Corporate History

Thanks to sound risk management and professional investment services, CL Group has fostered solid relationships with customers, which helped business grow by leaps and bounds. Major events in the Group’s history are highlighted below:

Cheong Lee Securities was incorporated in November 2004. In November 2005, Cheong Lee Securities was registered with the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong (“SFC”) as a licensed corporation to carry on Types 1 (dealing in securities) and 4 (advising on securities) regulated activities. The Group tapped into the placing and underwriting business in 2007. Cheong Lee Securities launched its online platform for securities trading and became a Constituency B Exchange Participant in 2008.

Cheong Lee Securities has actively diversified its business. It established the equity capital market department in 2009 for further expansion in placing and userwriting business. In the same year, Cheong Lee Securities was registered with the SFC as a licensed corporation to carry on Types 2 (dealing in futures contracts) and 5 (advising on futures contracts) regulated activities as well as installed in-house OAPI futures contract dealing system.

CL Group was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on March 2011.