[1] The head office is in 54/F, One Island East, 18 Westlands Road, Quarry Bay[2] The SFC was created in 1989 in response to the stock market crash of 1987.

The SFC is made up of a board whose members are appointed by the Chief Executive of Hong Kong for a fixed term, a majority of which must be independent Non-Executive Directors.

The Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute faces a lot of criticisms since the test were not checked or validated independently before implemented to the examinations.

[citation needed] Candidates should be aware that neither SFC nor the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute (HKSI) endorses any study notes or practice questions.

[8] In October 2024, the SFC began preliminary work on setting up a licensing program for over-the-counter (OTC) cryptocurrency trading and custody services.

A McKinsey report from 2024 predicts that tokenized assets like mutual funds and ETFs could reach a value of $1.1 trillion by 2030 due to blockchain adoption.