
business chain covering investment banking, research, trading
and securities lending. Externally, we continued to establish the
“Xing Zhi” (
行知
) platform for institutional investors, the global
unified trading platform and the business platform for various
institutional services to provide customers with integrated
financial solutions and constantly expand and deepen the
ecosystem of financial institutions and corporate customers.
After over two years of iteration, the “Xing Zhi” platform has
established a new efficient and interactive bridge among
investors, listed companies and experts in industries and
formed a leading institutional service brand in the industry. As
the first securities lending and trading platform in the market,
the “Securities Lending Path” (
融券通
) was upgraded again
last year, which not only efficiently linked more upstream and
downstream securities borrowing and lending institutions
but also provided more customers with more efficient and
transparent services through the open and sharing platform
resources and information. The market share of our securities
lending business has increased by over 20% by the end of the
previous year. To meet customers’ comprehensive demands
for global asset allocation and hedging transactions, our
institutional business has gradually expanded from the
Mainland to Hong Kong and the US and mastered the changes
in customer demands in Southbound and Northbound Tradings
through leveraging on the cross-border and integrated
linkage. Our derivatives business and cross-border business
maintained the leading position in the industry. As an important
link for serving corporate customers, the investment banking
business deeply explored in key industries representing the
orientation of China’s economic development and continuously
served leading enterprises in industries to achieve common
growth with new leading enterprises in the future. It ranked the
top place in the industry in terms of the scale of the stocks and
bonds underwriting business.
Achieving breakthroughs in development boundaries
with data and platforms
The financial industry is a ship sailing on the ocean of data.
How to understand the law of big data and build the internal
logic of big data is crucial in determining the course of the
ship. Data coordination and reshaping and vitalizing data
with technology are pain points and difficulties in the digital
transformation of the industry. On the basis of promoting data
governance, Huatai advanced the enhancement of data
capabilities through platform-based and ecological models
and enabled us to better serve our customers and the market
with data as the engine.
We have comprehensively upgraded the data middle office
into the intelligent middle office, conducted the organic
integration of big data capability and artificial intelligence
technology and built the product matrix covering intelligent
recommendation, intelligent public opinions and intelligent
trading through gathering massive data on market
conditions, industries and enterprises, allowing personalized
recommendation services and investment consulting services
to fully cover individual clients and professional data services
and intelligent services to fully extend to institutional clients.
Meanwhile, the capability of the intelligent platform has been
continuously enhanced by businesses in the high-frequent
interactions. It has constantly accumulated business data,
improved the knowledge graph and become a guide for us to
accompany our customers in depth.
In the times of artificial intelligence, data accumulate on
platforms while platforms continuously expand and upgrade
their capabilities and achieve spiral growth through self-
iterations on the basis of data. Our credit analysis and
management platform has completed the full coverage
of intelligent grading and reports on 29 industries and
upgraded the credit study and quantitative rating, asset
pricing, quantitative trading strategies and other modules,
which comprehensively improved the credit management
capability of the Group. The intelligent research platform
firstly achieved the online production of the whole process
from research frameworks, valuation models to reports in
China, which will become the base for the Group’s investment
research capability in the future. Leveraging on the platform-
based operation, we will also conduct the organic integration
of various capabilities on research, pricing, trading and
product creation and accurately output them to individual and
institutional customer service systems.
Platforms full of vitality are characterized by capabilities
on breaking business barriers and connecting data islands
horizontally, achieving empowerment, reducing burdens and
promoting coordinated and synergistic development vertically
and improving the operation efficiency. “Openness” is the due
meaning in the development of platforms. No matter for our
customer platforms or the “Securities Lending Path”, the big
trading platform for the FICC business and other business
platforms, the credit analysis and management and other
capability middle offices and even our digital employees
and other guarantee platforms, we adhere to the concept
of openness and security to cooperate with more customers
and strategic partners in the operation of new scenarios, the
improvement of new technologies and the iteration of new
capabilities. Huatai wishes to build high-level ecosystems with
business and data interactions together with its customers and
strategic partners to drive data with businesses and empower
businesses with data.
Developing more extensive influence through sustainable
development
Huatai Securities, in its 30s and bearing the expectations of
various parties, has never profoundly felt that the sustainable
development is closely connected to the growth of each of
our organizations and individuals like this. Our sustainable
development depends on the fully unleashing of innovation
vitality by over 14,000 employees. Nearly 1/3 of Huatai’s
employees were born in the 1990s and a group of young
people have stood out after endeavors in the market.
Meanwhile, the extensive application of digital employees will
free more employees from simple and repeated work and
allow them to focus on innovative work for the better display
of their gifts. Under an open and inclusive cultural atmosphere,
each of Huatai employees with creativity, resilience and sense
of responsibility is “shining” in different industries.
The ESG (environmental, social and governance) has become
a new benchmark on fully improving the healthy development
of Huatai. We established the sustainable development
strategy on “finance + technology + green”, guided capital and
sci-tech input in charity and allowed such values to penetrate
into the routine work of each staff. We have developed a more
complete ESG governance system, incorporated ESG into the
risk control mechanism, aligned consensus across business
lines and practiced the principle of responsible investment to
support the development of green industries through direct
financing and equity investment. We sponsored a foundation
on charity with donations in the end of the previous year,
through which we wished to gather various capitals and
professional advantages and focus on rural revitalization,
green development and other key industries to contribute new
solutions to sustainable development. With our outstanding
performance in relevant industries, our MSCI ESG rating was
raised to level A in the previous year, the highest level among
domestic securities companies.
The global pattern has been speeding up in reshaping in
an unprecedented manner since this year. For Huatai, it is
extremely important to keep respectful with responsibilities
in mind, maintain the continuous “creativity” from 0 to 1 and
the continuous “motivation” from 1 to 10 and create value
for customers through platform empowerment. Facing the
upcoming wave of reform and the orientation of the surging
tide becoming clearer, we are more confident that each step
we made will become a new step for the industries.
March 30, 2022
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