MioTech Insights

One Day Without Hong Kong Airport

Hong Kong’s aviation sector is expected to suffer losses of more than US$76.48 million caused by massive flight cancellations due to the recent protests that saw Hong Kong’s airport under siege. MioTech looks into the deep impacts this will have on Hong Kong’s world-renowned aviation hub.

Market Beats Jiang Gu, Senior Software Engineer in Data Infrastructure 2019-08-20

UBS: Sustainable Investing to Become Core Investing Component

In this article, MioTech speaks with Mario Knoepfel, Head Sustainable & Impact Investing Advisory, Investment Platforms and Solutions, Asia Pacific at UBS Wealth Management on the growing trend of sustainable investing in Asia and his belief that it can bring equal to better investment performance over time.

MioTalk Mario Knoepfel 2019-08-12

China’s Equity Investment Market Seeing a Rise in Demand for ESG Data

The availability of increasing digital data and technological advances are providing the investor community with much needed access to non-traditional data about Chinese companies. Chinese fund managers have started exploring using alternative data and data services to manage specific risks or create ESG investment strategies.

Market Beats Tracey Xiang 2019-08-09

Why ESG Matters When it Comes to Investing

In this article, we speak to Juliette Macresy, Head of Vigeo Eiris’ Greater China and South East Asian markets, on the growing trend of sustainable investing in Asia and why "not being sustainable is a direct threat for a given corporation".

MioTalk Juliette Macresy 2019-08-01

Where NLP Derived Intention Determines Outcome

In this article, MioTech speaks with Jeff Caitlin, CEO of Lexalytics, who shares on how their NLP capabilities are being utilized to measure and predict intent and for sentiment analysis in various sector.

Market Beats Jeff Caitlin 2019-07-22

ESG Data and Evaluation Set to Take off in China

The surge of sustainable finance in China has spurred demand for ESG data and analysis services. The lack of ESG data has encouraged the application of AI techniques to expand ESG data sources, automate the evaluation process or improve risk-monitoring capabilities.

Market Beats Tracey Xiang 2019-07-15

Fano Labs: Multilingual ASR and NLP

In this article, we speak to Albert Lam, Chief Scientist and Acting CTO at Fano Labs on their expertise in Multilingual Speech Recognition and NLP technologies and how it’s being employed in the finance sector.

Market Beats Albert Lam 2019-07-11

How will China’s Data Protection Regulations Impact Fintech

China has released a series of regulations and national standards in the use and protection of data that will pose considerable compliance challenges to smaller local fintechs who are increasingly dependent on digital data.

Market Beats Tracey Xiang 2019-06-21

A Whole New Crypto World: Magic Carpet AI

In this article, we speak to George Marangos-Gillks and Daniel Baeriswyl, Co-Founders at Magic Carpet on how AI is being applied to investment strategies in the extremely volatile crypto market.

MioTalk George Marangos-Gillks and Daniel Baeriswyl, Founder & Director of Magic Carpet AI 2019-06-14

Connecting Big Data Providers with Data Intelligence Seekers

In this article, we speak to Erez Katz about his entrepreneurial journey with Lucena Research and how the company's technological edge is bridging the gap between data and actionable insights for the finance industry.

Market Beats Erez Katz, CEO and Co-Founder, Lucena Research 2019-06-03

The U.S. has Eyes on Chinese Surveillance Companies

In this article, we look into the ramifications of an impending ban will have on the supply chains of two of the world’s biggest security surveillance firms from China.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-05-31

Huawei's Shackles on its Supply Chain

In this article, we look into the hard times the Chinese smartphone giant has fallen into, analyze its entire supply chain, to find out if Huawei’s able to hold it together amidst this hellish trade-war.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-05-27

How Can Remote Sensing Data and AI Help Financial Services

In China, AI solutions based on remote sensing data are being tailored for the finance industry on investment research and decision-making.

Market Beats Tracey Xiang 2019-05-22

Chinese NLP 101

In this article, we speak to MioTech's CTO on the fundamentals of Chinese NLP in a financial context, its challenges, its progress and what's in store for this form of artificial intelligence in the near future.

Technology Liu Tao, Co-Founder & CTO, MioTech 2019-05-14

Facebook for Finance

In this article, we speak to Divya Narendra, the co-founder of the then Harvard Connection, the precursor to Facebook, on his venture, SumZero, which incidentally has been dubbed the social network for financial research.

