Since its establishment in 1991, Huatai Securities (stock code: 601688.SH, 6886.HK, HTSC.LI) has developed into one of the leading integrated securities groups in China with its technology-driven and innovative financial services. This article will provide you with a detailed introduction of Huatai Securities' core business, globalization layout, digital wealth management platform and its advantages, as well as FAQ modules to help you quickly understand the company's business and services.

Overview of Huatai Securities

About Huatai Securities

Founded in 1991, Huatai Securities Company Limited (hereinafter referred to as “Huatai Securities”) is a technology-driven company with competitive advantages in the securities industry. Huatai Securities was listed on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in 2010 (stock code: 601688.SH), the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong in 2015 (stock code: 6886.HK), and listed on the London Stock Exchange in 2019 (stock code: HTSC.LI). As the first Chinese company to be listed on the LSE through the Shanghai-London Stock Exchange rules, Huatai Securities continues to strengthen its position in the global capital market.

Huatai Securities' Four Business Lines

Huatai Securities' business consists of the following four core segments:

• Wealth Management: empowered by technology, Huatai Securities provides individual investors with efficient investment services and builds a digital wealth management platform.
• Institutional Services: Providing corporate and institutional clients with full life-cycle financial services, including investment and financing, trade execution and risk management.
• Investment Management: Relying on strong investment research capabilities, Huatai Securities provides diversified asset management services including public equity funds, private equity funds and alternative investments.
• International Business: Accelerating the internationalization layout, promoting globalization of financial services, and further expanding the global capital market.

Core Advantages of Huatai Securities

Huatai Securities continues to maintain its competitiveness in the industry by virtue of the following advantages:

• Technology-driven: a pioneer in industry transformation, enhancing financial efficiency through intelligent services.
• Open Platform: Digitalized wealth management system, providing clients with precise services.
• Investment Banking: Grasp the opportunities of the new economy and provide professional capital market services.
• Global Layout: Continuously deepen international business and promote cross-border financial integration.
• Risk Management: Provide an all-round risk control system to ensure investment safety.

Huatai Securities Globalization Strategy: Huatai International

International Business Layout

Huatai Securities, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Huatai International Financial Holdings Limited (Huatai International), expands its cross-border financial business to meet the diversified needs of global clients. Its main businesses cover the following areas:

• Investment banking: providing services such as equity and bond underwriting and M&A advisory.
• Cross-border financing: providing customized financing solutions for clients such as leveraged buyouts and strategic mergers and acquisitions.
• Equity derivatives: providing cross-border derivatives trading and capital intermediation services.
• Asset Management: Provide globalized fund management services for international investors.
• Private Wealth Management: Provide global asset allocation solutions for high net worth clients.

Key Regional Layout

Huatai Securities has launched layouts in a number of key markets around the world, covering:

• Hong Kong: Huatai International has established Huatai Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited in Hong Kong, which holds a financial business license issued by the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC).
• U.S. market: Huatai Securities (U.S.) Inc. provides U.S. stock listing and M&A advisory services, and has a securities underwriting and trading license.
• Southeast Asian market: Huatai Securities has set up a subsidiary in Singapore to expand its business in the Southeast Asian market, relying on the model of “investment banking + wealth management + institutional trading”.

Digital Wealth Management Platform

Huatai Securities continues to improve investor experience through its innovative digital wealth management platform. The core objective of the platform is to realize intelligent allocation and efficient management of assets through technological empowerment and help investors realize wealth appreciation. Gaile Wealth Link and Gaile Global Link are the two digital wealth management platforms provided by Huatai Securities for individual and global investors, covering a full range of services from stock investment to fund wealth management and intelligent investment consulting.

UpLevel WealthLink: Comprehensively Empowering A-share and Fund Investments

Huatai Securities has created Joy Wealth Management, a digital wealth management platform that integrates A-share trading, fund wealth management, intelligent investment consulting and investment research analysis. The main functions include:

• A-share trading: providing Shanghai and Shenzhen stocks and financing and bond melting business.
• Fund management: supports public and private equity fund investment.
• Intelligent investment advisor: provides personalized investment advice to investors through AI technology.
• Investment Research Analysis: Provide market data and professional investment research reports to assist decision-making.

