2024 WeBank Scholarship Summer Camp Recap - A Deep Exploration of UK FinTech!
Guangzhou-Shenzhen Exchange: The 2024 Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Digital Finance Frontier Summer Camp Successfully Concluded
To innovate the cultivation model for FinTech talents, deepen students’ understanding and thinking about FinTech, and strengthen the cooperation between universities and enterprises in the Greater Bay Area in terms of talent cultivation, scientific research, and innovation and entrepreneurship, the 2024 Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Digital Finance Frontier Summer Camp was jointly organized by ...
Assistant Professor Xin Chen of the Shenzhen University WeBank Institute of FinTech Publishes Paper in UTD24 Top Journal Journal of Finance
Recently, Assistant Professor Xin Chen from our institute published a paper titled Attention Spillover in Asset Pricing in the internationally renowned financial journal Journal of Finance. This journal, founded by the American Finance Association, is also one of the 24 academic journals (known as UTD24) selected by the University of Texas at Dallas for evaluating the research capabilities of i...
Research Achievements in 2023
JournalArticles：1.Karen MY Lai*,Mehdi Khedmati, Ferdinand A Gul, Matthew P Mount. Making honest men of them: Institutional investors, financial reporting, and the appointment of female directors to all-male boards[J].Journal of Corporate Finance.2023. 78:1023342.Iliyas Yusoff, Chen Chen,Karen Lai,Vic Naiker, Jun Wang. Foreign exchange exposure and analysts' earnings forecasts[J].Journal of Ban...
Research Achievements in 2022
Journal Articles：1.Ma, RF；He, X；Xiang, X *.Cross‐listing on the Hong Kong Exchange and Chinese firm innovation: New evidence[J].Annals of Operations Research. 2022. 61(2):365-3932.M. Ashfaq, Q. Zhang,A. U. Zafar,M. Malik, A. Waheed.. Understanding Ant Forest continuance: effects of user experience, personal attributes and motivational factors[J].Industrial Management & Data Systems. 2022. 1...
Guided Learning with Industry Mentors
Corporate mentors guide students in research projects.
Learning Through Competition
Enterprise provides cutting-edge courses and hands-on training; students gain professional skills and practical experience; competition winners receive bonuses and internship interview opportunities.
Research-driven Learning
Enterprise provides funding, software/hardware equipment, or platforms to support university in building laboratories, practice bases, and teaching resources, improving the quality of practical education. Enterprise proposes industry-academia-research topics, teachers recruit students to form project teams, fostering talent development and selection. Students gain early exposure to real-world work environments, enabling better "research-driven" learning.
Promoting Learning Through Certification
The simplified certification mechanism for the Level 1 exam of the "Shenzhen-Hong Kong-Macao FinTech Engineer" Specialist Program was piloted at Shenzhen University WeBank Institute of FinTech
Students of SWIFT are exempted from 10 out of the 13 required courses.
Scholarship-Supported Learning
1.Scholarship Summer Camp: Visiting to prestigious domestic and international universities, tours of leading financial institutions and tech companies, broadening global perspectives, deepening understanding of cutting-edge technologies, and enhancing research and practical skills.
2.Scholarships: Encouraging students to apply their knowledge, cultivate innovation, develop a global mindset, and actively contribute to society.