MioTalk Divya Narendra, Co-Founder & CEO, SumZero 2019-05-07

Business Intelligence 101

In this article, we speak to MioTech's Senior Software Engineer on the fundamentals of business intelligence, why it's indispensable for business growth and how it can enable better decision making.

Technology Jiang Gu, Senior Software Engineer in Data Infrastructure 2019-05-01

Machine Learning’s Worst Enemy

In this article, we speak to Alberto Todeschini, Faculty Director of Artificial Intelligence at the University of California, Berkeley to shed light on “Adversarial Machine Learning”. Find out how vulnerable models are to being fooled and what you need to look out for.

MioTalk Alberto Todeschini, Faculty Director, Artificial Intelligence, University of California, Berkeley 2019-04-25

Who Seeks to Gain from Avengers: Endgame?

With the world waiting on the stroke of midnight for blockbuster hit, Avengers: Endgame to drop, MioTech looks into writing a review into the financial impact it would have on the box office, Disney’s stock and other major related players in cinema.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-04-23

Unicorn IPOs: Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow?

In this report, we deep dive into eye-catching publicly tradable securities, unicorns. With greatly anticipated startups like Slack, Airbnb, Pinterest and WeWork stirring rumors of going public in 2019, we investigate if past unicorns can extend pass their success post-IPO.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-04-16

AI Determining Credit Where It's Due

The Rise of Big Data and AI-powered Credit Scoring in China and How it Drives Consumer Credit Growth

MioTalk Tracey Xiang 2019-04-10

It’s a bird... It’s a plane... It’s satellites!

In this report, we speak to Tom Diamond, President and Co-Founder of RS Metrics, on the rise of satellite imagery data, the promise of alpha from geospatial analytics, and the financial possibilities for business and investors with a bird’s eye view.

MioTalk Tom Diamond 2019-04-03

Stop Building Start-up Castles in the Sand

In this article, we speak to Benjamin Quinlan, CEO of Quinlan & Associates on the pros, cons and essentials when it comes to strategy, especially as a startup.

MioTalk Benjamin Quinlan 2019-03-27

How Data is Changing the Real Estate Game

In this article, MioTech speaks with Real Estate Foresight to find out how their startup is making the unpredictable nature of China's property market, predictable with data analysis.

MioTalk Robert Ciemniak 2019-03-21

China to Tax Its Way into Economic Growth

In this report, we look into China’s upcoming VAT reforms and find out which sectors look to gain and which are poised to lose in the country’s bid to boost economic growth.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-03-20

Hey Big Spender: China Leads 2018 Global Equity Financing in FinTech

In this article, we dive into the ninefold increase of investment deals that took place in 2018 in China. With the Mainland accounting for 46% of the total global investments, or US$25.5 billion, which fintech startups clinched these big ticket investments?

MioTalk Tracey Xiang 2019-03-13

The Source of all Knowledge

In this Q&A article, MioTech’s Director of Data Infrastructure and Science, Alex Zhou gives us the low-down on the knowledge graph and why they play a huge role in many intelligent systems today.

Technology Alex Zhou, Director of Infra and Science 2019-03-11

A-Share Market: Just a Rebound or the Real Deal?

In this report, we look into the recent rebound in the A-Share market and compare it with historical A-share rallies to find out if this rebound is just a fling or a longer term trend.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-03-06

The Beauty in the Eyes of Foreign Capital Beholders

In this report, we investigate A-share investment opportunities amid the opening of the Chinese financial market.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-02-26

My Not So Typical Day as a Front-End Engineer

Delighting financial institutions by making the best software he can imagine, Colloque Tsui, MioTech’s senior front-end engineer in charge of stability, performance and visual quality.

Technology Colloque Tsui, Sr. Software Engineer in Front-end 2019-02-24

The Mathematics In English

In this article, we speak to Evan Schnidman, CEO of Prattle about his startup, NLP and the adoption of technology in the finance sector in the U.S.

MioTalk Evan Schnidman, CEO of Prattle 2019-02-21

How FinTech is Transforming China’s Asset Management Market

In China, an overwhelming majority of retail funds are now sold online. Led by tech companies, the technological developments in China’s financial asset management sector have democratized the access to retail investment products and are driving digitalization, automation and intelligent -ization of the incumbents.

MioTalk Tracey Xiang 2019-02-14

The huffs and puffs, that might blow China’s economic pillars in the year of the pig

In this op-ed, we investigate the 3 major blows China’s economy faced in the year of the dog and how the year of the pig is likely to unfold. Download a free report that assess several Chinese economic indicators over the past year to provide insights into potential investment opportunities in 2019.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-02-10

My Not So Typical Day as a Software Engineer

At a FinTech/AI company like MioTech, (especially since Tech is the second half of our company name), having a good software engineer is as good as gold. Almost 80% of our company is made up of engineers.

