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Official Granting of Type 1 License by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission after Type 4 and Type 9 Licenses
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2023-04-03

Recently, upon approval by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, Far East Horizon’s subsidiary Far East Horizon International Securities Limited was officially granted Type 1 license. So far, Far East Horizon has obtained approval for conducting regulated activities including “dealing in securities” (Type 1), “advising on securities” (Type 4) and “asset management” (Type 9).

01 Cross-border Coordination & Highlighted Strength


As an extremely influential global financial center, Hong Kong has always been valued and affirmed by professional institutions and investors of the world for its complete infrastructure, open financial regulation ecology as well as a fair and efficient business environment. The Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong carries out strict regulation of ten types of financial market activities pursuant to the Securities and Futures Ordinance. Following Type 4 and Type 9 licenses, the granting of Type 1 license fully reflects the compliance of Far East Horizon’s cross-border business and its superior strength.


Listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Far East Horizon is headquartered in Hong Kong, China with operation centers in Shanghai and Tianjin and offices in more than 30 core cities. It has accumulated over two decades of operating experience and a clientele in the domestic market. With Type 1, Type 4 and Type 9 licenses granted by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission, in the future the Company will further open up the channel between domestic and overseas capital markets, improve its integrated financial service capability, provide in-depth services to core clients at home and aboard, and strive to realize the strategic goal of “globalization of resources and globalization of operation.”



Rooted in Hong Kong, Far East Horizon is fully engaged in cross-brooder financial business. At present, its business in Hong Kong mainly includes asset and wealth management business:

 

Asset management business

(1) Private Credit: Provide structured finance solutions to infrastructure, industrial equipment and other sectors

(2) Private Equity: Empower Industrial development and amplify value creation, with decades of in-depth industrial experiences

(3) Secondary Market: Leverage on our risk management capabilities, to offer diversified investment products including bond, stock, derivative, etc.

 

Wealth management business

(1) Corporate Investor: Offer targeted solutions at different development stages of business life cycle

(2) Family Office: Preserve family wealth, with comprehensive services including tax planning, children’s education, etc.

(3) High-net-worth Individuals: Provide extensive product offerings and global asset allocation strategy, to achieve asset preservation and appreciation

 

02 Domestic and Overseas Linkage & Service Upgrade


While making continues efforts in the field of integrated “finance + industry” business, Far East Horizon attaches importance to the exploration of complex client needs and the construction of customized service capability. At present, Far East Horizon is developing its cross-border finance business in an orderly manner; it has already achieved bilateral matching of domestic and overseas resources by coordinating the Company’s various business sectors, and is devoted to providing clients with integrated financial solutions to cross-border industrial layout as well as offering pluralistic, safe and professional service support for capital to seek cross-border asset allocation opportunities.

 

Government client

Project type: overseas investment and financing

Customer: certain high-qualification enterprise of Shandong Province, China

Based on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, Far East Horizon adheres to the professional idea of “customer-oriented,” gives play to the Company’s advantageous domestic-overseas linkage, coordinates domestic resources while conducting overseas operation, and provides domestic clients with integrated and customized financial solutions to satisfy the needs for cross-border investment and overseas business platform establishment, meanwhile realizing effective project cost saving and expansion of subsequent cooperation space.

 

Industrial client

Project type: domestic strategic mergers & acquisitions

Customer: certain Hong Kong-listed leading enterprise of an industry segment

In this project, the customer has a clear project structure and sufficient credit-enhancing measures. Taking the lead to cooperate with top-ranking Chinese-funded investment bank, Far East Horizon has integrated the client’s resources and service networks in the domestic market by increasing its coverage of the Southeast China market, and offered effective financial solutions to satisfy the its needs for cross-border mergers & acquisitions. Successful mergers & acquisitions have not only enhanced the clients business operation capability, continued to consolidate its leadership in the industry segment and brought strategic value increment to the client, but also balanced the interests of relevant parties well and resulted in win-win cooperation.

 

In the context of the orderly opening of finance, the internationalization of RMB and the construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, complying with the trend of the active integration of Hong Kong into big picture of China’s development and facing the future, Far East Horizon will further strengthen its foothold in Hong Kong, leverage the influence of its Hong Kong financial licenses, give full play to its role as a bridge between domestic and overseas clients, and help global clients to allocate quality Chinese assets, meanwhile providing Chinese enterprises with more diversified global resources, continuing to create value for various parties of the society, and striving to fulfil the mission of “integrating global resources and promoting industry development.”