AI, chip boom is lifting Hong Kong’s ETP market to new heights: HKEX director

Investor appetite for artificial intelligence and semiconductor plays will continue to drive fast growth in Hong Kong’s exchange-traded products (ETP) market in the second half of the year, strengthening the city’s wealth management industry, according to a director of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX). “Hong Kong has already risen to become the fourth largest ETP market worldwide, after reporting a record of rapid development over the past decade,” said Ding Chen, an independent director...