The November event, held jointly with the StartmeupHK festival, is expected to attract more than 37,000 attendees and 700 exhibitors
Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025 in November aims to be an all-in-one marketplace for global cutting-edge technologies, with international buyers from areas including the Middle East and Global South coming to the city to shop for opportunities, according to senior InvestHK officials.
Last year’s event was almost like a “study trip” for some delegations, according to King Leung, head of financial services and fintech at the government agency, which is responsible for attracting foreign direct investment to Hong Kong.
“This year, there are some really serious buyers coming over,” he said in an interview. “They are coming prepared. We expect some action in terms of investments and partnerships.”
High-profile speakers slated to appear include Jenny Johnson, president and CEO of Franklin Templeton; Tomasz Stanczak, co-executive director of the Ethereum Foundation and founder of Nethermind; and the CEOs of HSBC Group and Standard Chartered Group, Georges Elhedery and Bill Winters.
“Investors tend to buy a full suite of solutions, and where else could you find it except in Hong Kong ... where you can do the shopping under one roof,” said Alpha Lau Hai-suen, director-general of InvestHK.
The event would bring together investors and technology providers from China, Europe, Gulf Cooperation Council countries including Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, and other global markets to sign business and investment deals, Leung said.
A total of 55 companies from 14 countries including China, Singapore, the US and the UK have been selected from more than 700 applicants to make their pitches to global venture capitalists at the event.
(Left to right) Jayne Chan, head of StartmeupHK at InvestHK, Alpha Lau Hai-suen, director-general of Invest Hong Kong; and King Leung, head of financial services and fintech with InvestHK, pictured on October 15, 2025. Photo: Dickson Lee
“Most of these countries have only heard of the Ant Financials [of the world] ... or Tencent-invested companies, but there are next-tier companies that are really good,” Leung said. “We are trying to create a platform in Hong Kong, so we can showcase these truly world-class capabilities.”
Healthtech was a hot topic that insurers were keen to explore, he added.
This would be the largest business finance technology event in Hong Kong’s history, said Anthony Sar, founder and CEO of Finoverse, the appointed event organiser.
For the first time, the event was expanding its focus beyond traditional finance to insurance and even to artificial intelligence and advanced biotechnology, he added.
Leung said Hong Kong had seen a healthy increase in the total number of fintech organisations, while fintech-focused investors represented “one of the fastest growing segments within the fintech ecosystem”.
Last year, 60 fintech start-ups in Hong Kong raised about US$2.4 billion in funding, said Jayne Chan, head of StartmeupHK, an InvestHK initiative focused on attracting overseas start-ups to set up in Hong Kong.
“We expect to see something even exceeding that this year,” she said, adding that there was investment momentum from venture capital in Hong Kong’s healthtech start-ups.
“We are seeing companies and investors really picking up on pharmaceutical and medical-device companies, especially in family offices,” she said.
Over the past decade, Hong Kong had played host to about 4,700 start-ups in various co-working spaces, accelerators and incubators, according to Chan.
Most came from fintech, information technology and computing, as well as e-commerce, she said, though now health and green technologies were “the most promising fields”.
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