To be sure, politics remains contentious and unsettling for some finance professionals, some bankers have said. The former British colony's high degree of autonomy from Beijing, including an independent judiciary, form the bedrock on which it has flourished as a global hub. Reporting by Samuel Shen and Marius Zaharia; Editing by Raju GopalakrishnanOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles. The total number of licenses it issued was up 1.7% at the end of March, compared with nine months earlier, and just shy of an all-time peak in 2019. read moreHong Kong police have asked some banks to hand over account details of opposition activists and politicians arrested under a stringent national security law imposed by Beijing, and the government has threatened jail time for bankers handling assets belonging to media tycoon Jimmy Lai frozen under the new law.
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