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February 19, Fineko/abc.az. The Hong Kong authorities are considering the matter of approval of derivatives and margin lending in digital assets for a number of investors.

"We are looking at derivative products for professional investors, margin lending for certain clients," ABC.AZ reports, quoting Julia Leung, CEO of the Securities & Futures Commission (SFC), as saying this at conference CoinDesk Consensus Hong Kong 2025.

Hong Kong first developed a plan to become a digital asset trading center in 2022. This initiative followed Beijing's ban on all cryptocurrency transactions in mainland China a year earlier.