ASTRI has had the great pleasure and honour today (13 July) to receive the Financial Secretary Mr John C Tsang.
Warmly welcomed and accompanied by ASTRI’s Board Chairman Mr Wong Ming-yam, Board Directors Prof Philip Chan, Prof Roland Chin and CEO Dr Frank Tong, Mr Tsang toured around ASTRI’s office where he was updated on ASTRI’s advancements in research areas of financial technology, including blockchain, big data analytics and cyber security, as well as real time 3D conversion platform, face recognition technology, behavioural biometric authentication technology, artificial intelligence on Chinese characters recognition and the Cyber Range Lab.
The tour ended with an interactive discussion in which Dr Frank Tong extended heart-felt thanks to Mr Tsang for visiting ASTRI.

(From left) ASTRI’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Frank Tong, Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Senior Executive Director Mr Howard Lee, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology Ms Annie Choi, Financial Secretary Mr John C Tsang, ASTRI’s Board Chairman Mr Wong Ming-yam, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation’s Board Chairman Mrs Fanny Law, ASTRI’s Board Member Prof Philip Chan, and ASTRI’s Board Member Prof Roland Chin.

(From left) ASTRI’s Vice President, Financial Technologies Dr Duncan Wong, ASTRI’s Chief Executive Officer Dr Frank Tong, ASTRI’s Board Member Prof Roland Chin, ASTRI’s Board Member Prof Philip Chan, ASTRI’s Board Chairman Mr Wong Ming-yam, Financial Secretary Mr John C Tsang, Commissioner for Innovation and Technology Ms Annie Choi, Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation’s Board Chairman Mrs Fanny Law, Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s Senior Executive Director Mr Howard Lee, ASTRI’s Chief Financial Officer Ms Cammy Yung, and ASTRI’s Chief Administrative Officer Ms Ivy Leung.
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