Hong Kong sharpens crypto hub focus amid rising global competition with new blueprint
Hong Kong is intensifying its bid to become a global digital asset (DA) hub with the release of an updated policy statement focused on accelerating stablecoin use and tokenisation efforts, amid renewed momentum in the US this year.
“The government’s highly anticipated Policy Statement 2.0, aimed at establishing Hong Kong as a global digital assets hub, comes at a time when Trump 2.0 is trying to make America the ‘crypto capital of the planet’,” said Andrew Fei, a partner at King & Wood Mallesons in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong is committed to bringing itself “to new heights of global digital asset leadership” in response to the “evolving global DA landscape”, the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) said in the…
