OREANDA-NEWS. Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited’s (HKEx) securities and derivatives markets set several new records this year according to market statistics for 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015 published today (Sunday) by HKEx in response to media requests.

Turnover in HKEx’s securities and derivatives markets have reached new single-year highs of $25,532 billion and 183,221,506 contracts respectively (the previous records were $21,666 billion in 2007 and 142,439,039 contracts in 2014 respectively), and the market capitalisation of HKEx’s securities market exceeded $31 trillion for the first time, reaching its high for the year of $31.6 trillion on 26 May 2015.  In addition, many products have had their highest single-year turnover ever, including Exchange Traded Funds, debt securities and a number of derivatives market products (for details please see the market statistics).

Here are some additional highlights from the securities and derivatives markets: 
 

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IPO fundraising from 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015 was US$31.8 billion, the world’s highest for the period, according to data from Dealogic.
 

2.

There have been 125 new listings* since the beginning of this year and total equity funds raised from 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015 was $1,058.3 billion ($246.5 billion through IPOs and $811.8 billion from post-IPO fundraising), exceeding the full-year record high established in 2014.
  

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Turnover of securitised derivatives (derivative warrants and Callable Bull/Bear Contracts) from January to November 2015 was the world’s highest for the period, according to data from the World Federation of Exchanges, or WFE.  HKEx has been the global leader in securities derivatives turnover every year since 2007, according to the WFE.
  

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As of 15 December 2015, there were 1,854 listed companies (Main Board: 1,635, GEM: 219).
 

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From 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015, the average daily turnover (ADT) of the securities market was $108 billion (the current record high ADT for 1 January to 31 December is $88 billion, which was in 2007).
  

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Turnover of RMB Currency Futures was 243,443 contracts from 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015, exceeding the full-year record high of 205,049 contracts in 2014.
 
7. Turnover of the After-hours Futures Trading Session was 5,020,001 contracts (7.8 per cent of the derivatives market’s day trading) from 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015, exceeding the full-year record high of 2,894,374 contracts (6.2 per cent of the derivatives market’s day trading) in 2014.
 

Separately, statistics from the London Metal Exchange (LME), a subsidiary of HKEx, are also available in the market statistics published today.  They include the contract volume, market open interest and global market share of key products.

The total contract volume of nickel from 1 January 2015 to 15 December 2015 was 20,012,681 lots, exceeding the full-year record high of 19,362,974 lots in 2014.

As of 15 December 2015, the LME’s average daily volume was 677,622 lots, down 3 per cent year-on-year.  In terms of the main contracts, the biggest increases through year to mid-December were for nickel, up 8 per cent, and copper, up 2 per cent.