Regulated Market Access across Asia and the Middle East

Unlike the semi homogenous market in North America or the integrated European Union, Both Asia and the Middle East cover a vast area with no unified regulatory, tax and or legal frameworks.

For asset managers and investment teams, establishing an operation across one, let alone all the major Asian AND Middle Eastern financial centres – Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Dubai can be extremely expensive, resource intensive and time consuming.

With our well established, Pan-Asian licensed/regulated network, situated in Asia’s three key financial centres, we can assist you, as you enter and or expand to:

Singapore – gateway to India, Australia and South East Asia, and ranked, as the world’s No 4. financial centre*;

Hong Kong – gateway to China and North Asia, and ranked, as the world’s No 3. financial centre*; and

Tokyo – gateway to the world’s fourth-largest economy by nominal GDP, the fifth-largest PPP and Asia’s largest stock market by market value.

Dubai – gateway to the UAE and broader Middle East, currently ranked 7th globally in the Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), cementing it as the leading financial hub in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia region.

Before you dive into the Asian and Middle Eastern markets, please contact us for a confidential discussion.

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*The Global Financial Centres Index (Sept 2024)

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Singapore

Established in 2005, Gordian Capital Singapore Private Limited is our headquarters and Asian hub from where we provide support, as required, to our Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne offices.

Gordian Capital Singapore has a regulated presence in Singapore licensed as a Capital Markets Service licence holder for fund management (Singapore MAS), is a Registered Investment Adviser (US SEC), is a Category I Foreign Portfolio Investor (India SEBI), operates as a registered Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) (China CSRC), and is approved by the Central Bank of Ireland to act as an Investment Manager (Ireland CBI).

It offers proven and cost-effective institutional solutions to global asset managers and experienced investment professionals seeking a regulated setup in which to locate a Singapore team or individual for its global multi-manager strategy or to launch a new fund.

For investment professionals already based in Singapore, we offer a fully licensed physical and operational infrastructure under our Fund Platform model.

Our Fund Solutions team works with some of the worlds largest GP’s, corporates, Family Offices and institutional investors, as they access investment opportunities via tax efficient investment vehicles that are structured and operated by us as the manager to those vehicles.

Singapore’s strategic location at the heart of South East Asia provides a gateway for managers to domicile their APAC and ASEAN-focused funds here and as a pioneer of the VCC, we can certainly assist you.

Lastly, Singapore has a well established financial services ecosystem supporting the asset management and funds industry, a AAA credit rating from S&P, Fitch and Moody’s, and is by far the most politically stable country in Asia and ranked in the top 5 in the world.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Tokyo

Established in 2016, Gordian Capital Japan is a Tokyo-based investment manager offering regulated operational and infrastructure solutions to support local as well as global asset managers. Establishing a regulated Tokyo base for research, investment, sourcing, and trading of public and private Japanese is a significant challenge.

Gordian Capital Japan offers proven and cost-effective institutional solutions to global asset managers and experienced investment professionals seeking a regulated setup in which to locate a Tokyo team or individual for its global multi-manager strategy or to launch a new fund.

For investment professionals already based in Tokyo, we offer a fully licensed physical and operational infrastructure under our Fund Platform model

Gordian Capital Japan holds a full Discretionary Investment Management license issued by the Financial Service Agency of Japan and is a US SEC Registered Investment Advisor.

Our bilingual and bicultural team has in excess of 150 years combined experience in the financial services industry in Japan with two of our senior management having served as CEO’s in licensed financial service companies in Japan.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Hong Kong

Gordian Capital Hong Kong was established in 2023 and holds both a Type 9 (Asset management) and a Type 4 (Advising on securities) license issued by the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong.

We provide a range of fully regulated market access services for global managers seeking to establish a presence in Hong Kong.

For investment professionals already based in Hong Kong, we offer a fully licensed physical and operational infrastructure under our Fund Platform model.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Shanghai

Our team of native Mandarin speakers work with asset managers in Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou and other major financial centres in China as they seek to expand their offerings outside China.

Since 2016 we have worked with a number of institutional asset managers that have included:

A US$16bn AUM private credit and private wealth manager where we launched and operated 3 global private credit funds.

A US$16bn AUM institutional asset manager, minority owned by one of the largest asset managers in the word where the client partnered with us to launch their first offshore fund.

A US$100bn+ non-SOE corporate that selected us to assist them to purchase private assets in Asia via a Singapore domiciled investment vehicle.

A US$9bn AUM quant manager where we established and operate offshore feeder funds, using our QFFI license to provide international investors with direct access to the onshore quant managers strategies.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Melbourne

Established in 2016, Gordian Capital Australia operates as an Authorised Corporate Representative under an Australian Financial Services License.

Headquartered in Melbourne, Gordian Capital Australia focuses on assisting Australian based asset managers as they expand beyond their domestic market into Asia.

For those expanding into Asia, we offer various market access strategies via our fully licensed and regulated Tokyo, Hong Kong and Singapore offices.

We have also worked with global investors seeking to allocate capital to Australia based managers via non Australian based feeder vehicles, across both public and private strategies.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.

Dubai

Established in 2025, Gordian Capital (DIFC) Limited, is part of the powerful growth story that Dubai has seen and continues to experience, reflected in the number of asset managers across alternatives and traditional strategies seeking to establish a presence.

The Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC) has propelled Dubai to 7th place globally in the Global Financial Centres Index, resulting in its position as the top-ranked financial center in the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia (MEASA) region.

Operating under an independent English Common Law framework, the DIFC offers 100% foreign ownership, zero personal income tax, and competitive business regulations and is recognized as top-10 globally for its financial infrastructure.

Gordian Capital’s regulated presence in Dubai further cements IQ-EQ’s position as the deepest and broadest provider of regulated market entry offerings in the industry, across APAC and EMEA.

Gordian Capital (DIFC) Limited Dubai provides several key services to hedge, long only, private equity, venture capital, relate estate, infrastructure and private credit, managers, including

Providing a regulated, physical, operational infrastructure for investment teams seeking to be based in Dubai and launch either a local or international fund and or manage SMA’s.

Launch and establishment of DIFC funds and international funds, investing locally, regionally and globally,

Acting as bridge between MENA based investors and global investments.

We hold a license issued by the Dubai Financial Services Authority (DFSA) to deliver the following financial services within or from the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC):

Managing a Collective Investment Fund

Advising on Financial Products

Arranging Custody

Arranging Deals in Investments

Managing Assets

and have also been granted an endorsement to its Licence to Use a Fund Platform.

Please contact us for a confidential discussion.