The Hong Kong Fintech Week x StartmeupHK Festival (HKFW x SMUF) 2025 concluded on 7 November 2025, following a dynamic…
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The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued two circulars outlining its expectations for SFC-licensed virtual asset trading platform operators (Platform…
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has approved the first Solana (SOL) spot exchange-traded fund (ETF), making it…
Bybit has announced a partnership with DigiFT to support UBS’s USD Money Market Investment Fund Token (UBS uMINT), the first…
The Securities and Commodities Authority (SCA) of the UAE and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong have…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) will advance Project Ensemble and encourage commercial banks in the city to introduce tokenised…
The Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA), the independent regulator of the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), and the Securities and…
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has reprimanded and imposed a fine of HK$4.2 million on HSBC for breaching disclosure…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) have issued a joint statement in response…
Four years ago, Hong Kong bet big on Fintech 2025, a sweeping plan to turn itself into a fintech powerhouse.…
Hong Kong’s Eddid Financial has announced that its subsidiary, Eddid Securities and Futures, has received approval from the Hong Kong…
Alchemy Pay, a global fiat-crypto payment solutions provider, has made a strategic investment in Hong Kong-based HTF Securities Limited via…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), the Insurance Authority (IA), and the Mandatory Provident…
DigiFT, a Singapore-based digital asset platform focused on institutional-grade tokenised real-world assets (RWAs), has obtained Type 1 and Type 4…
Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) has issued an updated policy statement setting out the Hong Kong…
Hong Kong BGE Limited (BGE) has secured its license to operate as a virtual asset trading platform (VATP) as of…
For years, China has promoted Shanghai and Hong Kong as twin engines for its financial sector: Shanghai as the mainland’s…
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will soon introduce virtual asset derivatives trading for professional investors. The move is…
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its guidance on acceptable non-face-to-face (NFTF) account opening approaches, reflecting the growing…
In a fresh crackdown on crypto-related crime in Hong Kong, the Hong Kong police arrested 12 individuals for running a…