China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange Co., or BOCE, has won approval from Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee to buy 25% of Kyiv’s PFTS Stock Exchange

China’s Bohai Commodity Exchange Co., or BOCE, has won approval from Ukraine’s Antimonopoly Committee to buy 25% of Kyiv’s PFTS Stock Exchange. Operator of an online spot-trading platform, BOCE was founded a decade ago in Tianjin, a northeast China port, 115 km from Beijing. Last year, PFTS recorded $2.4 billion in exchange contracts, second only to the Perspectiva exchange, which recorded $4.7 billion. About 90% of PFTS trading volume was in government bonds.