riki.md— yes, I'm Ricki with a c. The domain has no c because I'm lazy and I use both interchangeably. That's it. That's the whole story.
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Ricki Huang

I find, found & structure— find deals. found companies. structure everything in between. deals globally.
Cross-border by default. ↔

now (fall 2026): building WorkpaperIQ, investing through Taihill, and running a research program on the u.s. equity market's move to 23-hour trading.

tip: this page has tracked changes. hover the dotted lines.

##about关于

Every generation gets one great repricing of the world. Mine got five.— so far. The tape is still running.

I became an investor at 18, in a world that still believed in one market. My first lesson was that nothing holds still.

Then the decade proved it. Tariffs went from 3% to a trade war that rerouted half a trillion dollars of supply chains. A pandemic cut the S&P 34% in 23 trading days — then delivered the fastest recovery in market history. The Fed took rates from 0 to 5.5% in eighteen months, repricing every asset on earth. Two economies that had spent thirty years converging began building parallel systems — separate exchanges, separate chips, separate clouds— and separate term sheets, which is where I come in. Then AI compressed a decade of change into every eighteen months.

I crossed the divide while it widened: ran a Financials book through the 2018 tariff swings and beat the benchmark by 1,500+ bps; graduated into the 2020 crash and kept buying; went deeper into digital assets in 2022, mid crypto-winter— when Bitcoin was down 75% and the seat was cheap. Timing is a personality trait., back when they were a leap of faith at a Big Four. I didn't cross it alone.[3]

What the decade taught me is simple: when the world fragments, the spread lives at the seams. Most people see borders as friction; I built my practice on the conviction that they're where value hides — if you can find the deal, and structure it to survive both sides. Which, in the end, is a judgment call[2] — and a relationship business.[1]

That's what I do. The rest of this page is the evidence.

The sixth repricing is the clock— the one institution I can't hedge, only study.. On December 6, 2026 the U.S. stock market starts trading twenty-three hours a day; clearing already moved to 24×5 in June. I've spent a decade inside the institutions that make markets work — audits, filings, financings, listings — and I now want to measure what happens when one of them changes while everyone watches. That's a computer-science problem as much as a finance one: how do you learn from an event stream whose rules change mid-stream? So I've started measuring it in earnest. The investing doesn't stop — it's where the questions come from.

##holdings在建

Taihill Venture

partner · since 2018

Venture portfolio across fintech and deep tech — XtalPi (晶泰科技, HKEX: 2228), Lightelligence (曦智科技, HKEX: 1879), Databento, Revela. Fund II and III. This is where the questions come from.— and where the answers go back to work.

WorkpaperIQ

founder · equity

AI platform that reviews audit workpapers against PCAOB standards. In production with 7 IPO-stage pilot clients. Designed the product, the finding taxonomy and the evaluation pipeline; built the front-end with Claude. workpaperiq.com ↗

RVC

advisor

AI-native capital-markets platform preparing a Nasdaq listing. Advising on securities compliance and commercialization; supported the close of US$2M in pre-IPO financing.

Riki Huang

founder · 100% · since 1998

Still the only position I have never diluted.

$ career --path  EY(digital-assets) → investments → advisory → own-practice → research → ▍
##research研究

From ATS to NMS: clearing guarantees, quote transparency, and price discovery in the 23/5 U.S. equity market

with Sibo Zhu · started september 2026

The U.S. equity market is becoming continuous, but its infrastructure changes discontinuously: NSCC clearing went 24×5 on June 29, 2026; the consolidated tape and Nasdaq's 21:00–04:00 session change on December 6; other venues follow on their own dates. That sequence lets us separate three mechanisms — clearing guarantees, quote transparency and venue competition — with stacked difference-in-differences and within-clock discontinuity designs, instead of one "after" dummy.

NightShift— the model runs while the market used to sleep. is the computational half: a regime-aware streaming model of order events with explicit session, trade-date and rule-state embeddings, judged on calibration, out-of-regime generalization and measured throughput rather than on trading profits.

status
  • Pre-analysis plan — OSF registration [link when live]
  • First paper — how firms time disclosures when the market never closes (EDGAR-based) · SSRN, Q1 2027
  • Pre-period capture — running daily since september 2026, because it cannot be recovered later
  • The first figure — four institutional timelines on one chart [image when ready]

interests: AI for finance and assurance · market microstructure under near-continuous trading · learning from asynchronous, non-stationary event streams · LLM analysis of corporate disclosures and audit evidence · verifiable AI for compliance workflows.

##appendix — exhibit A履历

Ernst & Young

2020–2026

Manager, Financial Services Office (Boston; Toronto 2021–22). Digital asset research & AI teams; worked on the FTX bankruptcy and liquidation; from 2023 helped develop accounting-related AI applications on EY.ai; internal AI ambassador.

Babson College

2016–2020

B.S. — Finance · Accounting · Entrepreneurship. GPA 3.7, Dean's List every semester. Teaching assistant, mathematics division. Babson College Fund: Financials/REITs sector +43.89% YTD vs benchmark.

Earlier

2016–2018

Deloitte · Grant Thornton · Zhongtai Securities.

##appendix — exhibit B兴趣
progressive-overloadIn the gym and, it turns out, everywhere else. Current bench: better than last quarter. That's the entire philosophy.
music & ktvMusic first, always. I do not share the mic easily — disclosed in advance as a material risk. Occupational hazard: at 18, before college, I spent half a year working at The Voice of China (中国好声音). The standards never left..
film
  • Best of 2026: Project Hail Mary — one scientist, an impossible problem, and the math of not giving up.
  • The Odyssey — watched it this year. The long way home is still the way home.
  • Spider-Man / the MCU — we grew up together. Find who you are; accept who you are.
fictionSci-fi and mysteries, mostly. I read them for the same reason I structure deals — to watch a complicated system reveal itself, one clue at a time.
ai-nativeI build with AI daily — agents for diligence, models for valuation, workflows that replace headcount. My analyst team doesn't sleep, doesn't quit, and bills zero.This entire site was co-built with AI. The judgment, the jokes, and the redlines are mine.
global-citizenRaised in an island fishing village. Been collecting horizons ever since — HKG · SZX · JFK · BOS · HNL · LIS · BCN · SIN · YQB · LAS— still counting. The passport is the most-stamped document I own, and I sign term sheets for a living..
brains & machinesFascinated by BCI — non-invasive stimulation in the short run, cyber-immortality in the long run. If consciousness is information, then backup strategy is not optional. I'm an auditor about these things.. Also studying how minds read minds — useful in life, lethal in negotiation.
spaceThe ambition is simple: to go to space— ideally as functional payload, but honestly, orbital debris also accepted. I'm not picky about the terms on this one deal.. Until then: Project Hail Mary, on repeat.
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###contact联系

If your deal crosses a border, we should talk.
If your data has a clock in it, we should talk too.