Cheng-Yun Tsang 臧正運

Selected & Recent Projects

1. Chief Investigator, Implications of Cryptocurrencies for the Pacific, funded by Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, 2026/05-2027/02, amount awarded AUD $135,125.
2. Primary Chief Investigator, The Medium- and Long-Term Legislative Reform Directions for the Tokenisation of Securities-Based RWAs in Taiwan, with a Comparative Review of the Development Landscape and Major Cases of Non-Securities Tokenised Products in Foreign Jurisdictions, funded by Zhinan Legal Academic Foundation, awarded amount AUD 10,000 (in progress).
3. Primary Chief Investigator, Exploratory Study on the Legal Characterization of RWA Tokenization in Taiwan: Insights from Foreign Regulations and Practices, funded by Zhinan Legal Academic Foundation, 2025, awarded amount AUD 10,000.
4. Primary Chief Investigator, National Foundation for Australia-China Relations, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Australia, Category 1 Competitive Grant (Project: Australia-Taiwan Collaboration in Addressing Legal and Regulatory Challenges in Sustainable Finance), 2025-2027, amount awarded AUD $150,000 (in progress).
5. Primary Chief Investigator, National Chengchi University (Project: FIDO Pilot Program in Corporate Banking), 2025, amount awarded AUD $10,000.
6. Primary Chief Investigator, Industrial Technology Research Institute of Taiwan (Project: Digital Transformation of the Postal Service Industry in Savings and Remittance Services), 2024, amount awarded USD 13,000 (approx. AUD $20,000).
7. Primary Chief Investigator, National Chengchi University (Project: Proof of Concept on Financial AI Cloud Ecosystem), 2024, awarded amount AUD $20,000.
8. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: Constructing A Cross-Border-and-Industry Regulatory Framework for Interactions between Financial Systems and Technological Innovations (4/5)), 2023/02-2024/01 (amount awarded: TWD$ 2,070,261; approx. AUD$ 103,513).
9. Co-Principal Investigator, Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation (Project: Investigation on the Current State and Future Prospect of Taiwan’s Fintech Ecosystem), 2022/06-2023/03 (amount awarded: TWD$ 2,079,898; approx. AUD$ 103,995).
10. Principal Investigator, Anti-Money Laundering Office of Administrative Yuan / Ministry of Justice (Project: The Public-Private Collaboration Policy Research on the Information Sharing Platform of Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism and Counter-Proliferation Financing), 2022/04-2022/11 (amount awarded: TWD$ 696,000; approx. AUD$ 34,800).
11. Principal Investigator, Industry Technology Research Institute (Project: Analyzing Applications in Global Financial Supervisory Technology), 2022/02-2022/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 500,000; approx. AUD$ 25,000).
12. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: Constructing A Cross-Border-and-Industry Regulatory Framework for Interactions between Financial Systems and Technological Innovations (3/5)), 2022/02-2023/01 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,989,000; approx. AUD$ 99,450).
13. Co-Investigator, Taiwan Depository and Clearing Corporation (Project: Multiple Digital Identity Authentication System and Electronic Signature), 2021/09-2022/08 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,480,000; approx. AUD$ 74,000).
14. Principal Investigator, METAEDGE Co. (Project: The Application and Development in RegTech), 2021/07-2022/04 (amount awarded: TWD$ 622,652; approx. AUD$ 31,133).
15. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: Constructing A Cross-Border-and-Industry Regulatory Framework for Interactions between Financial Systems and Technological Innovations (2/5)), 2021/02-2022/01 (amount awarded: TWD$ 2,102,000; approx. AUD$ 105,100).
16. Principal Investigator, Yuanta Financial Holding Co., Ltd (Project: Corporation Governance), 2020/10-2020/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 48,000; approx. AUD$ 2,400).
17. Co-Investigator, Taiwan Insurance Guaranty Fund (Project: Research on the Development of SupTech of Global Insurance Industry and Related Applications in Taiwan), 2020/09-2021/09 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,400,000; approx. AUD$ 70,000).
18. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: The Adaption and Diffusion of Financial Regulations: the Case of Regulatory Sandbox on Fintech (2/2)), 2020/08-2021/07 (amount awarded: TWD$ 767,000; approx. AUD$ 38,350).
19. Co-Investigator, Taishin International Bank Co. Ltd. (Project: Open Banking (Phase 2) and the Auditing Service Provided by Third-Party Service Provider), 2020/06-2021/06 (amount awarded: TWD$ 600,000; approx. AUD$ 30,000).
20. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: Constructing A Cross-Border-and-Industry Regulatory Framework for Interactions between Financial Systems and Technological Innovations (1/5)), 2020/02-2021/01 (amount awarded: TWD$ 2,164,000; approx. AUD$ 108,200).
21. Co-Principal Investigator, Industry Technology Research Institute (Project: Research on The Risk Supervision and Management of Banks in the Fintech Era), 2020/01-2020/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,000,000; approx. AUD$ 50,000).
22. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: The Impacts of the Development and Use of SupTech on Financial Regulation and the Responding Strategies (2/2)), 2020/01-2020/03 (amount awarded: TWD$ 751,000; approx. AUD$ 37,550).
23. Co-Principal Investigator, Far East Tone (Project: Research and Application of Open Banking in the Telecommunications Industry), 2019/12-2020/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 360,000; approx. AUD$ 18,000).
24. Co-Investigator, Taiwan-CA Incorporation (Project: The Use of Mobile ID (MID) and One Time Password (OTP) in ID Identification through Mobile Phone Number), 2019/08-2019/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 800,000; approx. AUD$ 40,000).
25. Co-Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: The Adaption and Diffusion of Financial Regulations: the Case of Regulatory Sandbox on Fintech (1/2)), 2019/08-2020/07 (amount awarded: TWD$ 878,000; approx. AUD$ 43,900).
26. Principal Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: The Impacts of the Development and Use of SupTech on Financial Regulation and the Responding Strategies (1/2)), 2019/01-2019/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 751,000; approx. AUD$ 37,550).
27. Co-Investigator, Financial Information Service Corporation (Project: Research Collaboration Project in Open Banking), 2019/01-2019/03 (amount awarded: TWD$ 600,000; approx. AUD$ 30,000).
28. Co-Investigator, Cathay Life Insurance (Project: Customer-centric Travel Insurance Assessment Project), 2018/09-2018/10 (amount awarded: TWD$ 119,543; approx. AUD$ 5,977).
29. Co-Principal Investigator, Industrial Technology Research Institute (Project: Constructing the Financial Regulatory Sandbox Simulator and SupTech Development Project), 2018/01-2018/12 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,800,000; approx. AUD$ 90,000).
30. Co-Investigator, Ministry of Science and Technology (Project: Global Research & Industry Alliance – GLORIA Fintech and Innovation Project I), 2017/09-2018/08 (amount awarded: TWD$ 17,000,000; approx. AUD$ 850,000).
31. Co-Investigator, Taiwan Insurance Guaranty Fund (Project: Study on the Development Trend of Risk Management and Regulatory Mechanism of Fintech/Insurtech), 2017/06-2018/04 (amount awarded: TWD$ 1,300,000; approx. AUD$ 65,000).
32. Principal Investigator, National Chengchi University Regulations Encouraging Newly-Employed Faculty Members to Apply for the Ministry of Science and Technology Research Grant (Project: The Rise of Fintech and Changes in the Paradigm and Approach of Financial Supervision), 2017/10-2018/08 (amount awarded: TWD$ 100,000; approx. AUD$ 5,000).