The prospect of Hong Kong issuing sukuk has stirred the city's finance community.
Central bankers in Hong Kong held a joint conference with their Malaysian counterparts in mid-April to publicise the territory’s plans to issue an Islamic bond, known as a sukuk, later this year.
The event came a month after Hong Kong’s legislative council passed a bill that would allow the government to launch a $500 million to $1 billion transaction as well as create parity between the tax treatment of sukuk profit payments to investors and interest paid on conventional bonds.
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