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Sep 2025
(Thu)

Bitcoin vs Ethereum: what are they? and now the stablecoin (4 Sep 2025)

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FinTech and Financial Analytics
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Date & time
04Sep 2025 (Thu)13:00 - 13:30
Fee
Free
Speaker
  • Mr Ivan Chan (Specialist in risk management and investment banking)

Mr Ivan Chan

Out of 16+ years of working experience in capital market and investment banking, Mr. Chan, being a seasoned risk management practitioner, has held several departmental head positions in which he is responsible for overall risk appetite and framework along with oversight responsibility on the ASEAN regional subsidiaries conglomerate. In addition to his PhD candidacy in Business from Singapore, he has obtained software engineering bachelor from CUHK and Master of Finance in Risk Management and Financial Engineering from HKU. Moreover, as a passionate and highly committed risk professional, Mr. Chan also holds professional qualifications such as CFA and FRM respectively.

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2867 8331 (finedec@hkuspace.hku.hk)
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Postgraduate Diploma in FinTech and Legal Regulations Postgraduate Diploma in Financial Analytics and Algo Trading Postgraduate Diploma in Finance and Data Analytics Certificate for Module (Web 3.0 and FinTech) Certificate for Module (Portfolio Optimisation and Risk Management with Python)
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Bitcoin vs Ethereum: what are they? and now the stablecoin

Bitcoin and Ethereum are the most dominant cryptocurrencies, out of hundreds, currently in the market. They are both in a form of digital asset that trades via various virtual asset trading exchange and/or stored in various type of cryptocurrency wallets. However there are quite many key differences among though.

Bitcoin (BTC) is designed as a monetary storage and as an alternative to fiat currency. Ethereum (ETH), otherwise, is intended for complex smart contracts or DeFi applications which contributes and acts as key infrastructure of the emerging Web3.0 future.

In light of recent rapid development and adoption, the price of BTC and ETH have been risen more than double in past 12 months. The speaker will give a brief introduction of above meanwhile some attention should be drawn to the relationship and correlation among Bitcoin, Ethereum, Gold and S&P500 – as shown in below charts.

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Sources: Härdle et al. (2020). Understanding cryptocurrencies. Journal of Financial Econometrics, 18(2).

The speaker will also talk about the latest development and impacts of the newly passed GENIUS Act in U.S. and the Stablecoins Ordinance (Cap. 656) in HK.

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Language: Cantonese (Supplemented with English)