Esperanza Partners with One Cool Stage to Open New Financing Frontiers for Hong Kong’s Cultural Assets

As a Hong Kong-based fintech and real-world asset (RWA) tokenization platform serving the Asia-Pacific market, Esperanza is committed to operating within a regulated framework to connect quality assets, professional investors, content owners, project operators, and fan communities — building more transparent, participative, and scalable financial infrastructure for cultural and entertainment projects

Mr. Ronald Leung, Group Chief Executive Officer and Chief Legal Officer of Esperanza, said:

"The Big Big Day project is more than a single theatre collaboration — it represents another important milestone in Esperanza’s work to bring tokenized capital solutions to Hong Kong’s cultural and entertainment assets. Hong Kong has long stood at the intersection of Asian culture, creativity, and capital. We see this city as the ideal starting point for combining high-quality local content with next-generation fintech infrastructure, and for forging deeper value linkages among content owners, project parties, fan communities, and professional investors. As part of this project, Esperanza will also take the lead in launching tokenized experience applications in Hong Kong, enabling supporters to participate in ticket redemption, exclusive merchandise offerings, and cultural entertainment experiences through relevant tokenized arrangements. This will further extend the interaction between stage productions and audiences beyond the performance itself. Through compliant tokenization solutions, Esperanza will continue to support more projects of cultural significance and market potential in establishing financing connections that are more flexible, more transparent, and more participatory."

Ms. Ella Wong, Chief Financial Officer of One Cool Group, said:

"We are delighted to begin this collaboration with Esperanza. In today’s diversified entertainment ecosystem, innovation in financial structuring is critical to advancing the creative industries. Through this partnership, we look forward to leveraging professional fintech infrastructure and solutions to open up more flexible commercial possibilities for Hong Kong’s cultural and entertainment assets."

This collaboration also reflects Esperanza’s continued strategic build-out in entertainment and cultural assets. The Company is actively sourcing additional projects with tokenization potential and commercial scalability — across film, live entertainment, theatre IP, licensing businesses, AI-driven immersive entertainment, multimedia applications, experiential venues, and other categories underpinned by realasset foundations and commercial cash flow potential.

As Asia-Pacific’s content industries, fan-engagement models, AI technologies, and immersive entertainment ecosystems continue to evolve rapidly, Esperanza expects growing market demand for mature, compliant financial platforms capable of helping high-quality cultural and entertainment projects expand their access to capital, community engagement, and commercialization capabilities. The Company is currently evaluating and progressing multiple related opportunities, with a potential project pipeline expected to exceed HK$2 billion in scale across entertainment and culture, IP licensing, real estate, multimedia, AI immersive entertainment, and other real-world asset applications.

Esperanza emphasizes that the Company will continue to anchor its work in compliance, transparency, and sustainability — guiding cultural and entertainment assets from traditional project financing and single-consumption models toward more institutionalized, digitalized, and participatory new financing markets, and creating new growth opportunities for Hong Kong and the wider Asia-Pacific creative industries.

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About Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited

Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited ("Esperanza") is a licensed corporation under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong), permitted to carry on Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities. On 13 February 2026, Esperanza received a “no further comment” letter from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission in respect of its proposal to tokenize managed funds — formally permitting Esperanza to conduct tokenized investment business.

About One Cool Stage

One Cool Stage Limited ("One Cool Stage") is a subsidiary of One Cool Group Limited, engaged in the development of cultural, entertainment, and theatre projects in Hong Kong. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Hong Kong, One Cool Group Limited is a diversified enterprise dedicated to the development of the film and entertainment industry. Guided by the philosophy of “Visionary in Creativity, Strive for Diversity,” the Group has built a multi-faceted business portfolio spanning the entire entertainment industry value chain, with stable partnerships and operational footprints across major Asian markets. For more information, please visit www.onecool.com (opens in a new tab)

About Esperanza Fintech Group

Esperanza Fintech Group is a fintech group headquartered in Hong Kong. The group’s licensed businesses include (i) Gold trading and tokenized gold services operated by Esperanza Fintech (Commodities) Limited, a DPMS (dealers in precious metals and stones) Category A Registrant (No. A-B-25-03-08913) with the Hong Kong Customs with permitted businesses including the issuance, redemption and trading of gold backed instruments on www.espetopia.com (opens in a new tab) ; (ii) Client asset custodian service operated by Esperanza Fintech (Nominees) Limited, a licensed Trust or Company Service Provider in Hong Kong (Licence No. TC010260), regulated by the Hong Kong Companies Registry; (iii) espetopia trading platform operated by Espetopia Limited; and (iv) Tokenized investment services operated by affiliate company Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited, an SFC-regulated asset manager with permission to carry out tokenized investment businesses.