FX Markets Asia Awards

Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited ("BOCHK") is a leading listed commercial banking group (Stock Code: 2388) and one of the three note-issuing banks in Hong Kong. BOCHK celebrated its 100th Anniversary for serving Hong Kong in 2017. BOCHK offers a comprehensive range of financial products and advisory services to central banks, supranational institutions, sovereign funds, financial institutions, corporate and personal clients. With its distinct market position, BOCHK has been enjoying favorable credit ratings and stable outlook by international rating agencies. BOCHK is named the Bank of the Year in Hong Kong by The Banker in 2013, 2015, 2017 & 2021. It is also nominated as the Strongest Bank in Asia Pacific and Hong Kong by The Asian Banker for 6 years (2014-18, 2020), in recognition of its solid financial performance and ability to continuously increase profitability. BOCHK is the sole RMB Clearing Bank in Hong Kong appointed by the People's Bank of China since 2003, the first overseas CIPS Direct Participant since June 2016, and the largest RMB Clearing Bank in terms of settlement volumes and values ‐ handling more than 70% worldwide cross-border RMB payments and support for a daily clearing value up to CNY1.5 trillion. Leveraging its professional expertise, comprehensive RMB product mix, and close tie with the parent bank, Bank of China, in the Mainland, BOCHK strives to become the best choice for all RMB needs of its customers. To implement the overseas development strategy of Bank of China Group, BOCHK branches and subsidiaries have been extended to Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and Myanmar during 2017-20, with the provision of professional and high-quality financial services. Firmly rooted in Hong Kong since 1917, BOCHK is expediting its development into a top-class, full-service and internationalized regional bank.

Bloomberg Professional Services – the Bloomberg Terminal and Bloomberg's enterprise data management and integration services – provide real-time data, breaking news, in-depth research and powerful analytics to help financial professionals make smarter, faster and better-informed decisions. Bloomberg helps clients navigate the increasingly complex liquidity, regulatory and accounting disclosure landscape, with a diverse suite of solutions that combines high-quality data, unparalleled market analytics and best-in-class service. 

BNP Paribas is a leading bank in Europe with an international reach. It has a presence in 74 countries, with more than 192,000 employees, including more than 146,000 in Europe. The Group has key positions in its three main activities: Domestic Markets and International Financial Services and Corporate & Institutional Banking, which serves two client franchises: corporate clients and institutional investors. The Group helps all its clients to realise their projects through solutions spanning financing, investment, savings and protection insurance.

Fully integrated in the BNP Paribas Group, BNP Paribas Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) is a leading provider of solutions to two client franchises: corporates and institutionals, and operates across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. The bank is a global leader in Debt Capital Markets and Derivatives. It is a top European house in Equity Capital Markets and it has leading franchises in Specialised Financing. In Securities Services, it is a top five house worldwide.

About CIMB Group

CIMB Group is one of ASEAN's leading universal banking groups and is Malaysia's second largest financial services provider, by assets. It offers consumer banking, commercial banking, investment banking, Islamic banking, asset management and insurance products and services. Headquartered in Kuala Lumpur, the Group is now present in nine out of 10 ASEAN nations (Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos). Beyond ASEAN, the Group has market presence in China, Hong Kong, India, Sri Lanka, Korea, the US and UK.

CIMB Group is listed on Bursa Malaysia via CIMB Group Holdings Berhad. It had a market capitalisation of approximately RM 60.3 billion as at 31 December 2017. The Group has around 38,000 employees located in 15 countries.

FXSpotStream is a bank owned consortium founded in 2011 and operates as a market utility. FXSpotStream provides multibank FX streaming, RFS and matching services supporting trading in FX Spot, Forwards, Swaps, NDFs/NDS and Precious Metals Spot and Swaps.

Banks connected to FXSpotStream serve as Liquidity Providers to clients. Clients can access a GUI or single API from co-location sites in New York, London and Tokyo and have the ability to communicate with all Liquidity Providing banks connected to FXSpotStream.

