One-branch-only rule can be bypassed with virtual banking

The provision of banking services via the Internet will enable foreign banks which set up in Hong Kong after 1978 to bypass the one-branch-only restriction and expand their retail banking presence here, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority says.

The authority's head of banking development, Edmond Lau, said no legislation had yet been established specifically to regulate Internet banking around the world.

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