iFAST Financial (HK) Limited takes home two wins at Hong Kong Business Technology Excellence Awards 2025

The company’s awards were in recognition of its scalable wealthtech solutions and game-changing Bond API.

With its over two decades of experience, iFAST Financial (HK) Limited has proven efficient anew with recognitions at the Hong Kong Business Technology Excellence Awards 2025 in the Wealthtech - Financial Services and API - Financial Technology categories.

Scalable Wealthtech Solutions

iFAST Financial HK has transformed the financial services landscape with its fully integrated and digital-first wealth management platform. 

As a licensed institution under Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), iFAST delivers a wide range of investment, platform, and Fintech services to financial advisers, banks, institutions, and professional intermediaries. 

iFAST has a growing presence in key markets including Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, China, and the UK. It now supports over 1 million customer accounts, works closely with over 800 partners, and empowers 14,000+ wealth advisers globally.

iFAST’s platform offers over 26,500 investment products, including mutual funds, bonds, equities, ETFs, and insurance. With these, it allows firms of all sizes to deliver custom and high-quality financial advice to clients.

In 2024, iFAST saw a significant increase in platform adoption, adding more EAMs and institutional clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Moreover, with 24/7 real-time trading in global markets, asset managers using iFAST can manage portfolios across multiple asset classes through a single, intuitive platform. The system is enhanced by technology-powered personalisation and advanced analytics to help advisers deliver smarter insights and tailored product recommendations.

iFAST stands out for its thoughtful blend of technology and human support. The platform’s clean interface surfaces only the most relevant data, whilst integrated tools for trading, compliance, and analytics simplify operations. 

Looking ahead, iFAST is investing in intelligent automation and interactive tools to deepen relationships with high-net-worth and institutional clients.

Bond API

iFAST has driven innovation in fixed income investing with the launch of its Bond API, a solution that automates and streamlines bond trading for financial institutions. This is a major milestone in the company’s mission to modernise global fixed income markets.

Traditionally, bond trading has been slow and manual. To change this, the Bond API provides a fully automated link between financial institutions’ systems and iFAST’s trading platform. This enhancement reduces delays, lowers risks, and eliminates manual errors.

Institutions gain direct access to over 1,500 global bonds, including detailed issuer data, offering circulars, credit ratings, coupon rates, and maturity dates.

Designed for ease of use, the Bond API can be integrated into institutional systems in as little as 4 weeks, with every trade automatically logged to meet regulatory compliance standards.

In 2024, iFAST launched odd-lot bond trading via API, which allowed smaller bond transactions to be automated. This makes bond investing more inclusive, opening up access to high-quality fixed income products for a wider group of investors.

Aside, iFAST also launched TreasuryNow in 2024. U.S. government bonds, which are traditionally reserved for institutions, are now available to retail investors in Hong Kong through real-time pricing and simplified trading tools. 

In 2025, iFAST HK partnered with its sister company Bondsupermart to introduce ‘Bondsupermart Live’. This is a central bond trading marketplace offering in-house pricing, order matching, and real-time market depth, giving clients greater control, better liquidity access, and faster decision-making.

With the Bond API, TreasuryNow, and Bondsupermart Live, iFAST has helped institutions operate more efficiently.

The Hong Kong Business Technology Excellence Awards honours companies and organisations that are driving innovation, transforming industries, and setting new benchmarks for excellence in Hong Kong’s tech landscape.

The Hong Kong Business Technology Excellence Awards is presented by Hong Kong Business Magazine. To view the full list of winners, click here. If you want to join the 2026 awards programme and be acclaimed for your company's outstanding contributions in pursuit of technological innovation, please contact Julie Anne Nuñez-Difuntorum at [email protected].