regulation

HKMA launches e-HKD pilot

The regulator has teamed up with 16 market participants to explore the viability of CBDC implementation. However, questions around interoperability, monetary sovereignty and the role of the traditional banking system remain.
May 23, 2023

The peculiar realm of the metaverse

The metaverse is challenging user perception of materiality, digitalising elements of the physical realm and unlocking new economic values. Companies and policymakers are each fighting to establish ground rules across it, but so far its exact definition remains obscure.
October 03, 2022

Where the optimism still lingers for cryptocurrencies

Cryptocurrencies have experienced a collapse in 2022, but regulation maturity and greater technological familiarity is supporting an upbeat outlook for decentralised technologies – despite the market price for digital tokens.
August 16, 2022