The updates include an information paper on implementing an uncertificated securities market, and a joint announcement on an enhanced timeframe for a new listing application process....more
11/22/2024
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The updates in May and June include a consultation conclusion and a consultation paper from the Stock Exchange.
The key updates in May and June 2024 include the publication of the consultation conclusions on the Severe...more
The updates include two consultation conclusions from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited and notice from the Companies Registry.
The key updates in March and April 2024 include the publication of the consultation...more
The amendments, which will become effective from 1 January 2025, aim to reflect the ISSB Climate Standards to the maximum extent possible.
In April 2024, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange) released the...more
The updates include a Consultation Paper, new and revised guidance materials from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, and notices from the Companies Registry.
The key updates in November and December 2023 include the...more
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, the SFC, and the Companies Registry have published key regulatory updates during September and October 2023....more
The SEHK guidance sets out the framework for its assessment in considering a waiver application of the increasingly popular automatic share buyback program.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the SEHK) has issued a...more
From 31 March 2023, the listing framework will include innovative companies in frontier industries, creating more opportunities for investors in the Hong Kong capital market.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the...more
The proposed amendments reflect changes in PRC regulations recently announced by the State Council and the CSRC.
On 24 February 2023, The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Stock Exchange) published a Consultation...more
The requirements under Chapter 17 of the Listing Rules applicable to share option schemes will also govern share award schemes under the amendments that will become effective 1 January 2023.
Both share option schemes...more
8/11/2022
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Intermediaries in bookbuilding and placing activities should prepare for the new rules, which will take effect on 5 August 2022.
The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (SFC) published the “Consultation...more
The expansion would include Shenzhen Stock Exchange and potentially European stock exchanges, and would permit overseas issuers to raise capital in China through CDR listings.
On 17 December 2021, the China Securities...more
1/18/2022
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The paper sets out the long-awaited framework for a SPAC listing regime in Hong Kong, which will become effective 1 January 2022.
On 17 December 2021, the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange or HKSE) published...more
The consultation paper proposes to increase the Main Board Profit Requirement by 150% or 200%.
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (the Exchange) has published a Consultation Paper on the Main Board Profit Requirement...more
Hong Kong Stock Exchange introduces new listing regime for pre-revenue biotech companies and innovative companies with weighted voting rights structures.
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