Hong Kong · Mainland China · International
A working curriculum on AI and digital assets for lawyers, consultants, and compliance professionals — anchored in the two regimes moving fastest, Hong Kong and mainland China, and taught alongside the EU and US frameworks every cross-border matter is measured against. Three tracks run in parallel, not as comparative footnotes. Written for the practitioners who will be advising on this for the next thirty years. Certificate issued for every module you complete.
Free for the founding cohort · ~28 hours · 11 modules + defended capstone · certificate per module
Built for professionals who advise clients — not engineers. If AI and digital-asset questions are starting to reach your desk, this program was written for you. Most of our founding cohort are three to twelve years into practice, advising on matters that touch Hong Kong or mainland China.
You need to read a smart contract, mark up an AI clause, and advise on tokenised assets — without writing code.
Clients are asking for AI adoption roadmaps and tokenisation business cases across the HK–mainland border. You need frameworks you can bill against.
Stablecoin, e-CNY and AI-governance rules now touch your controls. You need one map covering HK, the mainland, and the international frameworks you report against.
The partners above you are learning this at the same time you are. That is a rare opening — and the fastest way to be the person in the room who can actually answer the question.
Not for you if: you want to code smart contracts or train models — this is a practice curriculum for advisors, not a developer bootcamp.
We benchmarked twenty leading programs across three continents. None runs Hong Kong, mainland China and the international frameworks as a parallel three-track analysis — and none covers what your firm actually has to do, this quarter, about AI use, stablecoins, e-CNY, or tokenised RWA. Select a track:
The curriculum's anchor. HK is building a licensed digital-asset hub in real time, and its framework is becoming the reference point for the region.
Licensing regime for fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers. Client questions started arriving the week it passed.
Extends the licensing perimeter to dealing and custody. Every custody arrangement you advise on will be touched.
HKMA's tokenisation sandbox widening: tokenised deposits and RWA settlement moving toward production.
The mainland's crypto perimeter and AI filing regime shift quarter by quarter — and any client with China exposure sits on both sides of it. Primary sources are cited in 简体中文.
PBoC's cross-border digital-currency infrastructure — directly relevant to HK settlement work.
Filing and labelling obligations for generative AI services — with extraterritorial reach questions your clients will ask about.
A comprehensive statute in the legislative pipeline. Position papers now shape compliance positions later.
The EU and US set the frameworks every Asian regime is benchmarked against — and cross-border clients expect their advisors to handle all three tracks in the same piece of advice.
Phased applicability through 2026 — prohibited practices, GPAI obligations, high-risk system requirements.
The EU's markets-in-crypto-assets regime — the reference framework international counterparties cite first.
US federal stablecoin legislation — reshaping the dollar-stablecoin landscape every issuer competes in.
About 28 instructional hours, mapped to PLI's AI Competency Framework (May 2026) — the first published professional-services AI standard. Complete a module, earn its certificate. Select any module to expand it.
Why AI and blockchain matter for HK cross-border practice — the market forces, the client demand, and the competency gap this curriculum closes.
How AI and large language models actually work — enough depth to evaluate claims, not to write code. Covers both US and Chinese frontier models.
Practical workflows for professional work: the 10-prompt starter library, privacy hygiene, and where AI output can and cannot be relied on.
The most under-served topic in professional education: confidentiality, PIPL and GDPR, the EU AI Act, and engagement letters. Ships with an adoption-ready AI Use Policy template.
Public chains, wallets, smart contracts, and DeFi — with a 40-term bilingual glossary so you can read a term sheet in English or Chinese.
The HK regime in depth: the Stablecoins Ordinance, e-CNY, and tokenised real-world assets — the matters already arriving at firms.
The curriculum's spine: Hong Kong, mainland China, and the international frameworks analysed as parallel tracks — the three-track method you'll use on every matter afterward.
Contracting, e-discovery, IP, crypto litigation, and professional responsibility — where the technology meets the practice of law.
Research workflows, client deliverables, blockchain use-case evaluation, and building tokenisation business cases.
Where AI and blockchain converge: autonomous agents, decentralised identity, and RWA operations — the matters of 2027, previewed now.
An integrated advisory deliverable: a 3–5 page memo plus a 5-slide deck, defended under cross-examination in an 8+5 minute session. Graded against a published rubric. Passing the capstone earns the full program certificate.
Each module you complete earns a dated certificate of completion, shareable on LinkedIn. Finish all eleven modules and defend the capstone to receive the full program certificate. Accreditation with professional bodies (CPD/CLE) is in progress — certificates state hours and syllabus so your firm can assess them today.
Not recycled ethics slides. Tangible artefacts your firm can use this quarter.
Lecture-quality decks and substantive handbooks, in PDF and editable formats.
One per module completed, plus the full program certificate after the capstone.
Dated, citation-backed market intelligence across all three tracks.
Learn it once, apply it to any cross-border matter for the rest of your career.
The public videos and social posts stay free forever. These are the membership tiers the program launches at — and right now every one of them is open at no cost to the founding cohort.
Straight answers, the way you'd want them from opposing counsel.
Yes — one for every completion. Each module you finish earns a dated certificate of completion stating the hours and syllabus covered, shareable on LinkedIn. Completing all eleven modules and defending the capstone earns the full program certificate.
Not yet — accreditation with professional bodies in several jurisdictions is in progress. In the meantime, the curriculum is built to the published PLI AI Competency Framework — the first structured professional-services standard for AI — and certificates state hours and syllabus, so many firms can already recognise them internally.
Lawyers, consultants, and compliance, risk and finance professionals whose matters touch Hong Kong or mainland China — whether you sit in Asia or advise into it from London, New York or Singapore — plus graduate students and early-career professionals building the skill set. No coding required: the goal is to read a smart contract, evaluate an AI vendor, and advise on tokenised-asset matters with confidence.
We benchmarked twenty leading programs in the US, mainland China and Hong Kong. Most teach one jurisdiction and footnote the rest. None runs Hong Kong, the mainland and the international frameworks as three parallel tracks on the same fact pattern — which is exactly the situation every cross-border matter actually presents. None covers AI governance for your own firm, the most under-served topic in the market. And none ships artefacts you can adopt the week you download them.
Really free, and there's no card involved — nothing to cancel later. The catch, such as it is: we're building the first cohort and we want your feedback on the materials, and we'd like to feature a short testimonial from members who found it useful (entirely optional, and only with your written approval). Paid subscriptions open later; founding members keep free access to everything released during the founding period.
The founding cohort is open for a limited time and a limited number of places. Once we close it and switch on paid subscriptions, new members pay the listed rates — but anyone who enrolled during the founding period keeps what they were given, permanently.
Quickly. The weekly brief covers material regulatory developments within seven days. The modules are reviewed on set cadences — digital assets quarterly, AI six-monthly, cross-border on every material change. Full Access subscribers receive every update; Lifetime members get one year of updates included, then can renew the weekly brief separately.
English primary, with Simplified Chinese primary-source citations where the source is Chinese (CAC, PBoC, MIIT, SPC). A 40-term bilingual glossary is included, and some workshop materials offer fuller bilingual versions on request.
Many firms reimburse professional education per practitioner — we're happy to provide an invoice in your firm's name. For firm-wide subscriptions (5+ professionals), we offer a separate arrangement; email us.
The founding cohort is free — full curriculum, certificates included, no card required.
Join free — founding cohortRegulation moves every week. Pick wherever you already read — the brief goes out on all of them.