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| Hong Kong Looks At Increasing Financial Ties With Brunei |
by Mary Swire, LawAndTax-News.com, Hong Kong
Wednesday, February 10, 2010
While on a visit, the director of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in
Singapore, Subrina Chow, has disclosed that Hong Kong would like to develop
closer financial links with Brunei, particularly in the field of Islamic finance
products.
Hong Kong’s government believes that there is an excellent opportunity
to develop closer financial and other economic ties between Hong Kong and Brunei.
John Tsang Chun-Wah, Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary, will be visiting
Brunei next month to discuss these issues.
Subrina Chow, in Brunei as a precursor to his subsequent visit, noted that,
despite the issue of Islamic bonds from Hong Kong over the past few years, it
is still a relative novice in Islamic finance. It therefore feels the need to
diversify and increase the volume of the Islamic products and services it is
currently able to provide.
In fact, in November 2009, speaking at the Islamic Finance Symposium in Tokyo,
the Secretary for Financial Services & the Treasury, KC Chan, said that
Hong Kong would implement a platform for the development of Islamic finance.
"We believe Hong Kong is well placed to become a centre for Islamic finance
in Asia,” Chan then stated.
“Our sound financial services infrastructure and well-established legal
system make Hong Kong an attractive location for such investments," he
added. The city's unique advantage, he believed, could lie in its role in bridging
the Mainland of China to the investment needs of the Middle East.
The assistance that Hong Kong could offer to Brunei would therefore lie, primarily,
in the use that Brunei could make of Hong Kong’s well-developed capital
markets, while Hong Kong would thereby develop a capability in Islamic finance
and insurance. Subrina Chow added overseas businesses were welcome to list on
the Hong Kong stock exchange and raise capital.
While, in the past, Hong Kong has developed ties with its closest trading partners
– Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand – it is now looking further
afield in the Asian region, to Indonesia and Vietnam, and now also Brunei.
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