82 results about this entity
Period: 21 Aug 2007 - 01 Aug 2025
News
Vendor Synaps Loans and a group of banks working under the R3 blockchain banner, say they have made big progress in an initiative to apply distributed ledger technology to an overhaul of the antiquated and costly manual intervention in the $3 trillion global syndicated loans market.
31 March 2017
Company announcement
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have entered into a Co-operation Agreement (Agreement) to foster collaboration between the two regulatory authorities in promoting financial innovation.
07 December 2016
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is to set up a fintech innovation hub and supervisory sandbox, following in the footsteps of regulatory bodies in the UK, Australia and Singapore.
06 September 2016
Hong Kong's central bank has warned the public about investing in bitcoin after local media reports that a virtual currency exchange operator may have scarpered with $387 million in client funds.
10 February 2015
Several banks in Hong Kong, including Standard Chartered, have shut down branches and ATMs and advised customers to use online and mobile services, as tensions between pro-democracy demonstrators and police on the island grow.
29 September 2014
Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited (HKICL) has signed up to deploy Swift's new Market Infrastructure Resiliency Service (MIRS), which provides a backup to the territory's real time gross settlement (RTGS) system in the event of a catastrophic breakdown.
18 September 2014
The Hong Kong Association of Banks (HKAB) has issued a set of common standards and recommended best practice guidelines for banks setting up mobile NFC payment services.
27 November 2013
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has laid out plans for an electronic bill system and promised to explore the creation of an interoperable NFC mobile payment infrastructure.
07 September 2012
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority is hatching a scheme to create a common cross-border e-money card and eftpos framework for transit and small value payments in the Pearl River Delta region, which comprises Hong Kong, Macau and nine municipalities of the Guangdong Province in the mainland of China.
29 January 2010
Hong Kong transit payment card operator Octopus wrongly deducted a total of HK$3.7 million from 15,270 customers over the last seven years after a fault in its EFT system resulted in funds being deducted from customers' bank accounts but not credited to their travel passes.
21 August 2007
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