Hong Kong
Speech by Tony Latter, Deputy Chief Executive HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by Tony Latter, Executive Director, HKMC, Bauhinia MBS Limited, US$3,000,000,000 Mortgage-Backed Securitisation Programme, Signing Ceremony, 19 December 2001.
Yam to receive degree of Doctor of Business
HONG KONG - Joseph Yam Chi-kwong, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, will receive the degree of Doctor of Business Administration, honoris causa.
Speech by Joseph Yam of the HKMA
SPEECH - Opening remarks by Joseph Yam, JP, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority to the Hong Kong Foreign Exchange and Money Market Practices Committee Conference on Challenges and Opportunities in the New Century, 22 November.
Speech by David Carse of the HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by David Carse, Deputy Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 28 November.
China, HK banks to share retail expertise - HKMA
HONG KONG - Banks from China and Hong Kong can cooperate closely on retail banking business, such as swapping information about the credit standing of borrowers, Hong Kong's de facto central bank chief said last Thursday.
Speech by Tony Latter, Deputy Chief Executive HKMA
SPEECH - Address by Tony Latter, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority at the Seminar Programme of the FOW Derivatives Expo, Hong Kong, 5 November.
Speech by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by Joseph Yam, JP, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, 5 November. Briefing to the Legislative Council Panel on Financial Affairs.
China has no plan to relax foreign bank rule: HKMA
HONG KONG - China said on Tuesday it had no plans to relax its US$20 billion asset-base threshold for foreign banks wanting to open branches in the country, according to a Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) spokesman.
HKMA Press release on retail payment services
PRESS RELEASE - The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has completed a comprehensive review of retail payment services in Hong Kong ("the Review"), which was conducted by an internal task force of the HKMA set up in August 2000.
China's gold exchange launch seen on 28 Nov
CHINA - China could launch its gold exchange in Shanghai next month with about 100 domestic firms permitted to trade gold for physical settlement only, industry sources in Hong Kong said on Tuesday.
Speech by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the HKMA
SPEECH - Speech by Joseph Yam, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority at the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers Lunch Talk 24 October.
HKMA's Yam - Catastrophe to drop HK$ peg now
HONG KONG - HKMA chief uses strong words to quash talk of de-pegging from US$ in a speech given on Wednesday.
Speech by Tony Latter of the HKMA
SPEECH - Opening Remarks by Mr Tony Latter, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Signing Ceremony for the Appointment of the Dao Heng Bank Group, HSBC and Hang Seng Bank as Placing Banks for the Retail Bonds of the HKMC, 22…
HKMA exec says no to US$ as Hong Kong's currency
HONG KONG - Hong Kong Monetary Authority Deputy Chief Executive Tony Latter said Monday said there was no need to make the U.S. dollar the city's official currency.
HKMA says no evidence of Bin Laden deposits in bks
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's quasi-central bank said Wednesday 19 September it has no evidence that Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in last week's U.S. terrorist attacks, and his associates are keeping cash in the city's banks.
HKMA Quarterly Bulletin (August 2001 Issue)
HONG KONG - The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) today, 30 August, published the latest issue of its Quarterly Bulletin.
HKMA says bankruptcy law changes 'difficult'
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's bankruptcy laws will unlikely be amended despite a sharp rise in the number of people going broke and companies going under, the city's quasi-central bank said 21 August.
The changing landscape of banking in Hong Kong
SPEECH - David Carse, Deputy Chief Executive, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, gave a speech at the Hong Kong Investment Funds Association, Furama Hotel, Hong Kong, luncheon on 15 August.
HKMA call on banks to tighten credit card policies
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's central bank today 15 August called on the city's banks to tighten up their policies for issuing credit cards in an effort to combat an increasing incidence of bankruptcy.
Consumer protection and the banking industry
SPEECH - Joseph Yam, JP, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, at the Hong Kong Association of Banks' Half-Yearly Dinner, Hong Kong, 19 June.
Hong Kong Financial Secretary meets ECB President
GERMANY - Hong Kong's Financial Secretary, Mr Antony Leung, held talks on 27 June with the President of the European Central Bank, Mr Willem Duisenberg.
Senior appointment at HKMA
HONG KONG - The Hong Kong's government's Financial Secretary has approved the appointment of Mr Eddie Yue Wai-man as Executive Director.
Central bank governor says China is stabilising
CHINA - Dai Xianglong, the governor of the central bank of China, said on 9 May that his country had made the world economy more stable.
HKMA gets green light on HK deposit insurance
HONG KONG - Hong Kong's Executive Council has approved in principle a deposit insurance scheme proposal aimed at protecting depositors in the case of bank failures, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said on Apr 24.