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Insurance Authority releases provisional statistics of the Hong Kong insurance industry for the first half of 2024

On August 30, 2024, the Insurance Authority (IA) released provisional statistics for Hong Kong’s insurance [...]

HKEX Welcomes Lubna Olayan and Marty Flanagan to International Advisory Council

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has appointed Lubna Olayan and Marty Flanagan to [...]

Revised Banking Returns – Capital Adequacy Ratio (Form MA(BS)3) (“CARReturn”), Leverage Ratio (Form MA(BS)27) (“LR Return”), LiquidityPosition (Form MA(BS)1E) (“Liquidity Position Return”) and StableFunding Position (Form MA(BS)26) (“Stable Funding Position Return”)

The revisions to the CAR Return, LR Return, and their Completion Instructions (CIs) have been [...]

Exchange Fund Abridged Balance Sheet and Currency Board Account

On August 30, 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) reported that the Exchange Fund’s [...]

International Reserves and Foreign Currency Liquidity

On August 30, 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) released data on the Hong [...]

Residential Mortgage Survey Results for July 2024

In July 2024, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority reported a slight increase in mortgage applications [...]

Monetary Statistics for July 2024

In July 2024, total deposits with authorized institutions in Hong Kong rose by 0.6%, with [...]

HKMC’s Social Bonds Allocation Update and Impact Report 2024

The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited (HKMC) has released its Social Bonds Allocation Update and [...]

Circular to Licensed Corporations in relation to list of prescribed persons who have reached the clearing threshold under the clearing and record keeping rules for the OTC derivatives regime

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has posted an updated list of prescribed persons who [...]

RGE Group’s $4.9 Billion ‘Sustainable Finance’ Deals with MUFG Under Scrutiny Amid Ongoing Deforestation

The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has criticized the effectiveness of sustainability-linked loans provided to Indonesia’s [...]