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Hong Kong as Development Platform for Fintech Companies in GBA

19 January 2021

Fintech company Futu Securities mainly engages in stock trading. Its Chief Financial Officer Arthur Chen says Hong Kong is recognised as the world’s premier international financial centre, with an efficient regulatory mechanism and transparent and fair rules and regulations. He says this is why Futu chose Hong Kong as its starting point for global development. More

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Hong Kong’s Future Development Direction: An International Financial Centre

05 November 2020

Capital connectivity is a prerequisite for economic integration. Hong Kong should cooperate on a pilot basis with the mainland to relax restrictions on cross-boundary capital flows in specific locations or for specific groups. Having consolidated the insights and comments given by senior business executives in various sectors in the GBA, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services Ltd. (PwC) has put together a raft of proposed measures for enhancing HK’s status as an international financial centre. More

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SWOT Analysis of Hong Kong as an International Business Hub: An International Financial Centre

12 October 2020

As an international financial centre, Hong Kong is one of the world’s largest financial markets for IPOs and a fundraising market. PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services Limited (PwC) carried out a SWOT analysis of Hong Kong as an international financial centre for GBA. Among the GBA enterprises interviewed, they are using mostly commercial banking services, followed by foreign exchange services and insurance services. More