SWIPDA is BSA, Blockchain Secure Authentication, a standards-based authentication architecture using one-time authentication keys and distributed verification. BSA is aligned with ITU-T X.1284 and ITU-T X.1286, supporting strong authentication, authorization, policy enforcement, audit logging, and monitoring.

SIGONE helps organizations reduce risks from phishing, credential theft, shared passwords, and legacy access controls, while providing a practical path toward secure, auditable, and scalable passwordless operations.

Thales (Euronext Paris: HO) is a global leader in advanced technologies for the Defence, Aerospace, and Cyber & Digital sectors. Its portfolio of innovative products and services helps address several major challenges: sovereignty, security, sustainability and inclusion.

The Group allocates €4.5 billion per year in Research & Development in key areas, particularly for critical environments, such as Artificial Intelligence, Cybersecurity, Quantum and Cloud technologies.

Thales has more than 85,000 employees in 65 countries. In 2025, the Group generated sales of €22.1 billion.