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Account Services

Fees re. keeping and operating your account

Updated today

Account Maintenance

No minimum deposit or balance requirement.

Handling Fees

Remarks

Account Opening Fee

Individual/Joint Account:

HKD 200

Corporate Account:

HKD 3,800

Open an individual or joint account before 31 December 2025 can enjoy:

  • waive HKD 200 account opening fee;

  • special commission rate for trading HK warrants and CBBCs (details).

Initial Deposit

NIL

No minimum requirement on initial stock or fund deposit.

Minimum Balance

NIL

No minimum requirement on stock holding or cash balance.

Minimum Activity

NIL

No minimum requirement on number of trades or commission generated.

Annual Administration Fee*

Individual/Joint Account:

HKD 200

Corporate Account:

HKD 1,000

Only apply to Individual or Joint Account, if in the past 12 months,

  • only trade / hold non-Hong Kong listed stocks; or

  • no trading, no stock holding and maintain cash balance below HK$10,000 (or equivalent).

Custody Service

FREE

(except for Taiwan, Malaysia and SH-HK Connect stock holdings) (details)

-

* If applicable, the Annual Administration Fee will be charged on the account anniversary date.

Remittance Services

No handling fees on funds transfer.

Handling Fees

Pass-On Charges

Funds Deposit

FREE

All bank charges will be borne by client.

Funds Withdrawal

FREE

All bank charges will be borne by client.

Statement Services

Handling Fees

Remarks

Execution Confirmations^

FREE

Instant execution confirmation will be sent by email.

Daily Activity Statement^

FREE

(by email or post)

e-Statements within 36 months can be downloaded online.

Monthly Activity Statement

FREE

(by email)

HKD 10 per statement

(by post)

e-Statements within 36 months can be downloaded online.

Statement** re-issuance

HKD 10 per statement

(within 36 months)

HKD 100 per statement

(before 36 months)

-

Duplicate Statements** to Employer

FREE

(by email)

HKD 30 per statement

(by post)

-

Stock Balance or Account Confirmation

HKD 200 per request

-

^ In addition to sending instant execution confirmation by email, all the contracts for the day will be grouped in a Daily Activity Statement, which also serves as the execution confirmations and contract notes for all activities on that day.

** Apply to sending each of the Daily or Monthly Activity Statements.

IPO Services

Handling Fees

Remarks

HK IPO Subscription Fee

HKD 100 (for HKD IPO)

RMB 100 (for RMB IPO)

Will be refunded if no share is allotted.

HK IPO Cancellation or Amendment

FREE

IPO subscription can be cancelled or amended online before the online application deadline.

Financing Services

Handling Fees

Remarks

HK IPO Financing Charge

At quote

-

Margin Financing Charge (i.e. Margin Interest Rate)

Annual rate at HSBC Prime Rate + 3.00%

Apply to margin loan.

(i.e. any outstanding amount on or after trade settlement day) of Margin Accounts.

Cash Account Overdue Interest

Annual rate at HSBC Prime Rate + 8.00%

Apply to overdue amount of Cash Accounts.

Information Services

Handling Fees

Remarks

Real-time Price

(Snap / Per Click)

HKD 10 up

Fee varies among packages. (details)

Real-time Price

(Streaming Quotes)

HKD 328 up

Fee varies among packages. (details)

Other Services

Handling Fees

Remarks

Claiming Unclaimed Benefit Entitlements

HKD 500 per stock per claim

At quote

Last Update: January 2020.

All charges are subject to change without prior notice.

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