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Over the last few years, I have published on a range of topics, including anti-corruption, environmental regulation, legal innovation, and property law, among other areas. It is intellectually rewarding to see that academics and professionals from Australia, Hong Kong, the U.S., and other regions have cited some of my published pieces in their scholarship and
Last week (November 4-8, 2019) was FinTech Week and the LAWASIA Conference in Hong Kong. I had the pleasure of speaking at the World RegTech Summit, one of the events held as part of the FinTech Week. It was held at the University of Hong Kong. There, I participated in a book launch of The
The 50th Anniversary of the St. Gallen Symposium (“SGS”) will be held in May 2020. I am a big fan of the SGS initiative. I have written about my experience at SGS many years ago (please read it here). It was transformative and I have kept in touch with many fellow participants. Are you enrolled
I hardly go out on weekends these days, but yesterday was different. There was a closing party in Causeway Bay to celebrate the end of the third Entrepreneur First (“EF“) incubation program in Hong Kong, and sadly the last one in the city as reported by TechCrunch. We had guests from Singapore, the U.S., and
I developed my debating skills in secondary school inter-school competitions and similar competitions during my undergraduate and postgraduate studies, including at the Oxford Union (where many famous debates were conducted in the past). These skills have served me well in my legal and business careers, and whenever the Socratic method becomes relevant. Over the last few
As I reported in August in Hong Kong Lawyer, the Law Society of Hong Kong has officially launched its practice innovation program earlier this year, the InnoTech Law Hub (“ILH”). The report notes: As the Law Society’s program for legal practice innovation, the ILH aims to find technology-based solutions relevant to the [Law Society Technology]
The annual RegTech market globally is US$ 120 billion, and it’s more than financial services! The emergent RegTech industry provides plenty of lessons on legal and compliance innovation and positive impact on adjacent markets such as the LegalTech and GovTech markets. Wider industry acceptance is driven by the increasing affordability of advance technologies and better
Today, I spoke on the “Global Development and Resilience” panel at the Future City Summit, which covered the issues of privacy regulation and governance in the contexts of emerging smart cities and the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and logistics and supply chains. The panel was led by Sabine Reppert (Intent-X), and joined by Prof.
A recurring question we face in developing a Hub in the Global Shapers Community (“GSC”) is: how do we recruit the right members? No easy answer. But our Shapers are our key if not sole assets. The right Shapers can lead the Hub to extraordinary success, create enormous value for their fellow Shapers, and indeed organise fantastic
I have published a book chapter entitled “Regtech unleashed: Technological paths in the regulatory landscapes beyond financial services” in the upcoming book “The RegTech Book,” which will be the first globally crowd-sourced book about innovation in the Regulatory Technology Sector. It is part of TheFinTechBook series, which is published by Wiley Finance. Here is the