Shenzhen HTI Group (also known as SZHTI, Shenzhen HTI, Shenzhen High-tech Investment Group and Shenzhen Gaoxin Investment Group) (Chinese: 深圳市高新投集团有限公司; pinyin: Shēnzhènshì gāoxīntóujítuán yǒuxiàngōngsī) is a state-ownedfinancial services company based in Shenzhen, China. It was set up by the Shenzhen Municipal Government to provide financing to companies.
SZHTI was established on 29 December 1994, with a registered capital of RMB 1.2 billion by the Shenzhen Municipal Government. It was originally established to solve the difficulty of financing Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the technology sector.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
SZHTI started as a guarantor of projects with government policy support and positioned itself as a "bearer and extender" of government policies. It determined since in worked on government policy supported projects, it would be easier to obtain funding from state-owned commercial banks for the companies it planned to guarantee. Since its inception, SZHTI has acted as guarantor for over 1000 companies.[1]
SZHTI has engaged in the Securitization of IP rights and in 2019, SZHTI issued China's first IP-related asset-backed security product with underlying assets of creditor's rights on small-sum loans.[9]
In 2022, SZHTI established an online fundraising platform to provide loans without the traditional collateral requirements.[10]