Company: MEGL
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form Type: F-1/A
Source: 0001641172-25-018709
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Company: Magic Empire Global Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-07-11
Form: F-1/A
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Following the enactment of the Securities and Futures (Amendment) Ordinance 2012, the Investor Education Centre (now known as the Investor and Financial Education Council) was formed as a SFC subsidiary to educate the public on a broad range of retail financial products and services.

Licensing regime under the SFO

Under the SFO, any person who carries on a business in a regulated activity or holds itself out as carrying on a business in a regulated activity must be licensed under the relevant provisions of the SFO to carry on that regulated activity, unless any exemption under the SFO applies. This applies to a corporation carrying on a business in a regulated activity and to any individuals acting on behalf of that corporation in carrying on such activities, as further described below. It is an offense for a person to conduct any regulated activity without the appropriate license issued by the SFC.

Further, if a person (whether by itself or another person on his behalf, and whether in Hong Kong or from a place outside of Hong Kong) actively markets to the public in Hong Kong any services that it provides and such services, if provided in Hong Kong, would constitute a regulated activity, then that person is also subject to the licensing requirements under the SFO.

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Types of regulated activities

Schedule 5 to the SFO stipulates 13 types of regulated activities, namely:

Type 1: Dealing in securities

Type 2: Dealing in futures contracts

Type 3: Leveraged foreign exchange trading

Type 4: Advising on securities

Type 5: Advising on futures contracts

Type 6: Advising on corporate finance

Type 7: Providing automated trading services

Type 8: Securities margin financing

Type 9: Asset management

Type 10: Providing credit rating services

#Type 11: Dealing in OTC derivative products or advising on OTC derivative products

#Type 12: Providing client clearing services for OTC derivative transactions

Type 13: Providing depositary services for relevant CISs

#Not yet in operation for licensing purposes

Licensed corporation

For application as a licensed corporation, the applicant has to be incorporated and the licensed corporation has to satisfy the SFC that it has proper business structure, good internal control systems and qualified personnel to ensure the proper management of risks that it will encounter in carrying on the proposed regulated business as detailed in the business plan submitted to the SFC.

Responsible Officers

In order for a licensed corporation to carry on any of the regulated