Hong Kong's statutory regulator overseeing securities, futures, and increasingly crypto markets, licensing firms and enforcing market conduct rules.
Pandu Asset Management lists Hong Kong's second spot Solana ETF on October 13 at a 0.6% management fee against ChinaAMC's 0.99%. The estimated ongoing charge is 1.6% against 1.99%, so a holder saves 0.39 points a year.
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Hong Kong brokers' crypto commissions fell 13.5% to HK$99.3 million in the first half of 2026, SFC figures show. Industry net profit rose 21% in the same half, and crypto now makes up about 0.22% of brokers' commission and interest income.
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Hong Kong will table a bill by end-2026 creating four SFC crypto licences, covering dealing, custody, advisory and management, with no grandfathering. For firms holding neither an SFC nor an HKMA licence, the date that decides their business is commencement, and it has not been set.
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Christopher Hui gave Hong Kong lawmakers an offshore-yuan agenda led by PBoC swap talks while the city's two licensed stablecoin issuers lack a trading venue. Both issue Hong Kong-dollar coins, and the licensing bill for virtual-asset trading is promised only for later this year.
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Hong Kong plans four new licensing regimes for crypto dealing, custody, advisory and management in a bill due before the end of 2026. The bill still has to pass the Legislative Council and no start date has been reported, so a 2027 licensing deadline is, for now, each firm's own estimate.
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Hong Kong's SFC and its audit regulator, the AFRC, replaced their 2021 cooperation pact with one that reaches the audits of licensed crypto firms. Any added cost for those platforms runs through their auditors and enforcement referrals, since nothing reported changes the licensing rules.
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Morgan Stanley's Asia sponsors head mistakenly emailed clients an internal list of more than 100 deals the bank was working on or monitoring. The money at risk sits with sellers of block trades on that list, because their placements depend on buyers not expecting the shares.
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The Securities and Futures Commission is drafting a digital-asset licensing regime alongside the upgrade, and the Hong Kong dollar stablecoin already in circulation totalled 522,000 tokens on August 19.
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Kelvin Wong told a Hong Kong governance conference that boards own AI-assisted decisions. Almost nine in ten listed issuers mention AI in their reports and fewer than a fifth describe a framework for governing it.
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The fund and its strategy are unchanged, so what the tokenized share class buys is a second route to buyers, with Citi running the register and an SFC-licensed venue owning the client relationship. Exchange trading is still future tense.
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Hong Kong's regulator named SBCFX and five related identities as unlicensed, which warns the next customer. The deposits from as many as 3,000 liquidated gold accounts went in as USDT, where recovery runs through an issuer's freeze desk.
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A June SFC proposal would widen retail access to a pool McKinsey sizes at about US$100 billion. The binding constraint is reporting, liquidity and the intermediaries who must explain both.
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