
Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEx) is Hong Kong's only stock and futures exchange. Founded in 1989, the firm became a holding company for exchanges and clearing houses including The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company, and Hong Kong Futures Exchange following market reform in 2000. KHEx offers a variety of pre- and post-trade investment services through its information services, exchange, business development, information technology, and other divisions. It handles securities settlement through its Central Clearing and Settlement System, or CCASS. Charles Li was named CEO of HKEx in 2010. He succeeded Chou Man Yiu, who retired from the company.

LSEG LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) is more than a diversified global financial markets infrastructure and data business. We are dedicated, open-access partners with a commitment to excellence in delivering the services our customers expect from us. With extensive experience, deep knowledge and worldwide presence across financial markets, we enable businesses and economies around the world to fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs. It’s how we’ve contributed to supporting the financial stability and growth of communities and economies globally for more than 300 years. Data & Analytics Our acquisition of Refinitiv means we can provide the breadth and depth of financial data and best-in-class analytics that customers expect –driving innovation and growth across global markets.And our high-performance solutions –from trading, to market surveillance, to wealth solutions and more–help to enhance the performance of our customers. FTSE Russell is a leading global provider of financial indexing, benchmarking and analytic services with more than $16 trillion benchmarked to our indices –and offers an extensive range of data services and research. The combination of Refinitiv and FTSE Russell provides LSEG with leading capabilities in data, analytics, indices and benchmarks Capital Markets We offer our customers extensive access to capital markets and liquidity across multiple asset classes. We operate a broad range of international equity, fixed income, exchange-traded funds/exchange-traded products and foreign exchange markets. Our Group is home to several capital formation and execution venues: London Stock Exchange, AIM, Turquoise, CurveGlobal, FXall and Tradeweb (through a majority ownership interest). Post Trade We support our customers’ clearing and reporting obligations, providing risk, balance sheet and financial resource management solutions, whilst working with our other divisions to extend this support across the value chain. A leading global clearing house with a strong presence across multiple asset classes, LCH helps financial institutions all over the world use their capital efficiently and manage counterparty risk. We work closely with sell-side clearing members and buy-side clients in conjunction with trading venues globally. UnaVista, a regulated platform that helps customers meet their reporting compliance obligations and reduce operational and regulatory risk through reporting, reference data and analytics solutions, further complements our Post Trade offering. Through a comprehensive suite of trusted financial market infrastructure services –and our open-access model –we provide the flexibility, stability and trust that enable our customers to pursue their ambitions with confidence and clarity. LSEG is headquartered in the United Kingdom, with significant operations in 65 countries across EMEA, North America, Latin America and Asia Pacific. We employ over 26,000 people globally, more than half located in Asia Pacific. LSEG’s ticker symbol is LSEG.

Flow Traders is a leading global technology-enabled liquidity provider historically specializing in exchange traded products, but now expanding into other asset classes. We provide continuous liquidity, without having any directional opinion. As a technology focused company operating in the financial space, we use our in-house built technology platform to quote bid and ask prices in over 6000 ETP listings across the globe, tracking all underlying asset classes, including equities, fixed income, commodities & currencies with access to over 160 trading venues in 40 countries around the world. Flow Traders fosters an entrepreneurial and team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole, rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. To ensure this, we provide our employees with the best working environment and continuous support.

Nasdaq is a leading global provider of trading, clearing, exchange technology, listing, information and public company services. Through its diverse portfolio of solutions, Nasdaq enables customers to plan, optimize and execute their business vision with confidence, using proven technologies that provide transparency and insight for navigating today's global capital markets. As the creator of the world's first electronic stock market, its technology powers more than 90 marketplaces in 50 countries, and 1 in 10 of the world's securities transactions. Nasdaq is home to approximately 3,900 total listings with a market value of approximately $12 trillion.

A global technology- and research-driven trading firm where ideas become breakthroughs in global markets.

Intercontinental Exchange builds, operates and advances global markets through information, technology and expertise. We started out in 2000 with the idea of transforming the energy markets by creating an electronic marketplace that removed barriers and drove transparency and access. Today, we’re a Fortune 500 company that connects the largest community of participants in all major markets at key phases of the investing, trading, hedging and capital raising lifecycle. Our comprehensive markets, clearing houses and data solutions mean that we uniquely deliver more mission critical markets, risk management and data for our customers’ workflow than any other exchange operator in the world. With a leading-edge approach to developing technology platforms, we have built market infrastructure in all major trading centers, offering customers the ability to manage risk and make informed decisions in the geography of their choice.

Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm founded by a group of friends who share a passion for game theory and probabilistic thinking. Our rigorous and analytical approach to decision making has led Susquehanna to become one of the largest and most successful proprietary trading firms in the world. In our offices around the globe, our employees are relentless problem solvers who collaborate to make optimal decisions.

Eclipse Trading is a leading proprietary derivatives trading firm. Founded in 2007, we have over 100 employees across 4 office locations – Hong Kong (our HQ), Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago. Our trading expertise and strategies are deployed across several markets globally, focusing on various products including equity derivatives, delta one, ETFs, commodity derivatives, and cryptocurrency. Technology is inextricably linked to our trading strategies, creating an environment powered by intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and innovation.

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on cutting-edge technology, data driven decisions, and automation. Our core competency is providing liquidity as an options market-maker – meaning we provide competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models.