FinTech, as an emerging field characterized by the deep integration of big data, artificial intelligence, and financial services, serves as a core engine for driving the digital economic transformation and enhancing the competitiveness of the financial industry. It is also a key leverage point for Macau to promote appropriate economic diversification and build a modern financial system. The National “15th Five-Year Plan” period marks a critical stage for the comprehensive deepening of the digital economy and the deep integration of artificial intelligence with the real economy, placing higher demands on the high-quality development of the FinTech industry and the cultivation of high-level talent.

To response to the summon of the national and the Macau SAR Government, and in alignment with the demand trends for FinTech talent in modern society, the School of Business (MSB) at Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST) has officially completed and inaugurated the FinTech Training Lab, generously funded by the Education and Youth Development Bureau of the Macau SAR Government and the MUST Foundation. Equipped with high-performance computing infrastructure and professional-grade platforms for teaching and research, the lab encompasses an intelligent quantitative investment practice platform and a FinTech artificial intelligence research platform. It stands as the first comprehensive FinTech practical laboratory among higher education institutions in Macau to integrate practical teaching, scientific research innovation, and industry collaboration.

Intelligent Quantitative Investment Live Platform builds an end-to-end quantitative finance training system. The platform features an embedded code editor, a teaching and training platform, a teaching resource library, and a simulated quantitative trading system. It is open to multiple majors such as finance, business analytics, and supply chain management. It establishes a complete training pipeline spanning financial theory, strategy development, backtesting validation, simulated execution, and risk control.

FinTech Artificial Intelligence Research Platform is equipped with an industry-leading computing cluster, offering powerful capabilities for big data processing and deep learning. Supported by an AI workshop along with an intelligent computing power service and management system, it flexibly underpins the coordinated execution of practical teaching, academic research, and industry collaboration projects. The platform Empowering cutting-edge FinTech innovation and research

The completion of the FinTech Training Lab marks another significant step forward by MUST MSB in cultivating digital-intelligent business talents and promoting scientific research innovation, following the establishment of the Training Lab in Big Data, Training Lab in Blockchain, and RPA Financial Robotics Training Room. The operation of the two training platforms will further optimize MSB’s curriculum, strengthen the talent cultivation system of “theory-led, practice-empowered, and research-driven”, enhance MUST’s academic influence and industry service capabilities in the FinTech field, provide Macau with high-level, multi-skilled fintech talents, promote the moderate diversification of Macau’s economy, and support Macau to better integrate into the overall national development strategy.