{"id":234353,"date":"2026-01-15T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234353\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T09:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T09:20:11","slug":"hong-kong-shenzhen-to-deepen-ties-in-finance-and-ai-to-build-world-class-fintech-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/234353\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong, Shenzhen \u2018to deepen\u2019 ties in finance and AI to build world-class fintech hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hong Kong and Shenzhen can work closely to empower <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3338660\/hong-kong-boost-tech-and-financial-services-integration-amid-ai-boom-paul-chan?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">finance with artificial intelligence<\/a>, delegates said on Thursday at the China Conference: Greater Bay Area, an event hosted by the South China Morning Post.Joseph Chan Ho-lim, undersecretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in the Hong Kong government, said <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/hong-kong\/hong-kong-economy\/article\/3337362\/bridge-connecting-hong-kong-shenzhen-parks-hetao-cooperation-zone-launched?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hong Kong and Shenzhen<\/a> were seeking deeper cooperation between finance and technology.Chan said at the event in Qianhai, a bonded zone in Shenzhen, that Hong Kong, as a \u201c<a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/opinion\/hong-kong-opinion\/article\/3338179\/how-hong-kong-can-take-more-frontier-role-chinas-development?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">superconnector<\/a>\u201d and \u201csuper value adder\u201d, could leverage its strength in financial services to support Shenzhen in technology and industrial finance, with the shared ambition of building \u201ca world-class fintech hub\u201d.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Hong Kong was \u201cactively deepening ties in fintech with our main counterparts, particularly Shenzhen\u201d, he added.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI and finance can empower each other, says Xiao Ting, chairman and executive director at the Bank of Communications (Hong Kong). Photo: SCMP\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/de2f6e5e-46db-461e-9d18-03a8c9135b7d_1126e908.jpg\" title=\"AI and finance can empower each other, says Xiao Ting, chairman and executive director at the Bank of Communications (Hong Kong). Photo: SCMP\"\/>AI and finance can empower each other, says Xiao Ting, chairman and executive director at the Bank of Communications (Hong Kong). Photo: SCMP<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cWe are also working closely with Qianhai to advance deeper integration between technology and finance across both cities,\u201d Chan said. To do so, Hong Kong would encourage Shenzhen financial institutions to set up fintech subsidiaries in Hong Kong and support Shenzhen technology firms to leverage Hong Kong\u2019s capital market, he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong and Shenzhen can work closely to empower finance with artificial intelligence, delegates said on Thursday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,138853,363,364,138850,138848,4177,138855,138851,1646,20021,4431,138854,111,139,69,138852,6358,14095,138849,145],"class_list":["post-234353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-ai-plus-strategy","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-asia-pacific-economic-conference","tag-bank-of-communications-hong-kong","tag-beijing","tag-china-conference-greater-bay-area","tag-financial-services-and-the-treasury","tag-fintech","tag-greater-bay-area","tag-hong-kong","tag-joseph-chan-ho-lim","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qianhai","tag-shenzhen","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-tammy-tam","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}