Q&A with Nanhua Financial on Choosing Nasdaq as Their Technology Provider

We spoke with Nong Yan, CEO of Nanhua Financial, about the key drivers that led to choosing Nasdaq as their technology provider as well as Nanhua’s strategy in the near future.

Can you tell us about Nanhua and your strategy ahead? 

Nanhua Financial is a U.K.-regulated futures commission merchant (FCM) and a subsidiary of Nanhua Futures. We are a clearing member of London Metals Exchange and soon to be a clearing member of ICE Europe. Through us, our clients can trade LME, ICE, CME, SGX, HKEX and Chinese INE, DCE and ZCE products, which our group affiliate companies are all direct clearing members of. We aim to become a one-stop shop for investors who’d like to have access to most global commodity derivative products.

What were the key drivers for your decision to choose Nasdaq as your technology provider?

We have already been using Nasdaq Trade Surveillance for our LME products for a few years. Now that we are on the path of expanding our business into some new areas with multiple exchanges and asset classes, a reliable and dynamic risk system is a must in order to support our current and coming trading volume. Nasdaq Risk Platform is a sophisticated yet flexible risk management tool that meets our needs, as well as helps us satisfy the requirements of regulators and exchanges.

How will Nasdaq’s Risk Platform and Trade Surveillance solutions help you achieve strategic goals?

We place a high value on effective risk management throughout our operations. We are pleased to leverage the Nasdaq Risk Platform,  which enables us to efficiently manage our counterparty credit and market risks across major exchanges globally in real time.

What benefits will this partnership bring to your customers?

We as a broker and our clients will all have real-time risk control and liquidity management. It can also be customized for our needs as our business grows and expands into new areas, supporting multiple client profiles from simple hedgers to multi-asset traders.

Looking ahead, where do you see Nanhua in the next 5-10 years?

We aim to be a one-stop shop on global derivatives products. Our strategy is to be a broker that provides some of the best services to clients on leading trading platforms, through resilient and robust risk management systems, professional market analysis and in-depth research reports.