Hong Kong Expands Crypto Market With Derivative Trading For Investors
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will soon introduce virtual asset derivatives trading for profess... Read more
HK Police And Regional Partners Arrest Over 1,800 In Cross-Border Scam Crackdown
In a major cross-border crackdown, Hong Kong police and law enforcement agencies from six countries and regions arreste... Read more
Tiger Brokers To Double Hong Kong Team As It Targets Offshore Chinese Wealth
Online brokerage Tiger Brokers intends to increase its Hong Kong headcount by two times to capture more offshore Chines... Read more
Behind The Unicorn: The Startup Struggles You Dont See Ft. Tessa Wijaya, Xendit
In this episode of Fintech Fireside Asia, I sit down with Tessa Wijaya, Co-founder and COO of Xendit, one of Southeast ... Read more
SFC Updates Guidance To Non-Face-to-Face Account Opening
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has updated its guidance on acceptable non-face-to-face (NFTF) account open... Read more
NTTs Mobile Arm Set To Acquire SBI Sumishin Net Bank In US$5.1 Billion Deal
NTT Docomo, the mobile arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT), has announced plans to acquire online bank SBI Sumi... Read more
Visa Click To Pay Goes Live In Hong Kong Via ZA Bank
Visa, a digital payments provider, has announced a partnership with ZA Bank to roll out Click to Pay in Hong Kong today... Read more
Ronald Iu, Ex-ZA Bank Chief, Takes Over As PAObank CEO
PAObank today announced the appointment of Ronald lu as its new Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, effecti... Read more
HKMA Partners With HKUST To Boost Hong Kongs Cybersecurity
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on 29 May 2025 with the HKUST Busin... Read more
Brad Jones Departs PayMe By HSBC, Takes Advisory Role At Peppermint Innovation
Brad Jones has stepped down as CEO of PayMe by HSBC, effective 23 May 2025, after two years in leading one of Hong Kong... Read more
Alibaba Cloud Expands Network To Help Chinese Firms Go Global
Alibaba Cloud, part of the Chinese technology company Alibaba Group, plans to rapidly establish a global cloud computin... Read more
Citi Launches Citi AI In Hong Kong To Boost Employee Efficiency
Citigroup announced on 22 May 2025 that it has launched Citi AI, a suite of tools for its employees in Hong Kong, accor... Read more
HSBC Partners With Ant International On Real-Time Tokenised Treasury Payments
Ant International has launched a tokenised deposit solution in collaboration with HSBC. This move enables real-time HKD... Read more
HKMA And Land Registry Team Up To Boost Data Sharing With CDI-CDEG Linkage
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) announced on 22 May 2025 that its Commercial Data Interchange (CDI) is now conn... Read more
Hong Kong Stablecoins Bill Officially Passed, Set To Come Into Effect Later This Year
The Hong Kong government welcomed the Legislative Council’s passing of the Stablecoins Bill today, 21 May 2025. The b... Read more