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Native name | 毅盛金融科技（香港）有限公司[1] |
|---|---|
| Industry | Financial technology |
| Founded | May 9, 2024[1] |
| Founder | Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun[2] |
| Headquarters | Lippo Centre, Admiralty[3], Hong Kong |
| Key people | Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun (Founder and CEO)[2] Tony Chang (Co-founder, Group Deputy CEO and CFO)[4] |
| Website | espefintech |
Esperanza Fintech Group, styled as Esperanza (Chinese: 毅盛金融科技（香港）有限公司), is a Hong Kong-headquartered financial technology group whose licensed subsidiaries conduct gold trading, asset custody and securities-related tokenised-investment business.[5][2] According to the South China Morning Post, the group sells tokens representing fractional shares of an entertainment production's costs and expected profits, recorded on a blockchain.[6]
The group's Hong Kong holding company, Esperanza Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited, was incorporated on 9 May 2024.[1] It was founded by Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun, whom the South China Morning Post has identified as founder and chief executive.[2][7]
Esperanza's licensed subsidiaries hold Securities and Futures Commission Type 4 and Type 9 licences, a Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department registration as a dealer in precious metals and stones, and a trust or company service provider licence.[5] Leung is the group's founder and chief executive, and Tony Chang, whom the South China Morning Post has described as its managing partner, is a co-founder.[4][6]
History
[edit]Esperanza Fintech (Commodities) Limited and Esperanza Fintech (Nominees) Limited were incorporated on 21 February 2025, and a separate, pre-existing company was renamed Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited on 20 August 2025.[8][9]
Hong Kong Stock Exchange GEM-listed Hatcher Group Limited agreed in August 2025 to market Esperanza's gold-backed instrument and security tokens to Hong Kong clients under a one-year partnership, and a Hatcher subsidiary agreed in February 2026 to act as broker, distributor, underwriter and project financial adviser for tokenised investments managed by Esperanza.[10][5]
In a September 2025 profile timed to Hong Kong's annual policy address, the South China Morning Post quoted Leung as saying that, within five months, Esperanza had obtained gold-dealer, trust-service and asset-management licences, and had raised its first funding round, US$2 million from Singaporean investors; the newspaper linked the firm to the government's 2024 policy address, which had pledged to develop Hong Kong into a gold settlement centre, and quoted Leung saying the company's goal was "to connect blockchain to traditional businesses such as entertainment".[11] The following month, the Post reported, citing a person familiar with the matter, that Esperanza was seeking endorsement from mainland Chinese authorities for its tokenised-gold products.[2]
On 13 February 2026, the Securities and Futures Commission stated it had no further comments on the tokenisation of funds managed by Esperanza, permitting the group to conduct securities tokenisation business.[5][12]
Regulation
[edit]Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited is licensed by the Securities and Futures Commission, under Central Entity number BAO325, to carry out Type 4 (advising on securities) and Type 9 (asset management) regulated activities under the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571).[5][13] Hatcher's announcement states that the SFC's permission "does not represent support or encouragement for the public to invest in the relevant Esperanza Tokenised Investments".[5] Finet described the Commission's approach to tokenised funds such as Esperanza's as bringing new products within existing licensing categories, restricted to professional investors, with disclosure of the underlying assets required.[12]
Esperanza Fintech (Commodities) Limited is registered with the Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department as a dealer in precious metals and stones under registration number A-B-25-03-08913,[5] a registration regime introduced by amendment to the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance (Cap. 615) that took effect on 1 April 2023.[14] Esperanza Fintech (Nominees) Limited, which operates custody of client assets, is licensed as a trust or company service provider under licence number TC010260.[5]
Tokenised entertainment investments
[edit]On 24 February 2026, Esperanza announced Ethereum-based investment tokens representing a share of the production costs and profits of Cantopop singer Chris Wong's 40th Anniversary Concert at the Hong Kong Coliseum, held in March 2026.[7][5] A set number of tokens represented 10 percent of the two shows' production costs and could be traded before the concerts, with Esperanza acting as underwriter and token-holders sharing in any profits.[7] The same HKEXnews filing named a Korean boy-band concert scheduled for 11 April 2026 in Kuala Lumpur as a further project, later identified by Hatcher as the K-Sarang Super Concert.[5][15] In March 2026, Hatcher announced it would also subscribe to a tokenised investment in a CNBLUE concert scheduled for 6 June 2026 in Bangkok,[15] which 星島環球網 (STNN) separately named among Esperanza's tokenised-entertainment projects.[16]
On 12 May 2026, Esperanza and stage-production company One Cool Stage Limited announced a tokenised-investment agreement for the play The Big Big Day, produced by Louis Koo Tin-lok and starring Chu Pak-him and Fish Liew Chi-yu, staged at the West Kowloon Cultural District from 20 July to 16 August 2026.[6][17] Leung said the share of production costs represented by tokens for the play had been raised to 15 percent.[6] In interviews published in May 2026, Leung said the company's pipeline of prospective tokenisation projects—spanning entertainment, licensed intellectual property, property and other categories—could exceed HK$2 billion.[17][16]
People
[edit]Ronald Leung, whom Hong Kong news outlets identify by his full legal name, Dan Ronald Leung Wai-tsun, is Esperanza's founder and chief executive.[2] The South China Morning Post[11] and 香港商報[17] both describe him as a lawyer; the Post identifies him as the group's chief executive officer,[7] while 香港商報 describes him as chief executive officer and chief legal officer.[17]
Tony Chang is a co-founder of the group. A University of Hong Kong Faculty of Architecture event page identifies him as "Co-Founder, Group Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Esperanza",[4] while the South China Morning Post has referred to him as the group's "managing partner".[6]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 "List of Newly Incorporated/Registered Companies and Companies which have changed Names, 6–12 May 2024" (PDF). Companies Registry. Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 2024-05-13. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Yau, Cannix (2025-10-30). "Hong Kong's sole tokenised gold trading firm seeks Beijing approval for products". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
Esperanza founder and CEO Dan Ronald Leung.
