- CEO
- Yiting Chan
- Full Time Employees
- 2,444
- Sector
- Financial Services
- Industry
- Financial - Data & Stock Exchanges
- Address
- Two Exchange Square Central Hong Kong
- IPO Date
- Jan 5, 2010
- Business
- Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) operates as one of the world's major exchange groups, providing trading, clearing, settlement and market data services across equity, commodity, fixed income and currency markets through its wholly-owned subsidiaries, including The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (SEHK), Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited (HKFE) and London Metal Exchange (LME); core products and services encompass equities, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), real estate investment trusts (REITs), bonds, structured equity products, depositary receipts, unit trusts/mutual funds, warrants, equity index and single stock futures and options, interest rate and fixed income derivatives, gold futures, currency futures and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives including interest rate swaps and non-deliverable forwards; the group also offers connectivity solutions such as Stock Connect, Swap Connect and Synapse, alongside comprehensive market data via HKEX Information Services Limited and reference prices including CESC Indices and HKEX-Thomson Reuters RMB Indices. HKEX functions as Hong Kong's sole securities and derivatives exchange operator and clearing houses provider, overseeing four clearing entities—Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited (HKSCC), HKFE Clearing Corporation Limited (HKCC), SEHK Options Clearing House Limited (SEOCH) and OTC Clearing Hong Kong Limited (OTC Clear)—while regulating listed companies and trading participants to maintain a transparent marketplace. Founded in 2000 through the merger of Hong Kong's securities and futures exchanges and headquartered at 8 Connaught Place, Central, Hong Kong, the company serves regional and international investors targeting Asia's markets, particularly as a gateway connecting China with global capital flows, with operations extending to Europe via LME and strategic offices in New York and London. In recent developments, HKEX plans to acquire a 20% strategic stake in CMU OmniClear—operator of Hong Kong's Central Moneymarkets Unit (CMU) fixed-income central securities depository—from the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) for up to HK$455 million to enhance post-trade infrastructure, cross-asset efficiencies in equities and fixed income, collateral management using Mainland bonds and development of an international central securities depository in Asia; earlier in 2025, it signed a memorandum of understanding with CMU OmniClear to boost the fixed-income and currencies ecosystem; additional initiatives include agreements for a permanent headquarters at Exchange Square with Hongkong Land, implementation of Severe Weather Trading arrangements from September 2024 enabling market access during typhoons, enhancements to Connect programmes such as adding over 1,000 Northbound stocks and launching Swap Connect, rollout of the HKD-RMB Dual Counter Model for 24 designated shares, FINI platform shortening IPO settlement to T+2, development of the Orion Derivatives Platform and post-trade modernisation of Orion Cash Platform, achievement of group-wide carbon neutrality in 2024 and mandating end of single-gender boards for listed companies by end-2024. These strategic moves position HKEX to deepen liquidity, support RMB internationalisation, advance multi-asset ecosystem growth and reinforce Hong Kong's role as a global financial centre.