Hong Kong FinTech Week 2025 opened with a strong policy focus on AI, tokenisation and cross-border innovation under the joint Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK Festival. Officials from Hong Kong and the People’s Bank of China highlighted next-generation technologies, interoperable payments and digital RMB pilots. The HKMA unveiled its “FinTech 2030” pillars — data, AI, resilience and tokenisation — expanding the DART roadmap, while the SFC released circulars permitting lic