Investors and economists have been talking about the peg’s demise since China regained control of the city in 1997. There’s always the possibility of the HKMA pegging the HK dollar to the yuan instead of the greenback. Zhang Yichen, chairman and CEO of Citic Capital, the Chinese investment bank, says that won’t occur soon. Speaking at the World Economic Forum in the Chinese city of Dalian on Sept. 9, Zhang said the Hong Kong government will be hard-pressed to end the peg until the yuan becomes a truly convertible currency, meaning that it must be exchangeable for foreign currencies in unlimited amounts.