Companies keen to start trading on China’s new tech exchange

Having only finalised the regulations at the beginning of March, China is already seeing enthusiasm for its new Science and Technology Innovation Board from companies that would like to list on it.

The idea behind the new exchange, which is to be launched in Shanghai, was to help encourage more Chinese companies involved in technology to go public by providing a China-based technology-specific exchange on which to list, and which would then to prevent these companies from raising finance on foreign exchanges.

So far, 9 companies have filed applications to the new exchange and among the home-grown tech companies - such as Raytrontek and Cnano - is Amlogic, a semiconductor company based in the US and with a presence in China.

If this new exchange is as successful as the National Equities Exchange and Quotations Exchange (NEEQ), which has seen over 10,000 listings since 2012, this would be deemed a huge success by China’s policy makers, who are keen to improve access to domestic capital markets and implement reform in the country’s financial services market.