Hong Kong to Deploy a Work Plan for Wholesale CBDC in 9 Months. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA), which refers to Hong Kong’s central bank, said in a press release Tuesday that it has ...

NPR's Sarah McCammon speaks with Primrose Riordan of the Financial Times about China's increasingly tight grip on Hong Kong — and what it might mean for one of the world's busiest financial centers.

Hong Kong's central bank has announced the start of Project Ensemble, a wCBDC Sandbox to further research and test tokenization use cases. Hong Kong has been exploring wholesale CBDCs since 2017 ...

Hong Kong's most prominent pro-democracy paper, Apple Daily, says it is shutting down. Its accounts have been frozen and much of its top leadership has been arrested.

Hong Kong media tycoon and Apple Daily founder Jimmy Lai is currently serving two jail terms that add up to 20 months in total for his role in organizing pro-democracy rallies across the city in 2019.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has launched a wholesale central bank digital currency (wCBDC) pilot, one of the world’s first such platforms for tokenised deposits, assets and central ...

It took just six days to shut down Apple Daily. It’s a measure of the brutality of the crackdown on Hong Kong that the end could come so swiftly for Apple Daily, a brash, 26-year-old pro ...

When the new iPhone 16 went on sale last month, locals couldn’t help but notice some less familiar faces flocking to Hong Kong’s Apple stores: Russians holding piles of cash.

Hong Kong's central bank has announced the start of Project Ensemble, a wCBDC Sandbox to further research and test tokenization use cases. Hong Kong has been exploring wholesale CBDCs since 2017 ...