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China Securities Journal held its 19^th Taurus Forum and Award Ceremony for Listed Companies” in Guilin this year.
During the ceremony, the four classic awards 2016 Taurus Top 150 Investment
Value, 2016 Taurus Wealth Leadership Award, 2016 Best Secretaries Award and
2016 Taurus Best Investor Relations Management were announced.

Ms Xu Yali, secretary to the executive vice
president and board of directors of Sunline, has in recent years assisted the
company in completing IPO, major mergers and acquisitions and promoting
refinancing of projects, to be awarded “2016 Taurus Best Secretaries Award”.
Winning this award is not only due to Ms Xu’s professional competence, diligent
and positive attitudes, but also because of the exponential growth of Sunline
through its performance, merger and acquisition to put forth more attention and
recognition from the capital market. Winning this award is not only a display
of personal capabilities, but also the embodiment of the overall strength of
science and technology.

Sunline as a leader in financial
information industry, depends on the excellent leadership to accelerate
innovation and further promote the development of global financial information.

 

27 July 2017 – Shenzhen, China – Leading Banking Software and
Technology Services Company, Sunline recently hosted the Sunline Global
Financial Summit 2017 titled “Connect. Reinvent. Collaborate” at the
InterContinental Shenzhen Hotel OCT from July 27th to 28th 2017.

More
than 300 delegates comprising of IT and finance leaders convened at the
financial summit that is centered on the rise of FinTech, digital
banking systems and end-to-end functionalities which have caused a
complete restructuring of the global innovation economy. The 2017 Global
Sunline Financial Summit has allowed for opportunities and challenges
for each delegate to discover the emerging impact, trends and challenges
through shared by forward-thinking financial industry leaders and
experts.

The summit also saw Sunline signing a joint venture
agreement with Indonesia’s leading ICT infrastructure providers,
MasterSystem to jointly ride the wave of financial technology
development in the Indonesian market. Sunline’s strategic partners
Tencent, Huawei and DaoCloud attended the event, and demonstrated their
support to the ever-growing demand in the field of financial IT
solutions.

The continuous development of technology in the
information age along with the rapid development of science and
innovation, financial technology to big data, cloud computing,
artificial intelligence (AI), block chain, AR / VR and other
technologies have disrupted the financial services industry. Market data
indicates that Chinese mobile payments in 2016 were 50 times greater
than those in the US due to the rapid adoption of “mobile payments”. As
leading financial IT experts and driven with a purpose to make banking
relevant, Sunline has over 15 years of experience in developing core
banking systems spanning digital banking, securities, insurance, funds,
asset management, internet finance and other financial technology
services in the IT industry.

During the financial summit, Mr. Wang Chang Chun, Chairman of Sunline,
delivered a speech on the topic “Future Banking is Now – Unlocking New
Opportunities with Innovation”. The financial delegates, together with
Sunline, as well as other representatives used this opportunity to share
insights on Insurtech, Commercial Bank Asset and Liability Management,
Finance, Fintech vs Internet Finance, Financial AI, Financial Big Data,
Mobile Finance, Block Chain technology and other wide-ranging topics
that were well-received and formed a turning point on how enterprises
can apply best practices and solutions to collaborate more effectively
across finance focused models. For the first time in the industry the
event brought topics such as how VR and AR could transform the future of
the financial technology industry paired with case studies and
effective solutions to provide end-to-end, flexible and fully integrated
digital business solutions.

Sunline for the past 15 years have actively responded to trends
and innovative solutions, thus finding the drive to ride the financial
technology wave – whether it is pioneering to eliminate any
technological challenges or independently attaining IP rights to China’s
first-generation JAVA based core banking systems. With mobile
penetration outpacing desktop Internet usage, the mobile industry
payment is poised for growth, thus resulting in demand for comprehensive
adaptable IT solutions in the form of mobile apps such as WeChat, PC
and mobile banking to online financial platform services and risk
management. In this regard, Sunline has already deployed features and
tools that have help to grow and transform 400 financial institutions
both local and globally.

The construction of the digital banking systems has allowed for Sunline Group to receive recognition on all fronts starting with “IDC China FinTech Pioneer Top 25”, “China’s Top 100 Software Vendor”, “Forbes China 2017 Top 100 Potential Listed Companies” and “Top 10 Leading IT Service Provider In The Financial Industry” among others.

