{"id":141430,"date":"2025-11-29T02:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141430"},"modified":"2025-11-29T02:00:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-29T02:00:10","slug":"hong-kong-reaps-the-fruits-of-fintech-seeds-sown-nearly-10-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=141430","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong reaps the fruits of fintech seeds sown nearly 10 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Alvin Kwock, co-founder of digital insurer OneDegree, took part in the inaugural Hong Kong FinTech Week in November 2016, it was held at a venue suitable for only a few hundred people.<br \/>\n\u201cAs it was the first ever fintech event in Hong Kong, only fintech start-ups were interested, no big financial institutions paid attention,\u201d Kwock said. \u201cPeople did not have a clear idea of fintech as it was still in an exploratory stage.\u201d<br \/>\nIn the years since, fintech in Hong Kong has gone through a sea&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/banking-finance\/article\/3334469\/work-progress-hong-kong-reaps-fruits-fintech-seeds-sown-nearly-10-years-ago?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostWhen Alvin Kwock, co-founder of digital insurer OneDegree, took part in the inaugural Hong Kong FinTech Week in November 2016, it was held at&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}