HONG KONG, June 13 -- Hong Kong has quietly reclaimed the position of top global initial public offering venue for the first time since 2019, the city's exchange operator confirmed this week, with Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing chief executive Bonnie Chan Yi-ting telling investors that the IPO pipeline now contains more than ten international firms and that the underlying structural shift toward Hong Kong as the preferred listing destination for Asian technology, biotechnology and consumer-internet companies has hardened into a reliable pattern. The first quarter of 2026 produced the largest quarterly IPO volume Hong Kong has seen since 2018, the first five months delivered ten specialist technology listings raising 25 billion United St...