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Tiger Brokers is the consumer brand of UP Fintech Holding Limited (Nasdaq: TIGR), a technology-driven online brokerage headquartered in Singapore. Its core product is the Tiger Trade app, available on mobile, desktop and web, which gives retail and institutional clients a single account to trade equities, ETFs, options, futures, warrants and funds across the US, Hong Kong, Singapore and Australian markets. Around the trading app it runs an ESOP administration platform (branded UponeShare), an IPO subscription and underwriting business, wealth and asset management products, an investor community, and the Tiger Open API for algorithmic and institutional users. It has also introduced TigerAI, an LLM based investment assistant that the company describes as running on a multi agent architecture. The firm's specialisation is cross border access for investors of Chinese origin who want a single brokerage account spanning several exchanges rather than separate local brokers per market, a niche it shares most directly with Futu Securities, commonly cited as its closest peer. It differentiates on the breadth of that multi market, multi asset account and on being an engineering led broker, the company states roughly half its staff work in research and development. It also monetises adjacent institutional and corporate services, ESOP management and Hong Kong IPO underwriting, that extend beyond pure trade execution. Tiger Brokers was founded in 2014 by Wu Tianhua, a Tsinghua University computer science graduate who had previously spent eight years at NetEase's Youdao search business; he began investing in US stocks personally around 2010 and built the company to simplify that process for other Chinese investors. Its proprietary Tiger Trade platform launched in August 2015, and the company listed on Nasdaq under ticker TIGR in March 2019. Multiple independent trade press sources report early venture backing from Interactive Brokers Group, Xiaomi, ZhenFund and investor Jim Rogers. As of Q1 2026 the company reported 1.28 million funded accounts (up 11.3% year over year), total client assets of 58.9 billion dollars (up 28.4% year over year), and quarterly revenue of 154.9 million dollars (up 26.3% year over year); full year 2025 revenue was 612.1 million dollars. The company and its subsidiaries hold brokerage licenses or registrations in Singapore, the United States, New Zealand, Australia and Hong Kong. In Hong Kong specifically, Tiger reported Q1 2026 trading volume up 536% year over year and crypto assets under custody up 139.7% year over year, alongside underwriting 10 Hong Kong IPOs in the quarter, reflecting a recent push to deepen its Hong Kong and crypto custody offering rather than relying solely on its original US market access product.
