Hong Kong Financial Literacy Championship

‘The Hong Kong Financial Literacy Championship 2026 is organised by Hong Kong Economic Journal Education, co-organised by the Education Bureau and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, supported by Hong Kong Education City, partnered with St. James’ Settlement and sponsored by Visa. The Championship targets to help secondary school students learn about development trends such as innovation, fintech and artificial intelligence (A.I.), to help them establish sound financial values, and to cultivate an entrepreneur spirit and practical skills. As A.I. reshapes industries and workforce needs, finance and economics are no exception. It offers new opportunities and possibilities for Hong Kong’s youth, equipping them to face a rapidly changing future and become the next generation of finance talent.’

This year the Championship comes in two formats, online quiz and Young Financial Talent Runway. Subject to their circumstances, schools can join either the online quiz or Young Financial Talent Runway, or both. To align with the financial education module of the subject of Citizenship, Economics and Society, the online quiz is divided into junior secondary group and senior secondary groups. Infographics on financial management knowledge will be deployed in some questions to enable students learn more effectively and with fun. While the online quiz welcomes students to enrol on individual basis, Young Financial Talent Runway requires schools to nominate students who are interested in developing their career in the financial industry to join this contest in teams.  The contest provides the participants with various opportunities such as visiting international accounting firms or financial institutions, joining mentorship with industry representatives as mentors to share with them the latest development of the financial sector, and benefitting from the one-to-one guidance to the teams on business case analysis.   10 shortlisted school teams will be invited to give analysis for the cases provided by the organizer and present their idea to the panel of judges to compete for various awards at the Grand Pitch.  All secondary school students are encouraged to participate. Please visit the website of Hong Kong Financial Literacy Championship 2026 to learn more.