HKU FinTech Day 2021

About the speakers

Syed Musheer Ahmed, Founder & Managing Director of FinStep Asia

FinStep Asia is building Asia’s next generation of Businesses. FinStep Asia enables Corporates and Scaleups in their innovation journey through Corporate innovation, venture building, growth advisory, bespoke research and accelerator programs.  Musheer is one of the main contributors in building the Fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong as the cofounder and inaugural General Manager of the Fintech Association of Hong Kong. Having been engaged in Fintech since 2016, he has worked closely with several regulators and government bodies on fintech and digital economy policy, providing advisory and delivering workshops on a range of topics.

He is on several advisory boards and a mentor/advisor to several startups, while a regular guest lecturer at many universities in Hong Kong and Singapore. He is cofounder of IndiaTech HK, a platform bridging Indian & Chinese tech ecosystem via Hong Kong and is also the Global Ambassador for Tokyo Metropolitan Government.  He is a regular contributor and author of articles on Fintech, Digital Banking, Islamic Fintech and Investment Banking and been quoted in various media channels, including on CNBC, Bloomberg, SCMP, Financial Times, Asian Investor, Economic Times, etc.

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Henri Arslanian, PwC Crypto Leader and Partner,

Henri is the former Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course globally.

Henri advises many of the world’s leading crypto exchanges, investors, financial institutions and tech firms on their FinTech and crypto initiatives as well numerous governments, regulators and central banks on Fintech and crypto regulatory and policy matters.
 

With over 500,000 LinkedIn followers and 40,000 newsletter subscribers, Henri is a TEDx and global keynote speaker, a best-selling published author and is regularly featured in global media including Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Economist and the Financial Times.
 

Henri’s latest book “The Future of Finance: The Impact of FinTech, AI and Crypto on Financial Services” published by Palgrave Macmillan, was ranked as one of Amazon’s global top 10 best-sellers in financial services and was recognized as one of the “Best FinTech Books of All Time” by Bookauthority.

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Janos Barberis, Co-Founder, SuperCharger Ventures

About to re-invent himself, this time in EdTech. Previously Janos, has established a track record in the FinTech Industry (named 32nd Most Powerful Dealmaker globally, Institutional Investors, 2018) and in academia (13th legal scholar in the world, SSRN, 2018). The 49 start-ups across Janos’ accelerator cohorts have raised over US$500 million and are regularly listed as leading FinTech companies, globally. He trained over 100,000 people in the last 4 years through online courses (x2), books (x3) and academic papers (5) in order to raise market awareness on FinTech & Regtech. He was on the FinTech board of the World Economic Forum and Securities & Futures Commission in Hong Kong.

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Urszula McCormack, Partner, Cross-Border Finance and Technology, King & Wood Mallesons

Urszula is one of Asia’s leading regulatory and digital economy lawyers, with a focus on emerging technologies.  

Urszula advises global banks, payment institutions, large technology companies, exchanges, virtual asset issuers and software developers on new products, cross-border transactions, compliance and licensing.   In her data practice, Urszula advises on privacy regulation, algorithmic design, encryption technologies and data-sharing arrangements.  Urszula is a leading specialist advising governments, multilaterals and regulators on building robust enabling environments for digital payments, digital identity, financial crime controls, cross-border data flows and innovation.  

Urszula is a member of multiple advisory bodies and has been appointed to the Panel of Recognised International Market Experts (P.R.I.M.E.). She is regularly invited to brief governments, regulators and transnational policymakers.  Urszula is admitted to practice law in Hong Kong, Australia and England & Wales and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS).

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Huy Nguyen Trieu, Co-founder of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship (CFTE)

CFTE is one of the largest education platforms in digital finance. Huy is also Venture Partner of Mundi Ventures and CEO of The Disruptive Group.

After graduating from MIT, he co-founded and led Ukibi, a precursor to Linkedin in 1999. He then joined a number of international banks where he built high growth businesses for more than a decade, with his last position as a Managing Director at Citi. He has been very involved in the development of Fintech in Europe and Asia and is recognised as one of the thought leaders in that space. He is a Founding Partner of SuperCharger, the largest Fintech accelerator in Asia, writes the blog Disruptive Finance and was the first Fintech Resident Expert at Oxford Said Business School.