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Friday, August 29, 2008

Hong Kong SFC takes new enforcement approach to....

Fund of Hedge Funds Europe: In its first financial quarter of 2008-09, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) adopted a new approach to enforcement, offeringintermediaries found in breach a chance to take up good compliance practices ahead of severe penalties, according to a SFC press release obtained by Opalesque.

The SFC's Quarterly Report for April to June 2008-09 explains the new approach as a means to foster compliance on top of penalizing violators for misconduct. In respective agreements reached with the SFC, two ICEA entities and three Core Pacific-Yamaichi entities were committed to strengthening their compliance practices and to accepting severe penalties, if found to have repeated offences of the same nature within the next three years. In ICEA's case, revocation of licences would be the penalty.

Meanwhile, the SFC continued to adapt its regulatory regime to changing market circumstances, devoting efforts in particular to raising market efficiency while increasing investor edu......................

Source:
http://www.opalesque.com/AMB2008/46640Hong_Kong_SFC_takes_new_enforcement_approach.html


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