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What Hong Kong’s conservative stablecoin licence roll-out reveals

South China Morning Post
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What Hong Kong’s conservative stablecoin licence roll-out reveals
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The most revealing fact about Hong Kong’s stablecoin launch is not that licences were issued. It is who got them, and who did not. By handing the first approvals to HSBC and the Standard Chartered-led joint venture Anchorpoint Financial, regulators made clear from the start that digital money in Hong Kong will be bank-led.
That choice matters because Hong Kong is not trying to become Asia’s easiest venue for cryptocurrency experimentation. Rather, it is trying to become the most credible place..

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