Accelerate APAC 2026:
summary
Hong Kong announces three concrete moves: allowing affiliate market makers on licensed venues but requiring functional independence, client-order priority and explicit disclosure of preferential treatment; permitting securities brokers to extend margin financing for virtual-asset trading using existing broker guardrails and accepting BTC and Ether as eligible collateral with haircuts; and opening a consult for exchange-traded crypto derivatives aimed at professional investors, with regulatory labelling tied to contract structure and an accelerator to pilot proposals.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Hong Kong crypto regulation
- 1:48Regulator’s proudest crypto moment
- 2:52SFC initiatives 2026
- 3:34Affiliate market makers safeguards
- 5:41Affiliate market makers boost liquidity
- 6:45Global order book vs affiliate MM
- 9:13Crypto margin trading risks
- 12:02Risk appetite vs safeguards
- 13:27Exchange-traded crypto derivatives HK
- 14:50Structuring crypto derivatives HK
- 16:15Risk prevention to transparency
- 17:37Benchmarking global crypto markets
- 18:192026 crypto derivatives in HK?
- 19:242026 Web3 in Hong Kong
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