China Cracks Down On Offshore Brokers: Tiger Brokers, Longbridge Face Massive Fines
China’s CSRC, with seven other agencies, announced a crackdown on overseas brokers operating cross-border securities, fund sales and futures trading in mainland China without required approvals. Targets include Tiger Brokers, Futu Securities and Longbridge Securities. CSRC proposed fines totaling about 2.3 billion yuan for Tiger and Futu (Futu 1.85b yuan; Tiger ~411.2m yuan). The firms face asset confiscation and leadership fines, and a two-year rectification period limits new mainland client on