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Digital ID and KYC Utilities for Embracing the FinTech Era
- Subject
- College of Business and Finance, HKU SPACE|Finance and Compliance, Financial Services and Insurance, FinTech and Financial Intelligence
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- Date & time
- 01Nov 2018 (Thu)18:30 - 20:20 (18:30 - 19:00 Registration)
- Venue
- Room 204, 2/F, Admiralty Centre, 18 Harcourt Road, Hong Kong (access via the shopping arcade escalators through Exit A, Admiralty MTR Station)
- Fee
- Free Admission
- Speaker
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- Prof Douglas W ARNER, FSDC Council Member; Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, The University of Hong Kong ;
- Mr. Jeremy Dinshaw LAM, FSDC Policy Research Committee Member; Partner & Head of Financial Services Practice, Deacons
Prof Douglas W ARNER, FSDC Council Member; Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, The University of Hong Kong
Douglas W. Arner is a Professor in the Faculty of Law of the University of Hong Kong and Project Coordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme on “Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre”. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law, and a Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Douglas specialises in economic and financial law, regulation and development. He is author, co-author or editor of thirteen books, including Finance in Asia: Institutions, Regulation and Policy (Routledge 2013), From Crisis to Crisis: The Global Financial Crisis and Regulatory Failure (Kluwer 2011), Financial Stability, Economic Growth and the Role of Law (Cambridge University Press 2007) and Financial Markets in Hong Kong: Law and Practice (Oxford University Press 2006), and the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, chapters and reports on related subjects. His recent papers are available at http://ssrn.com/authors=524849. He is a member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council and of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Centre for International Finance and Regulation. Douglas has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and Development Bank of Southern Africa. He has lectured, co-organised conferences and seminars and been involved with financial sector reform projects in over 20 economies in Africa, Asia and Europe, and has been a visiting professor or fellow at the Universities of London, McGill, Melbourne, New South Wales, Singapore and Zurich, as well as the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research. Douglas served as Head of the Department of Law of the University of Hong Kong from 2011 to 2014 and from 2006 to 2011 he was the Director of the Faculty’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law, which he co-founded in 1999 along with the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law (of which he serves as Director). In 2007, he received HKU’s Outstanding Young Researcher Award and served as Convenor of HKU’s Law, Policy and Development Strategic Research Theme from 2008-2012. Before joining HKU in 2000, he was the Sir John Lubbock Support Fund Fellow at the Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary College, University of London. He holds a BA from Drury College (where he studied literature, economics and political science), a JD (cum laude) from Southern Methodist University, an LLM (with distinction) in banking and finance law from the University of London (Queen Mary College), and a PhD from the University of London.
Mr. Jeremy Dinshaw LAM, FSDC Policy Research Committee Member; Partner & Head of Financial Services Practice, Deacons
Jeremy is a Partner of Deacons in Hong Kong and Head of the Firm’s Financial Services Practice Group. He qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 1991 and was admitted as a solicitor in Hong Kong in 1992. He specialises in Financial Services with a particular emphasis on retail investment funds. He also advises on a wide range of securities, licensing, compliance and regulatory issues pertaining to the asset management industry. Jeremy served as the Firm’s Executive Partner from 2008 to 2012 and is a member of the Firm’s management committee.
- Enquiry
- Ms Chung: 2975-5767 (ecfaml@hkuspace.hku.hk)
- Remarks
Language: English
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The FSDC released a research report entitled the “Building the Technological and Regulatory Infrastructure of a 21st Century International Financial Centre: Digital ID and KYC Utilities for Financial Inclusion, Integrity and Competitiveness” in June 2018. The report seeks to present the main features of an essential strategy to develop the necessary technological and regulatory infrastructure for digital identification and electronic-KYC in Hong Kong. The application of technology for facilitating the provision of financial services is gaining traction globally. During the development of FinTech infrastructure to enhance the KYC process, Hong Kong also needs urgent regulatory fixes to improve customers’ account opening experience and, more importantly, to maintain the city’s financial competitiveness.
Our speakers will share with you their views on the infrastructure that Hong Kong would need for digital identification of customers in the non-face-to-face on-boarding context. They will also share their views on the necessary elements of a KYC utility to address various international financial regulations, with the longer-term goal of facilitating customers’ investments decisions.
