What Can Other Financial Centres Learn from Hong Kong's Proposed Financial Law Reform

02/06/2015 38 min
What Can Other Financial Centres Learn from Hong Kong's Proposed Financial Law Reform

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Episode Synopsis

Hong Kong sits perilously close to China -- geographically and economically. If and when crisis hits the Mainland, Hong Kong's financial centre will probably suffer. What can lawmakers do to protect an international financial centre highly dependent on a fragile larger hitherland? In this presentation, we review the amendments we propose to Hong Kong's own financial law. We talk about the tools and mind-set regulators need to get their jurisdictions ready for the crisis.