Regulatory - Hong Kong

International correspondent

News analysis

• SFC sponsor regulation: The market response

  11 May 2012

  Investment banks in Hong Kong could lobby the city’s Securities and Futures Commission to scrap proposals to cap the number of sponsors per IPO.

• Exclusive: HKICPA to amend accounting report standards

  29 March 2012

  Proposed changes to Hong Kong’s accounting report standards will clarify accountants’ role in the city’s listing process. But sponsors in the city are concerned where the move will leave them.

• IFLR Asia Awards - who's coming?

  21 February 2012

  IFLR will announce the winners of its Asia Awards 2012 at an awards ceremony to be held at Hong Kong’s Island Shangri-La hotel this Thursday

• Standard Chartered: how international regulations will affect Asia’s loan markets

  07 February 2012

  Regulatory change will bolster the dominance of Asia’s local banks and prompt a rise in local currency syndicated loans, Standard Chartered’s global head of loan syndications has predicted

• Bankers lobbying CBRC for secondary loans rule change

  31 January 2012

  Syndicated loan market participants in Hong Kong and China are lobbying the China Banking Regulatory Commission to change “onerous” secondary loans trading guidelines

• Alder: Why CSRC-SFC policy interaction is critical

  30 January 2012

  Hong Kong’s SFC CEO reveals how he plans to work with the CSRC, and discusses his agenda priorities for 2012.

• Alder: SFC head reveals his 2012 agenda

  12 January 2012

  Ashley Alder, the SFC's new chief executive, discusses future regulation of Hong Kong's securities market

• HKEx and SFC to revise company listings Joint Policy Statement

  02 December 2011

  The Hong Kong stock exchange and Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission are to revise their “misleading” Joint Policy Statement on overseas company listings

• SFC calls for global approach to financial centre control

  02 December 2011

  Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission enforcement head has called for a more global approach to regulatory control of financial centres

• Exclusive: HKMA rejects CoCos for now

  20 October 2011

  Contingent convertible bonds will need to be more widely-tested before the instrument is recognised in Hong Kong, the HKMA has told IFLR

• Asia PE urged to respond to Esma’s third country paper

  19 September 2011

  Lawyers in Hong Kong have urged private equity houses in the region to respond to Esma’s AIFM directive consultation paper on third country issues

• The risks of shadow banking’s growth

  13 September 2011

  With the regulatory spotlight fixed on banks and their activities, the shadow banking industry is growing