Yue urges financial leaders to rethink resilience as AI reshapes risk
Eddie Yue, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), calls for scrutiny of financial vulnerabilities in an October 26, 2026 article. His comments precede the November 2-4 Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong.
280 leaders rethink the playbook
The HKMA will host the fifth summit, bringing together approximately 280 global financial leaders, including around 120 group chairpersons and CEOs.
Under the theme “Rethinking the Playbook,” participants will discuss macroeconomic trends, financial markets and technological advances across sectors, asset classes and geographies.
A welcome dinner on November 2 opens the three-day programme, followed by the main summit on November 3. The November 4 “Conversations with Global Investors” forum is co-hosted by the HKMA, the Securities and Futures Commission and the Hong Kong Academy of Finance.
Yue also describes Hong Kong's efforts to expand its offshore renminbi hub, fixed income market, digital assets and payments ecosystem, and gold and commodities business.
AI tests financial resilience
Yue identifies AI as the most enduring source of change, citing investment sustainability, sectoral winners and losers, productivity, labor markets, inflation and interest rates.
Other risks include regional military conflicts, trade and security-driven fragmentation, supply-chain realignment, blockchain technology and growing non-bank intermediation.
He also cites inflation, fiscal debt and cyber risks.
Despite these pressures, markets remain resilient or exuberant, prompting him to question whether vulnerabilities are accumulating beneath the surface.
Resilience is not reassurance
Yue's central distinction is between resilient markets and a resilient financial system.
His questions challenge complacency rather than establish that a tipping point is near.
The summit frames risk management as a continuing requirement, not a capability that buoyant markets can validate.