Ouyang Xiuzhang：Growing together with China’s market

Outline

1. Introduce yourself and your company (00:27)
2. Your first trade or first involvement with INE & SHFE (00:56)
3. The differences between China’s market and other market, for non-Chinese companies (01:36)
4. Changes of your ideas about China’s market over the years (03:58)
5. Factors that create unique China’s benchmark prices (07:28)
6. Insights to share with those who are looking to invest into China (08:47)

Freepoint Commodities is a global merchant of physical commodities such as energy products, metals and agricultural products and a financer of up-and mid-stream assets. Freepoint also provides physical supply services and related structured solutions for customers. Freepoint Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. was established in Shanghai in 2012 as a Wholly Foreign Owned Enterprise (WFOE). It works together with Freepoint’s subsidiary in Singapore to form a synergy to serve Asia market. Freepoint has been providing professional services to Chinese customers for nearly 30 years, including commodity trading, development of green energy projects as well as overseas investment and financing activities. Freepoint Trading (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. is a non-futures company member of the Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE). Mr. Ouyang Xiuzhang served as the CEO of Freepoint Asia between December of 2016 and December of 2021. He has over 20 years of commodity trading and investment banking expertise, principally in oil & metals trading, and has been Asia Pacific focused.