Welcome Remarks

The 8th Conference on International Coordination of Secured Transactions Reform - co-organized by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), The University of Hong Kong's Faculty of Law, and the Asian Institute of International Financial Law (AIIFL) - was opened by HKU Law Dean Professor Hualing Fu , UNCITRAL Senior Legal Officer Jae Sung Lee , and AIIFL Director Associate Professor Giuliano Castellano .

Start: 27 November 2025, at 9:30 - 9:45 AM
Venue: 11/F Conference Room, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Speakers

Hualing Fu

Warren Chan Professor in Human Rights and Responsibilities and Dean, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Giuliano Castellano

Director of AIIFL, and Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, The University of Hong Kong

Jae Sung Lee

Former AIIFL Visiting Fellow and Senior Legal Officer, UNCITRAL; (AIIFL Fellowship: 27-28 November 2025)

Resources Watch the Recording , Photos available

In this international conference

Welcome Remarks

Hualing Fu, Giuliano Castellano, Jae Sung Lee

Current page

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

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