11月8日，由新加坡金融管理局与新加坡银行协会联合举办的”2021新加坡金融科技节”开幕。本次展会为期5天，以线上形式举行。今年的主题为“网络3.0” （Web 3.0），集合全球专家一起探讨包括内嵌式金融、去中心化金融等创新如何重塑未来服务。与会者包括来自全球金融机构和企业的主要高管和决策者、金融科技头部企业、投资者和学术界人士及技术人员。
作为工银集团海外网络金融服务的核心发展机构之一，中国工商银行新加坡分行（下文简称“工行新加坡分行”）今年是连续第五年应邀参展，围绕工行数字化金融服务中新经贸往来为主题，重点展出API银企互联，全球现金管理、区块链数字贸易等9大综合场景，以及新版个人手机银行6.0、工银e支付、银联二维码付款等特色个人金融服务。
全球疫情新常态下，中新经贸投资逆势上扬，同时客户对金融服务线上化、数字化提出了更高的要求。工商银行依托境内外一体化系统及强大的自主研发力量，始终从市场需求出发驱动全球交易银行业务创新，一方面以信用证结算数字化转型升级为核心业务场景，推出跨境贸易金融服务平台（数贸e链通），利用区块链技术将分布在全球49个国家和地区的分支机构紧密连接在一起，实现了贸易信息和电子单据的安全快速流转，同时该平台也支持跨链融合为企业提供一点接入、触达全球的信用证开证服务；另一方面以企业跨境现金管理为核心业务场景，在新加坡本地中资银行同业中率先推出API银企互联服务，携手客户通过数字化运营提高财务运营效率，以数字化管理赋能业务发展，高效保障跨国企业中国区业务发展。
工商银行将继续发挥好中新经贸往来的桥梁作用，秉承“科技驱动，价值创造”发展思路，顺应全球交易银行数字化转型趋势，借助工银集团全球服务能力，持续完善平台功能，积蓄金融科技创新动能，积极服务构建“双循环”新发展格局，助力实体经济高质量发展。
ICBC Participates in Singapore FinTech Festival 2021
The Singapore FinTech Festival 2021 (SFF2021), jointly organized by the Monetary Authority of Singapore and the Association of Banks in Singapore, will be held online from 8 Nov 2021 for a span of 5 days. SFF2021, with the theme of “Web 3.0”, will gather global experts to discuss how innovations such as embedded finance and decentralized finance will shape future financial services. Attendees will include senior management and decision makers from global financial institutions and enterprises, head enterprises in the FinTech field, investors, academics and technicians.
As one of ICBC Group’s core development institutions which offers internet finance services overseas, this is ICBC Singapore Branch’s fifth consecutive year of being invited to the SFF. ICBC Singapore’s exhibition will focus on showcasing ICBC’s digital financial services for economic and trade between China and Singapore through nine comprehensive scenarios such as the API bank-enterprise interlink, global cash management and blockchain digital trade, as well as characteristic personal financial services which includes the new Personal Mobile Banking 6.0, ICBC e-Payment, UnionPay QR code payment.
Under the new normal of the global Covid-19 pandemic, economic and trade investments in China and Singapore have bucked the trend and risen. In the meantime, consumers demand for online and digital financial services has also risen. Leveraging on the global integrated system and strong R&D capability, ICBC has always been promoting innovation in global transaction banking business by studying market demand and trends closely. With the digitalization of L/C settlement as the core business scenario, ICBC has launched the cross-border trade finance service platform (“D-Trade Finance Chain”) which is able to link up branches from 49 countries and regions using the blockchain technology. With safe and rapid circulation of trade information and documents, the platform provides enterprises around the globe with L/C issuing service through a one-click access. On the other hand, with cross-border cash management for enterprises as the core business scenario, ICBC has launched the API bank-enterprise interlink service, the first of its kind among Chinese banks in Singapore. This service assists customers on improving financial operation efficiency through digital operation, empowers business development through digital management, and efficiently supports transnational enterprises’ business development in China.
Looking ahead, ICBC will continue to play its role as a bridge for economic and trade between China and Singapore, adhere to technology-driven development and value creation, and keep up with the global digital transformation trend in transaction banking. Leveraging on the strong global service capability, ICBC will continue to improve platform functions, accumulate new drivers of FinTech innovation, actively foster the new development paradigm featuring dual circulation, and assist in the high-quality development of the real economy.