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The Information Services Department – Weekly Digest

The Information Services Department – Weekly Digest

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You may be interested in the following information issued over the past week.  You are welcome to share the information: 28 March 2018 Speech by FS at Joint Business Community Luncheon “The first theme of the Budget is diversifying our economy to create wealth for Hong Kong and to provide quality job opportunities and better…

Key risks and benefits of ICOs for SMEs identified by the OECD

ByFemke Debie

Summary by EuroCham This report concludes that despite the existence of certain risks, ICOs have the potential to provide a new method of raising capital for projects enabled by distributed ledger technologies (DLTs), such as blockchain, if appropriately regulated and supervised. Click here for the Report

CLP to relieve tariff pressure with subsidy

ByFemke Debie

Our BLCC Corporate member CLP announced on 10 December that it will relieve the tariff pressure for all Small-and-Medium Enterprise (SME) customers from the increased use of natural gas for low-carbon power generation in 2020 through a subsidy. The subsidy is part of a more-than-HK$200 million CLP Power’s relief plan that will benefit different sectors…

News from our members: Arendt

ByFemke Debie

EU Regulation on sustainability‐related disclosures in the financial services sector published! A report from our BLCC Corporate member Arendt. In response to growing concerns over climate change, and as part of broader efforts to connect finance with the specific needs of the European & global economy for the benefit of the planet and our society,…

MIECF 2020 – applications open now

ByFemke Debie

EUROPEAN PAVILION AT MIECF 2020 – 26 to 28 March The European Pavilion at 2020 MIECF – Macao International Environmental Co-operation Forum & Exhibition  The 13th edition of MIECF will be held from 26 to 28 March 2020 with the main theme of “Towards a Green and Low Carbon New Era”. It will be held in Macau, The Venetian hotel. MIECF is a premier event initiated by the Government of…