HKMEx Headquarters

ICC Office

The Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange ("HKMEx" or the "Exchange") headquartered at the International Commerce Centre, Hong Kong's tallest building.

HKMEx will provide standardised cleared exchange-traded products on a transparent pricing platform to the Asia-Pacific time zone. No longer will regional investors and traders face the risk of a market liquidity gap while New York and London are closed. We will offer the liquidity needed by commodities investors, consumers and producers for arbitrage and hedging between different markets in different time zones for our products.

The current financial environment has increased the importance of hedging and focused attention on counterparty issues even as new potential opportunities for arbitrage have emerged. Escalated price volatility for raw materials has increased the need for companies to hedge their exposures even as counterparty risk related to the global financial crisis is driving business from the OTC market onto exchanges.

In addition, the Exchange is uniquely placed to offer commodities investors a trading forum open to the movement of capital and market participation by non-domiciled investors, eliminating the cost and difficulty of operating across multiple regulatory regimes. This central hub for commodities trading in the East Asia time zone will address the growing demand for a single marketplace where regional and global trading partners can interact to mutual benefit.

As a bridge between China and international commodities markets, HKMEx’s goal is to continue Hong Kong’s success in becoming the Mainland’s offshore financial centre. The Exchange will complement Mainland commodities exchanges by enabling transparent price discovery of China-bound commodities, increasing the liquidity in trading of these commodities and ultimately providing a means of benchmarking China’s overseas investments.