FXSpotStream has revolutionized the FX trading platform landscape by eliminating the cost of execution for price takers and allowing price makers the ability to pay a flat fee for all executed transactions. We are the only venue on the market today with this unique commercial model.

HSBC is a financial services organisation that serves more than 40 million customers, ranging from individual savers and investors to some of the world’s biggest companies and governments. Its network covers 64 countries and territories, and its expertise, capabilities, breadth and perspectives open up a world of opportunity for its customers. HSBC is listed on the London, Hong Kong, New York, Paris and Bermuda stock exchanges.

Invast Global is a specialist multi-asset prime broker based in Sydney, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The company specialises in providing prime services to small/mid-sized hedge funds, asset managers, proprietary trading firms, other brokerages and banks.

The milestones have been accumulating fast for the entrepreneurial firm, with its institutional client base growing strongly worldwide and a particularly strong penetration into the hedge fund space. Multi-asset turnover for the firm now exceeds well over AU$100bn monthly.

The company has received numerous highly-respected industry awards, often beating larger, globally renowned investment banks.

The JASDAQ-listed Japanese parent company – Invast Securities Co. has a 60-year history as a Forex and Securities brokerage and enjoys stable, long-standing relationships with numerous tier-one bank prime brokers.

OCBC Bank is the longest established Singapore bank, formed in 1932 from the merger of three local banks, the oldest of which was founded in 1912. It is now the second largest financial services group in Southeast Asia by assets and one of the world’s most highly-rated banks, with an Aa1 rating from Moody’s.

OCBC Bank and its subsidiaries offer a broad array of commercial banking, specialist financial and wealth management services, ranging from consumer, corporate, investment, private and transaction banking to treasury, insurance, asset management and stockbroking services.

OCBC Bank’s key markets are Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Greater China. It has more than 480 branches and representative offices in 19 countries and regions. These include over 230 branches and offices in Indonesia under subsidiary Bank OCBC NISP, and over 70 branches and offices in Mainland China, Hong Kong SAR and Macau SAR under OCBC Wing Hang.

Singapore Exchange is Asia’s leading and trusted securities and derivatives market infrastructure, operating equity, fixed income, currency and commodity markets to the highest regulatory standards. It also operates a multi-asset sustainability platform, SGX FIRST or Future in Reshaping Sustainability Together (sgx.com/first).

SGX is committed to facilitating economic growth in a sustainable manner leveraging its roles as a key player in the ecosystem, a business, regulator and listed company. With climate action as a key priority, SGX aims to be a leading sustainable and transition financing and trading hub offering trusted, quality, end-to-end products and solutions.

As Asia’s most international, multi-asset exchange, SGX provides listing, trading, clearing, settlement, depository and data services, with about 40% of listed companies and over 80% of listed bonds originating outside of Singapore. SGX is the world’s most liquid international market for the benchmark equity indices of China, India, Japan and ASEAN. Headquartered in AAA-rated Singapore, SGX is globally recognised for its risk management and clearing capabilities. For more information, please visit www.sgx.com.

About 360T

360T is far more than an award-winning multi-bank, multi-asset trading platform for OTC

financial instruments. As the Deutsche Börse Group’s global FX unit, the company offers a full

range of streamlined services across the entire trading workflow of FX and short-term Money

Market asset classes, adding real value to clients. Above and beyond optimising execution,

360T allows clients to directly reduce their operational costs and risks in all parts of the trading

life cycle while enhancing compliance and transparency at the same time.

360T’s network is used by over 2300 buy-side clients organizations worldwide. White-label and in-house trading solutions provided by 360T have been adopted by major international companies to link request and transaction flow through a central trading desk. 360T has a global presence with customers in more than 75 countries and offices in Europe, America, Asia Pacific, India and the Middle East.

Further information: www.360t.com