Biography

Mr Eddie Rong is the Co-Founder and CEO of HEYCOINS, which is one of the promising FinTech Startups in the Big Bay Area of China. HeyCoins is a company that is educating and leading general public to FinTech World by using physical coins in circulations. Eddie is a young and passionate entrepreneur with formal backgrounds in Finance and Risk Management. He was born in Mainland China and came to Hong Kong for schools 7 years ago. Graduating from Lingnan University, which is the only liberal arts university in Hong Kong, and he is currently the holder of Senior Associate Certified Insurance Professionals under Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance. Before starting the venture of HEYCOINS in Hong Kong, Eddie was working at the Wealth Management Department of FWD Life Insurance, which belongs to the Pacific Century Group, at Hong Kong. He also has multi-sector experiences in various companies across China, Singapore, and the United States: including China Taiping Reinsurance (Hong Kong), Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Beijing and Kunming City), Pan Pacific Hotels Group (Singapore) and Neusoft Corporation (Dalian, China). Eddie has dedicated his life into the Startup Ecosystem in & out of Hong Kong and he has helped to establish the trend of Social Impacts Investment under "The Belt and Road Initiative". He strongly believes that "being an entreprenuer, we have the responsibility to build a better world in a socially good way."

Speech Title and Synopsis

The Gateway to Fintech

Over the past few years, the fin-tech boom in China has become its symbol to the rest of the world, including Hong Kong. While a lot of emerging financial technologies were invented and adopted by the customer in the Mainland. Hong Kong has been struggling to accept this sort of new trend. The reasons are two folded. First, people in Hong Kong tend to believe that they are well equipped with the advanced technology sense but they are running behind the times frankly speaking. This leads to people's ignorance towards some fin-tech scenarios. For example, using mobile payment. Second, Hong Kong is well developed region in which people are change aversion due to the habits they have formed over the years. The existence of Heycoins is to change to the above two situations by using our kiosk to educate people's fin-tech knowledge and offering incentive for people to welcome the emerging technology.