The FCA wants to improve liquidity risk management and stress testing practices. It is also considering whether authorised funds should be able to hold crypto.
February 23, 2023About 20 depositaries and 300 individuals will require licensing under RA 13, the new regulated activity for depositories of collective investment schemes.
February 6, 2023Individual investors as well as commercial participants like importers, banks, refiners, and jewellery manufacturers can participate.
October 27, 2022BSE has already conducted mock trading sessions for its members in a test environment to enable trading in electronic gold receipts.
October 3, 2022A new regulated activity (RA 13) will be introduced which will subject trustees and custodians of public funds to licensing requirements and ongoing regulatory supervision.
February 23, 2022The SFC is implementing a number of projects that seek to leverage new technologies to enhance risk detection and workflow efficiency.
July 3, 2021Private equity funds will have to undergo regular audits, adopt new valuation guidelines, conduct regular liquidity stress tests, and cap leverage at 400% of assets, among other measures.
April 27, 2020Fund trustees and custodians in Hong Kong are not subject to any licensing regime or ongoing supervision. The SFC proposes to regulate them under a new type of regulated activity, RA 13.
September 30, 2019