Hong Kong Explores SPAC Listings to Get In on Deal Boom

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Hong Kong is exploring allowing listing of special purpose acquisition companies, jumping into a market that has sparked a frenzy of U.S. dealmaking.

The government has asked the Hong Kong exchange and the city’s financial regulator to look into having SPACs list, according to Financial Secretary Paul Chan.