With a single-minded focus strategy, Sunline has expanded to Hong Kong, through the establishment of investments, mergers and acquisitions and other forms of integration, to create seamless product developments, sales, delivery, operation and management under one roof. One of the main company’s focus is to expand its professional services and cover the core banking financial technology systems in line with international standards and expanding P2P lending systems to other international markets.

Chairman of Sunline, Wang Chang Chun said that having been in the financial technology industry for the last 15 years, the group has accumulated a deep sense and commitment to the financial technology industry relying on the company’s legacy, values and synergy. Combined with the velocity of change in the financial industry, the potential to ride the future of technology is promising.

“Enterprises will seek to reinvent their solutions by integrating the latest technology trends and the industry best practices to ensure high quality innovative financial services to battle with the competitive market.  As such, Sunline will continue to uphold its mission to create value for customers and to strive for customer-centric concept to deliver financial services in a comprehensive and secure manner,” added Mr. Wang.

CHANGCHUN – The first private bank in
China’s rust belt, an industrial area in the northeast had officially started
operation on Tuesday, as the first approved the establishment of the northeast.
Headquartered in Jilin, Yillion Bank was approved in December 2016 by China’s
banking regulator and co-sponsored by at least two private capital providers.

Yillion Bank positioned itself as an
intelligent internet bank, intending to base at the northeast and penetrating
nationwide. The lender mainly attracts deposits from personal consumers and
provides financial support to small and micro firms. In the future, big data will
be embedded deep into product development and operations management of Yillion
Bank.

In the recent years, China has approved a
pilot scheme to set up five private banks to give private capital a bigger role
in the country’s financial system. Nationwide, 17 private banks have been given
opportunities for reformation and development.

According to public information, 25 listed
banks shared out bonuses totalling 353.6 billion Yuan this bonus season.

 

Among them, Industrial and Commercial Bank (ICBC)
of China was the most generous, paid bonuses exceeding 80 billion Yuan. Bonuses
from China Construction Bank, Agricultural Bank of China, Bank of China, Bank
of Communications, China Merchants Bank, Industrial bank and CITIC bank bonuses
also exceeded ten billion.

 

ICBC dividends over 80 billion

Listed banks are ushered into their bonus
season in June and July, with none left out as all of them presented their
bonus scheme. According to Flush’s (300033, stock it) statistics, 25 listed
banks will be pay out 353.6 billion Yuan with an average distribution of cash
dividends ratio of 26.7%.

ICBC is the top in dividend payout, with a
total of 83.506 billion Yuan. ICBC 2016 annual distribution plan for each 10
shares were paid out 2.343 Yuan (including tax) with a cash dividend ratio of
30.5%. Judging from the performance over the past three years, ICBC’s bonuses
have maintained above 30% with the cash dividend in 2014 amounted 91.26 billion
Yuan with a dividend ratio of 33% and cash dividend in 2015 amounted 83.15 billion
Yuan with a dividend ratio of 30.3%.

Central Huijin Investment, China Securities
Finance, Sycamore investment, Yifangda Fund Management and China Merchants
Fengqing Flexible Allocation Mixed Launched Fund together held on 129.62
billion worth of shares. According to share out bonus scheme, their total
profits amounted 30.37 billion Yuan with the shareholders occupying 36.36% of
the share out bonus.

In the bonus share out frenzy, Ping An
Insurance, Anbang Life Insurance and China Life Insurance respectively holding
4.32 billion shares, 390 million shares and 317 million shares, were each paid
out dividend amounting 1.01 billion Yuan, 91.377 million Yuan and 74.273
million Yuan.

Among the top four banks, China
Construction Bank has the highest absolute dividend per share, with the highest
reaching 0.278 Yuan per share. According to the final number of shareholders, the
amount of share out bonus was 69.503 billion Yuan with cash dividend ratio of
30.03%.

 

City commercial banks dividend higher than
agricultural banks

Last year, city commercial banks and
agricultural firms were listed one after another. Dividends showed city
commercial being far higher than agricultural firms.

