Legal Aspects for Financial Technology
Financial technology (“FinTech”) refers to the financial-related application of information technology and innovation, which aim at providing more accessible and effective financial services to all. This enhances the usage of financial activities and forms an inseparable part of the business sectors nowadays. Some of these new financial technologies have forced on ways of crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, e-payment, e-commerce and these bring about legal issue, etc. As such, it is crucial for technical or business professionals to keep abreast of the development and practice of FinTech as featured in decided cases.
Through study and review of decided cases, laws and regulations of such financial technologies are explained and illustrated so that proper precautions and plans can be drawn up accordingly.
Course Content:
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Overview of Financial Technology
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E-payment, E-commerce and Contractual Framework
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Cybersecurity, Payments and Securities Settlement
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Government Regulation and Insurance for FinTech
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Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571) and other legislation
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Legal Challenges for Hong Kong’s Fintech Positioning
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Case Studies and Situation Reviews
Speaker:
Should you have any questions, please free feel to contact Ms. Joanne Chan during office hour.
Tel: (852) 2202 9330 / (852) 6050 8153 Email: training@hkqaa.org
Office Hour: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Monday to Friday)
