Hong Kong must reinvent itself to remain a leading financial hub: analysts

The SAR's bourse needs to tap companies from beyond mainland China such as those based in Southeast Asia, while also attracting secondary listings, including from the Middle East.

To remain competitive as a leading international financial hub, Hong Kong can no longer rely on the formula of its past 'glorious' days but do something new, according to speakers at the Hong Kong Foreign Correspondents’ Club FCC in June. The expansion of the Special Administrative Region's SAR's bourse, the Hong Kong Stock Exchange HKEX, into more territories, would be particularly helpful, according to the experts.  

“What we were doing in Hong Kong’s heyday won’t be what we will be doing in five years’ time or 10 years’ time. It will be very different. Can we predict what we will be doing It is very difficult,”...

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