Singapore 21/10/2015 - John Browning and Tiger Shi have set up a futures brokerage, BANDS Financial Ltd, in Hong Kong, having obtained a futures broking licence from Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission last week, Browning told FastMarkets.
"We will be looking at futures across the board, equity indices, energy, interest rates, currencies, commodities, wherever the demand from our clients," he said.
Browning and Shi - who was formerly at Jefferies and earlier at Newedge - are both managing directors of BANDS.
BANDS plan to open a new office in Shanghai in mid-2016.