- ↑ "Partnership enquiries". Esperanza. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
Suite 1909, 19/F, Tower 2 Lippo Centre, 89 Queensway, Admiralty, Hong Kong
- 1 2 3 "Tokenization of Real Estate". Faculty of Architecture. The University of Hong Kong. 2026-01-29. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
Tony Chang is Co-Founder, Group Deputy CEO and Chief Financial Officer of Esperanza.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 "Memorandum of Understanding in Respect of Appointment as Broker, Distributor, Underwriter and Project Financial Advisor in Hong Kong for SFC-Permitted Tokenised Investments Managed by Esperanza" (PDF). HKEXnews. Hatcher Group Limited. 2026-02-25. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
Esperanza Fintech (Hong Kong) Limited is a Hong Kong-headquartered financial technology group and an affiliated company of Esperanza. The licensed businesses of the group include (i) Esperanza Fintech (Commodities) Limited ... (ii) Esperanza Fintech (Nominees) Limited ... and (iii) Esperanza [Securities], an associated company operating tokenised investment business.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Li, Ambrose (2026-05-12). "Would you invest in a play? Hong Kong sets the stage for tokenised funding". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 3 4 Li, Ambrose (2026-02-24). "Hong Kong firm to test tokenised concert stakes ahead of digital gold trading". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- ↑ "List of Newly Incorporated/Registered Companies and Companies which have changed Names, 17–23 February 2025" (PDF). Companies Registry. Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 2025-02-24. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- ↑ "List of Newly Incorporated/Registered/Re-domiciled Companies and Companies which have changed Names, 18–24 August 2025" (PDF). Companies Registry. Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. 2025-08-25. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- ↑ "(1) Strategic Cooperation for Security Token Business; and (2) Memorandum of Understanding in Respect of a Possible Investment in Esperanza" (PDF). HKEXnews. Hatcher Group Limited. 2025-08-18. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 Yau, Cannix (2025-09-12). "One city, two realities: how will Hong Kong's John Lee respond in policy address?". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 商鏈邱寒 (2026-03-05). 深度拆解毅盛模式：香港 RWA 監管的邏輯與文娛資産的合規發行路徑 [Deep dive into the Esperanza model: the logic of Hong Kong RWA regulation and the compliant issuance path for entertainment assets]. Finet (財華社) (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- ↑ "Register of Licensed Persons and Registered Institutions: Esperanza Fintech (Securities) Limited (CE No. BAO325)". Public Register. Securities and Futures Commission. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- ↑ "Supervision of Dealers in Precious Metals and Stones". Hong Kong Customs and Excise Department. Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 "Completion of Trading Tokenised Investments at Esperanza's Secondary Market and Subscription of Two Tokenised Investments Relating to Korean Boyband Concerts" (PDF). HKEXnews. Hatcher Group Limited. 2026-03-13. Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 洪雨欣 (2026-05-13). 追星也能上链？毅盛创办人梁卫晋：落地RWA，从文娱赛道破冰 [Can idol-chasing go on-chain too? Esperanza founder Leung Wai-tsun on breaking into RWA through entertainment]. 星島環球網 (STNN) (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-09-21.
- 1 2 3 4 韓濠昕 (2026-05-12). 毅盛創辦人梁衞晉推動港文娛生態以RWA轉型 [Esperanza founder Leung Wai-tsun drives Hong Kong's cultural and entertainment sector toward RWA transformation]. 香港商報 [Hong Kong Commercial Daily] (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-09-21.
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