People’s Bank of China, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Monetary Authority of Macao to implement Wealth Management Connect

Maria Nikolova

The pilot scheme will be implemented in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

The People’s Bank of China, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and the Monetary Authority of Macao today announce that they have decided to implement a cross-boundary wealth management connect pilot scheme in the Greater Bay Area. The aim of the project is to facilitate cross-boundary investment by individual residents in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area.

Thanks to Wealth Management Connect, individual residents in the Greater Bay Area will be able to carry out cross-boundary investment in wealth management products distributed by banks in the Greater Bay Area. The scheme has a southbound and a northbound components, depending on the residency of the investors. Under Southbound Wealth Management Connect, residents of the Mainland cities in the Greater Bay Area can invest in eligible investment products distributed by banks in Hong Kong and Macao by opening designated investment accounts with these banks; under Northbound Wealth Management Connect, residents of Hong Kong and Macao can invest in eligible wealth management products distributed by Mainland banks in the Greater Bay Area by opening designated investment accounts with these banks.

Wealth Management Connect is poised to stimulate cross-boundary investment by individual residents in the Greater Bay Area and promotes the opening-up of the Mainland’s financial markets as well as the mutual social and economic development of the Mainland, and Hong Kong and Macao.

The initiative will be governed by the respective laws and regulations on retail wealth management products applicable in the three places with due regard to international norms and practices. The People’s Bank of China, the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission, the China Securities Regulatory Commission, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, and the Monetary Authority of Macao will discuss and agree on the implementation details including investor eligibility, mode of investment, scope of eligible investment products, investor protection, handling of disputes, etc. under the Northbound and Southbound Wealth Management Connect.

Cross-boundary remittance under the scheme will be conducted and managed in a closed-loop through the bundling of designated remittance and investment accounts to ensure that the relevant funds will only be used to invest in eligible investment products. Cross-boundary remittances will be carried out in renminbi, with currency conversion conducted in the offshore markets. Cross-boundary fund flows under Northbound and Southbound Wealth Management Connect will be subject to aggregate and individual investor quota management. The aggregate quota will be adjusted through a macro-prudential coefficient.

The Wealth Management Connect pilot scheme will be formally launched once relevant rules and systems are in place.

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