FASL conducts ‘Professional Certificate in Fintech and Blockchain’

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Fintech Association of Sri Lanka (FASL) recently conducted the course ‘Professional Certificate in Fintech and Blockchain’ (based on the Fintech course of The University of Hong Kong) at Hilton Colombo, in collaboration with Germany and the Sri Lanka-based AGSEP Research and Sri Lanka Chapters of the USA based AAPM and GAFM.

DMS Electronics and DMS Software Technologies former Managing Director Lal Chandranath was a special guest.

The course was based on video presentations of a number of professionals including Professor Douglas W. Arner and Brian Tang.

Professor Arner is the Kerry Holdings Professor-in-Law at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and Project Co-ordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme on ‘Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre’. Douglas has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Islamic Financial Services Board and Development Bank of Southern Africa. He led the development of the HKU’s world’s largest Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) ‘Introduction to FinTech’, launched on edX in May 2018, now with approximately 40,000 learners spanning every country in the world, as part of the first online Professional Certificate in FinTech.

Brian Tang is the founder of Asia Capital Markets Institute based in Hong Kong who has been a corporate finance lawyer for nearly 20 years, having worked in New York and California during the dot-com period at Wall Street firm Sullivan & Cromwell as well as at Credit Suisse, where he worked on some of the largest and first-of-its-kind transactions.