Hong Kong exchange operator HKEX announced on Thursday that it had renewed a memorandum of understanding with Mainland futures bourse China Financial Futures Exchange (CFFEX).
The renewal extends a formal cooperation framework that has been in place since January 2012, when the two exchanges signed their original MOU in Shanghai. That agreement was described at the time as covering cooperation and the exchange of information.
The available release material confirms the renewal but does not disclose specific commercial, product, or operational terms.
An MOU between exchange operators is typically a framework for institutional cooperation, not a direct market-access or product announcement. In this case, the renewal keeps a formal channel in place between Hong Kong’s exchange group and the Mainland’s financial futures exchange.
The original 2012 signing was between Charles Li, then HKEx Chief Executive, and Zhu Yuchen, then CFFEX President. At the time, Zhu said it was the first MOU that CFFEX had signed with another exchange.
The HKEX-CFFEX relationship now spans more than 14 years.
