In 2020, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) launched a ‘RegTech Adoption Index,” finding that more than half of the financial institutions surveyed had begun to make use of regtech tools.1 “Regtech constitutes an integral and important driver of the HKMA’s ‘Fintech 2025’ strategy,”2 HKMA chief Eddie Yue said in a June 2021 speech entitled Unlocking the Power of Regtech.3 “We have developed a vision that by 2025, Hong Kong will be a leading hub for developing Regtech solutions and cultivating Regtech talents,” he added.
Last year, the HKMA launched Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime Regtech Labs to facilitate experimenting with these new technologies and data analytics tools.4 In late 2021, it issued a Regtech Adoption Practice Guide that focused on regtech applications in the context of governance, risk and compliance (GRC).5 Last month, it launched a ‘Regtech Knowledge Hub’ designed to act as a repository of all regtech-related content it has assembled, and to facilitate broader sharing of the experience and learnings that some financial institutions have achieved through their regtech trials.6
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