Esperanza Joins the HKMA and Cyberport at Hong Kong FinTech Week on Taking Tokenisation from Pilot to Scale
Founder Ronald Leung sets out where real investor demand for tokenised products is forming, from gold to private investments
Hong Kong, 2 November 2026
Ronald Leung, Founder and Group Chief Executive Officer of Esperanza1, spoke today at Hong Kong FinTech Week x StartmeupHK 2026, on a panel moderated by Terry Chan, Fintech Director of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), alongside Rachel Lee of Cyberport. Organised by Invest Hong Kong, the week expects more than 45,000 participants from over 120 economies.
The session, "Accelerating Financial Tokenisation through Collaboration", asked how tokenised products move from individual projects to market infrastructure. It also introduced the tConnect LaunchPad, a new initiative facilitated by Cyberport and the HKMA, where financial institutions, asset owners and technology firms test tokenisation use cases together, through to settlement.
ESPG digital gold2 takes traditional gold instalment club online: clients save in any amount, move ESPG between verified accounts in seconds, and redeem 100,000 ESPG for a 1 kg gold bar. ESPG won Outstanding Tokenized Architecture and Solution at the ET Net FinTech Awards 2025/26. The group's tokenised investment platform has completed five projects for professional investors3.
"Investors don't buy a token. They buy the asset behind it and the rights that come with it," said Ronald Leung. "The products gaining traction are the ones people already understand, like gold, wrapped in a regulated operating model: who holds the asset, who may hold the token, and how it settles. Hong Kong now has the regulators, the infrastructure and a shared testing ground to build that model here, and to export it."
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