HKIB Annual Banking Conference 2023

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Diamond Sponsors



About EY

EY exists to build a better working world, helping to create long-term value for clients, people and society and build trust in the capital markets.

Enabled by data and technology, diverse EY teams in over 150 countries provide trust through assurance and help clients grow, transform and operate.

Working across assurance, consulting, law, strategy, tax and transactions, EY teams ask better questions to find new answers for the complex issues facing our world today.



About i-Sprint Innovations (i-Sprint)

i-Sprint Innovations (i-Sprint), established in the year 2000, is a leading provider in Securing Identity and Transactions in the Cyber World that enables individuals, organizations, and societies to build trust and identity assurance for powering productivity gain through digital identity and identity of things (IDoT).

i-Sprint’s unique brand of security products, intellectual properties, and patents are designed to exceed regulatory requirements such as global financial services. By incorporating the latest mobility/ biometrics/ cloud/ identification technologies, i-Sprint provides solutions that ensure secure access and protection of data, transactions, and assets. i-Sprint delivers a trusty, versatile, and strong authentication, and identity management platform to secure multiple application delivery environments based on a common security platform.

As an ISO27001 and ISO9001 certified company, i-Sprint is committed to delivering qualified and secured management systems that meet the needs of our clients. i-Sprint’s key clients include leading global and regional financial service institutions, government agencies and many others. Currently, i-Sprint has a direct presence and active authorized partners across Singapore, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan, and the United States.



About FORMS

FORMS is the cross-border FinTech thought leader, incubator and enabler for banks and financial institutions. Our industry specialization makes FORMS the preferred trusted advisor to our clients.

Headquartered and listed in Shenzhen with strong presence in Hong Kong, our 2,300+ FinTech professionals in the Greater Bay Area (GBA) are helping HK’s established banks to change the bank, and enabling virtual banks to build the bank and supporting central banks to shape the future of money by means of central bank digital currency (CBDC).

We co-create and re-define new business models and client experiences with our clients to make banking and finance simpler, faster, smarter and safer.

Our Blockchain Innovation Centre, CorpBankingTech, Digital Experience, FinTech, RegTech and WealthTech Practices are transforming the way advisory and implementation service is done. From ideation, client experience definition, UI/UX design to regulatory compliance, digital technology adoption and implementation, we are proud to have co-created an impressive list of iconic and award-winning digital banking innovations with our visionary banking clients.

Website: https://forms-fintech.com/

Platinum Sponsors



About Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, enables companies around the world to improve their business performance. Dun & Bradstreet's Data Cloud fuels solutions and delivers insights that empower customers to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate risk and transform their businesses. Since 1941, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity. For more information on Dun & Bradstreet Hong Kong, please visit www.dnb.com.hk.



About AlixPartners

For more than forty years, AlixPartners has helped businesses around the world respond quickly and decisively to their most critical challenges—circumstances as diverse as urgent performance improvement, accelerated transformation, complex restructuring and risk mitigation.

These are the moments when everything is on the line—a sudden shift in the market, an unexpected performance decline, a time-sensitive deal, a fork-in-the-road decision. But it’s not what we do that makes a difference, it’s how we do it.

Tackling situations when time is of the essence is part of our DNA—so we adopt an action-oriented approach at all times. We work in small, highly qualified teams with specific industry and functional expertise, and we operate at pace, moving quickly from analysis to implementation. We stand shoulder to shoulder with our clients until the job is done, and only measure our success in terms of the results we deliver.

Our approach enables us to help our clients confront and overcome truly future-defining challenges. We partner with you to make the right decisions and take the right actions. And we are right by your side. When it really matters.



About LexisNexis Risk Solutions

LexisNexis® Risk Solutions includes seven brands that span multiple industries and sectors. We harness the power of data, sophisticated analytics platforms and technology solutions to provide insights that help businesses and governmental entities reduce risk and improve decisions to benefit people around the globe. Headquartered in metro Atlanta, Georgia, we have offices throughout the world and are part of RELX (LSE: REL/NYSE: RELX), a global provider of information-based analytics and decision tools for professional and business customers. For more information, please visit www.risk.lexisnexis.com and www.relx.com



About Thought Machine

Thought Machine has developed the foundations of modern banking with its cloud-native core banking and payments technology. Its cloud-native core banking platform, Vault Core, is trusted by leading banks and financial institutions worldwide, including Intesa Sanpaolo, ING Bank Śląski, Lloyds Banking Group, Standard Chartered, SEB, Lunar, Atom bank, Curve, and more.

Vault Payments is a cloud-native payments processing platform – comprising a Universal Payment Engine to support all card and account-to-account payment types.

Vault Core and Vault Payments have been written from scratch as an entirely cloud-native system and give banks full control to build any product required to flourish in a rapidly changing world.

