Hong Kong bankers are having a whole new experience of financial oversight in the coronavirus pandemic. Leading representatives of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) have consoled some bank managers who have been quarantined for weeks after traveling abroad to send them sweets, a spokesman confirmed. But there is no official program of the authority to keep the employees of finance houses happy in their isolation. Rather, the guards would have paid for the candy out of their own pocket and quarantined a handful of bankers as a token of personal solidarity. The comparatively tough quarantine regulations in the financial metropolis had previously triggered criticism from the banking industry. Hong Kong residents are required to self-isolate in a government-approved hotel for three weeks at their own expense after practically all travel other than the People’s Republic of China.
Quarantine bankers – candy from the financial regulator – economy
