The Hong Kong stock market and regulators are working on rule changes to make foreign company listings on the city’s stock market simpler to do and easier for investors to understand.
The two bodies are trying to simplify the rules for primary and secondary listings to create a set of core principles that are transparent, clear and easy to understand for companies, investors and regulators, according to people familiar with the process.
Hong Kong lost its crown this year as the world’s leading exchange for new capital raisings, which it had held for three years, mostly because of the collapse in activity from big Chinese state-owned companies, which do not count as foreign companies.