Aden: an office at Shun Tak Centre West Tower

What the team found

Aden publishes Unit 1, 31/F, Shun Tak Centre West Tower, 168-200 Connaught Road Central, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong as its office. The address is in Hong Kong. The team were let up and found a reception with the company's name on it.

The team recorded that Aden has a real office at the address it publishes. That says nothing about its regulation, pricing or treatment of clients, which the profile covers separately.

The checks

The checks that decided this outcome, from the visit checklist.

Who else uses this address

5 other brokers in this set publish an address on F Shun Tak Centre. In a large commercial building that is unremarkable, though it is worth knowing when you are comparing firms that look unconnected.

Across the 5 other visits to that address, the team confirmed an office once and could not get access 4 times. Among them are CGS, EASY SECURITIES and HLJY.

This visit ended differently from most of the others, which is worth weighing against the pattern at the address.

What the published address commits to

Aden publishes a floor and a room rather than only a building, which is the more checkable kind of address: it can be walked to and either holds the company or does not.

What Hong Kong looks like across the set

Hong Kong accounts for 535 of the addresses the team has visited. Across the 534 other visits to the city, the team confirmed an office 137 times, found nothing 154 times and could not get access 243 times.

The reports either side of this one in Hong Kong are ADS, ADSS and Afflux Securities, and reading two or three together is usually more telling than any single visit.

This report runs against the pattern for Hong Kong, which is the reason to read the checks below rather than the badge alone.

Reading the checks together

In short, the building was the one the address names, there was no sign for the company outside and reception confirmed it. No single check settles an outcome on its own, which is why each one is listed above rather than folded into a verdict.

What this outcome means

Office presence confirmed. The broker or relevant entity was identified at the visited address using the evidence described in the report.

A field survey confirms only what was observed at the stated address and time. It does not verify regulatory status, client-money handling, trading conditions or financial strength. The photographs are the team's own, taken at the location on the day, and may be cropped for privacy. Read how surveys are conducted.

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