Tiger brokers and Futu facing massive fines in China for illegal border transactions

Investor summaryBearish

Tiger Brokers and Futu face massive fines in China for operating without proper licenses, sparking debate on market overreaction.

Bull points

The market might be overreacting to the regulatory fines, presenting a potential buying opportunity.

Bear points

Operating without necessary licenses is a severe regulatory violation, not just an ad hoc fine.
Facing massive fines in China for illegal cross-border transactions.

FUTU TIGR

Post body

Basically they were operating without the necessary licences and that is very different to ad hoc regulatory fines.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-22/china-to-penalize-tiger-futu-in-cross-border-broker-crackdown

Hesitant to call this a market overreaction but seems so... countries have and should have rules ...

Discussion · top comments15 selected

u/Bryzera 8· 22d ago

Can't believe my luck, sold half my TIGR position yesterday. Should have sold all, but better than nothing 🤣

u/SadComparison9352 2· 22d ago

fck all china related stocks. china is uninvestible

u/i_hate_alarm_clocks 2· 22d ago

Damn.

u/Godzilla-SG 1· 10d ago

Bloomberg article is quite similar to the other reports I been reading these few days. China side seems very serious now about stopping cross border trading activities and money flowing outside the country through overseas brokers. I am using Tiger Brokers in Singapore myself for about 1 year. When I first saw all these news and the Tiger share price drop, honestly I got worried also. Since then I been checking the app, portfolio and news updates almost everyday. Till now everything still normal for me. Login,buy sell ok, account access within the app is ok. Tiger Brokers Singapore is regulated by MAS Singapore and is a seperate entity from China side. So for Singapore users we are under different regulations. I can say that trading in singapore is quite safe as we have MAS to regulate the financial brokerages. Just my own 2 cents.

u/aloha388 1· 18d ago

I think people in Singapore need to separate the China-side regulatory issue from the Singapore operations itself. China has always been very strict when it comes to cross-border financial activities, so honestly this kind of enforcement action was probably only a matter of time once regulators started tightening again...Locally the local operations are still under MAS regulations and compliance requirements here, which are generally quite strict already. If there were actual concerns about client funds or operational stability locally, I think the reaction in Singapore would be much bigger than what we are seeing now. To me this feels more like a China policy and licensing issue rather than a “platform unsafe” issue. End of the day, every country has their own financial regulations and companies operating across multiple jurisdictions will naturally face these kinds of challenges from time to time.

u/BaBaBuyey 1· 22d ago

Step down Xi 🙏

u/Aceboy884 1· 22d ago

Massive my ass

The only thing massive is the ass hole of Alibaba share holders

u/rum108 1· 22d ago

Fk man… holding baba got rekted too… 😰🥲

u/carmen_ohio 1· 22d ago

Nothingburger. Market overreaction

u/SadComparison9352 0· 22d ago

how is overreaction?

u/gorac_sport 1· 22d ago

has nothing to do with baba

u/SadComparison9352 1· 21d ago

baba also another shit stock. Just like all china stocks. You will never make money .

baba never recovered to 2021 high while US stocks keep going up

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