The advantage of UpLevel Wealth Link lies in its ultimate user experience and powerful technical support. The platform not only helps users achieve convenient stock trading, but also provides one-stop fund investment services and personalized investment advice, which greatly optimizes the investment management process.

ZL Global: Global Asset Allocation and Cross-border Investment Service

ZL Global is a cross-border wealth management platform launched by Huatai Securities for global investors, especially overseas Chinese. ZL Global provides investors with a wealth of global investment products and services, covering a wide range of areas such as stocks, funds, treasury bonds, ETFs, structured products, etc., aiming to help investors realize global asset allocation and wealth appreciation. Whether it is cross-border wealth management, international stock market investment, or high-end structured products, the platform can provide flexible and intelligent investment solutions to meet the needs of users with different risk preferences and investment objectives.

Global Market Coverage and Diverse Investment Options

1. Cross-border Wealth Management

Cross-border Wealth Management is an important service provided by ZL Global for investors, aiming to meet the needs of cross-border asset allocation. It allows users to easily invest in overseas markets and enjoy high-quality overseas financial products and asset allocation programs. The main features include:

• Offshore Investment Products: Through Cross-border Wealth Management, investors can invest in fixed income, equities, funds and other diversified financial products worldwide.
• Multi-currency wealth management: Investors can choose wealth management products in multiple currencies, including US dollars, Hong Kong dollars, euros, etc., for diversified asset allocation.
• Flexible allocation and risk control: The platform provides personalized cross-border financial advice based on investors' risk preferences and investment objectives, as well as automated portfolio management and risk control strategies.

2. U.S. Treasuries

U.S. Treasuries are one of the most popular debt instruments in the world, with high security and stable returns. ZL Global platform provides investors with a way to invest directly in U.S. Treasuries, and the main advantages include:

• High credit rating: U.S. Treasuries are regarded as a low-risk investment tool for risk-averse investors. The credit guarantee of the U.S. government makes it the first choice for global hedge funds.
• Multiple maturity options: Investors can choose U.S. Treasuries with different maturities, including short-term, medium-term and long-term Treasuries, to flexibly respond to market changes.
• Fixed income: U.S. Treasuries usually provide stable interest income, which is a kind of investment product with capital preservation and more stable income.
• Cross-border investment convenience: Through ZL Global, investors can conveniently purchase U.S. Treasuries and use them as part of their global asset allocation.

3. Stock trading

ZL Global platform provides users with a wide range of stock investment options and supports stock trading in major capital markets around the world, helping investors realize global asset allocation:

• A-share trading: Investors can participate in stock trading in Shanghai and Shenzhen through the platform, which supports real-time trading, stop-loss and take-profit settings and other functions to help investors operate flexibly.
• Hong Kong stock trading: the platform supports investors to participate in the Hong Kong stock market, providing Hong Kong stock trading, analysis, investment strategies and other functions.
• U.S. stock trading: support for investment in the U.S. stock market, investors can directly trade the U.S. market stocks, ETFs and other products.
• Singapore stock market: Investors can also invest in Singapore stock market on ZL Global platform, which provides them with more internationalized investment opportunities.
• Global Multi-Market Access: Through ZL Global, investors can not only trade stocks in the local market, but also have easy access to high-quality assets in other international markets.

4. ETF Trading

ZL Global provides investors with a variety of ETF (Exchange Traded Funds) investment channels, suitable for users with different investment preferences:

• Global ETFs: The platform supports ETF investment worldwide, including ETFs from the US, Hong Kong, Europe and many other markets, helping investors to diversify their assets conveniently.
• Low fees and high liquidity: ETFs usually have low management fees and high liquidity, investors can buy and sell ETFs quickly and at low cost through the platform.
• Wide range of investment underlying: Investors can choose to track ETFs of various asset classes, such as stocks, bonds, commodities, sectors, themes, etc., to easily achieve broad market diversification.
• Intelligent Asset Allocation: The intelligent investment advisor function provided by the platform for investors helps them allocate suitable ETF portfolios according to market trends and personal needs.

