Hong Kong to Introduce Virtual Asset Licensing Bill Within 2026
Hong Kong will table a bill this year to license virtual asset dealers, custodians, advisers and managers, with no grace period for existing firms.
Read article โHong Kong will table a bill this year to license virtual asset dealers, custodians, advisers and managers, with no grace period for existing firms.
Read article โHong Kong has priced around HK$20 billion of digital green bonds in four currencies. The government calls it the largest digital bond issuance in the world, and the first to settle...
Read article โThe HKMA published bank scam alerts on three consecutive days in mid September 2026, listing ten bank entries across six institutions and recording an identical scam type for every...
Read article โHong Kong's interbank clearing operator has flagged two fraudulent websites posing as an official "Buyer Online Protection" service for Faster Payment System transactions. The site...
Read article โHong Kong's SFC has revoked the licence of Ernest Chan Tsz Kin and banned him from the industry for 10 years over the window dressing of Keptain Securities' liquid capital and fals...
Read article โHong Kong's SFC and mainland China's CSRC have unveiled a package to deepen market cooperation, timed to the listing of renminbi China government bond futures in Hong Kong. It span...
Read article โHong Kong's SFC has reprimanded and fined Luk Fook Securities (HK) Limited HK$2.1 million over cybersecurity control failures that left it unable to withstand a September 2022 rans...
Read article โDays after HKDAP became the first regulated Hong Kong dollar stablecoin to reach the market, blockchain security firm BlockSec published a review calling the live contract "not pro...
Read article โThe Hong Kong Monetary Authority has urged Authorized Institutions to scale artificial intelligence across their anti money laundering defences, publishing four bank case studies a...
Read article โStandard Chartered-backed Anchorpointโs HKD At Par (HKDAP) token can now be minted and redeemed through licensed exchanges HashKey and OSL, the first commercial test of Hong Kongโs...
Read article โA coordinated regional law enforcement response across Hong Kong, Macau, and Singapore has unmasked the collapse of the alleged Fun Coffee MLM crypto scheme.
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