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Fintech & Ecommerce

Goldman Sachs Increases Loan Facility to Hong Kong Fintech Firm FundPark

Hong Kong-based fintech startup FundPark, which specializes in providing trade finance to small and medium-sized enterprises, announced that it managed to raise $500 million from Goldman Sachs.

Blockchain & Crypto

Hong Kong Proposes New Regulatory Regime for Stablecoin Issuers

In Hong Kong, local financial authorities have proposed to develop and implement new regulatory rules for issuers of stablecoins, which can be described as a reaction to ongoing changes in the sphere of virtual assets.

Finance & Economics

Economists Worsen Hong Kong’s Growth Outlook

Experts suggest that the growth rate of the Hong Kong economy this year and in 2024 will be less intense than initially expected.

Fintech & Ecommerce

Ant Group Partners PayNet for Cross-Border Digital Payments

Travellers with Ant Group’s Alipay+ partner e-wallets from China, Hong Kong, Philippines, Mongolia, Macau, Japan, South Korea and Thailand can now make QR payments at over 1.8 million PayNet’s DuitNow touchpoints across Malaysia

News

Israel and Hong Kong Finish Retail CBDC Test

Project Sela leveraged the diverse experience of the central banks of Israel and Hong Kong to create a retail central bank digital currency (CBDC)

News

HK Virtual Insurer OneDegree Raises $27 Million in Funding Round

Virtual insurance company OneDegree Hong Kong announced the raising of investment funds, the amount of which amounted to $27 million.

News

Bank of China Investment Arm Issues Tokenised Notes

The new tokenised notes are the first product of its kind not only in China but also the whole Asia Pacific region constituted under Hong Kong and Swiss laws and tokenised on the main Ethereum blockchain

Blockchain & Crypto

Hong Kong Eyes Stablecoin Regulatory Regime by 2024

While the Western world is discussing the regulation of stablecoins, Hong Kong is taking concrete measures to create a regulatory framework for the process of using cryptocurrency, which is tied to traditional financial assets.

Science & Technology

Google, Microsoft and OpenAI Limit AI Tools in Hong Kong

Big Tech of the USA applies the practice of blocking access to chatbots based on artificial intelligence to Hong Kong residents, as reported by the media.

News

HSBC Launches ESG Index

HSBC has launched a global index that uses artificial intelligence to assess the improvement of the company’s ESG indicators and their potential in terms of the possibility of influencing the growth of financial dynamics.

News

UAE and Hong Kong Strengthen Financial Cooperation

The Central Banks of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Hong Kong held a bilateral meeting to enhance collaboration between the two financial services sectors, including cooperation on virtual asset regulations

Finance & Economics

HKMC Pilots Infrastructure Loan-Backed Securities

The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation Limited (HKMC) successfully completed its first issuance of infrastructure loan-backed securities under the pilot scheme on infrastructure financing securitisation

News

HSBC Hong Kong Debuts POS Financing for B2B Sales

The Hong Kong division of the banking giant HSBC has announced the launch of a B2B transaction financing tool.

Finance & Economics

ByteDance Co-Founder Sets Up New Venture Firm in Hong Kong

Co-founder of ByteDance Ltd. Zhang Yiming founded a company specializing in investment activities in Hong Kong.

Blockchain & Crypto

Hong Kong Securities Regulator Starts Accepting License Applications from Crypto Exchanges

Applications for crypto trading platform licenses in Hong Kong will start being accepted on June 1, as soon as existing guidelines are officially updated

News

Jack Ma-Backed Ant Weighs Introduces Investor in HK Bank Unit

The media, citing informed sources, report that Ant Group Co. is currently exploring the possibility of selling a stake in its virtual banking division in Hong Kong.