5. Public Funds

Public funds are another major type of investment products provided by ZL Global, covering a wide range of risk levels and return objectives, suitable for different investment needs:

• Equity funds: investors can choose to invest in equity funds worldwide. These funds realize capital appreciation by investing in the stock market and are suitable for investors with higher risk tolerance.
• Bond-type funds: provide conservative investors with a more stable investment options, through investment in government bonds, corporate bonds and other debt instruments, to obtain a more stable return.
• Hybrid funds: combining asset classes such as stocks and bonds, suitable for investors who seek to balance risk and return.
• Index and ETF Funds: These funds closely follow market indices, have relatively low fees, and allow investors to realize broad exposure to the market.
• Actively Managed Funds: Actively invested by fund managers in accordance with market conditions and strategies, seeking to outperform average market returns through stock selection and market timing.

6. Structured products

Structured products are investment products that combine a variety of financial instruments and are suitable for investors with higher risk appetite. The ZL Global platform offers a wide range of structured investment options, which include:

• Capital-protected structured products: These products usually combine bonds and derivatives to guarantee a certain level of capital protection while providing conditional yield amplification.
• Index- or stock-linked structured products: Investors can choose structured products based on specific stocks or market indices, relying on the performance of the underlying assets to realize returns.
• Customized investment strategies: Based on market fluctuations, client needs and investment objectives, the platform provides a variety of customized structured products to help investors achieve higher returns.
• Risk-return optimization: Structured products are able to provide higher potential returns than traditional investment tools through flexible design and by combining investors' risk preferences and return expectations.

Intelligent Investment Consulting and Personalized Investment Advice

ZL Global not only provides traditional investment services, but also places special emphasis on intelligent investment and personalized asset allocation. Through the use of big data and artificial intelligence, the platform provides users with comprehensive investment advice and decision support:

• Personalized Portfolio Recommendation: Based on investors' risk tolerance, financial goals and market environment, the platform automatically generates personalized portfolios to help investors effectively diversify risks and achieve better returns.
• Intelligent Asset Allocation: Intelligent investment tools are able to analyze the dynamics of the global capital market and the user's capital situation, and automatically make asset allocation and adjustments to ensure that the investor's capital is optimally allocated.
• Real-time market monitoring: The platform will provide real-time investment strategy adjustment suggestions based on market changes to help investors seize investment opportunities in the market.

FAQ

1. How to open ZL Global account？

• • Account opening conditions: investors who are 18 years old and have full capacity for civil behavior can download the “ZL Global” App to open an account.
  • Account opening in other regions: residents of other countries or regions need to go to Huatai Financial Control for account opening, working hours for 9:00-18:00.
  • Unsupported areas: currently does not support the United States, Canada, Australia, North Korea and Iran residents to open an account.

2. How to open an account for Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan users?

• • Hong Kong/Macau residents: upload a valid permanent resident ID card and proof of residence within 3 months.
  • Taiwan residents: upload a valid passport and proof of residence within 3 months.
  • Identity verification method:
    • Hong Kong bank account transfer verification.
    • Offline identity verification.
    • Other officially designated methods.

3. How does ZL Global help investors invest across borders?

• • ZL Global provides convenient cross-border wealth management services, allowing investors to invest in assets around the world. Investors can easily purchase overseas financial products, stocks, bonds, etc. through the platform and enjoy the flexibility of cross-border asset allocation. In addition, the platform supports multi-currency wealth management, enabling investors to make intelligent investment choices based on market conditions and personal needs.

4. What stocks can I invest in ZL Global?

• • ZL Global supports investment in stocks in many major capital markets around the world, including A-shares, Hong Kong stocks, U.S. stocks and other international markets. Investors can buy and sell stocks through the platform in real time and gain access to the investment opportunities of high-quality companies around the world. The platform also provides stock analysis, real-time quotes and personalized investment advice.

5. Does ZL Global support multiple currencies?

• • Yes, ZL Global supports multi-currency accounts, allowing investors to invest in a variety of currencies according to market demand. The platform supports a variety of common currencies such as RMB, USD, HKD, etc., which enables investors to conveniently allocate global assets while reducing the additional costs associated with exchange rate conversions.

Conclusion

Through technological innovation and globalization strategy, Huatai Securities continues to expand its business boundaries in domestic and international capital markets. Whether it is the digital wealth management platform for individual investors or its internationalized financial services, Huatai Securities continues to lead the industry. In the future, Huatai Securities will continue to promote financial innovation with technology at its core, and is committed to providing global clients with more efficient and higher quality financial services, steadily moving towards the goal of becoming an international first-class investment bank.

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