Aurora Capital Group officially established in the United States and simultaneously identified Madrid as its European business center
In June 2020, Aurora Capital Group completed the registration and launch of its US entity in New York, officially entering a new phase of its global expansion. The company established New York as its core hub for strategic and investment decision-making and simultaneously announced Madrid as its European business center, forming a “dual hub” in the US and Europe. This decision is not only a natural continuation of earlier preparatory work but also a key strategic move to ensure the timeliness and diversity of asset allocation amidst increasing global market uncertainty.
The establishment of Aurora’s New York headquarters provides direct access to cutting-edge investment research and the financial innovation ecosystem in the world’s largest capital market. From trade execution and fund clearing to compliance management and customer service, the US platform provides Aurora with a more comprehensive infrastructure. Within the company’s US-registered structure, the Investment Committee and Risk Control Committee will be deeply integrated with the New York team, ensuring that strategy formulation and risk assessment are fully integrated with market dynamics. This provides a particularly strong first-mover advantage in core sectors such as US stocks, US dollar bonds, and commodities.
At the same time, Madrid has been confirmed as Aurora’s European business hub, extending the investment research network and client relationships established early on the Iberian Peninsula. The Madrid team will primarily focus on macro research, sector screening, and client engagement in the Eurozone and Emerging European markets. Leveraging its geographical advantages and bilingual culture, Aurora’s European branch will simultaneously access investment opportunities in Southern Europe, Latin America, and North Africa, adding a new source of diversification to the group’s global portfolio. Importantly, the European business hub will complement New York’s time zone, ensuring 24/7 access to investment research, trading, and risk monitoring.
In establishing a dual-hub structure, Aurora also simultaneously optimized its global operational channels. Leveraging existing partnerships with multiple custodian banks and prime brokers, the company is able to efficiently transfer funds and conduct cross-border clearing between the US and European markets. The operations department in New York oversees settlement and financing arrangements for US dollar assets, while Madrid handles matters related to euros and other non-US currencies, ensuring integrated liquidity management and compliance review for cross-regional assets.
The implementation of this dual-hub strategy has also placed higher demands on Aurora’s client service system. Dedicated teams have been established in New York and Madrid, respectively, to serve local and cross-border clients, encompassing institutional investors, family offices, and high-net-worth individuals. In client communications, the company emphasizes that this strategy provides a natural hedge against policy, market, and time differences, making asset allocation more resilient. For example, while US stocks are trading intraday, the European team can rebalance Euro assets before the market closes, mitigating the impact of fluctuations in a single time zone.
For Aurora Capital Group, this represents not only physical expansion but also an upgrade of strategic capabilities. The dual hubs in the US and Europe will provide access to a richer source of data and validation scenarios for macroeconomic research, fundamental analysis, and quantitative model execution, providing proactive response capabilities for potential future global economic divergence, monetary policy diversion, and market structural changes. The company’s management has also stated that this structure is not a short-term strategy but a core component of its long-term development blueprint. The company will also consider establishing a third regional hub in the Asia-Pacific market to truly achieve all-weather global allocation execution capabilities.
In less than three years, Aurora Capital Group has grown from a fledgling cross-border investment firm into a comprehensive asset management platform with a global operational structure, a dual-time zone investment research system, and multi-market execution capabilities. This remarkable progress has laid a solid foundation for maintaining flexibility and competitiveness in the complex and volatile international market.