Hong Kong plans to include OTC trading in Stock Connect by next year July before CNY OTC trading is included in Stock Connect,CMU OmniClear explores CBDC settlement
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The report said that CNY OTC trading will be included in Stock Connect by next year July 1 before implementation, and Xunqing Clearing aims to support CBDC settlement by the end of the year.
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CNY Trading Hong Kong stocks next year July to be implemented, Xunqing Clearing’s digital asset settlement platform is expected to support CBDC settlement
PANews September 24 reported, citing Caixin, that the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced that CNY OTC trading will be included in Stock Connect next year July 1 to be implemented, at which point mainland investors will be able to directly use CNY to trade Hong Kong stocks. In addition, Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced that Xunqing Clearing (CMU OmniClear) is building a cutting-edge digital asset platform, with the goal of enabling the platform to support settlement using central bank digital currency (CBDC) by the end of the year, while exploring interoperability with tokenized deposits and compliant stablecoins.
According to Caixin, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission announced that CNY OTC trading will be included in Stock Connect by next year July 1 before implementation.
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After implementation, mainland investors will be able to directly use CNY to trade Hong Kong stocks.
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Hong Kong Monetary Authority Chief Executive Eddie Yue announced that Xunqing Clearing, jointly owned by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing, is building a digital asset platform.
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The platform aims to support settlement using central bank digital currency by the end of the year.
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The platform will also explore interoperability with tokenized deposits and compliant stablecoins.
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This news contains two plans: first, to allow mainland investors to use Stock Connect to directly trade Hong Kong stocks with CNY; second, to have the platform being built by Xunqing Clearing support central bank digital currency settlement and explore connections with other compliant digital forms of funds.
Why it matters to readers
If the relevant arrangements are implemented as planned, Stock Connect will add the option of directly using CNY to trade Hong Kong stocks; the digital asset platform may add CBDC use in settlement scenarios, while exploring connections with tokenized deposits and compliant stablecoins.
Newcomers should focus on distinguishing between “already completed” and “planned progress”:CNY counter's inclusion in Stock Connect remains pending implementation,CBDC CBDC settlement is the platform's target by year-end, while stablecoin interoperability remains in the exploratory stage.
Risks and unknowns
The material is PANews' retelling of a Caixin report and does not include original announcements from the Securities and Futures Commission, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, or Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited.
“Next year July 1” and “before year-end” are relative dates; the original text does not clearly specify the corresponding years.
Not specified in the original text CNY the scope of securities covered by the counter arrangement, its implementation rules, or a specific launch date.
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The original text does not specify CBDC the testing progress of the settlement function, participating institutions, or which specific type of CBDC will be supported.
The original text does not name any stablecoin that will interoperate with the platform, nor does it confirm that interoperability will necessarily be implemented.
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