Following are the remarks made by the Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Mr Christopher Hui, at a media session whilst attending 19th Asian Financial Forum this morning (January 26):
 
Reporter: You have mentioned about keeping the communication with the Chinese Mainland IPOs. What concrete measures are being prioritised to ensure robust and sustained trading activity for new listings companies in Hong Kong, and how to make sure their quality?
 
Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury: I think one of the key things that we have tried to do is to ensure the continued quality of our own market. So you can see that in the coming year, there are a number of things that we will be pursuing.

     First of all, in terms of the listing requirements, we will enhance our listing requirements to see how we can further our competitiveness in the capital market, in particular on the weighted voting rights, and the second one is on the secondary trading. We are also looking into how we can bring our clearing cycle from the current T+2 into T+1 with the market. At the same time, we are now reviewing our board lot size, and also the minimum spread of our stock market, with a view to enhancing the overall liquidity of our capital market.
 
(Please also refer to the Chinese portion of the remarks.)

Ends/Monday, January 26, 2026
Issued at HKT 13:04

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