Appointments to Board of Financial Services Development Council announced
The Government announced today (January 15) that the Chief Executive had reappointed Mr Ronald Chan Wai-yan, Mr Ben Chan Wei-beng, Ms Luanne Lim Hui-hung and Ms Jennifer Tan Yuen-chun as members of the Board of Directors of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC), for a term of two years with effect from January 17, 2026.
The Financial Services Development Council (FSDC), Photo source: reference image
Announcing the appointments, a spokesman for the Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau said, "The reappointees are all seasoned practitioners in the industry with extensive knowledge of global financial markets. We believe that they will continue to offer valuable advice to the FSDC, assisting the FSDC with conducting policy research, promoting market development and nurturing talent, thereby enhancing Hong Kong's status as an international financial centre."
The FSDC was established in 2013 by the Government as a high-level advisory body to engage the industry in formulating proposals to promote the further development of Hong Kong's financial services industry and to map out strategic directions for development.
The membership list of the FSDC Board of Directors with effect from January 17, 2026, is as follows:
Chairman
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Mr Benjamin Hung Pi-cheng
Vice-Chairmen
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Ms Ding Chen
Mr Daniel R Fung, SC
Mr Andrew Walter Bougourd Ross Weir
Members
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Mr Edward Au Chun-hing
Mr Ronald Chan Wai-yan
Mr Ben Chan Wei-beng
Dr Adrian Cheng Chi-kong
Mr Damien Allen Green
Mr Jeremy Dinshaw Lam
Ms Luanne Lim Hui-hung
Ms Amy Lo Choi-wan
Ms Aveline San Pau-len
Ms Jennifer Tan Yuen-chun
Mr Tony Tang Xiaodong
Ms Daisy Yeung
Executive Director of the FSDC
Ex-officio member
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Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury
January 2026 issue of "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" now available
The Census and Statistics Department (C&SD) published today (January 15) the January 2026 issue of the "Hong Kong Monthly Digest of Statistics" (HKMDS).
Apart from providing up-to-date statistics, this issue also contains a feature articles entitled "Marriage and Divorce Trends in Hong Kong, 1991 to 2024".
"Marriage and Divorce Trends in Hong Kong, 1991 to 2024"
This feature article provides an overview on the marriage and divorce trends in Hong Kong from 1991 to 2024.
There has been an increasing tendency towards marriage postponement or non-marriage in both genders. In 2021, 30.9% of males and 27.0% of females had never been married (figures excluding foreign domestic helpers). The median ages at first marriage for males and females increased from 29.1 and 26.2 in 1991 to 32.6 and 31.0 in 2024 respectively. The number of registered marriages in Hong Kong decreased from 42 568 in 1991 to 32 825 in 2001 and gradually rebounded to 60 459 in 2012. A general downward trend resumed afterwards, with 44 196 registered marriages in 2024. On the other hand, Hong Kong females marrying Mainland males has become more common. The proportion of such marriages to all cross-boundary marriages increased significantly from 6.1% in 1991 to 40.0% in 2024. Furthermore, the number of divorces increased in the past 3 decades or so, with the crude divorce rate (per 1 000 population) increased from 1.11 in 1991 to 2.52 in 2024.
For enquiries about this feature article, please contact the Demographic Statistics Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 3903 6933; email: population@censtatd.gov.hk).
Published in bilingual form, the HKMDS is a compact volume of official statistics containing about 130 tables. It collects up-to-date statistical series on various aspects of the social and economic situation of Hong Kong. Topics include population; labour; external trade; National Income and Balance of Payments; prices; business performance; energy; housing and property; government accounts, finance and insurance; and transport, communications and tourism. For selected key statistical items, over 20 charts depicting the annual trend in the past decade and quarterly or monthly trend in the recent two years are also available. Users can download the Digest at the website of the C&SD (www.censtatd.gov.hk/en/EIndexbySubject.html?pcode=B1010002&scode=460).
Enquiries about the contents of the Digest can be directed to the Statistical Information Dissemination Section (1) of the C&SD (Tel: 2582 4738; email: gen-enquiry@censtatd.gov.hk).
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