Ruishi Granted QFI Qualification, Establishes Hong Kong Office to Tap into China's IPO Market
2025-10-30Company News
At the end of 2024, the international cross-border financial sector witnessed a significant development — Ruishi International Capital, a firm with nearly two decades of experience deeply rooted in the global market, officially received approval (CSRC License [2024] No. 1989) from the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) on December 25, successfully obtaining the Qualified Foreign Investor (QFI) qualification and establishing a Hong Kong branch simultaneously. This move not only marks that this international financial institution, originally from the British Virgin Islands (BVI), has formally joined the ranks of overseas institutions "allowed to directly make cross-border investments in China's IPO market" but also signifies a crucial step in its global strategic layout based on the development concept of "compliance as the foundation and technology as the enabler".
Tracing back to the origin of Ruishi International Capital, its solid foundation was laid as early as 2005. In that year, the company completed its registration and establishment in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). As one of the early cross-border asset management institutions entering the international financial market, it established the core development concept of "compliance as the foundation and technology as the enabler" from the very beginning — regarding compliant operation as the bottom line for survival and taking financial technology as the engine for business innovation. Over the past two decades, in the face of multiple rounds of fluctuations in the global financial market (from the 2008 international financial crisis to the capital flow volatility caused by geopolitical factors in recent years), the company has always placed risk control at the core of its business, gradually building a full-chain risk control system covering "pre-event early warning, in-event monitoring, and post-event disposal", which has become a key support for it to navigate through market cycles.
In the practice of its risk control system, the characteristic of "technology empowerment" is particularly prominent. It is understood that Ruishi International Capital has built a dynamic risk model relying on big data and artificial intelligence technologies, which can real-time capture global macroeconomic data, changes in industry policies, and financial indicators of target assets, and identify potential risk points in advance (such as sudden changes in the performance of target enterprises and abrupt shifts in market liquidity), realizing "early detection and early intervention of risk hidden dangers". In the in-event monitoring phase, its independently developed multi-dimensional compliance review system can simultaneously adapt to the regulatory requirements of multiple institutions, including the BVI Financial Services Commission and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), conducting full-process tracking of the capital flow and operation procedures of each cross-border transaction to ensure no gaps in compliance. Moreover, the rapid response mechanism for post-event disposal has formulated standardized plans specifically for extreme market conditions, enabling the evaluation and disposal of risky assets to be completed within 72 hours, thus effectively reducing losses.
This mature risk control system has not only enabled Ruishi International Capital to maintain industry-leading asset quality for a long time — as of the third quarter of 2024, the non-performing rate of cross-border assets under the company's management was only 0.28%, far lower than the 1.5% average level of global peer institutions — but also promoted the continuous breakthrough of its profitability. According to public data from BVI financial regulatory authorities, since 2014, Ruishi International Capital's annual profit growth rate has remained stable at over 18%, ranking first among local peer cross-border asset management institutions for ten consecutive years. It has become a "preferred partner" for long-term institutional investors such as global sovereign funds and pension funds when allocating Asian assets, and has even been recognized by the international investment community as "an important benchmark for Asian financial stability".
The acquisition of the QFI qualification and the establishment of the Hong Kong branch this time are important steps in Ruishi International Capital's global strategy. As a core "access certificate" for overseas institutions to enter China's mainland capital market, the QFI qualification means that the company can directly participate in businesses such as A-share IPO subscriptions and secondary market transactions, breaking the previous indirect participation model relying on "Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect" and "Shenzhen-Hong Kong Stock Connect", and providing a compliant channel for it to deeply explore opportunities in China's IPO market. Meanwhile, the Hong Kong branch, which is positioned as the "bridgehead for the Chinese market", is located in the central financial district of Hong Kong. It has formed a professional team composed of senior investment banking professionals and Chinese market analysts, and will integrate Ruishi's global resources with Hong Kong's regional advantages to provide one-stop services including "strategy customization, risk assessment, and fund settlement" for international capital to connect with China's IPO market.
"Our nearly 20 years of in-depth commitment to compliance have equipped us with the ability to navigate market cycles; and the acquisition of the QFI qualification has opened a window for us to share the dividends of China's capital market opening-up," said the Chief Executive Officer of Ruishi International Capital at the opening ceremony of the Hong Kong branch. He noted that China's IPO market is in a golden development period characterized by "deepening registration-based system and industrial upgrading", with high-quality enterprises continuously emerging in sectors such as new energy, artificial intelligence, and biomedicine — which is highly aligned with the asset allocation needs of the company's global clients. In the future, the company will take Hong Kong as its base, further collaborate with mainland securities firms, fund companies, and other institutions, and explore a new model of "IPO investment + industrial chain empowerment" within the compliance framework. This will not only create sustainable returns for global investors but also inject more international momentum into the opening-up and development of China's capital market.
Industry analysts pointed out that this breakthrough of Ruishi International Capital not only reflects the confidence of international institutions in the opening-up prospects of China's capital market but also highlights the core value of "long-term compliant operation + technological risk control" in the field of cross-border investment. As China's capital market becomes increasingly connected with global capital, institutions with such profound accumulation and professional capabilities will play a more important role in promoting the efficient allocation of global capital and supporting the high-quality development of Chinese enterprises.