BEng FinTech student, XU Xiang won the 2018-2019 General Education Best Essay Award – Silver Awards (2018-19 List of awardees for the Best Essay Award).

About the Student Seminar and the Best Essay Award

The 2018-2019 & 2019-2020 GE Student Seminar celebrates the innovations and critical thinking brought to bear on student essays written for the two General Education Foundation (GEF) courses, In Dialogue with Humanity and In Dialogue with Nature. Twenty essays (2018-19) and twenty-two essays (2019-20) from over 300 keen submissions per year are receiving the Best Essay Award. The student seminar will feature eight of them. These papers comprise argumentative essays as well as original attempts at short story and Platonic dialogue as alternative approaches to integrate classics from various times and to examine their relevance to the contemporary world.

The team “Second” led by Choi Ho Yin Issac (SEEM/4), and 3 students from other majors in CUHK, won the 1^st Runner-up in the Citibank Disruptive Client Experience in the Digital Banking Era organized by HKGCC Business Case Competition with a monetary prize of $20,000.

The team strives to enhance the user journey by revamping Citibank HK mobile app, introducing Calendar Banking, integrating with mobile OS ecosystems, and redefining Relationship Management with the use of data and algorithms. They observed the current pain points for customers in traditional banks are long queue and phone wait times, sluggish online experience, and no consolidated view of all finance positions. They are proud to introduce our solution with three essential aspects, namely instant, lively, and personalized. They capitalize on digital banking technology to penetrate and blend into every second in everyone’s life, driving all individuals in the mass market to our digital transformation journey. Members of the team would like to thank Prof. CHAN Chun Kwong for being such a wonderful mentor.

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Citibank Disruptive Client Experience in the Digital Banking Era

Awarded LinkedIn Post

In memory of Prof LI Duan and to carry on his unswerving pursuit of both research and education, the Department of Systems Engineering and Engineering Management (SEEM) will establish a memorial scholarship fund under Duan’s name. The scholarship will be given to selected candidates in SEEM. We are now soliciting donations and contributions to this scholarship fund.

We are deeply shocked and saddened to learn about the passing of Professor Duan Li, a dear colleague and friend.  Professor Li has made tremendous contributions to our Department as a faculty member and also as past Department Chairman.  He will be sorely missed.  Please accept our sincerest condolences.

The team consisting 1 Year 4 BEng FinTech student, CHIU Long Kwan and 3 students from other majors in CUHK and HKUST, won the first runner up in the Tencent Finance Academy Fintech Competition 2020 with a monetary prize of $50,000.

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The product “Fishing Gaming with Shopping Experience” developed by the team “Impetus” consisting 5 of our Year 1 BEng FinTech students, who are Arthur CHAN, Edwin CHAN, Elroy LO, Felix YEUNG and Bryce ZHONG, won the 2nd Runner-up Award at the Bizkathon@HKUST (https://www.bizkathon.ust.hk/) on November 2-3, 2019 with a monetary prize of $8,000.

The team (“Altitude”) led by Choi Ho Yin Issac (SEEM/3), comprised of Cheung Tsz Yin (IE/5), Wong Sin Yi (CS/3) and other students from HKU and HKUST won the Championship with a monetary prize of $20,000 of openlab x FinTecubator Innovation Challenge organized by the Hang Seng Bank and the CUHK SEEM Department. They proposed and developed a prototype of a receivable management tools, and a Smart Contract mechanism embedded business logic into business terms in the challenge held on Oct 31, 2019. Members of the team would like to thank Prof. CHAN Chun Kwong for being such a wonderful mentor.

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Innovation challenge @ Hang Seng Bank

The HSBC Financial Innovation Case Study was held on Aug 17. The team (“Finnovators”) composed of Choi Ho Yin Issac (SEEM/3), Jacus Liou (Fintech/3), Kong Chan Yat Lawrence (Econ/4) and other students from HKU and HKUST won 1st Runner-up with a monetary prize of $20,000 in the competition. They proposed financial management and knowledge cultivation platform with game mechanics overlaid to assist kids in developing financial knowledge. Their habit development solution makes use of OpenAPI supported by HKMA and banks to tailor-made a debit card for child personal finance needs.

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HSBC Financial Dialogue Series 2019 Financial Innovation Case Study