With cryptocurrency investors increasingly worried about Hong Kong’s regulatory ambiguity on crypto, a number of major crypto-focused businesses and events have decided to move their activities to Singapore and other countries and territories considered as more friendly to their industry, as indicated by local observers.
In November last year, China’s Supreme People’s Court and the Hong Kong Government signed the Supplemental Arrangement Concerning the Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and Hong Kong SAR. The agreement is widely expected to enhance the enforcement process and serve as an expansion of the 2000 Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the HKSAR.
For law firms in the region, the Supplemental Arrangement has been welcomed as a compelling development, and one that the market has been waiting for. The Supplemental Arrangement serves as a refinement of the existing Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the HKSAR, while functioning with fewer grey areas, say lawyers.