Hong Kong Exchange: Focus on building a diversified asset ecosystem, striving to introduce "zero-day rights" to the market.

Charles Li, CEO of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, said that over the past two years, HKEX has performed well in increasing the liquidity of the stock market and IPOs. Revenue, other income, and profits have reached record highs for the second consecutive year, and trading volumes in the spot, derivatives, and commodity markets have also reached record highs, with a year-on-year increase of 90% to nearly HK$250 billion in daily turnover. Li pointed out that global investors' demand for diversification continues to rise, not only towards diversified stock products, but also towards derivatives, commodities, fixed income, etc. HKEX will focus on building a diversified asset ecosystem in the future to enhance Hong Kong's market competitiveness and is optimistic about the trend of daily trading volume. Kevin Yau, head of markets, said that there is strong demand from professional retail investors, with derivatives products being particularly popular. In addition to bond ETFs, HKEX may also launch fixed income ETFs in the future, and there may be more new products coming to the futures market, including weekly and monthly stock options. It was reported last year that HKEX plans to launch Hang Seng "zero day" options contracts in the first half of this year, contracts that expire on the same day of trading. Yau revealed that work on this is progressing and efforts are being made to launch them on the market as soon as possible.