Thought Machine is a global team spread across offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Sydney and has raised more than $500m in funding.

For more information, visit thoughtmachine.net



About OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd.

OneConnect Financial Technology (Hong Kong) Co. Ltd. is a Technology-as-a-Service provider for financial institutions. OneConnect is an associate of Ping An Insurance Company of China. By leveraging Ping An Group’s over 30 years of extensive experience in financial services and research capabilities, OneConnect has established long-term cooperation with financial institutions to addresses their needs of digital transformation. The integrated solutions and platform the Company provide include Digital Banking, Digital Insurance and Gamma Platform, which is a technology infrastructure platform for financial institutions. With our unique competence in “technology + business”, we enable our customers’ digital transformations, which help them improve efficiency, enhance service quality, and reduce costs and risks.

The OneConnect HongKong Team has extensive experience in large scale development and deployment projects, include Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s eTradeConnect (a block-chain based Trade Finance Platform), Hong Kong Exchange’s FINI (an IPO Settlement Platform), Hong Kong Government’s iAM Smart (an eID platform with IDV). Currently, there are more than 3000 employees under OneConnect and about 200 employees in Hong Kong.

Gold Sponsors



About Confirmation

Confirmation, part of Thomson Reuters, is the digital platform and global network trusted by audit firms, banks, and law firms to verify financial data quickly and securely. Confirmation invented electronic confirmations nearly 20 years ago, reshaping the audit confirmation process.

Today, Confirmation 1.5 million auditors, bankers, and financial professionals around the world trust Confirmation’s validated network to confirm financial data and identify fraud.

Our solution

Confirming financial statements is a vital part of the external audit, auditor needs to verify through the bank whether their client has the funds they disclose.  Traditionally, these audit confirmations were performed through email, fax or via the post. These methods are inefficient and susceptible to fraud, and not environmentally friendly.

Our secure digital platform gives auditors control over the process from start to finish. All signatures, attachments and completed confirmation documents are protected using AEwS-256 encryption, eliminating the risk of financial data being accessed by an unauthorized party.

  • Speed up and simplify your audit confirmations
  • Fast. Reduce the audit confirmation process from weeks to just days
  • Centralized. Manage the complete digital confirmation process in one platform
  • Paperless and environmentally friendly: To assist audit firms with efficient audit confirmation processing in an environmentally sustainable way, we provide audit firms and banks with an option of processing their bank confirmation in a more environmentally friendly way.
  • Dated confirmation methods are inefficient and susceptible to fraud. Our secure digital platform gives you control over the process from start to finish.


  • About Amberdata

    Amberdata is the leading provider of digital asset data, market intelligence and risk analytics. We deliver comprehensive data and insights into blockchain networks, crypto markets, and decentralized finance, empowering financial institutions with data for research, trading, risk, analytics, reporting, and compliance.

    Amberdata serves as a critical piece of infrastructure for financial institutions entering the asset class and participating in digital asset markets.



    About Dynatrace

    Dynatrace (NYSE: DT) exists to make the world’s software work perfectly. Our unified platform combines broad and deep observability and continuous runtime application security with the most advanced AIOps to provide answers and intelligent automation from data at an enormous scale. This enables innovators to modernize and automate cloud operations, deliver software faster and more securely, and ensure flawless digital experiences. That is why the world’s largest organizations trust Dynatrace® to accelerate digital transformation.



    About RWS

    RWS is the world’s leading provider of language solutions to the banking industry.

    Our tech-enabled services enable banks to connect with their global audiences, accelerating the way they create, translate and deliver content.

    Our secure translation solutions reduce risk in content workflows, giving our clients confidence in the quality and accuracy of their most sensitive regulated materials, wherever in the world they are delivered.

    Our ability to bring control to content across the enterprise helps our clients to demonstrate compliance with regulators while building trust with their audiences.

    Our proven language capabilities support our clients as they seek to improve speed-to-market, drive competitive advantage and optimise the customer experience.

    Our expertise covers regulated content across the banking landscape, including capital markets materials, customer communications, contracts and agreements and accessibility content.

    RWS is represented in virtually all of the leading global finance institutions including 9 of the top 10 global investment banks.

    Find out more at https://www.rws.com/industries/financial-services/.



    About SmartStream

    SmartStream is a recognised leader in financial transaction management solutions that enable firms to improve operational control, reduce costs, build new revenue streams, mitigate risk and comply accurately with the regulators.

    By helping its customers through their transformative digital strategies, SmartStream provides a range of solutions for the transaction lifecycle with AI and machine learning technologies embedded - which can be deployed in the cloud or as managed services.

    As a result, more than 2,000 clients - including the world’s top 100 banks, rely on SmartStream Transaction Lifecycle Management (TLM®) solutions to deliver greater efficiency to their operations.

