Hong Kong SFC Enforcement News Watch

Securities and Futures Commission enforcement news as it is published: reprimands, fines, suspensions, bans, freezing orders and prosecutions, with the named parties the SFC attaches to each item. Keyed on the SFC's own news reference number.

Source

HK SFC eDistribution public news search API (public, logged-out)

• https://apps.sfc.hk/edistributionWeb/api/news/search

Public, logged-out only — no API key, login, cookie or CAPTCHA.

Pricing

Event	Price (FREE tier)
Actor start (apify-actor-start)	$0.02 one-time
Source check (source-check)	$0.10
Per delta (enforcement-news-delta)	$0.30

source-check ladder, GOLD-floored: $0.10 / $0.09 / $0.08 / $0.067. Charged once per run after the source enumeration terminates — seed runs and genuine-zero runs included. It is not charged when the source refused the read: a run that never read the source has not performed a source check.

The per-delta value event (enforcement-news-delta) is the primary event and is priced at $0.30 per delta at the FREE tier. Ladder, GOLD-floored: $0.30 / $0.27 / $0.24 / $0.201 (FREE / BRONZE / SILVER / GOLD-PLATINUM-DIAMOND). source-check still charges; it is no longer the headline event. Billed deltas are capped at 500 per run and any overflow is reported as a withholding rather than charged.

Snapshot mode is a PREVIEW

watch_mode: false returns at most 25 records, hard-capped in code regardless of any input, labeled output_mode: "preview". This actor sells change detection, not bulk record export.

Watch semantics

The first watch run stores a private baseline and emits zero deltas. Later runs emit NEW / CHANGED / REMOVED keyed on the source-native id with before / after and changed_fields. Billed deltas are capped at 500 per run; the overflow is reported as a named PARTIAL withholding, is never billed, and is re-detected on the next run.

Terminal states

NORMAL · SUCCEEDED-0: GENUINE_EMPTY · SUCCEEDED-0 (no change) · PARTIAL · BLOCKED. A zero with no evidence FAILS loud rather than exiting 0 quietly.

Run it WEEKLY, not daily

Schedule this Actor once a week. That is a recommendation about your bill, not about coverage — a weekly run reads the same window and misses nothing.

SFC enforcement is a low-frequency, high-consequence feed. Measured on 2026-07-27: 4 enforcement items in the trailing 30 days, about 1.3 a week, against 200 items spanning 881 days on the enforcement category. On a daily schedule the seven weekly source-check events are roughly two thirds of your bill and buy no extra signal; on a weekly schedule the per-delta event carries most of it and you see exactly the same enforcement actions.

Override the cadence if you have a reason to — a same-day read of a reprimand, a ban or a freezing order is worth the extra checks to some desks.