On April 28, the Financial Agent Alliance Partner Exchange Conference, hosted by China's Industrial Bank (CIB), was successfully held in Fuzhou. With the vision of “the power to connect everything,” the conference brought together over 80 guests from research institutions, financial institutions, and technology companies, including the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, Huawei, Baidu, Alibaba Cloud, and Tencent. Participants engaged in in-depth discussions on topics such as the open-sourcing of financial agent technologies, scenario sharing, and community building.
In his speech, Sun Xiongpeng, Vice President of CIB, highlighted the bank's achievements in technology-driven finance and fintech development in recent years. He noted that CIB has focused on areas such as digital operations, wealth management, private banking services, capital trading, investment research, digital risk control, and R&D efficiency, achieving phased results in intelligent applications. Fintech at CIB is transitioning from the construction phase to the harvest phase. This exchange meeting aimed to identify common pain points in artificial intelligence development, accelerate technological breakthroughs through collaboration, enable AI applications to promote bidirectional advancement in fintech and tech finance, and help all parties seize market opportunities in building the new “technology-industry-finance” triangular cycle.
Wei Liang, Vice President of the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology; Liu Jia, Vice President of Huawei China; and Yuan Foyu, Vice President of Baidu Group, shared insights on the exploration of AI technologies in finance and the co-creation of an industry agent ecosystem. Experts from eight institutions participated in a roundtable dialogue on the highlights and applications of agent deployment practices.
The conference also featured a launch ceremony for the preparation of the Financial Agent Alliance. According to CIB's Fintech Research Institute, the Financial Agent Alliance will promote the development of standards and standardized assessments for financial agents, facilitate cross-enterprise agent assembly and collaboration, and accelerate knowledge sharing and resource alignment, aiming to support enterprise growth through more precise financial services. Participants agreed that the alliance will help reduce information asymmetry among stakeholders, enhance mutual trust and cooperation, and stimulate innovation. Currently, alliance members have submitted nearly 200 financial agents, forming a preliminary directory that lays the groundwork for broader sharing and adoption.
Advances in computer science and AI technologies have provided the technical foundation for the emergence of agents, which hold significant importance in improving production efficiency, driving technological progress, and promoting industrial upgrading. CIB is closely following the development of cutting-edge technologies, continuously strengthening its computing power infrastructure and optimizing its computing resource layout. The bank is also innovating in AI applications across investment trading, customer service, and internal operations to accelerate its intelligent transformation, advancing from “Digital CIB” to “Intelligent CIB.”