Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong

Year 1989Regulated by Government

The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) is an independent statutory body set up in 1989 to regulate Hong Kong's securities and futures markets. The SFC derives its investigative, remedial and disciplinary powers from the Securities and Futures Ordinance (SFO) and subsidiary legislation. Operationally independent of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, the SFC is funded mainly by transaction levies and licensing fees. As a financial regulator in an international financial centre, the SFC strives to strengthen and protect the integrity and soundness of Hong Kong's securities and futures markets for the benefit of investors and the industry.

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  • Disclosure matching Website matching
  • Disclosure time 2021-02-08
  • Reason for punishment Suspicious websites may offer incredibly attractive investment opportunities, such as pre-IPO shares of fictitious companies at steep discounts, or funds that promise multiple returns when in reality the investments are not does not exist. In other cases, those websites may be spoofed websites pretending to be those of reputable financial institutions in order to trick investors into paying money and/or revealing personal information, giving scammers the opportunity to defraud investors.
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List of Unlicensed Companies and Suspicious Websites

" The Unlicensed Companies and Suspicious Websites list lists companies that are not licensed in Hong Kong and that have attracted the attention of the SFC. These companies are suspected of being or were marketing to Hong Kong investors, or claiming to have links to Hong Kong. You can search by name or category to see if a company is on the list. This list is not exhaustive. As the SFC often finds companies or websites of note, new ones are added to the list from time to time. If you have been approached by an unlicensed company, please use our online complaint form. For further information on boiler rooms, fraudulent websites and phishing emails, please click on the relevant links. NOTE: The list of unlicensed companies and suspicious websites is intended To issue an early warning to investors. Investors cannot rely solely on the information in the above list, they need to carefully check the details of individual companies. Please select the first English letter of the name of each column to view the list, or click "Chinese name" The column browses companies with Chinese names only."
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