Man Yiu Chow

HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong) Ltd. (HSBC-GAM HK) is the wholly-owned asset management subsidiary of The HongKong & Shanghai Banking Corp. Ltd. and is indirectly owned by HSBC Holdings Plc (LON: HSBA, ADR: HSBC.PRA) in Great Britain. Headquartered in Hong Kong, the firm originated in 1973 as a banking branch and became part of HSBC Asset Management in 1994. The current firm, formerly known as HSBC Investments (Hong Kong) Ltd., was founded in 2005 when the group's investment management business was reorganized. HSBC-GAM HK provides investment management services to corporate clients, private individuals and institutions.

Hong Kong Securities Clearing Co., Ltd. provides securities clearing services. It offers integrated clearing, settlement, and depository and nominee activities to their participants. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong.

Fubon Bank Hong Kong Ltd. engages in the provision of banking and related financial services. It operates through the following segments: Retail Banking, Institutional Banking, and Treasury Investment. The Retail Banking segment comprises consumer finance activities including credit card merchant acquiring, provision of credit card advances, mortgage lending and other consumer lending and wealth management services such as the sales and distribution of insurance products, investment products and securities brokerage to wealth management clients and provision of banking services to the mass market. The Institutional Banking segment refers to corporate banking, commercial banking and financial institutions, covering the provision of services including corporate lending, syndicated loans, trade financing and deposits to large corporates, and small and medium enterprises in Hong Kong and Mainland China. The Treasury Investment segment covers the group’s investment portfolio and trading in foreign exchange and debt securities. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Hong Kong.

HKEx is the holding company of The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong Futures Exchange Limited and Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company Limited. It brings together the market organisations which have transformed Hong Kong's financial services industry from a domestically focused market to become a central market place in Asia attracting investment funds from all over the world. HKEx was listed in June 2000 following the integration of Hong Kong's securities and derivatives markets. As a market-driven organisation, answerable to its shareholders, HKEx competes vigorously for opportunities in the region and around the world. HKEx's operations are organised into focused units, directly supervised and controlled by management and the board of directors. The board, the highest decision-making body, determines HKEx's objectives, missions, strategies, policies and business plan and monitors their implementation by management. In its role as the operator and frontline regulator of the central securities and derivatives marketplace in Hong Kong, HKEx regulates listed issuers; administers listing, trading and clearing rules; and provides services, primarily at the wholesale level, to customers of the exchanges and clearing houses, including issuers and intermediaries - investment banks or sponsors, securities and derivatives brokers, custodian banks and information vendors - who service the investor directly. These services comprise trading, clearing and settlement, depository and nominee services, and information services.

Part of Allied Group Ltd., Sun Hung Kai Securities Ltd. is a securities brokerage firm based in Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese company provides securities brokerage services.

Bank Julius Bär & Co. AG (BJB) is the private banking subsidiary of Julius Bär Gruppe AG (SWX: BAER) in Switzerland. Headquartered in Zurich, BJB was founded in 1890 and provides personal wealth management advice to private clients and family offices.