IB closely focuses on the “1234” strategy, runs through the digital transformation, constantly increases the fin-tech investment, and promotes the effective integration of the Bank’s operating philosophy and digital business logic from the top-level strategy to the ecological structure and then to the infrastructure.
IB has established a technology framework of “one committee, four departments, one institute and one company”, namely, Digital Transformation Committee, Technology Management Department, Data Management Department, Technology Operation and Maintenance Department, Safety and Security Department, Fin-tech Research Institute, and Digital Finance Company, formulated and issued the Guiding Opinion of the Industrial Bank on Digital Transformation (2022) and the Key Work of Digitalization of the Industrial Bank (2022), focusing on the construction of digitalizing key projects and promoting the transformation and upgrading of technological capabilities. In 2022, the Group’s total investment in information technology reached RMB 8.251 billion, with a year-on-year increase of 29.65%; and the number of full-time information technology employees has reached 6,699 persons, with an increase of 102.82% over the previous year.
IB has been steadily advancing the reform of its entire technology sector, continuously promoting the transformation of technological capabilities, integrating emerging technologies and building ecological scenarios. Guided by customer needs and application scenarios, and through effective improvement of technological capabilities and empowerment levels, IB has optimized the ability of financial services in quickly integrating itself into the production and life of customers. In the meanwhile, it focuses on its “three name cards”, takes digital transformation as the driving engine, continuously adheres to the “three name cards” of green bank, wealth bank and investment bank with high-quality digitalization, and effectively adds luster to the ecology, wealth to the people, and intelligence to the industry.