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Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) Launches New Initiative to Explore Asset Tokenization Use Cases

8 May 2024
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The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has unveiled plans to collaborate with industry stakeholders to explore the potential of asset tokenization. 

According to its latest official announcement, the island’s top financial regulator and central bank revealed that it was forming a special community, named “Project Ensemble Architecture Community,” comprising industry representatives and regulators. This initiative’s primary objective is to develop standards and oversee the development of tokenization projects in Hong Kong.

This special “Community” would also be working towards promoting interoperability among wholesale central bank digital currencies (wCBDCs), a form of digital currency used within the banking and financial sector.  HKMA noted that the focus would be to establish a mechanism to facilitate seamless interbank settlement of tokenized deposits through wCBDC for tokenized asset transactions.

 

RELATED: Asset Tokenization in Practice: A Review of Its Impact on Financial Markets

 

The community will be composed of regulatory bodies such as HKMA, Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission, the BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre, and the CBDC Expert Group. Private sector representation will include Bank of China (Hong Kong), Hang Seng Bank, HSBC, Standard Chartered Hong Kong, HashKey Group, Ant Digital Technologies, and Microsoft Hong Kong.

“The formation of the Community is based on a range of careful considerations, including the members’ expertise in contributing to the development of the tokenization market in Hong Kong, experience and competency in relevant fields and innovative capability,” HKMA noted in its announcement. 

The regulator also noted that it would work closely with the industry and review the size and composition of the Community when appropriate.

This announcement follows HKMA’s earlier disclosure of Project Ensemble, a project which reportedly aims to foster the development of the tokenization market in Hong Kong. 

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Notably, one of the key milestones of the Project Ensemble Architecture Community will be the launch of the Project Ensemble Sandbox, a platform for further research and testing of tokenization use cases. The launch is scheduled for around mid-2024.

 

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