    For more information, visit: www.smartstream-stp.com



    About HKT

    HKT Enterprise Solutions provides end-to-end integrated solutions employing emerging technologies such as AI, IoT, cloud computing, and data analytics to assist enterprises transform their operations. Leveraging HKT's superior fixed and mobile networks, our solutions enable companies to enhance efficiency and derive valuable business insights.

    With a strong track record in ICT innovations, HKT Enterprise Solutions serves diverse commercial and wholesale organizations across Hong Kong, Mainland China, and beyond. Our "Next Generation ICT Solutions and Services" comprise carrier-grade cloud platforms, ultra-fast fixed and mobile networks, award-winning SME solutions, advanced cross-border capabilities, and end-to-end systems integration to propel business growth.

    Find out more at www.hkt-enterprise.com

    Refreshment Sponsor



    About Dun & Bradstreet

    Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, enables companies around the world to improve their business performance. Dun & Bradstreet's Data Cloud fuels solutions and delivers insights that empower customers to accelerate revenue, lower cost, mitigate risk and transform their businesses. Since 1941, companies of every size have relied on Dun & Bradstreet to help them manage risk and reveal opportunity. For more information on Dun & Bradstreet Hong Kong, please visit www.dnb.com.hk.

    Survey Partners



    About Cimigo Consulting

    Cimigo is an insights agency that assists clients in understanding the ever-changing opportunities amongst customers, brands and employees.

    We are an independent, Asian-grown, team of more than 200 marketing and brand specialists operating throughout the Asia Pacific region with offices in China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, and Vietnam. Since 2003, Cimigo has been providing its clients with data-driven guidance for marketing decisions and customised insights that arm our clients with a competitive advantage to optimize their business success. Cimigo has been able to develop lasting partnerships with the region’s leading brand names in every core business sector, from the banking industry to travel and tourism.

    We provide consultancy services to leading & emerging players in the financial services sector, including Asset re-branding, Brand & Advertising communication monitoring and evaluation, Channel Management, CSR programme measurement, Customer Experience tracking, UX/UI testing, Market Segmentation, New Product/Services Development, Quality service & compliance, SME/ Enterprise banking needs, as well as Wealth Management positioning.

    To learn more, please visit: www.cimigoconsulting.com



    About Rakuten

    As Asia’s trusted research partner, Rakuten Insight Global has remained at the forefront of consumer market research data collection in the region for over 20 years. Our online panels have been developed throughout 12 major Asian countries and regions including the US, all of which are managed by dedicated local support teams and meet the highest standard of the industry. The team at Rakuten Insight Global offers 24-hour coverage from 11 worldwide locations, providing exceptional service for our over 500 clients across the globe. Rakuten Insight Global is tasked with leveraging membership assets of Rakuten Group for market research purposes. Having access to such a diverse and unique group of research participants allows Rakuten Insight Global to remain at the forefront of online research in the region. To learn more, please visit: https://insight.rakuten.com/ or follow us on LinkedIn or Twitter or email us with any queries on rig-sales@mail.rakuten.com

    Lucky Draw Sponsors



    About Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

    Samsung inspires the world and shapes the future with transformative ideas and technologies. The company is redefining the worlds of TVs, smartphones, wearable devices, tablets, digital appliances, network systems, and memory, system LSI, foundry and LED solutions. For the latest news, please visit the Samsung Newsroom at http://news.samsung.com.



    Four Seasons Place Hong Kong
    Serviced Suites atop Hong Kong Station.

    Four Seasons Place blends tasteful living with elegant comfort and superb convenience. Located atop Hong Kong Station and direct connect to ifc mall, Four Seasons Place is surrounded by a wide array of top-quality dining and entertainment choices, and just steps away from the major business and commercial district of Hong Kong. Perfect accommodation for your long or short stay.

    Each luxury serviced suite of Four Seasons Place, from studios to three-bedroom suites, is adorned with magnificent Victoria Harbour views. Guests can experience the most luxurious living with a full range of world-class facilities, and the famed Four Seasons intuitive service.



    The HarbourView Place
    Serviced Suites atop Kowloon Station.

    The HarbourView Place combines the convenience of hotel suite living with the comfort of home. All serviced suites, from studios to three-bedroom suites, are thoughtfully designed with mesmerizing views of Victoria Harbour and five-star services and amenities for your long and short stay.

    Located atop the Kowloon MTR/AEL station and next to the International Commerce Centre (ICC), The HarbourView Place enables guests to reach Hong Kong’s dynamic Central district in five minutes, or enjoys an array of fine dining and entertainment options on the doorstep, including the luxury ELEMENTS shopping mall, Hong Kong’s highest indoor observation deck sky100, and the West Kowloon Cultural District.