Unlocking Innovation: Intellectual Property Collateralization

Date & Time Friday, 28 November 2025 9:15-10:15 am (HKT)

Duration 1:00

This panel discusses intellectual property rights financing, with a focus on legal frameworks and international coordination to unlock the potential of intellectual property assets as collateral and drive innovation-led economic growth.

Moderator

Julius Caesar Parreñas

Coordinator, APEC/ABAC Asia-Pacific Financial Forum; and Managing Director, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Speakers

Ivor Istuk

Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice, World Bank Group

Doh-Uk Shin

Director, International Legal Policy Division, Ministry of Justice of the Republic of Korea; (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Thomas Tsang

Deputy Director of Intellectual Property, Government of Hong Kong SAR, China; (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Johnson Kong

Former AIIFL Visiting Fellow and Board Member, International IP Commercialization Council (IIPCC); (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Resources Watch the Recording , Slides available

In this international conference

Welcome Remarks

Hualing Fu, Giuliano Castellano, Jae Sung Lee

International Standards: Status and Prospects

Monica Canafoglia, Ignacio Tirado, Gérardine Goh Escolar

Reform Trends: Challenges and Successes

Monica Canafoglia, Murat Sultanov, Miha Isol, Angelia Chia, Julius Caesar Parreñas, Stellah Kakwezi Olimi, Charles D. Booth

Coordinating Legal, Regulatory, and Policy Responses

Giuliano Castellano, Carmen Chu, JP, David Wong, Hazel Law, Rocky Tung, Tomio Mizutani

The Future of Collateral: Pathway to Digital Secured Lending

Jae Sung Lee, Teresa Rodríguez de las Heras Ballell, Megumi Hara, Woo-Jung Jon, Marek Dubovec

Enforcement and Intangible Assets – Evolving Practice

Queenie Wu, Anna Veneziano, Richard Kohn, Danny Ong

Unlocking Innovation: Intellectual Property Collateralization

Julius Caesar Parreñas, Ivor Istuk, Doh-Uk Shin, Thomas Tsang, Johnson Kong

Current page

Access to Credit, Trade Finance, and Digitalization

William Brydie-Watson, Murat Sultanov, Milot Ahma, Jun Xu

From Farming to Finance: Technology and Law for Agricultural Growth

Marek Dubovec, William Brydie-Watson, Lyu Qi, Kyrylo Mukhomedzyanov, Henry Gabriel

Concluding Roundtable: :Remarks and Lessons Learned

Anna Joubin-Bret, Jae Sung Lee, Ignacio Tirado, Murat Sultanov, Bob Trojan