Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang
Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang
Jake Van Der Kamp
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A plea for rules, even if Hong Kong loses in fintech to Singapore

Call them barriers, obstacles, hindrances to development, if you will, but we need these rules.

Jake Van Der Kamp
Jake Van Der Kamp

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang
Rimsky Yuen Kwok-keung, Secretary for Justice; Geoffrey Ma Tao-li, the Chief Justice of the Court of Final Appeal; and Winnie Tam Wan-chi, chairman of the Hong Kong Bar Association, attend the Opening of Legal Year 2017 at Edinburgh Place, Central. Photo: Sam Tsang
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Jake Van Der Kamp

Jake Van Der Kamp

Jake van der Kamp is a native of the Netherlands, a Canadian citizen, and a longtime Hong Kong resident. He started as a South China Morning Post business reporter in 1978, soon made a career change to investment analyst and returned to the newspaper in 1998 as a financial columnist.