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- 1. Chapter 1
Financial Regulations
in Hong Kong
The Presentation Slides for Teaching
Financial Regulations and Compliance Practices
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- 2. Declaration
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All rights reserved. No part of this presentation file may be
reproduced, in any form or by any means, without written
permission from CapitaLogic Limited.
Authored by Dr. LAM Yat-fai (林日辉),
Chief Data Scientist, CapitaLogic Limited,
Adjunct Professor of Finance, City University of Hong Kong,
Doctor of Business Administration,
CFA, CAIA, CAMS, CFE, FRM, PRM, MCSE, MCNE.
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- 3. What is financial regulation?
The government’s controls on business
activities in the financial market
Statutory controls
Set out in the ordinances
Non-statutory controls
For the good of general public
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- 4. Why financial regulations?
Financial institutions hold
customers’ assets
To protect the interests of
general public
To prevent systemic risk
To prevent financial issues to
evolve into political issues
To reduce transaction costs
To promote Hong Kong as an
international financial centre
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- 5. What is international financial centre?
International
Participated by a diversified group from many
countries
Financial
Money businesses
Centre
Many investors
Many fund raisers
Many transactions
Large dollar amounts
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- 6. Characteristics of
international financial centre
Headquarters of major
international FIs
Trade currency
Government securities
Bond market
Transaction volume
Stock exchange
IPO size
Market cap
Transaction volume
Index components
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_stock_exchanges
- 7. Is Hong Kong
an international financial centre?
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- 8. Chicago school of political economics
My money Your money
My
job
Effective and
Efficient
Efficient but
ineffective
Your
job
Effective but
Inefficient
Ineffective and
inefficient
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- 9. Market failure
The market is the smartest
The market will maximize its profit by improving its
effectiveness and efficiency
A too smart market will maximize its profit by damaging
the interests of general public
Arrange mortgage to customers without re-payment ability
Sell to customers investment products not matching investment
objectives
Market ILAS as a better choice of life insurance
Market failure
The market kidnaps the general public
Government intervention
Financial regulator must strictly regulate financial institutions
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- 10. Segregation of financial regulations
Banking Insurance
Securities
and
futures
Mandatory
provident
fund
Primary
ordinance
Banking
Ordinance
Insurance
Ordinance
Securities and
Futures
Ordinance
Mandatory
Provident
Fund Schemes
Ordinance
Regulator
Hong Kong
Monetary
Authority
Insurance
Authority
Securities and
Futures
Commission
Mandatory
Provident
Fund Schemes
Authority
International
organization
BCBS IAIS IOSCO
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- 11. Financial regulators in Hong Kong
Financial
Secretary
Hong Kong
Monetary
Authority
Insurance
Authority
Securities
and Futures
Commission
Mandatory
Provident Fund
Schemes Authority
Financial Services
and the
Treasury Bureau
Hong Kong
Exchange and
Clearing Limited
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- 12. A model financial
regulatory framework
Ordinance
Regulator
Licensing Policy Supervision
Advisory
committees
Enforcement
Industry
associations
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- 13. Licensing
Fit Proper
Financial conditions
Mental healthiness
Criminal records
Civil litigations
Social background
Regulatory knowledge
Practical knowledge
Industry experience
Continuous education
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- 14. Policy
Legislation
Amendments to principal
ordinance
Subsidiary legislations
Other related ordinances
Regulatory documents
Guidelines
Guidance notes
Circulars
Codes of conduct
Best practices
Co-operation
Domestic
National
International
Professional development
Public awareness
Statistics
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- 15. Supervision
Supervisory profiling
Financial return
Prudential survey
Offsite review
Onsite examination
Annual tripartite meeting
Control self-assessment
Mystery shopper
Questionnaire
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- 16. Enforcement
Investigation
Facts finding
Judgment
Violation of relevant ordinance?
If yes, which section, how severe and why?
Disciplinary action
Monetary penalties
Non-monetary penalties
Appeal tribunal
A small and specialist civil litigation court
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- 18. Reference
IEC, 2013. A Quick Guide to Financial
System and Services in Hong Kong.
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