Among the city commercial banks, Bank of
Shanghai is the “most generous”, according to its published annual
profit distribution plan. By the end of 2016, the total share capital base at
6.4 billion shares. 5 Yuan cash dividends (including tax) is paid out for every
10 shares and capital reserve is 10 shares for every 3 shares. By this
calculation, the Bank of Shanghai dividends amounted 3.2 billion Yuan.

 

Bank of Jiangsu ranked second.

Bank of Jiangsu paid 1.78 Yuan for every 10
shares with a total of 2.055 billion Yuan of cash dividend distributed. The big
dividends of the bank benefited a lot of shares of listed companies. Huaxi
Holdings, announced on June 7 to hold Bank of Jiangsu’s 249 million shares, accounting
for 2.16% of its total equity. According to the above scheme, Huaxi may obtain
44.288 million Yuan of cash dividends. Su Changchai A also reported on the same
day to owning 38 million of Bank of Jiangsu’s shares. The company may obtain
6.76 million Yuan cash dividends. At present, the company has received the
dividends and recognized as investment income.

 

For agricultural banks, Bank of Changshu top
the list. The bank intends to distribute cash dividend of 1.80 Yuan for every
10 shares (including tax) with a total cash dividend distribution of 400
million Yuan. Bank of Wuxi on the other hand plan to distribute 1.5 Yuan for
every 10 shares, amounting a total cash dividend of 277 million Yuan.

 

Even with an average performance last year,
Jiangsu Zhangjiagang Rural Commercial still distributed dividends as
“sincerity”. As reported in April 28, dividend distribution is based
on the total share capital of 1.808 billion shares in December 31, 2016 with 1
Yuan (including tax) distributed for every 10 shares. Total distributed cash
dividend amounted 181 million Yuan. According to this calculation, the cash
dividend amount accounted for 26.22% of the company’s net profit.

 

Bank of Wujiang lacked bonuses, with only for 0.6 Yuan paid out for every
10. Total distribution of cash dividend amounted 67 million Yuan, 3 shares per
10 shares.

 

Although there are plans for share out
bonuses, but investors should avoid speculations. At present, the dividend and
dividend income of listed companies shall be differentiated and individual
income tax policy shall be implemented. Among them, for more than 1 years of
ownership, free of personal income tax; For a period of less than 1 months and
1 months to 1 years, the actual tax burden is 20% and 10%.

 

“Due to lack of flexibility, retail
banking stocks have not been too favourable. However, institutions are very
fond of banking stocks, such as QFII, insurance, social security funds and so
on,” Snowball Finance General Manager Li Changmin said. Based on the
current observation, bank stock valuation is low due to high margin of safety. This
is shown in the recent market adjustment, whereby not only has the banking
sector not been implicated, it has risen steadily; In addition, 4% to 5% of
dividends a year refer to a very stable organisation.

Central enterprises have presented brilliant performance in the first half of the year, hitting new highs in both revenues as well as profits. 12 central enterprises have signed framework agreement with banks on debt-to-equity swap, speeding up the restructuring and consolidation of these central enterprises. While trying to maintain growth, central enterprises are paying more attention to risks control as well as the quality and benefits of improvements.

Shen Ying, chief accountant of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) indicted at the press conference of the State Council Information Office held on July 11 that SASAC is more concerned about whether advancing the restructuring can meet the expected results. If the restructuring of central enterprises is smooth and the results can meet expectations, these enterprises will play a better role in the future.

Central enterprises have initiated their key restructurings this year with China National Nuclear Corporation and China Nuclear E&C Group being the first to propose their strategic restructuring. Subsequently, Sinolight Corporation and China Poly Group have been rumoured to follow suit. The consolidation and restructuring of central enterprises have sped up since June.

Shen indicated that in the recent years, the consolidation and restructuring of central enterprises are mainly conducted in the following forms. Firstly, through associations between strong enterprises. Two enterprises with matching size in the same industry can reduce repeated investments and construction, and restructuring and consolidation resulted in a reduction of operation cost through. Secondly, consolidation through mergers. Thirdly, through restructuring of upper and down-streams of industrial chains. Industrial layout can be improved and market fluctuations will be prevented. For example, the restricting of raw materials and processing enterprises.

