{"id":79646,"date":"2018-02-12T14:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-12T07:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-securities-and-futures-commission-should-move-out-of-central-offices-and-heres-why\/"},"modified":"2018-02-12T15:03:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T08:03:03","slug":"hong-kongs-securities-and-futures-commission-should-move-out-of-central-offices-and-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/hong-kongs-securities-and-futures-commission-should-move-out-of-central-offices-and-heres-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Securities and Futures Commission should move out of Central offices \u2013 and here\u2019s why"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHong Kong\u2019s Securities and Futures Commission might need to move out of Central as it cannot afford to buy its own offices in the prime office district \u2013 the most expensive worldwide.
\nBut it should consider moving out of Central anyway, as its peers and the brokers it regulates left a long time ago.
\nThe talk in town is where will the commission relocate, after chairman Carlson Tong Ka-shing informed the city\u2019s lawmakers that the regulator had a budget of about HK$3 billion (US…
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\nSource : South China Morning Post
\nRead more…Hong Kong\u2019s Securities and Futures Commission should move out of Central offices \u2013 and here\u2019s why<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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