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Hong Kong maintains partial stamp duty waiver for ETFs
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in Hong Kong that have less than 40% of net asset value in Hong Kong stocks are to remain exempt from stamp duty. Their status was confirmed by Hong Kong financial secretary...
The Lehman minibond scandal put Hong Kong firmly in the spotlight, with television images of protesting investors beamed across the world. In response, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is making...
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is looking to add features of dark pools to its traditional trading platform and is open to working with alternative trading system (ATS) operators to provide anonymous...
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A shift in focus
Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission chief, Martin Wheatley, has devoted a lot of his staff’s time to revising Hong Kong’s investment products sales practices following large losses by retail investors. But that has not diverted attention...
Structurers call on SFC to keep safe-harbour rules
Structured product issuers, distributors, private bankers and industry associations have called on Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) to reconsider its proposal to remove the so-called safe harbour rules that they have long relied on...
Retrospective: Avoiding the barriers
This JP Morgan product from November 2008 linked to a basket of four Asian indexes and promised a 2.05% quarterly income payment. In the event of a kickout, however, capital was placed at risk and the amount returned to investors would depend on the worst-performing...
Stamp duty easing on HK ETFs to have little impact
In its annual budget, Hong Kong's financial secretary, John Tsang, has proposed to extend the stamp duty concession on exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to promote "healthy growth" in the market. But this looks likely to affect less than 10% of ETFs. On...
Daiwa boosts Hong Kong with new hires and $1bn in capital
Daiwa Securities has seconded Dominique Blanchard, global head of derivatives at Daiwa Capital Markets in London, to Hong Kong to spearhead the Japanese firm’s rapid expansion in the Asian financial markets. This includes adding 300 staff in the coming...
BGC plans to open China office despite derivatives documentation spat
Interdealer broker BGC appears undeterred by a recent decline in China's foreign exchange and interest rate swaps activity, stemming from the failure by leading Chinese and foreign banks to sign bilateral contracts that support such trades, with the interdealer...
Financial reform will not lose steam, says Australia’s Bowen
The recovery from the financial crisis is unlikely to reduce the momentum for global financial reform, according to Australia's minister for financial services, Chris Bowen. "This crisis has affected so many nations, so severely, that it would be very...
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