Tencent Finance Academy and Hong College of Science and Expertise to Assist Fintech Training Applications

The Hong Kong College of Science and Expertise (HKUST) has reportedly dedicated to a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Tencent Finance Academy (TFAHK) with a purpose to assist native Fintech expertise.

By leveraging HKUST’s stable educational basis in Fintech and Tencent’s intensive business expertise, the MoU will concentrate on forming a strategic partnership in supporting the event of economic know-how options. This will likely be achieved by helping proficient people (in Hong Kong) and dealing cooperatively on training, analysis and improvement (R&D) initiatives.

Per the MoU, HKUST and Tencent Finance Academy have agreed to work on numerous Fintech case research for tertiary training, with the purpose to supply actual enterprise options. College students can anticipate to enhance their information on Fintech platforms by collaborating on this initiative.

HKUST and Tencent Finance Academy may even work cooperatively on making a curriculum for Fintech, with HKUST leveraging Tencent’s enterprise expertise with a purpose to assist the event of an revolutionary expertise mannequin.

Different tasks reportedly embrace key internship alternatives for HKUST college students, joint Fintech-focused R&D initiatives, steering on finishing up analysis and numerous academic outreach applications to boost public consciousness of the advantages of Fintech options.

Hong Kong’s Chief Government Carrie Lam said (throughout her speech):

“I thank TFAHK for its long-standing dedication to and assist for nurturing younger fintech abilities, and I hope all younger folks attending the discussion board immediately can equip themselves to participate within the integration of fintech improvement within the GBA. It will present higher profession improvement for themselves and contribute to the event of Hong Kong, the GBA and the nation.”

HKUST President Professor Wei Shyy remarked:

“Now we have launched our first fintech postgraduate program collectively by Colleges of Enterprise and Administration, Engineering, and Science. Now we have additionally been actively collaborating with a number of banks and different enterprises. As we speak we’re delighted to hitch palms with Tencent to additional our efforts on creating new information and nurturing expertise in a context which HKUST could make substantial contributions.”