Tag: Kong
Hong Kong Police Vow to Hunt Down JPEX Mastermind
Hong Kong’s security minister, Chris Tang Ping-keung, has vowed to apprehend the leader of fraud crimes at crypto exchange JPEX. Police confirmed they...
Hong Kong SFC Cracks Down on Unregistered Crypto Exchanges
The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is intensifying its regulatory measures on crypto exchanges. The SFC recently announced their intention to...
Hong Kong Police Seek Interpol Help to Arrest JPEX Ringleaders
The leader of the failed crypto exchange JPEX is evading Hong Kong authorities and is suspected to be in Australia. The police plan...
How Hong Kong Opposes China With Pro-Stablecoin Stance
While China’s regime harbors a fierce hostility toward cryptocurrency, the government of Hong Kong appears to be going in the other direction, if...
Hong Kong Tells Crypto Firms to Stop Calling Themselves Banks
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority has warned the public about crypto businesses that claim to be banks and use banking terms in marketing...
BIS, Hong Kong, and Israel
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Hong Kong, and Israel’s central banks collaborated to experiment with retail central bank digital currency (rCBDC) for...
This Hong Kong Fund Could Deploy Over $50 Million on Altcoins
HashKey Capital, a subsidiary of Hong Kong’s crypto juggernaut HashKey Group, is launching a fund on Friday with an unusual focus — second-tier...
Hong Kong SFC Conditional Approval
Swiss-based SEBA bank has reportedly obtained conditional approval from Hong Kong’s security regulator to offer crypto services in Asia.
Once approved, the bank will...
HashKey To Initiate Bitcoin And Ethereum Retail Trading In Hong Kong: What’s Next?
HashKey, a prominent Asian cryptocurrency exchange, will soon be offering its retail customers the option to trade in two of the most dominant...
Only 2 Crypto Exchanges Operate Legally in Hong Kong
Hong Kong’s regulatory body, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), has recently observed various unlicensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATPs) resorting to dubious...
Hong Kong Eyes Stablecoin Regulation and Tokenized Securities
Hong Kong successfully launched its Virtual Asset Service Provider (VASP) licensing regime this month. Now, the territory is looking to the next stage...
Hong Kong Regulators Urge Big Banks to Take on Crypto Clients
Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), the region’s banking watchdog, has reportedly urged major lenders to onboard crypto exchanges as clients. According to sources,...
Hong Kong Invites Coinbase, Others to Register in its Region
With financial regulators in the United States ramping up their scrutiny of the crypto industry, Hong Kong is trying to lure some of...
Hong Kong Embarks on Retail CBDC Preparations
The Chinese Special Administrative Region of Hong Kong will begin laying the foundation of a public-use central bank digital currency (CBDC). The announcement...
Hong Kong Stablecoin Issuer Arrested
Police in Hong Kong have arrested staff working for the payments company behind the Hong Kong dollar and RMB stablecoins CNHC and HKDC.
A...