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Where?
by authority- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) €8.1m 100 % · 1 case
What for?
by area of lawAll areas of law
Who?
by company- Hang Seng Bank Limited €8.1m 39 % · 1 case
- Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft €2.62m 13 % · 1 case
- EFG Bank AG €1.19m 6 % · 1 case
- Xinhu International Futures (Hong Kong) Co., Limited €1.06m 5 % · 1 case
- Kylin International (HK) Co., Limited €968,909 5 % · 1 case
- Indian Overseas Bank, Hong Kong Branch €925,553 5 % · 1 case
- UBS AG €883,431 4 % · 1 case
- Instinet Pacific Limited €875,254 4 % · 1 case
- China Industrial Securities International Asset Management Limited €761,367 4 % · 1 case
- China CITIC Bank International Limited €485,944 2 % · 1 case
- 8 more€2.68m
When?
per quarter, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Q4 2023 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2024 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2025 | 1 | €8.1m |
| Q2 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | – |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q3 2026 | 0 | – |
| Q4 2026 | 0 | – |
1 case
27 Jan 2025 Hang Seng Bank LimitedHang Seng Bank: HKD 66.4m fine over selling practices and excessive charges €8.1m
Hang Seng Bank was publicly reprimanded and fined 66,400,000 HKD. Relationship managers had induced 46 clients, whose fund transactions in 2016/2017 were recorded as their own choice, to trade excessively often with short holding periods; between 2014 and 2018, 388 clients without established knowledge of derivatives bought derivative funds in 629 transactions; and between 2014 and 2023 the bank improperly retained benefits, overcharged fees and inadequately disclosed trailer fees (at least 22.4 million HKD). The bank has compensated affected clients and refunded the amounts overcharged.
Client transactions flagged as the client's own choice and fee billing need independent control, otherwise mis-selling and overcharging go undetected for years.
Investment advice: suitability, excessive trading and fee transparency
- Authority / court
- Securities and Futures Commission (SFC)
- Area of law
- Capital markets and financial supervision · Organisational requirements
- Legal basis
- s. 196 SFO (Cap. 571); Code of Conduct for Persons Licensed by or Registered with the SFC
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Financial services and insurance
- Repeat case
- no
- Mitigating circumstances
- Compensation of clients and refund of benefits, internal and independent reviews after self-reporting, cooperation with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) and acceptance of the findings, no previous disciplinary record.
- Published
- 27 Jan 2025
Original amount 66,400,000 HKD, converted at the ECB reference rate of 27 Jan 2025.
- SFC press release 25PR14: SFC reprimands and fines Hang Seng Bank Limited $66.4 million (27.01.2025) Press release of an authority
- SFC Statement of Disciplinary Action zu 25PR14 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link