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Open Individual / Joint Account

Complete easy steps to access BOOM's powerful global investment platform

Updated over 2 weeks ago

Simple Account Opening

  1. Fill your application online

  2. Submit your application and supporting documents via BOOM App or by mail

What to prepare?

Submit Online

Get these ready before you start:

  1. Download BOOM App (for online submission^) on your smartphone (iOS or Android)

  2. Access to your E-mail account (to verify the online application and for future correspondence)

  3. Supporting Documents:

    1. Your valid official ID (Acceptable Official ID)*

    2. Bank Statement (in Hong Kong)**

^ Online submission is available for individual account application only

* An official IDs must be issued by a government body bearing the holder's photo. If you don't have any of the below, please check with us for other types of acceptable photo ID. 1. HKID (applicable if born in H.K., China and Macau); 2. Chinese (PRC) Citizens ID ; 3. Macau Permanent Resident ID ; 4. Passport

** An electronic copy of your bank account with a licensed bank in Hong Kong, issued within 3 months bearing your name and residential address.

Submit by Mail

Get these ready before you start:

  1. Printer (to print the completed online application form)

  2. Access to your E-mail account (to verify the online application and for future correspondence)

Fill in your application online. When done, print and sign on it.

Prepare supporting documents^:

  1. Copy of your valid official ID (Acceptable Official ID)*

  2. Proof of Residential Address**

  3. Personal Cheque (verify signature)***

Return the signed application form and above documents to our office by mail.

^ For joint account application, each applicant shall provide own set of supporting documents.

* An official IDs must be issued by a government body bearing the holder's photo. If you don't have any of the below, please check with us for other types of acceptable photo ID. 1. HKID (applicable if born in H.K., China and Macau); 2. Chinese (PRC) Citizens ID ; 3. Macau Permanent Resident ID ; 4. Passport

** A photocopy of address proof issued within 3 months (utility bill, bank statement, etc.) bearing your name and residential address.

*** The personal cheque(s) must be (a) issued from the applicant's account with a licensed bank in Hong Kong bear the applicant's name; (b) signed with one signature (the same as that in the application form); (c) made payable to "Boom Securities (H.K.) Limited"; and (d) made for minimum amount of HKD 10,000.

Other Points to Note:

We reserve the right to refuse any account application for whatever reason.

Personal data on an unsuccessful account applicant will normally be destroyed [six months] after rejection of the account application.

We do not currently accept customers from the following locations: Antigua and Barbuda, Armenia, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cuba, Ecuador, Gambia, Haiti, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Morocco, Namibia, Nicaragua, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Timor-Leste, Turkmenistan, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

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