Odaily Planet Daily reported that Liang Zhongxian, executive director of the Market Supervision Department of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, stated at the 2025 Futures and Options World (FOW) Trading Asia Conference that exchanges and financial institutions in the United States and Europe are leading innovations in multiple areas in incubating new derivatives, including digital assets, ESG and other linked derivatives. Despite this, the innovative potential of the Asian derivatives market is obvious to all. For example, the cryptocurrency futures contracts of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have a very high proportion of trading volume from the Asia-Pacific region.