2024 Main Conference Speakers

Ernest currently leads the Digital Finance Division at the HKMA and is responsible for the overall coordination of the HKMA’s ongoing work on digital assets, including regulation for stablecoin issuers, policy research, monitoring and surveillance of the virtual assets market.  He is also actively participating in the work of the Financial Stability Board on crypto assets.

Prior to the current role, Ernest was the Head of Real Estate and Technology in the HKMA’s private markets team, overseeing the HKMA’s private investment in real estate, venture capital and technology.  Before joining the HKMA, he was a Research Associate at Morgan Stanley focusing on China macroeconomic research.

Yvonne Tsui currently works in the Fintech Facilitation Office, where she focuses on the innovative projects of the Authority including central bank digital currency; and collaborates closely with international organizations and different industry stakeholders on various areas of work.  Before her current position, Yvonne gave legal advice to different teams of the Authority on a variety of central banking and regulatory issues, including financial market infrastructure development and operations, banking policies, e-money and other related regulatory matters.

Jayne is Head of Startups at Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK), the government department responsible for attracting and retaining Foreign Direct Investment into Hong Kong. Her role at InvestHK is to attract innovative startups, investors and other stakeholders to Hong Kong, provide information and connections to support these companies setting up in the city, and help build the ecosystem to transform the city into a global hub for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Jayne graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a BSc(Hons) in Zoology. Prior to joining InvestHK, Jayne was Executive Director at a global non-profit network focused on fostering entrepreneurship. She has also worked in marketing roles at various firms, managed product development for a number of startups at Hong Kong’s first tech startup incubator, provided digital strategy consulting for corporates at a consulting firm, and produced a number of interactive programmes at 4A’s & digital agencies.