Compliance
[In-person] Regulatory Updates 2026: Key Developments and Priorities for Financial Institutions
Overview
Hong Kong’s financial regulatory landscape continues to evolve amid technological innovation, emerging risks and heightened supervisory expectations. This seminar will examine key legal and regulatory developments affecting financial institutions and licensed intermediaries, focusing on recent regulatory initiatives, enforcement trends and emerging priorities, and their practical implications for governance, risk management and compliance.
The event will be in hybrid format, for webinar, please click here to register!
Content
• Key regulatory developments in Hong Kong
• Updates and priorities of the SFC, HKMA, IA and HKEX
• Virtual assets, tokenisation and other digital-asset developments
• Financial crime, AML and cybersecurity developments
• Governance and operational resilience expectations
• Recent enforcement trends and key compliance lessons
• Emerging regulatory priorities for 2027
Who should attend
Senior management, responsible officers, licensed representatives, and legal, compliance, risk management and internal audit professionals.
Speaker/Course Instructor
Jill has hands-on practical experience in liaising with regulators, advising on regulatory compliance and implementing changes to internal practices, conducting internal investigations and advising on corporate governance. Jill is also active in advising clients on emerging regulatory issues such as ESG, virtual assets and NFTs.
Jill is one of the authors of "Securities and Futures Ordinance": Commentary and Annotations, published by Thomson Reuters (soon publishing its 5th edition) and the Multilaw Global Fintech Guide, available on LexisNexis. She speaks regularly at client events and industry conferences, such as the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute, The Law Society of Hong Kong and International Chamber of Commerce. She is regularly identified as a leading lawyer in legal directories.