About Futu News

Futu News

Futu News is the news service of Futunn, the digital investment platform published at futunn.com and operated by Futu Holdings. It delivers Hong Kong, United States and A-share market news, live quotes and community discussion inside the Futubull app and its international sister platform Moomoo, rather than as a standalone newspaper-style website. Futu Holdings was founded by Leaf Hua Li — known as Leaf Li Hua — and listed on Nasdaq in March 2019, and its news service draws on international agency sources including Bloomberg, Reuters and CNBC to provide a free, round-the-clock news flow to the platform's users. The directory record for Futu News lists its home city as Shenzhen, Guangdong, China — the home of Shenzhen Futu, where the group's operations began — and its official website as futunn.com.

Origins and founder

Futu's brokerage business was founded in 2012 by Leaf Hua Li, an early employee of Tencent, which later became a major shareholder in the company. The group's own listing history fills in the sequence behind that date: operations commenced in December 2007 through Shenzhen Futu, which provided internet technology and software development services, and Li devoted his technology background to building the financial technology business from that Shenzhen base. Futu International in Hong Kong was incorporated in April 2012, obtained a Type 1 licence for dealing in securities from Hong Kong's Securities and Futures Commission, and launched the group's proprietary Hong Kong securities trading system and online brokerage in October 2012. The holding company, Futu Holdings Limited, was incorporated in the Cayman Islands in April 2014. The directory's dating of Futu to 2012 therefore reflects the founding of the brokerage and platform business — the business of which Futu News is a part — while the Shenzhen technology operation behind it is older still.

Nasdaq listing and Tencent backing

Futu Holdings listed its American depositary shares on Nasdaq in March 2019 — the listing date is recorded as 8 March 2019, initially under the symbol FHL and now trading as FUTU. The listing made Futu one of the most visible Chinese financial technology companies in international markets and gave its platforms, including the news service, a public-company profile unusual among Chinese retail brokerage apps. Tencent's position as a major shareholder, dating from founder Leaf Hua Li's background as an early Tencent employee, is a recurring feature of accounts of the company and connects Futu to China's largest internet group. Futu Holdings describes itself in its public announcements as an advanced fintech company transforming the investing experience by offering fully digital financial services in multiple markets, and states the same formula in describing what sits on its platforms: market data, financial news, interactive social features and investor education on its proprietary one-stop digital platforms Futubull and Moomoo. Futu News is the financial-news element of that formula.

Futubull, Futunn and Moomoo

The news service lives inside two related platforms. Futubull — whose web presence is Futunn, at futunn.com — is the platform used primarily in Hong Kong and by Chinese-speaking investors, while Moomoo is Futu's international platform; the group began expanding outside Hong Kong in 2018, with Moomoo becoming the main vehicle for its international operations. Futu Holdings is headquartered in Hong Kong as a group, while the Futunn operation retains its Shenzhen roots through Shenzhen Futu, whose legal name is Shenzhen Futu Network Technology. For the reader of this directory, the practical point is that "Futu News" is not tied to a single app store listing or national edition: it is the shared news layer of the Futubull and Moomoo platforms, published through futunn.com and the apps, covering the markets those platforms trade — Hong Kong, the United States and mainland A-shares — for an audience that holds accounts, or follows markets, across all three.

How Futu News works

Futu's own guide to the Futubull app describes the news section directly. Futu's news team, the guide states, has access to authoritative news sources such as Bloomberg, Reuters and CNBC, and provides users with free, high-quality and extensive news information. Under the Headlines and Latest tabs, users can view the latest 24/7 news and institution comments, and can use filter functions to screen news from different markets and types, making it easier to locate the content they are interested in. Three features of that description define the service. First, it is an aggregation-and-licensing model: the authority of the news flow rests on established international agencies rather than on a large in-house reporting staff. Second, it is continuous — a 24/7 stream matched to markets that trade across Asian, European and American hours. Third, it is integrated with the trading environment: news appears beside quotes, watchlists and individual stock pages, and the filtering is by market and news type, so a user following a single holding encounters the news about that holding inside the same screen where they trade it.