Shen also pointed out that restructuring of central enterprises is not a simple consolidation. There are still a lot of work to do after the restructuring. The coordination in the capital market will also be essential for groups with many listed companies.
The debt risks of central enterprises are of high concerns. SASAC’s statistics show that as at the end of 2016, the asset-liability ratio of central enterprises was 66.6 percent, which is 0.1 percentage points lower than 2015. As at the end of March 2017, the asset-liability ratio of central enterprises was 66.5 percent, 0.1 percentage points lower. Based on the statistics, the overall debt risks of central enterprises are within control. Hence, SASAC has been highlighting the swap of debts into equities many times.

“SASAC is always asserting the importance on risk prevention of central enterprises as risk prevention is of significance to stable economic growth. It controls liability ratio and liability scale of some enterprise with huge amount of liabilities through linkage of budget, assessment, wages and investment management.” Shen pointed out at the news conference. SASAC has done a lot in deleveraging, like driving enterprises to optimize their capital structure, encouraging them to finance from capital market via launching IPO and issuing stocks to improve capital structure, supporting them to conduct asset securitization business, and advancing them to collect development fund by vitalizing existing funds to reduce dependence on liability as much as possible.

Shen disclosed during the conference that 12 central enterprises have signed framework agreement on debt-to-equity swap. Some central enterprises such as China Baowu Steel Group Corporation and China First Heavy Industries have made positive achievements in such debt-to-equity swap program. Overall liability ratio of central enterprises keeps sable, debt structure is being optimized and solvency indicator is also improving.

In terms of de-capacity, Shen pointed out that the SASAC and central enterprises focus on the main topic of deepening supply-side structural reform, carry out key tasks of cutting overcapacity, destocking, deleveraging, lowering costs and improving weak links, accelerate structural adjustment, transformation and upgrading, and strengthen core competitiveness and ability of sustainable development.

Firstly, the implementation of tasks to cut overcapacity has been taken seriously. In the first half of the year, they totally reduced overcapacity of iron & steel industry by 5.95 million tons and have superseded the annual task. They cut overcapacity of coal industry by 6.59 million tons and restructured the capacity of coal industry by 13 million tons. Secondly, they conducted work on “zombie enterprises” and enterprises in dire straits. They put forth proposal on disposing “zombie enterprises” and governing subsidiaries in dire straits to ensure positive results. Thirdly, they move quicker in tackling historical questions. Separation and transfer of water, power and heat supply and property management have been completed by over 50 percent. Fourthly, they invest more in strategic emerging industry. They mainly made investment in strategic emerging industry, advanced manufacturing industry, modern tertiary industry, infrastructure and people’s livelihood guarantee field. Investment made in new energy, equipment manufacturing, scientific research and modern tertiary industry increased by 4.4 percentage points. There were more than 500 platforms for mass entrepreneurship and innovation as well as over 200 incubators and scientific industrial parks for mass entrepreneurship and innovation were established. They also initiated and joined in over 200 funds to lay good foundation for future development.

  This is the 12th year since the first release of “Forbes Chinese Potential 100” in 2005. Forbes has investigated and surveyed China SME comprehensively and independently, and made the history by presenting the list of potential listed companies, unlisted companies and notable NEEQ （National Equities Exchange and Quotations ）companies, which including 220 enterprises. In its 15 years of service, Sunline is now the leading financial IT solutions provider and was awarded one of the top Forbes Chinese Potential Companies in 2017 with 3 major preponderances.

  First, Forbes recognises Sunline’s independent research and development efforts to drive technological innovation. In 2015, Sunline has developed the new generation core banking system using distributed architecture to meet the requirements of autonomous controllable technology and support the multi-parameter product configuration, and successfully deploying it for WeBank. Sunline’s core banking solutions is highly recognized by large and medium commercial banks, including Nanjing bank and Ping An bank. The company’s self-developed digital core banking system has also won the trust of many customers including traditional financial institutes and Fintechs.

  Secondly, Sunline is also recognised for their active capital operations by exploring new business models. In 2015, Sunline Holding successfully issue their shares and through the integration of internal resources and talent introduction of strategic investment, established several distinctive subsidiaries. The company further strengthened its market share in the financial industry in the aspects of asset management, digital banking, business intelligence as well as credit cards. Their customers have expanded to Fintechs, small loan companies, financial insitutes, car manufacturers, asset management companies and others.

