Marex Shatters Barriers: Direct Access to China’s Internationalized Futures Now Live

Breaking down the Great Wall of capital controls—Marex just handed global traders the keys to China's lucrative internationalized futures market.

The gateway no one saw coming

Forget cumbersome quotas and regulatory hopscotch. Marex's new platform slashes through red tape, connecting institutional players directly to dollar-denominated Chinese commodity contracts. No middlemen. No excuses.

Why it matters

China's futures markets are pumping—iron ore, crude oil, soybeans. But accessing them? Historically a nightmare of paperwork and political risk. Marex bypasses the bureaucracy, offering clean, compliant exposure to the world's biggest commodity consumer.

Timing is everything

With commodity volatility spiking and traditional hedges cracking, this move couldn't be sharper. Traders get instant diversification—and a front-row seat to China's financial liberalization experiment. Risky? Maybe. Opportunistic? Absolutely.

One cynical footnote: because nothing says 'stable investment' like betting on Chinese derivatives through a London-based broker. What could go wrong?

Marex Group has begun offering China Internationalised Futures Contracts, providing clients with direct connectivity to 24 Chinese futures and options products for electronic execution and clearing.

The contracts now available on the Marex platform represent products from three internationalised futures exchanges – the Shanghai International Energy Exchange (INE), the Dalian Commodity Exchange (DCE) and the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange (ZCE) – in agricultural commodities, energy, metals and freight. The launch follows the earlier receipt of approval from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) to become an Overseas Intermediary.

Marex is providing access to these contracts in response to growing demand from clients, including corporates and exporters, to manage long-term risks and price discovery for Chinese domestic commodities. Enabling clients to access China Internationalised Futures Contracts is aligned with Marex’s strategy to grow its capabilities and its geographic reach, so it can increase its relevance to clients.

This connectivity, which follows the opening of Marex’s new office in Hong Kong earlier in 2025, represents another milestone in Marex’s expansion in the Asia-Pacific.

Marex Asia Pacific Chief Executive Officer Arthur Fan said: “We continue to look for new ways to connect our global clients to Asian markets, providing them with new options to manage their risk. This access is further evidence of our commitment to invest both in Asia and in our product offering, even during uncertain times in global markets.”

Trading on the INE, DCE and ZCE has been open to international market participants since 2018, using the China Internationalised Futures Contracts. Chinese commodities exchange-traded derivatives accounted for more than half of the global total of commodity contracts traded in the first five months of 2025, according to statistics from the Futures Industry Association.

Source: Marex