The Hong Kong Monetary Authority announced that Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited will become a strategic shareholder of CMU OmniClear Holdings Limited, with HKEX acquiring a 20% stake through the subscription of new shares. The Exchange Fund managed by the HKMA will retain the remaining 80%, positioning the partnership as a step to strengthen Hong Kong’s capital markets financial infrastructure and support development of its fixed income and currencies ecosystem. CMU OmniClear Holdings was established by the Exchange Fund in October 2025 to wholly own CMU OmniClear Limited, which runs the operations and business development activities of Hong Kong’s central securities depository infrastructure, the Central Moneymarkets Unit system, on behalf of the HKMA. The HKMA and HKEX plan to use the joint venture to develop Hong Kong’s post-trade securities infrastructure into a major central securities depository in the region, including through further commercialisation of CMU and initiatives such as expanding investor CSD services, widening asset class coverage, and developing collateral management services to improve cross-asset class efficiency. The HKMA will remain the owner and system operator of CMU for the purposes of the Payment Systems and Stored Value Facilities Ordinance, and legal relationships with CMU participants and other system linkages will remain with the HKMA. A signing ceremony was scheduled to take place later the same day in connection with establishing the joint venture.

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