Category Archives: Regulatory Updates

Circular to licensed corporations Revised financial return form

26 Jun 2020 The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) today published the draft of the [...]

Practice Notes supplementing Standards and Practices 5.4 and 7.1 of the Code of Conduct for Licensed Insurance Brokers

June 1 2020 Two separate Practice Notes supplementing certain Standardsand Practices of the Code of [...]

Banking (Capital) Amendment Rules 2020

29 May 2020 Further to our letter of 24 April 2020, I am writing to [...]

Additional measures to alleviate the impact of Covid-19

26 May 2020 Further to the deferral of the Basel III implementation announced by the [...]

Report on Fintech Adoption and Innovation in the Hong Kong Banking Industry

20 May 2020 The Hong Kong Institute for Monetary and Financial Research (HKIMR), the research [...]

Common Assessment Framework on Green and Sustainable Banking

13 May 2020 The HKMA has developed a common framework to assess the “greenness baseline” [...]

Circular to licensed corporations Margin requirements for non-centrally cleared OTC derivative transactions

7 May 2020 Summary: This circular informs licensed corporations (LCs) that the Securities and Futures [...]

Joint Statement in relation to General Meetings in light of the Prevention and Control of Disease (Prohibition on Group Gathering) Regulation

1 Apr 2020 Following the HKSAR Government’s introduction of the Prevention and Control of Disease [...]