State of the Art Operations

HKMEx‘s electronic trading system and technology infrastructure is among the most advanced of any exchange in the Asia-Pacific region. The Exchange’s technology infrastructure is built around two data centres, offering a “hot-hot” trading system architecture designed to minimise downtime in the event of hardware failure. No single power failure or telecommunications disruption can affect trading on the Exchange.

HKMEx’s industry-leading technology is designed to offer maximum flexibility and speed to meet the requirements of the most demanding market participants. At 1.6 milliseconds, it has one of the lowest latencies in the industry, allowing HKMEx to handle high liquidity and trading volumes on a secure and rapidly scalable high-end platform. Our Pearl® trading system is a bespoke architecture built on technology provided by leading global IT solution providers.