Futu's overseas independent brand moomoo has officially launched online brokerage services in Japan, becoming the online brokerage with the largest number of tradable stocks among online brokerages in Japan.

On September 19, leading digital fintech company Futu Holdings Ltd. (Nasdaq: FUTU) announced that its overseas independent brand moomoo has officially launched securities trading operations in the Japanese market. Japanese individual investors can open US stock special accounts, US stock regular accounts, and directly engage in US stock trading through moomoo.

moomoo Securities (Japan) is an independent financial entity with qualifications for Category I financial instrument business, Category II financial instrument business, investment advisory business, and investment management business. Compared to the top 5 online brokerage companies in Japan in terms of account numbers, moomoo currently has the lowest commissions among online brokerages in Japan. Additionally, moomoo is the online brokerage in Japan that supports the largest number of tradable stocks - around 7,000 stocks available for trading in US markets, nearly 30% higher than the second-ranked company.

In October of last year, the moomoo app was launched in the Japanese market, providing Japanese individual investors with professional and user-friendly investment tools, financial data, an online community for interaction and sharing, and investor education courses. Since its launch, moomoo has attracted attention from mainstream Japanese media and has been well-received by local users for its high-quality app experience. In July of this year, moomoo was recognized by the well-known Japanese media, Nikkei Money, as one of the preferred investment tools for Japanese individual investors.

One of the major advantages of moomoo is its powerful investment tools. In the Asia-Pacific region, investors are often constrained by trading hours, not being able to seize the US stock trading opportunities quickly. moomoo is the first brokerage to offer 24-hour US stock trading in Singapore and Australia, allowing moomoo users to trade US stocks and ETFs even during after-hours trading. This feature will also be introduced in Japan, enabling Japanese investors to trade 301 US stocks and ETFs 24 hours a day, 5 days a week. This means moomoo may become the first online brokerage in Japan to support over 300 US stocks for 24-hour trading services, allowing Japanese investors to trade during US stock after-hours and breaking the boundaries of investment trading in terms of time and space.

At the same time, moomoo's technological strength provides Japanese investors with easier access to financial information. In Japan, moomoo's default language is Japanese, and Japanese investors can access information from leading media institutions such as Dow Jones, Benzinga, MTNewswire, Minkabu, etc., free real-time market quotes including US stock secondary data, advanced charts, and analysis tools, among other professional features. This data often appears in an English environment and can be difficult to obtain directly in Japanese. moomoo's multilingual settings fill the gap for Japanese investors to directly access English language data information.

In addition to trading, moomoo also focuses on investors' growth. The online investment community Moo Community for online communication and sharing is a unique advantage of moomoo. Investors from different countries and regions with different backgrounds gather in the Moo Community to exchange their investment ideas, insights, and experiences, creating a learning and growth-oriented community environment. Furthermore, moomoo offers over 3,000 investment courses presented in multiple languages for free, along with customized study plans that can be used to monitor user learning progress and results, meeting the needs of users seeking a structured learning experience.

In 2018, moomoo was founded in Silicon Valley and subsequently expanded to markets in Singapore, Australia, Japan, Malaysia, and Canada. Currently, moomoo and its affiliate brands serve over 200 countries and regions globally, with more than 20 million users, showcasing the continuous acceleration of moomoo's internationalization. Mr. Izawa, President of moomoo Japan, stated: "Individual investors in Japan, especially the younger demographic, are increasingly entering the stock market. Additionally, as young investors have a bullish outlook on overseas stocks, it fuels the imagination for the development of technological brokerages in Japan. Likewise, moomoo has gained more trust from Japanese users in the market upswing. In the Moo Community, the average daily interactive engagement from Japan increased by 330% in the second quarter of this year, and moomoo's education content saw a 142.27% quarterly increase in overall class activity in Japan."