Please join Julia Charlton for a webinar on the key changes to Hong Kong’s virtual asset regulatory regime over the past year at 4:30 to 6:00 pm HKT on 5 October 2026.
The webinar is accredited with 1.5 CPD points by The Law Society of Hong Kong.
Level: Intermediate/Advanced
Webinar Objective:
The webinar will provide an overview of recent and proposed changes to the regulation of virtual assets in Hong Kong, including the proposed new licensing regimes for virtual asset dealing, advisory, management and custodian service providers under the Anti-Money Laundering and Counter-Terrorist Financing Ordinance, the relaxation of regulatory requirements for SFC-licensed virtual asset trading platforms and intermediaries, and the stablecoin regulatory regime under the Stablecoins Ordinance.
About the Webinar
The webinar will cover the following topics:
- New Licensing Regimes for VA Service Providers under the AMLO:
- VA dealing services
- VA advisory services
- VA management services
- VA custodian services
- Licensing, AML/CFT and governance requirements
- Offences, sanctions and transitional arrangements
- Changes to the Regulation of Virtual Asset Trading Platforms (VATPs):
- Shared order books with overseas affiliated VATPs
- Staking services by VATPs and SFC-authorised VA funds
- Affiliated market makers
- SFC policy announcement on VA perpetual contracts
- SFC-regulated Intermediaries’ VA-related Activities:
- Margin financing for VA dealing
- Routing client orders to shared order books of SFC-licensed VATPs
- Obligation to safeguard client VAs on withdrawal
- The Stablecoins Ordinance:
- Specified stablecoins and regulated stablecoin activities
- Licensing requirements for stablecoin issuers
- Restrictions on offering stablecoins and permitted offerors
- May 2026 relaxations for stablecoins issued by licensed issuers
- Recent Developments:
- SFC enforcement action against Saxo Capital Markets HK Limited
- 2026/27 Budget proposals and the Crypto-Asset Reporting Framework
About the Presenter
Julia Charlton is a Hong Kong and English qualified solicitor and has been practising law in Hong Kong since 1987. She is the founder and a partner of Charltons, a boutique Hong Kong law firm focusing on corporate finance. Julia practises as a corporate finance lawyer and has extensive experience of advising Hong Kong, Chinese and overseas businesses and financial institutions on capital raisings, M&A, investment and business activities in Hong Kong, China and internationally. Her practice areas include Hong Kong IPOs, listed companies’ regulatory compliance, capital markets, derivatives, securities law, investment funds, virtual assets, stablecoins, restructuring, private equity and regulatory issues, and general corporate and commercial matters.
- Enrolment is limited – enrolments will be accepted on a first-come-first-served basis.
- Please note that we accept no liability for any non-availability for any CPD Point(s) for any participants whatsoever.
- A confirmation of attendance based on your registration and log in and out details will be sent to you automatically via email shortly after the webinar ends. No other or further confirmation will be provided.
- Please join the webinar from one device only. Using multiple connected devices at the same time may disrupt your attendance record, and we cannot guarantee that a confirmation of attendance will be issued in such cases.