Tiger Brokers on Connecting Asian Investors to U.S. Markets & Tokenized Securities

Hi, I'm Vince Molinari, Welcome to FinTech TV.

We're bringing you some special coverage today from the New York Stock Exchange International Retail Forum, and with that, I'd like to, uh, introduce and welcome Felix Huang, who is the group global partner at Tiger Brokers.

Felix, welcome to the show.

Great, thank you.

Thank you for having me here.

Well, absolutely a pleasure and what a better, uh.

Meaning that can't happen is the New York Stock Exchange.

Hey, yo, kick us off.

Tell us a little bit about Tiger Brokers and what you're up to.

OK, cool.

Uh, so Tiger Brokers, we started our business in Asia back in 2014.

Uh, we listed NASA back in 2019.

So now we have our offices and operations in, uh, US, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia, and New Zealand.

Uh, we are expanding to other jurisdictions and countries as well.

Uh, we started as an online broker, but now that we have more than that, um, investment banking divisions and also we have institutional services, yeah, well, that's one of our, and, and it's really a A great amount of growth in a relatively short period of time.

So congratulations on that.

Thank you.

Uh, you know, Felix, we talked a little bit about it earlier, and I think you described it as maybe some bridge building and, uh, between Asia, Korea, specifically, and the US.

Maybe you can expand upon that a little bit.

OK, cool.

Um, so at the very beginning when we start our business, we just want to bring, um, the Asian investors to invest in the US market because the US market is the biggest and best market in the world.

Um, but later on, um, we, as we started as a retail broker but expanding to our investment banking division, we, we, we saw that a lot of our good tech company in Asia, they want to capture the opportunity to listen in to the US.

So that is also another thing we do.

So two bridges, one is like, um, bringing the Asian, um, you know, capital regardless of retail and institutions to invest in the US market, and second is to, uh, bringing the Asian tech good company to list in the US as well.

Great.

Well, the power and the convening of the New York Stock Exchange is always top notch, seems to be, uh, the who's who of retail, uh, brokerage from Asia with a, with a lot of concentration in Korea here.

You know, why did you make the journey?

Why was it important for you to be here?

Um, so there is a few things we look into.

So one is the New York Exchange extended trading hours.

Um, I think that is really friendly, um, to, um, to the Asian investors, especially the people live in New Zealand and and and Australia, uh, because traditionally, when, you know, the, the, the record train hours started, it was a midnight of, uh, you know, Auckland time.

So, um, so I, I think that is something we want to, you know, um, you know, you know, bridge the gap for the investors in, um, in, in, in New Zealand, Australia, to, to the US as well.

That, that's, uh, first thing.

Uh, second thing is, um, you know, the whole US infrastructure is quite changing, um, especially on the tokenized, um, share, uh, on the DDCC side, um, you know, NYSC side.

So for us, well, we are the current member, so also an NYC member, so that's something we also look into, uh, we want to be the pioneer of the infrastructure.

To capture the change, to bring that back to the Asian markets.

So it really is a two-way conduit.

Yes, yes.

Excellent.

Uh, have you gotten any sense of the adoption or acceptance?

I know as we moved into certainly end of 2025 into 2026, tokenization of securities, equities, particularly, uh, have been on the forefront.

Give us any insight on how that's being received in the Asian market.

Um, I think US market, of course, is a pioneer.

So all the market participants, regardless of the broker, investors, and also the regulators, also, uh, everyone is actually looking at US, what they are doing and how they can catch up.

So, um, I think for the regulator side, um, they are quite learning, um, but for the investor side, they really want to capture the opportunity.

Uh, for the business that we are doing, especially for the IBD side.

Initially when company list they issue new shares, right, but now they are actually looking for issue tokens, um, so, so that is, uh, because we I can remember we, uh, we have to be the, um, infrastructure who will be able to help those companies to settle their token when they issue in the, in, in the IPO.

Yeah, so that's really cutting edge when we think about it IPOs in a tokenized format and how they're going to settle, be distributed.

Uh, but congratulations on, on seemingly to be on the, uh, pioneering side of so much of that and working with the US, really to democratize more access to opportunities.

Um, well, Felix, I appreciate you coming on today and sharing your insights.

Great, thank you.

Thank you so much.

Thank you.