By Selena Li and Kane Wu

HONG KONG (Reuters) -Hong Kong will ease rules to promote virtual asset trading liquidity as part of the city’s push to become a major fintech and digital asset hub, government officials said on Monday.

Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) will relax rules on Monday to allow locally licensed virtual asset trading platforms (VATP) to share global order books with affiliates overseas, Julia Leung, CEO of the securities watchdog, told the Hong Kong Fintech Week conference.

The move eases current rules that require VATP’s order book – a list of buy and sell orders for virtual assets – to be ring-fenced in Hong Kong. The changes are designed to allow operations to tap global liquidity.

The relaxation comes as Hong Kong competes to become a global fint

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