CityU team wins Citi Cup Financial Innovation Application Contest

A CityU team predominantly from the College of Business has won the 18th Citi Cup, the first Hong Kong university team to receive this prize. The Financial Innovation Application competition was hosted by Citi Financial Information Services (China) Co., Ltd. in Shanghai in June, attracting a total of 1,333 college students from 222 colleges and universities at home and abroad. Contesting teams focused on key areas such as environment, society and corporate governance and the metaverse, and developed financial technology products with both commercial prospects and social benefits.

After fierce competition, the Epiphany Insights: A One-stop ESG Analysis Platform Designed for Financial Institutions project of the Epiphany team from CityU came out as winner of this year's competition, and also won the Citigroup Challenge - Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance special award. The key members of the CityU team were Richard Feng Zijing (BSc Computational Finance and Financial Technology (CFFT), Year 3) – Team Leader; Julia Liu Meijun (BBA Marketing, Year 4); Anna Shen (BBA Business Analysis & Finance double major, Year 3); Kenny Chen Rongxin, Ada Peng Wanting, Ethan Zhou Tianle, and Henry Sun Shaohang, all BSc CFFT Year 2 students.

Founded in 2005, the Citi Cup is China's first campus public welfare event aimed at cultivating financial technology talents. It has been held for 18 consecutive years and has attracted more than 20,000 students and 2,000 teachers from home and abroad. This year's "Citi Cup" received strong support from Shanghai Caida Science and Technology Park Co., Ltd., and joined hands with Citi China Corporate Banking Department and Citi Innovation Lab to continue to launch the "Citi Challenge" including ESG themes.