The Hong Kong regulator has unveiled new measures to boost liquidity and product diversity in the country’s digital assets market with the aim of deepening trading activity while maintaining strong investor safeguards.
The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has introduced a set of trading initiatives aimed at strengthening liquidity and product diversity in Hong Kong’s digital asset ecosystem, including a high-level framework for leveraged virtual asset products targeted at professional investors. The measures form part of the regulator’s ASPIRe Roadmap and signal a structured expansion of virtual asset (VA) trading capabilities, with a particular focus on margin financing and leveraged instr