About ASTRI

Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) was founded by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region in 2000 with the mission of enhancing Hong Kong’s competitiveness through applied research. ASTRI’s core R&D competence in various areas is grouped under four Technology Divisions: Trust and AI Technologies; Communications Technologies; IoT Sensing and AI Technologies and Integrated Circuits and Systems. It is applied across six core areas which are Smart City, Financial Technologies, New Industrialisation and Intelligent Manufacturing, Digital Health, Application Specific Integrated Circuits and Metaverse.

Over the years, ASTRI has nurtured a pool of research, I&T talents and received numerous international awards for its pioneering innovations as well as outstanding business and community contributions. As of 2022/23, ASTRI has transferred more than 1,400 technologies to the industry and has been granted over 1,050 patents in the Mainland, the US, and other countries.

Financial Technologies Portal

Financial Technologies (FinTech) is one of the cornerstones of the sector’s continued growth. Advanced FinTech solutions make financial services faster, more reliable, and more secure. They make it easier for banks, insurers and other financial service providers to cater to the needs of their customers and lets the customers in turn access their accounts and information in a far more intuitive way. We work to deliver innovative technologies with applications in the financing sector – our FinTech teams develop solutions that leverage Blockchain technology, strengthen cybersecurity, make sense of big data, and provide valuable proofs-of-concept that benefit the entire financial industry. As one of Hong Kong’s strongest FinTech R&D groups, we are committed to helping drive the sector’s growth into a new era and help contributing to the development of Hong Kong as an international financial hub.

Financial Technologies (FinTech) is one of the cornerstones of the sector’s continued growth. Advanced FinTech solutions make financial services faster, more reliable, and more secure. They make it easier for banks, insurers and other financial service providers to cater to the needs of their customers and lets the customers in turn access their accounts and information in a far more intuitive way. We work to deliver innovative technologies with applications in the financing sector – our FinTech teams develop solutions that leverage Blockchain technology, strengthen cybersecurity, make sense of big data, and provide valuable proofs-of-concept that benefit the entire financial industry. As one of Hong Kong’s strongest FinTech R&D groups, we are committed to helping drive the sector’s growth into a new era and help contributing to the development of Hong Kong as an international financial hub.

PORTALS

ASTRI R&D in Blockchain

HoneyNet

Trusted Data Exchanges Framework

Artificial Intelligence ESG Analytic System

Financial Document Analysis (FDA) System

Intelligent Document Processing

Next Generation Cold Food Import Safety Management Platform

Smart Engines for Alternative Credit Scoring

Smart Virtual Agent