Markets and subject coverage

The subject coverage of Futu News follows the platform's trading coverage. Its core is the Hong Kong and United States markets — the two markets on which Futu built its brokerage — together with mainland A-share coverage for its Chinese user base, as recorded in the directory description. Within those markets, the news flow spans company announcements and earnings, institutional comment and ratings, macroeconomic and policy news that moves the indices, and market-level reporting during the trading day. The service's presentation inside Futubull reinforces that company-level focus: news is organised so that it can be read as a general stream under Headlines and Latest or narrowed by market and type, and it sits alongside related platform content including earnings calls, seminars and press conferences carried in the community and discovery areas. For the typical user, Futu News functions less like a front page to be read top to bottom and more like a wire attached to a portfolio — a continuous, filterable feed whose relevance is defined by the stocks and markets the user follows.

The community around the news

What distinguishes Futu's news offering from a conventional brokerage news feed is the community wrapped around it. Futubull's community — known in Chinese as Niu Niu Quan — is described in Futu's own help materials as an investment community where users create interactive content and obtain investment information and share investment views, governed by published community management rules. The discovery page of the app collects the community together with the Learn and Papertrade features: in the community, investors share live trading experiences and investment insights, react to and comment on each other's posts, and follow live formats including earnings calls and company presentations. The scale the community reached was marked by Futu itself in February 2021, when the company announced that daily active users of the Futubull app had surpassed one million as of 19 February 2021, in a context where total users exceeded 13 million, and described the community as generating large volumes of user content daily, with more than 400 United States and Hong Kong listed companies — including Tencent, Tesla and Meituan — operating enterprise accounts to communicate with investors through it. Those figures are dated to 2021 and are given here as the company's own record of the community's growth at that point; the structural point endures, that on Futu the news feed and the discussion of the news are one product, summed up in the company's stated mission to make investing "easier, not alone".

Investor education alongside news

Futu News also sits beside a substantial education layer, which the company's own materials treat as part of the same content system. The Learn section of Futubull is described as a free investment knowledge platform covering categories including stocks, options, funds and derivatives, meeting the learning needs of users from beginner to advanced level, with additional premium courses — such as advanced earnings-report and technical-analysis material — for funded clients. The Papertrade feature lets users simulate buying and selling with virtual currency to learn the trading rules of each category and test strategies without risk. The relevance to the news service is that Futu designed its content as a ladder: a user who arrives for a headline can move to a course explaining the instrument involved, practise in simulation, and discuss the development in the community. Few traditional news outlets integrate their journalism with teaching and simulated trading in this way, and it is one of the clearest markers that Futu News is a platform-native news service rather than a newspaper transplanted into an app.

Audience and use

Futu News is used by the retail investors of the Futubull and Moomoo platforms — account holders and market followers in Hong Kong, mainland China and, through Moomoo's expansion since 2018, international markets. Its audience reads in the course of trading: checking why a holding has moved, following an earnings release as it lands, or scanning institution comment before a market opens. Because the underlying sources include Bloomberg, Reuters and CNBC, the service also gives Chinese-speaking retail investors a single, free point of access to international agency market coverage that would otherwise sit behind institutional terminals or paywalls, presented in the same environment as their quotes and accounts. Researchers and journalists, meanwhile, treat Futu News and the Futubull community as evidence of how Chinese retail investors receive and discuss market information — the platform's community rules, enterprise accounts and education products are all documented in Futu's own public materials.

Standing and significance

Futu News's significance is that it shows where financial news went in the platform era. The older Chinese finance portals in this directory built audiences around websites; Futu, founded as a brokerage in 2012 by a former Tencent employee, listed on Nasdaq in 2019 and expanded internationally through Moomoo, built its news service inside the trading app itself, licensing agency authority from Bloomberg, Reuters and CNBC, streaming it around the clock, filtering it by market and stock, and surrounding it with a mass user community and a free investor-education library. The result is less a publication than a layer of the investing experience — yet it performs the classic functions of financial journalism, informing millions of investment decisions, all the same. Published at futunn.com and rooted in Shenzhen Futu's technology operation, Futu News stands as the directory's clearest example of the brokerage-platform news service that came to define Chinese retail market media in the 2010s.