Navigating the Shift - From Traditional Finance to Digital Assets
(CODE: 261027-CAX)
Date: 27 October 2025 (Monday)
Time: 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM (reception starts at 6:00 PM)
Venue: CFA Society Hong Kong, 14/F, Bank of Dongguan Tower, 136 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong
Language: English
Enrollment Fee: Free of charge (CFA Society Hong Kong members only)
Target Audience: Finance professionals, career switchers, and those interested in digital asset opportunities
Join us for an engaging and insightful panel discussion featuring a distinguished group of industry leaders who have successfully transitioned from traditional finance to the dynamic and rapidly evolving digital asset and blockchain technology sector. This member-exclusive event is designed to inspire and equip professionals with the knowledge and tools needed to navigate a career pivot into the world of digital finance.
Our accomplished panelists, each with a unique journey, will share their personal experiences, shedding light on the motivations that drove their transition, the challenges they faced, and the critical skill sets that enabled their success. From adapting to new technologies to overcoming regulatory and market uncertainties, they’ll provide candid insights into the realities of moving from established financial systems to the innovative blockchain ecosystem.
Key discussion points include:
- Motivations for Transition: What inspired these leaders to leave traditional finance and embrace digital assets?
- Challenges Encountered: Navigating the complexities of a nascent industry, including technological, regulatory, and cultural hurdles.
- Essential Skill Sets: The technical, analytical, and soft skills needed to thrive in the digital asset space, from blockchain fundamentals to strategic thinking.
- Opportunities in Digital Assets: Emerging roles, market trends, and growth areas within the blockchain and cryptocurrency sectors.
- Future of Finance: How the convergence of traditional finance and digital assets is reshaping the industry, and what it means for career trajectories.
This event is a must-attend for anyone looking to understand the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets and how to position themselves for success in this transformative industry. Join us to explore the future of finance and chart your path forward!
About the Speakers
Bo Hong Deng
Founder
SuperFi Labs
Bo Hong Deng is the Founder of SuperFi Labs, a pioneering DeFi infrastructure provider with a goal to bridge the world of Web 2.0 with Web 3.0 and provide the best products and experiences to onboard the next million users. Before his venture, he has held senior roles such as Head of FX and Treasury, Managing Director of Product, and Executive Director for FX Options Trading and Macro Structuring.
Bo’s work focuses on building institutional-grade crypto market infrastructure and supporting the adoption of digital assets with deep macro and structuring expertise. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Honours Mathematical Finance with a Computer Science Minor from the University of Waterloo.
Augustine Fan
Partner & CFO
SignalPlus
Augustine Fan is a Partner & CFO at SignalPlus, a digital asset technology firm developing institutional-grade option trading infrastructure for the industry’s largest exchanges and trading partners. Prior to his entrepreneurship journey, he spent over 10 years as a macro rates trader at GS across the firm’s London, NY, Tokyo, and HK offices, before spending the next decade over at the buyside as a family office CIO.
Augustine brings a rare mix of Wall Street expertise and entrepreneurial insight across the capital markets universe, and remains an avid student of macro markets even in his current role. His vast and diverse experience has allowed to gain a unique appreciation of the entire investment lifecycle, while keeping an open-mind on frontier developments as they happen.
Augustine is a Leslie Wong Fellows and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia with First Class Honours, and is a CFA Charterholder.
Jing Xiong Hwang
Chief Business Officer
Solv Finance
Jing Xiong Hwang is theChief Business Officer at Solv Finance, a leading DeFi platform managing over $2 billion in assets. His background features leadership in derivatives and structured products at Goldman Sachs before his foray into digital finance. His guidance at Solv Finance centers on innovative DeFi architectures and bridging institutional capital to blockchain, positioning the protocol at the forefront of next-generation financial services in crypto.
Jackson Wong
Customer Success Manager
WeBank
Jackson Wong is currently the Customer Success Manager at WeBank, a digital bank launched in 2014 in China that manages over 1.448 billion of daily financial transactions. Before that, he was responsible for managing process and technical consultancy at eCOM Asia, a tailor-fit supply chain solutions provider, and was previously a Process Analyst at Deutsche Bank.
Jackson is a Fintech executive with deep expertise in structured products, derivatives, and capital markets technology, shaped through roles at leading international banks as well as digital asset ventures. He holds an MBA degree from The University of Manchester and a Bachelor of Science, Computer Networks from the Middlesex University.
Eliza Wang, CFA (Moderator)
Vice President, Group Finance and Corporate Development
First Pacific
Eliza Wang, CFA, is Vice President, Group Finance and Corporate Development at First Pacific. She brings strategic finance leadership and cross-border M&A experience across Asia’s telecommunications, consumer, and infrastructure sectors. At First Pacific, she heads key financial and corporate development initiatives, leveraging a career characterized by rigorous analysis, operational efficiency, and collaborative transformation.
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