Jurisdiction: Hong Kong

Type	Title	Jurisdiction	Issuing Agency	Status	Date
Regulation	In Principle Approval to to OSL for Virtual Asset Automated Trading and Brokerage Licenses	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	08/21/2020
News/Opinion Article	Application of Blockchain– Privacy Commissioner’s article contribution at Hong Kong Lawyer (March 2020)	Hong Kong
Report	Ethical Accountability Framework for Hong Kong, China A Report prepared for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data Analysis and Model Assessment Framework	Hong Kong
News/Opinion Article	Blockchain and Data Protection — Privacy Commissioner’s article contribution at Hong Kong Lawyer (July 2019)	Hong Kong
Informal guidance	Response to media enquiry on the suspected uploading of police officers’ personal data to the blockchain platform for virtual currencies	Hong Kong	Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data	Existing	07/17/2019
Informal guidance	Tips for Using FinTech	Hong Kong	Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data	Existing	03/01/2019
Regulation	Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance	Hong Kong	Parliament of Hong Kong	Existing	07/01/1933
Informal guidance	Whitepaper on Distributed Ledger Technology	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	11/11/2016
Academic work	Whitepaper 2.0 on Distributed Ledger Technology	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	10/25/2017
Regulation	Hong Kong High Court Action (HCA 902/2018) Nico Constantijn Antonius Samara (Plaintiff) v Stive Jean-Paul Dan (Defendant)	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Court of First Instance	Existing	05/15/2018
Regulation	SCC Venture VI Holdco G, Ltd v Zhao Changpeng (HCMP 2770/2017, 24 April 2018)	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Court of First Instance	Existing	04/24/2018
Informal guidance	Crypto product alleged to be launched by the HKMA	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	05/02/2018
Informal guidance	False News Report Claiming HKMA’s Investment in Crypto Products	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	10/08/2018
Informal guidance	Financial Technology Infrastructure for Hong Kong	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	12/01/1997
Regulation	Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed by or Registered with the Securities and Futures Commission	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	09/01/2020
Regulation	Fund Manager Code of Conduct pursuant to the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571)	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/01/2018
Informal guidance	Circular to intermediaries on compliance with notification requirements	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	06/01/2018
News/Opinion Article	SFC’s regulatory action halts ICO to Hong Kong public	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	03/19/2018
News/Opinion Article	Blockchain is not about virtual goods (區塊鏈唔止虛擬商品咁簡單)	Hong Kong
News/Opinion Article	Blockchain and Mahjong	Hong Kong
Academic work	Whitepaper 2.0 on Distributed Ledger Technology:Annex	Hong Kong
Academic work	Whitepaper On Distributed Ledger Technology	Hong Kong
Regulation	Managing ML/TF risks associated with virtual assets (VAs) and virtual asset service providers (VASPs)	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	12/16/2019
News/Opinion Article	SFC issues statement on initial coin offerings	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission
Informal guidance	SFC warns of cryptocurrency risks	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	09/09/2018
Regulation	SFC issues reminder on cryptocurrency-related products and derivatives	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	12/11/2017
Regulation	Circular to intermediaries Compliance with notification requirement	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	09/14/2018
Informal guidance	Statement on initial coin offerings	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Expired	09/05/2017
Regulation	Circular to Licensed Corporations and Registered Institutions on Bitcoin futures contracts and cryptocurrency-related investment products	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	12/11/2017
Regulation	Circular to announce the SFC Regulatory Sandbox	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	09/29/2017
Regulation	Securities and Futures Ordinance	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	04/01/2003
In Principle Approval	APPROVAL-IN-PRINCIPLE IN RESPECT OF APPLICATION FOR LICENSE TO CONDUCT TYPE 1 AND TYPE 7 REGULATED ACTIVITIES AS VIRTUAL ASSET TRADING PLATFORM	Hong Kong
Regulation	Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing Risks Associated with Virtual Commodities	Hong Kong	Customs and Excise Department	Existing	01/30/2014
Regulation	Conceptual framework for the potential regulation of virtual asset trading platform operators	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/01/2018
Regulation	Circular to intermediaries: Distribution of virtual asset funds	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/01/2018
Regulation	Position paper Regulation of virtual asset trading platforms	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/06/2019
Regulation	Regulatory standards for licensed corporations managing virtual asset portfolios	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/01/2018
Regulation	BCBS Statement on Crypto-Assets	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Existing	03/18/2019
Regulation	T.L. Chan at Treasury Markets Summit 2018: “Crypto-assets and Money”	Hong Kong	Hong Kong Monetary Authority	Non-Regulation	09/21/2018
Regulation	LCQ1: Monitoring the use of bitcoins	Hong Kong	Legislative Council	Existing	01/08/2014
Regulation	Proforma Terms and Conditions for Licensed Corporations which Manage Portfolios that Invest in Virtual Assets	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	10/04/2019
Regulation	SFC issues warnings on virtual asset futures contracts	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/06/2019
Regulation	Statement on regulatory framework for virtual asset portfolios managers, fund distributors and trading platform operators	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	11/01/2018
Regulation	Statement on Security Token Offerings	Hong Kong	Securities and Futures Commission	Existing	03/28/2019