The China Banking Regulatory Commission has unofficially instructed several local brokers to suspend activities in the field of real asset tokenization (RWA) in Hong Kong, Reuters reports, citing sources.
According to the agency, the move is aimed at strengthening risk control. The regulator wants to ensure that RWA projects are based on real business and are not used as speculative instruments.
Beijing’s initiative contrasts with Hong Kong’s policy, which has recently been actively promoting itself as a global center for digital assets. Mainland China banned cryptocurrency trading and mining in 2021, but at the same time, in August, it became known that the Chinese government was exploring the possibility of legalizing the use of yuan-backed stablecoins.
According to RWA.xyz, the global market for tokenized real assets is currently valued at $28 billion.
In the first half of 2025, the private FUIB increased its total assets by 3.8% to UAH 203.2 billion and became the fifth largest bank in Ukraine in terms of this indicator, while state-owned Ukrgasbank, whose total assets decreased by 11.5% to UAH 189.2 billion, fell to sixth place, according to data published by the National Bank of Ukraine on its website.
According to the data, PrivatBank remained Ukraine’s largest bank in terms of total assets by a significant margin in the middle of this year, with UAH 975.3 billion, which is 1.9% more than at the beginning of the year.
It is followed by two other state-owned banks: Oschadbank, whose assets decreased by 0.5% to UAH 460.2 billion, and Ukreximbank, which increased them by 1% to UAH 318.6 billion.
In fourth place is the largest bank with foreign capital, Raiffeisen Bank, which increased its total assets by 6.7% to UAH 252.2 billion in the first half of the year.
The main change in the top five was the entry of OTP Bank, which increased its total assets by 6.2% to UAH 128.3 billion, while Credit Agricole Bank increased its assets by only 0.5% and ranked 11th in the overall ranking of banks by this indicator with UAH 123.2 billion.
Ukrsibbank ranked seventh in terms of total assets as of mid-year, increasing them by 1.5% to UAH 176.0 billion, but now it is closely followed by Universal Bank (mono) with UAH 173.1 billion, which managed to increase its assets by 12.1% in just six months.
Finally, in ninth place is the nationalized Sens Bank, whose assets grew by 5.5% in six months to UAH 153.1 billion.
The full version is published in the agency’s economic reports.
