New licenses will promote city as a premier digital assets hub.

Hong Kong opens its doors to stablecoins

Hong Kong fintech firm wants to diversify revenue and scale up

WeLab looks to ASEAN to launch more digital banks

Start-ups are essential in Hong Kong’s drive towards becoming a global innovation and technology leader, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) is committed to nurturing start-ups, helping them upgrade and transform and explore business opportunities.

The HKTDC’s Start-up Express mentorship programme nurtures an ecosystem of innovators.

Entrepreneurs critical in Hong Kong’s I&T drive

The InnoClub integrated platform for SMEs, jointly run by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Hang Seng Bank, launched its Start-up GBA Study Tour programme last month.

InnoClub’s visit to the region shows start-ups, SMEs opportunities in AI, robotics and more.

Entrepreneurs on fast-track for GBA opportunities

The Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) welcomes the Hong Kong SAR Government’s budget for the 2024-25 financial year, delivered by Financial Secretary Paul Chan on Wednesday.

The Hong Kong spending plan for 2024-25 supports the continued development of SMEs and strengthens the city’s economy.

HKTDC welcomes budget

The height and breadth of China’s advance across the world economic stage over the past five decades has been breath-taking, leaving traders and investors wondering where and how to step in.

Trade in the mainland’s currency is expected to rally in line with the economy’s massive exports and imports.

Renminbi role set for upgrade

With its glittering cities, palm-shaped islands and globe-spanning airlines, the United Arab Emirates has been a leading innovator in the Middle East for many years.

The oil-rich Middle Eastern state has become a cryptocurrency hub as part of its efforts to diversify its economy.

UAE takes lead on fintech

The Asian Financial Forum (AFF) is the region’s premier platform that brings together influential leaders from government, finance and business communities globally for ground-breaking discussions and exchange of insights on the global economy from an Asian perspective.

The 17th edition of this leading international conference will seek a cooperative path to a shared tomorrow.

Asian Financial Forum

Financial services are central to Hong Kong’s economy, accounting for nearly a quarter of the city’s GDP and it is one of the biggest financial centres in the world.

A cornerstone of Hong Kong’s economy, finance is being enhanced, rather than threatened, by digital and green innovation.

Digital promise for financial services

Intellectual property (IP) and innovation are joined at the hip and the Business of IP Asia Forum, themed IP & Innovation: Steering New Economic Growth, paired with Entrepreneur Day (E-Day), offered industry players a chance to explore both.

BIP Asia and E-Day show businesses how IP boosts start-up collaboration.

IP powers innovation

Following US President Donald Trump’s sweeping imposition of tariffs on exports from Mainland China in 2018 followed by pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions, supply chains across the world sunk into crisis in 2020.

The pandemic precipitated logistics pandemonium across the world, and it is time for an industry overhaul.

Supply chain reset takes shape

Enterprises from Mainland China are gearing up to expand across the globe and intend to use Hong Kong as the platform for doing so.

An HKTDC survey reveals why companies go out to the Belt and Road and RCEP through the city.

Hong Kong springboard to global success

The Belt and Road Initiative has grown and extended rapidly over its first decade and the Middle East has moved into the spotlight in recent years.

The decade-old initiative is continually expanding and recently the energy-rich region has come into focus.

Belt and Road spotlight on Saudi Arabia

InnoClub, a one-stop platform jointly created by the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) and Hang Seng Bank, recently held a seminar Connecting Upstream and Downstream: Building a Smart Supply Chain with Digital Technology. Supply chain, logistics, operations and procurement managers tackled the supply chain and payment system pain points of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).

COVID-19 took the world online and much of the shift was permanent; SMEs need to adapt.

Streamlined payments for retail SMEs

HKTDC is helping OneDegree leverage momentum in fintech, AI and digital assets.

Building the security layer for the digital economy

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