Technology Yishu Fang, Head of Applications 2019-01-31

Is there money to make if the PBOC loosens monetary policy?

In this report, we utilize AMI’s Event Driven Analysis tool to assess the historical impact of cuts to RRR in relation to the stock market.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2019-01-23

Tech, the Battleground of the Sino-U.S Trade War

Escalating tensions between the world’s two superpowers may seem like it’s about trade, but upon closer look, the race for technological supremacy is what’s at the heart of this war.

MioTalk MioTech Team 2019-01-21

The Rise of China’s Big Data-based Online Small Business Lending Market

China has established a big data-based, highly automated online lending infrastructure for small businesses to get loans based largely on their online business data. Led by data rich tech companies, the online business lending model they’ve built is highly scalable, efficient and cost saving.

MioTalk Tracey Xiang 2019-01-16

How FinTech Won over the Emerging Affluent in China

Not only have Chinese internet platforms become major distributors and marketing channels for traditional retail investment products, the revolutionary internet-only investment products and services they’ve introduced are also highly popular. Their convenient online offerings are especially welcomed by the affluent young Chinese.

MioTalk Tracey Xiang 2019-01-03

MioAdvisor Review on IPO Destination

In this report, we study prominent stock exchanges on listing rules, stock performances and capital raised to help you decide if location matters when investing in IPOs.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-12-26

ML, ML on the wall, will this merger be successful after all?

In this article, MioTech speaks with Dr. Matthias Buehlmaier, Program Director of HKU’s Bachelor of Business Administration (IBGM), on his award-winning research paper on whether the media can predict the success of corporate acquisitions and mergers using machine learning.

MioTalk Dr. Matthias Buehlmaier, Program Director of HKU’s Bachelor of Business Administration (IBGM) 2018-12-18

The Not So Green Grass of China Homes

This report investigates the relationship between Chinese developers and its creditors, in order to provide information to investors as to which banks they should pay extra attention to.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-12-17

MioTalk X Korey Lee: Building a Culture Around Data

In this article, MioTech speaks with Korey Lee, Head of Data at SCMP on the effective ways on building a strong data culture from scratch.

MioTalk Korey Lee, Head of Data, South China Morning Post 2018-12-10

Tech Stock: To Buy or Not to Buy?

This report investigates the factors that drive tech stock prices and if investors look to growth in earnings or sales when evaluating a tech company.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-12-04

Deep Learning: Are we Far From Shallow Now?

In this article, MioTech speaks with Larry Cao, Director of Industry Research at CFA Institute on the problems and the promises of Deep Learning applications in the investment sector.

MioTalk Larry Cao, Director of Industry Research at CFA Institute 2018-12-03

MioTalk X Joanna Bryson: The Dangers of Biased Bots

In this article, MioTech speaks with leading AI specialist, Joanna Bryson on how machines can reflect the biases that humans inherently possess and the detrimental impacts it can have on society.

MioTalk Joanna Bryson, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Bath 2018-11-25

Does a Stronger Green Back Mean Deeper Red for Emerging Markets?

This report looks to investigate the economic health of emerging markets by assessing macroeconomic fundamentals, especially during a time of quantitative tightening in the States.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-11-22

Who Invests Better: A.I or Human

This reports looks to investigate whether artificial intelligence or flesh and blood humans make better investment decisions in a market turmoil.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-11-14

MioTalk X Steven White: The Rise of the Chinese Wolves of FinTech

In this article, MioTech speaks with Professor Steven White at Tsinghua University on the drivers behind Mainland China leapfrogging developed markets to become a global FinTech innovator.

MioTalk Steven White, Associate Professor, School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University 2018-11-11

Time’s Up for Tech Giants to Avoid Higher Taxes

This report scrutinizes current tax structures and expounds on the impacts digital tax reforms will have on the technology sector.

Market Beats MioTech Team 2018-11-06

Financial Time-Series Predictions and AI Models (Part 1): Deep Learning - or not?

In this article, MioTech invites E. Schoeneburg, an AI Pioneer, AI Visionary and Alternative AI Leader to talk about Deep Learning. He tries to give an objective assessment and judgement about the use, advantages/disadvantages of the various AI models.

Technology Eberhard Schoeneburg, AI Pioneer, AI Visionary, Alternative AI Leader 2018-11-04

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