概要

The rise of Virtual Assets (VAs) is transforming finance and become mainstream in recent years, making it crucial to understand their opportunities, risks, and technologies.

This course covers the VA market landscape, key use cases, risks, and products. It delves into blockchain fundamentals, smart contracts, and the distinctions between centralised and decentralised finance.

By understanding these elements, participants will be well-prepared to engage effectively with this dynamic and transformative sector.

宗旨

By the end of the Webinar, participants will be able to:

• outline the VA financial market landscape, regulatory approach, ecosystem, and key players, including the types of VAs, associated risks, VA-related products and services, and commonly used market data sources;

• explain how smart contracts work, their risks, applications, and standards; describe blockchain types, features, consensus mechanisms, trust frameworks, and how blockchain ensures secure record storage and transaction verification;

• describe and compare different types of wallets, including hot wallets vs cold wallets and custodian wallets vs non-custodial wallets;

• explain the concept of centralised finance and decentralised finance, and factors to consider when deciding whether to use either approach.

內容

1. Overview of VAs

• VAs, market landscape and ecosystem
• Major categories and use-cases of VAs
• Risks of investing in VAs
• VA-related products and services
• VA storage arrangements
• Traditional finance versus decentralised finance

2. The technologies underlying VAs

• Key properties of blockchain
• Key features of blockchain transactions
• Layers of blockchain networks
• Smart contracts: key risks and standards
• Consensus mechanisms
• Trust frameworks

對象

This course is primarily targeted at practitioners carrying out VA-related activities, asset managers, brokers and traders and sophisticated professional investors who may consider investing in virtual assets. It is also applicable to senior management such as responsible officers, managers-in-charge, directors, CIOs, COOs, CEOs of the financial institutions.

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本課程已被審批為「提升資產財富管理業人才培訓先導計劃」（以下簡稱「資產財富管理業先導計劃」 其下之「專業培訓資助計劃」（以下簡稱「本計劃」）。本計劃旨在提升資產財富管理業在職從業員的專業能力水準及協助金融服務業內其他從業員學習所需的知識和技能，使他們能投身資產財富管理業。合資格之申請人按香港證券及投資學會之要求完成課程後將可獲香港特區政府資助80%學費，上限為HK$15,000。 香港證券及投資學會為資產財富管理業先導計劃之執行機構，有關申請要求之細則及手續，請參閱專為資產財富管理業先導計劃而設之網站(https://www.wamtalent.org.hk/)。