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Shaohui Jiang has joined Hogan Lovells in Hong Kong, bringing with him two team members to strengthen the law firm’s greater China M&A strategy.

The US SEC has approved applications for Ether ETFs, neutralising Hong Kong’s brief regulatory advantage, prompting the financial hub to seek new strategies as 11 exchange platforms await regulatory approval.

After a slow start to the year, confidence is slowly returning to the city's equity market, with QuantumPharm about to become the third largest listing of the year.

The SFC's CEO Julia Leung recently visited the head of Saudi Arabia's Capital Market Authority and Saudi Exchange's CEO, while Saudi Aramco has launched a secondary offering.

The Voluntary Code of Conduct Working Group (VCWG), sponsored by the SFC, will work with the Secretariat at the International Capital Market Association.

The agreement between the Financial Services Development Council and the tax and legal arm of the Qatar Financial Centre is to facilitate the exchange of knowledge, expertise and market insights.

The inclusion of cryptocurrency Ether, alongside Bitcoin, for the exchange-traded funds on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, contrasts with the US approach.

The US law firm's Hong Kong partnership is to separate from the international arm of Mayer Brown, and take on its previous name, Johnson Stokes & Master.

From May, investors will have access to equity and fixed income mutual funds, managed by global players Amundi, BlackRock, Dimensional Fund Advisors and PIMCO.