DAS (Digital Asset Series) Seminars is a series of educational seminars covering 12 different key topics across the digital asset space.

• Date & time: Wednesday, October 5, 2022 · 6:30 – 8:30pm HKT
• Location: Hong Kong City University – EMBA Centre, Seminar Room 222, 14/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong Hong Kong, KOW

About this event

Background of Digital Asset Series (DAS) Seminars

Initiated and sponsored by the TADS Awards, the world’s first international awards for Tokenized Assets & Digitized Securities (TADS) inaugurated in 2020, Digital Asset Series (DAS) is a series of educational seminars delivered by industry leaders and practitioners, legal and consulting professionals, regulators, and academic scholars from the fintech ecosystem in Hong Kong.

The objective of DAS is to educate the general public about the ever-growing landscape of digital assets and facilitate mass adoption by covering twelve (12) key topics across the digital asset space including Investment Strategies, Asset Management, Security Tokens, Web3, Metaverse, NFT, Regulatory, Stablecoin, CBDC, DeFi, Cryptocurrencies, ESG, Impact and Social Good.

From August to November 2022, DAS will be hosting eight (8) free educational seminars spanning a four-month period, including:

1. Aug 30th – Investment Strategies & Asset Management in Digital Assets (completed)
2. Sep 15th – Digitized Securities & Security Token (completed)
3. Sep 29th – ESG, Impact and Social Good(completed)
4. Oct 5th – Regulatory & Compliance Landscape of Digital Asset (this event)
5. Oct 12th – CBDC & Stablecoin (register)
6. Oct 27th – DeFi & Cryptocurrencies (register)
7. Nov 5th – Web 3.0, Metaverse & NFT Opportunities for Youth
8. Nov 24th – Market opportunities in GBA

DAS (Digital Asset Series) 2022 – Session #4 : Regulatory & Compliance Landscape of Digital Asset

Co-hosted by : Asia Pacific Digital Economy Institute, Hong Kong Digital Finance Association

Supporting Organization : City University of Hong Kong – EMBA

In recent years, global regulatory organizations have detailed their desire for robust, and onerous, digital asset regulations, and demonstrated strong commitment to successful enforcement. These assets will be eventually regulated, just as all other financial assets – no more and no less, and sooner rather than later.

The increased global focus on regulations of digital assets effectively began in October 2021 when the 200+ member Financial Action Task Force (“FATF”) released its 109-page Update Guidance for a Risk -Based Approach to Virtual Assets (“VAs”) and Virtual Asset Service Providers (“VASPs”). The 2021 Release made it clear that VAs and VASPs are subject to the full range of obligations under the FATF Recommendations including Anti-Money Laundering (“AML”), Countering the Financing of Terrorism (“CFT”), and Know Your Client (“KYC”) requirements.

It is clear that regulators globally have focused their attention on digital assets, in large part over long-held concerns about protecting consumers from bad actors, perceived abuses in reporting cryptocurrency transactions for tax purposes and conduct of criminal activity and more recently from concerns about potential for circumvention of sanction regimes and ultimately stability of the financial system.

Today, we are very honored to be joined by some of the leading experts in the digital asset space for sharing their insights on regulatory and compliance space.

Agenda

• Language : English
• Cost : Free
• Date : Wed, 5th Oct 2022
• Venue : Seminar Room 222, 14/F, Lau Ming Wai Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, 83 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong
• Time :
  • 6:30 – 6:40 pm – Opening by Event Host – Samson Lee, Chairman of Organization Committee @ DAS & TADS Awards
  • 6:40 – 6:50 pm – Honorary Guest – Hon Duncan Chiu, Functional Constituency, Technology and Innovation @ the Legislative Council of HKSAR
  • 6:50 – 7:10pm – Keynote Speaker – Julianne Doe, Senior Consultant (Ex-Partner), Dentons Hong Kong LLP
  • 7:10 – 7:15 pm – Short Break
  • 7:15 – 8:00 pm – Panel Discussion
    • Moderator – Brian Tang, Founding Executive Director, LITE Lab@HKU
    • Panelists
      • Jenny Chow, Chairperson at RegTech Association of Hong Kong
      • Irene Lee, Head of Private Wealth Management Compliance @ Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited
      • Louie Lee, Co-Founder and Managing Director at Prosynergy Consulting Limited
      • Kenneth Hui, Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • 8:00 – 8:20 pm – Q&A
  • 8:20 – 8:30 pm – Closing Remarks by Venue Host – Prof. Michael C S Wong, EMBA Director at City University of Hong Kong
  • 8:30 – 9:00 pm – Networking

Co-Organizers & Supporting Organizations

DAS is co-organized by seven (7) leading professional organizations in the digital asset ecosystem in Hong Kong, namely (alphabetically) the Asia Pacific Digital Economy Institute (“APDEI”), the Asia Security Token Alliance (“ASTA”), the Hong Kong Blockchain Association (“HKBA”), the Hong Kong Digital Asset Society (“HKDAS”), the Hong Kong Digital Finance Association (“HKDiFi”), the NFT Association of Hong Kong (“NFTAHK”) and the Society of Registered Financial Planners (“HKRFP”).

DAS is also supported by Invest Hong Kong, the HKSTP – Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation, the Hong Kong Cyberport , and five (5) leading universities including the HKUST Crypto-Fintech Lab at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, the CUHK Engineering FinTech Applied Research Academy (CEFAR), the LITE-lab (Law, Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship Lab) of Faculty of Law at The Hong Kong University, the Faculty of Digital Transformation Centre at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and the EMBA Programme at the City University of Hong Kong.

Organized by Coinstreet

Founded in 2017, Coinstreet is an award-winning professional advisory and consulting firm in the Digital Asset sector. Coinstreet Partners also offers innovative fintech services, and business and operation solutions, covering four key business segments including : (1) Primary Market, Asset Tokenization & Initial Offerings, (2) Metaverse Solutions & Non-Fungible Tokens (NFT), (3) DeFi, Prime Brokerage and Private Banking, (4) Asset Management, Tokenized Funds & Digital Asset Custodian.

Coinstreet is a co-organizer of TADS Awards – the world’s first international award for Tokenized Assets and Digitized Securities sector.

Coinstreet was awarded the “Asia Futurist Leadership Award” and the “Security Tokens Realised Awards London 2020”.

For more information, please visit Coinstreet Partners.