Tag: Hong Kong

Discover how Hong Kong is advancing digital payments and fintech innovation, positioning itself as a global leader in financial services and driving growth in the payments and banking sectors.

China Asks Tech Firms to Suspend Hong Kong Stablecoin Plans

by Wesley Grant

October 20, 2025

Ant Group and JD.com, among others, had been gearing up to launch stablecoins in Hong Kong, but those plans are ...

Reaching for More Cross-Border Payments, China Looks to Hong Kong

by Tom Nawrocki

October 28, 2024

In its push to further internationalize the yuan, the Chinese government has enlisted HSBC's Hong Kong unit to join its ...

Hong Kong Pilots Digital Yuan for Cross-Border Payments

by Wesley Grant

May 17, 2024

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the People’s Bank of China (PBoC) have announced that residents in Hong Kong ...

Hong Kong Monetary Authority Reveals Use Cases for its Digital Currency

by Connie Diaz De Teran

November 1, 2023

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) launched the e-HKD Pilot Program this month to assess the viability for an e-HKD ...

Hong Kong Plans to Become Cryptocurrency Hub

by Connie Diaz De Teran

June 2, 2023

Mainland China has banned cryptocurrencies since 2021, however, Hong Kong will allow retail investors to trade cryptocurrency under its new ...

Hong Kong Authority states the obvious at G20: ‘Crypto and DeFi Won’t Disappear’

by Tim Sloane

July 20, 2022

Over the past few years, crypto has emerged as a powerful force in the financial world. With its decentralized structure ...

Amazon Is Offering UK Businesses Flexible Financing, Bank of Amazon in India and Mexico

Visa Survey Says Small Businesses Are Adding Crypto as a Payment Type

by Tim Sloane

January 13, 2022

Visa indicates that cryptocurrencies may be going mainstream outside of North America, according to small business owners surveyed by Visa ...

Hong Kong Explores Technical Aspects of a Retail CBDC

by Steve Murphy

October 5, 2021

Another in a long line of CBDC postings, this one from The Block. As we have been keeping readers up ...

FenFu For You: China’s Tencent Launches a Credit Card Product

Innovative Software-Based Contactless Payments Solution Launches in Hong Kong to Enable Safer Payments for Merchants in the Region

by PaymentsJournal

March 10, 2021

LONDON: MYPINPAD, a leader in PCI certified payments software solutions together with Hong Kong’s leading payment terminal manufacturer and payment ...