Electronic Submissions

  • In accordance with the Electronic Transactions Ordinance, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority will accept electronic submissions in respect of the following five ordinances with immediate effect :

Cap. 65 Legal Tender Notes Issue Ordinance
Cap. 66 Exchange Fund Ordinance
Cap. 155 Banking Ordinance
Cap. 356 Monetary Statistics Ordinance
Cap. 454 Coinage Ordinance

  • The electronic submissions should be submitted in one of the following two means :

(a) Through Electronic Mail

The designated email address of the HKMA for receiving electronic submissions via email is as follows :

hkma_mail@hkma.gov.hk

(b) In Physical Form

The electronic submissions in 3.5" diskette or CD-ROM should be sent to the following address :

55th Floor 
Two International Finance Centre
8 Finance Street
Central
Hong Kong

Please note that the specifications of 3.5" diskette and CD-ROM are shown in the Annex.

  • The general format, manner and procedure for electronic submissions to the HKMA are shown in the Annex.

  • The electronic submissions should not contain any computer instruction or self-modifying parts.

  • The following information should be provided on the first page of the electronic submissions to the HKMA :

(a) the name and the post of the HKMA officer(s) who should receive the submission;

(b) the subject of the submission;

(c) the identity of the issuing person, including the name, the post and the organization; and

(d) the telephone & fax no. as well as the postal address of the issuing person.

  • For electronic submissions with digital signatures, the submissions must be encrypted.