Campus Digest

HKBU student declared “most popular” at FinTech event

30 Dec 2016

Boudica Wang (centre) wins the “Most Popular by Audience Award” for her outstanding presentation Boudica Wang (centre) wins the “Most Popular by Audience Award” for her outstanding presentation
Boudica Wang (centre) wins the “Most Popular by Audience Award” for her outstanding presentation

 

The HKBU’s Department of Economics partnered with InvestHK to organise Hong Kong’s first FinTech Week, an event held to encourage start-up companies to explore ways of becoming change-makers and innovators. Boudica Wang, a Year 3 student of the Bachelor of Social Sciences in China Studies (Economics concentration) programme, took part in one of the signature events, called ICE PITCH@FinTech Startups competition, and her outstanding presentation won her the “Most Popular by Audience Award”.

 

Boudica introduced “HeyCoins”, a company that offers innovative coin solutions by turning low-value coins into e-cash, e-coupons and digital gifts to add extra value to them. Such an idea can help lower costs for charities and non-profit companies and serve as a successful example of how to create collective societal goods across Asia.

 

Organised by Incu-Lab, an internship partner of the Department of Economics, the ICE PITCH@FinTech Startups was described as a “100-hour Hackathon + Pitching” event, encouraging the industry-wide exchange of FinTech ideas and promoting the continuous growth of FinTech startups.