HONG KONG MONETARY AUTHORITY

Crypto / Digital Assets

Tokenised Securities Market Gears Up for Regulatory Evolution

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 26/01/2024

As the tokenised securities market evolves, industry experts are looking forward to refinements in regulatory frameworks to support its growth.

Market Infrastructure

HKMA, PBOC Unveil Policy Measures to Deepen Financial Cooperation

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 25/01/2024

Securities firms are allowed to sell financial products directly via Wealth Connect and the individual investor quota has been tripled.

AML / KYC

BIS Focuses on Tokenisation, CBDCs, Green Finance Projects This Year

By Ranamita Chakraborty | 24/01/2024

BIS is ensuring “technology serves economically meaningful activities” as it advances its CBDC project and initiates a blockchain-based tokenisation project.

AML / KYC

HKMA Proposes to Extend FINEST to Personal Account Data

By Sanday Chongo Kabange | 24/01/2024

The HKMA is seeking to extend FINEST, a bank-to-bank information sharing platform launched in June, to allow sharing of personal account information.

Crypto / Digital Assets

HK’s Stablecoins Regime to Streamline Cross-border Transactions

By Nithya Subramanian | 24/01/2024

Consistent regulatory approach globally and technical standardisations across different blockchains will be key to widespread adoption of stablecoins.

Fintech / Regtech

HKMA to Bolster Bank Supervision With Social Media Monitoring Tool

By Manesh Samtani | 23/01/2024

The planned solution will be able to extract data from social media and websites and use NLP to analyse market sentiment and risks associated with banks.

Securities / Derivatives

Chinese Premier Calls for More “Forceful” Measures to Stabilise Stock Market

By Editors | 23/01/2024

Premier Li Qiang emphasised the need to enhance the quality and investment value of listed companies and persuade more medium and long-term funds to invest in stocks.

AML / KYC

HKMA Calls on Banks to Join SMS Sender Registration Scheme

By Editors | 23/01/2024

28 banks in Hong Kong have already registered, completed testing, and will begin using Sender IDs from 28 January 2024.

ESG / Sustainability

HKMA Study Assesses Climate Risks of APAC Investment Funds

By Editors | 21/01/2024

Paper finds that funds with high climate risk exposure can face larger redemption pressures which can translate into financial stability risks.