Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Gateway listing venue between mainland China and global capital.
- MIC (ISO 10383)
- XHKG
- Country
- Hong Kong SAR
- Type
- Stock exchange
- Trading currency
- HKD
- Timezone
- Asia/Hong_Kong
- Operator
- HKEX
- Operator LEI
- 213800YTVSXYQN17BW16 (GLEIF)
Trading session local time · Asia/Hong_Kong
Session hours and the settlement cycle are compiled by Finance Foundation from the venue’s own published trading calendar. These are exact and change-prone — an extended session or a moved auction dates a figure like this quickly — so each row below carries what two independently maintained open calendars say about the same venue. Verify against the exchange before relying on any of it operationally. Sources.
Two independently maintained open calendars return the same hours as we hold. Cross-check from exchange_calendars (Apache 2.0) and pandas_market_calendars (MIT); neither endorses this site.
- Regular session
- 09:30–16:00
- Lunch break
- 12:00-13:00
- Pre-market
- 09:00-09:30
- Settlement cycle
- T+2
Ownership
- Operating entity
- HONG KONG EXCHANGES AND CLEARING LIMITED HK
213800YTVSXYQN17BW16
Not the name this venue trades under. HKEX is the group; the entity above is the one the ISO 10383 registry binds XHKG to, and the one that legally runs this market. - Ultimate owner
- None above it — HONG KONG EXCHANGES AND CLEARING LIMITED is the top of its own ownership chain.
GLEIF records no parent for this entity (NON_CONSOLIDATING), so the operator is itself the top of the tree - Sibling venues
- London Metal Exchange — run by the same group
- Owner listed
- 388 on Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Self-listed — its own shares trade on a market it operates. - Who holds it
- Widely held, with the Hong Kong SAR Government holding 6.17% for the account of the Exchange Fund and standing as an approved 'Minority Controller' since 7 September 2007; the only other disclosed 5%+ interest is JPMorgan Chase & Co. at 6.92%, mostly held as investment manager and lending agent.
Clearing and settlement
| Institution | Role | LEI |
|---|---|---|
| Hong Kong Securities Clearing Company | Depository and central counterparty | 213800NM8ZN1F16ARD34 |
These are separate legal entities from the venue operator above, each with its own LEI — a distinction the ISO 10383 registry itself gets wrong for two venues in this dataset, where it records the depository's or the clearing house's code against the exchange. The full layer.
Segment MICs 3 venues under XHKG
| MIC | Segment / venue |
|---|---|
| XGEM | Hong Kong Growth Enterprise Market (GEM) |
| SHSC | Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect |
| SZSC | Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect |
Operating MIC vs segment MIC per ISO 10383: the operating code identifies the exchange, segment codes identify its individual order books, growth markets and derivatives venues. Every code was checked line by line against the official ISO 10383 registry file (SWIFT is the registration authority) — codes that were expired or belonged to a separate operating venue were rejected.
Assets tied to this venue
Hang Seng Index calculated on
Covered assets whose relationship to this venue is recorded in the dataset — an index calculated on it, or a contract listed on it. Companies listed here are in the table above; this is the non-equity side.
Benchmark indices
Hang Seng Index · Hang Seng China Enterprises Index · Hang Seng TECH Index
1 of these 3 are covered as assets here and link through; the rest are named because the venue publishes them, not because we track them. A linked index is a real relationship in the dataset, not a name that happened to match.
Top companies by market cap covered set · 8
| Company | Ticker | Sector | Mkt cap ≈ |
|---|---|---|---|
| TencentInternet & Gaming | 0700 | Communication Services | $527.9bn |
| ICBCBanking | 1398 | Financials | $397.7bn |
| AlibabaE-Commerce & Cloud | 9988 | Consumer Discretionary | $278.6bn |
| China MobileTelecommunications | 941 | Communication Services | $223.6bn |
| Ping AnInsurance & financial services | 2318 | Financials | $142.6bn |
| AIA GroupLife insurance | 1299 | Financials | $99.6bn |
| XiaomiSmartphones, IoT & electric vehicles | 1810 | Technology | $91.4bn |
| MeituanFood delivery & local services platform | 3690 | Consumer Discretionary | $61bn |
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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