
On RegTech, LawTech and Reinventing Government Affairs: Interview with Tim Hwang, CEO of FiscalNote
During RiseConf in Hong Kong in July, we interviewed a number of thought leaders in FinTech, among whom Mr. Tim Hwang, Founder and CEO of FiscalNote. Q: Tell me about FiscalNote. How did the company start and what is its mission? Tim: We are the largest privately held company in the RegTech space. We aggregate legislation and regulation, company documents, court cases from multiple countries around the world. We use artificial intelligence to structure and normalize that info

Interview with Roman Stanek, Founder and CEO, GoodData
During RiseConf in Hong Kong last week, we interviewed a number of thought leaders in FinTech, among whom Mr Roman Stanek, Founder and CEO of GoodData. Q: How did GoodData start? What is the company mission and what are you trying to achieve? A: We started 7 years ago. Our mission is to help companies get as much impact from data as possible, i.e. not limit data to a few people in the C-suite, but anyone in any given company should be able to access and experience the bundle

Hong Kong’s FinTech Future in 5 Minutes
The Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council (HK FSDC) just released a 69 page report entitled “The Future of FinTech in Hong Kong.” This blog post acts as a summary of the key points and action items it proposed. The main thesis of the paper is that Hong Kong’s government should take a more proactive approach on FinTech if they want to compete with other rival FinTech centres in the region and the world that are already moving rapidly ahead with FinTech initiatives.

SuperCharger Startup Highlight: Interview with Bill Eng, Co-Founder & CEO of FinChat
Bill Eng is the Co-Founder & CEO of FinChat, a RegTech (regulatory technology) startup that produces compliance monitoring software solutions for regulated enterprises to capture business-related chats done on popular social messaging apps such as WhatsApp, WeChat and more. FinChat is one of the 8 companies admitted to the SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator Program 2.0. Check out the exclusive video interview with FinChat here. Q: Currently banks don’t allow their bankers to us

SuperCharged and Ready to Go: SuperCharger FinTech Accelerator Launches Its Second Programme
SuperCharger 2.0 has officially begun! On January 9, SuperCharger welcomed its new cohort — Bambu, Clare.ai, Entersoft, FinChat, Foris, KYC Chain, Squirro, and XNotes Alliance — to launch its second accelerator programme. The cohort will be collaborating with and learning from leading FinTech professionals over the next three months in Cyberport FinTech Smart Space, the largest FinTech space in Asia spanning 35,000 square feet. The Launch Day attracted over 200 people from th