Hong Kong sees gold as a bridge to digital finance, minister says
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- Hong Kong's Treasury Minister Christopher Hui sees gold as a "potential bridge" between traditional and digital finance, emphasizing the need to foster the city's digital asset market.
- He noted the convergence of finance and the decision against a separate digital asset regulator.
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Hong Kong's Treasury Minister Christopher Hui spoke at the Global Prosperity Summit, discussing the future of finance. He highlighted the potential for gold to act as a bridge between traditional and digital financial systems. The city has seen innovative product launches, such as tokenized gold ETFs.
Gold can serve as a “potential bridge” between conventional and new forms of finance, Hong Kong’s treasury minister has said, highlighting the need for the city to provide more opportunities for the digital asset market to grow.
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui Ching-yu also said on Wednesday that Hong Kong had opted against forming a separate regulatory authority for digital assets due to the “convergence” between conventional and innovative finance.
During a panel session on cryptocurrencies and digital assets at the Global Prosperity Summit, Hui said he had seen not only gold exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in conventional markets, but also tokenised versions available on the blockchain.
“For this market to grow sustainably, and as a market builder, we need to harness the good and one way of doing this is to give this market more opportunities that are otherwise not available,” Hui said.
“I think gold could be a potential bridge between conventional and new finance, in the sense of applying blockchain to a rather old asset class.”
HSBC and its subsidiary Hang Seng Investment launched a tokenised, unlisted class of the Hang Seng Gold ETF on the HashKey Exchange virtual asset trading platform in April, in what the bank said was the city’s first such product.
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Perspective IA — des possibilités, pas des certitudes
Hong Kong will likely introduce further initiatives to support the growth of its digital asset market.
Très probable · En quelques mois
More traditional assets will be tokenized and offered on Hong Kong's virtual asset trading platforms.
Probable · En quelques mois
Questions ouvertes
- What specific regulatory frameworks will be implemented to support the growth of the digital asset market?
- How will Hong Kong balance innovation with investor protection in the digital asset space?
- What are the projected economic impacts of this strategy on Hong Kong's financial sector?
- What are the specific challenges and opportunities in applying blockchain to gold?
