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Exclusive | HKEX to set up two overseas offices in US, Europe to attract more global IPOs, investment, CEO Aguzin says
- ‘As we move to becoming a client-led business, we need to better serve our international clients, to address their needs,’ CEO Nicolas Aguzin says in an exclusive interview
- Aguzin is in Davos for the World Economic Forum, where he will kick off HKEX’s international outreach programme
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Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), which operates Asia’s third-largest stock market, will establish two international offices over the next year to reach out to more overseas investors and market the city as a fundraising destination, according to its chief executive.
One of the offices will be in Europe and the other in the US, Nicolas Aguzin told the Post in an exclusive interview from Davos, Switzerland, where he is attending the World Economic Forum. The exact locations will be announced at a later date, and they will be the first HKEX offices outside Asia. It currently has a presence in Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai.
“What we’re trying to do is to be that bridge between China and the world,” Aguzin said by phone. “Today some 43 per cent of our investors are international investors, and so we have to be close to them. As we move to becoming a client-led business, we need to better serve our international clients, to address their needs.”
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He said that the purpose of the new offices was to provide services and support to international companies.
“We don’t want just to be a fundraising hub looking for international capital for Chinese companies. We want to be much more than that. We want to be able to provide to international companies the ability to come to an exciting market like ours, to raise money and raise their profile.”
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