Shanghai Alliance Financial Services Co., Ltd (SAFS) is jointly invested by Shanghai Alliance Investment Ltd. which is affiliated to the Shanghai Municipal State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission and professional teams. The company, an investment incubator operating in a market-oriented model, focuses on financial information and innovation.
SAFS, founded in 2010, is located in People’s Square of Shanghai. Its core team has decades of world-class financial and technological management experience. Since its establishment, upholding the concept of “We Are All Partners”, the company continuously cultivates international financial talents, with over 300 staff at present.
As an investment incubator, SAFS’s key investment and incubation businesses include internationally leading financial information technology, service platform and systems that adapt to China’s capital market. Till now, it has successfully incubated several projects, including China's first analysis and pricing platform for financial derivatives of treasury bond futures, the asset securitization industry platform with the largest number of users in China-CNABS, first batch of infrastructure REITs issued in Japan, and investment, development and asset securitization of renewable energy projects, China’s first FOF fund managed with quantitative method, credit risk assessment system, comprehensive management platform for private funds, administrative management platform for hedge funds, administrative management services for hedge funds, and high-end financial consulting services.
In the light of development opportunities of Japan's renewable energy industry after 2011, SAFS cooperated with local teams in Japan to establish a joint venture in 2012. The joint venture’s businesses cover investment management, development and construction of renewable energy projects as well as asset securitization. As of the end of 2017, 85 power plants had been completed and put into operation, with direct current installed capacity of about 1GW in total. The infrastructure REIT managed by the venture has been authorized by the Tokyo Stock Exchange to be listed for trading.
Besides, SAFS has provided international high-end financial consulting services for the largest financial information service provider in the world for ten consecutive years, developed quantitative analysis modules for asset securitization products, and offered the provider model building and calculation and analysis services for over 10,000 asset securitization products globally. Meanwhile, SAFS, through CNABS, supplies the information service provider with data-related services, such as China’s asset securitization market data, model calculation results, and risk factor statistics.
SAFS aims to introduce top international talents and high-end technology, conduct in-depth cooperation with large international financial institutions, and learn from advanced concepts and practical experience of the international market. By taking these measures, the company strives to create information technology suitable for China's capital market and provide professional services for the development of China's financial market.