Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau published an update on Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Christopher Hui’s participation in a Slovenia Ministry of Finance conference in Ljubljana, where he promoted Hong Kong’s role as a gateway linking global markets with the Chinese Mainland and engaged European policymakers and the Slovenian business community on Hong Kong’s capital-market proposition. In the “Global Practices in Capital Markets” panel, Hui pointed to 59 new listings in Hong Kong in the first eight months of 2025 that raised EUR14.6 billion through IPOs, a 579% increase versus the same period last year, and to net fund inflows from the Mainland of close to EUR105.4 billion, representing 24.5% of overall market turnover. He also highlighted mutual access programmes and referenced the Chief Executive’s Policy Address, which signalled further initiatives including attracting more Mainland enterprises to set up corporate treasury centres and banks to establish regional headquarters, accelerating an international gold-trading market spanning storage, refining, trading and clearing, and enhancing preferential tax regimes for funds, single family offices and carried interest, alongside fintech and green and sustainable finance measures. On the sidelines he met Croatia’s Minister of Finance Marko Primorac and held exchanges with other participants, and he addressed an event hosted by Slovenia’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry, which is planning a business delegation to Hong Kong and the Mainland in early November 2025 with more than 50 companies enrolled. Hui was scheduled to proceed to Warsaw on 24 September to continue his visit after meetings with Slovenian officials.

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