Exchange traded fund providers are busy working towards submitting applications to launch retail-oriented crypto futures ETFs after the local regulator announced it would open the door to such products.
Being among the first to list a retail crypto futures ETF on the local bourse will be particularly critical to the success of the product, given the narrow range of permissible underlying assets outlined in a Securities and Futures Commission circular, experts said.
The announcement created “a lot of interest, a lot of noise”, according to Rocky Mui, Hong Kong-based partner at legal firm Clifford Chance who has worked closely with issuers in the ETF industry.