  Thirdly, Forbes also recognises Sunline’s social responsible culture and their contribution to promote the growth of the financial industry. Leveraging on expertise and more than 10 years of experience in the financial industry, Sunline has played a significant role to help the country’s traditional financial institute deepened the understanding of the Internet Finance and by providing comprehensive solutions, alleviated their transformation journey to reinvigorate the industry. On the other hand, Sunline also helped Fintechs to understand the financial businesses and regulatory supports through their services, successfully driving development of these enterprises.
Fan Luxian, Chinese editor-in-chief of Forbes indicated Forbes is authoritative and transparent. The list of enterprises or individuals awarded is not only based on strength, but also based on potential evidences.

  With the release of the list, Forbes China also announced 2017 Forbes Potential Enterprise Innovation Summit and 2017 China Forbes Top Potential Enterprise Awards will be held in Henan province Zheng Dong New District of Zhengzhou city in May 2017. During the summit, Sunline will be present at this event amid other listed enterprises and guests.

   Sunline (Stock Number: 300348) was nominated as one of “2017 Top 100 of China Software and Information Technology and Service Competitiveness”

  The list, recently joint released by China Electronic Information Industry Association and China Software Industry Association after a series of evaluations on appraised enterprises, uncovers the China’s top software industry pioneers. According to the data from the organizing committee, the nominated top enterprises have respectively demonstrated remarkable achievements in areas including innovation and coordination, green initiatives, openness in development concepts, economies of scale, continuous innovation in research and development, international business outreach in the past year.

  Since its establishment 15 years ago, Sunline has grown alongside the industry through continuous innovation and development for financial institutions including banking, insurance, unit trust, securities as well as Fintechs. The 3 main categories of products developed for banks, Sunline’s major customers are business, management and channel solutions. As of today, Sunline is the only service provider to independently research and develop all 3 categories of solutions for banks.

  In the era of digital transformation, top service providers should no longer only focus on being outstanding in their contributions towards banking information but also to pursue national innovation strategies as well as the “Belt and Road Initiative” that bring opportunities for overseas market expansion. It is also important for pioneers to adapt to the era of digitisation and build innovative solution platforms for financial institutions to reinvigorate the industry.

  At present, Sunline has helped more than 400 financial institutions locally and globally on their journey towards digital transformation. Being nominated as the top 100 is an encouragement for Sunline to uphold their objectives in creating more value for customers through reinvention of innovations and to become a leader in global financial IT solutions provider.

  Credit risk management systems have transformed from the focusing on the total loan process life cycle in the first generation, to the application of structure data such as linear scoring card in the second generation. The new generation of credit risk management systems in the big data era are of exemplary reliability with:

  1.The ability to process both structured and unstructured data simultaneously;

  2. The ability to model risk and behaviour using non-linear models.

  The following figure illustrates the main component of the third-generation big data credit risk management system:  Big Data =AI + BI + Modelling

  The new generation of credit risk management systems in the big data era leverages traditional business intelligence (BI) tools to analyse structured data within the bank, credit data from the central bank (structured data) as well as artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm (i.e. NLP) to analyse risks associated with various external unstructured data (i.e. judicial litigation data from judicial websites, industrial or commercial data, public opinion data from authorised media). All data are unified to perform risk modelling, providing more accurate results and minimising risks of non-performing loans.
There are 3 conditions to meet for a robust and reliable AI platform:
  1. Legitimate & reliable data sources – Relying solely on bank’s internal data and credit data from the central bank is no longer sufficient as related external unstructured data that does not
involve privacy issues will further enhance accuracy.
  2. Experienced data scientists – Build a strong AI platform to deal with massive unstructured external data with deep network training techniques.
  3. Subject matter experts – This is often an overlooked point. For platforms to function reliably, subject matter experts must be able to transfer their field knowledge correctly to the data scientists to write out correct AI algorithms. However, it is even harder to find such experts compared to experienced AI scientists.
  With a powerful artificial intelligence platform to unify internal and external heterogeneous data, the new generation of risk management system that covers the complete loan life cycle is developed.

  Since 2014, digital banking has been noted in the government work report for 4 consecutive years and has been ascended as a national strategy.

 Based on the analysis of banking sector, there are 10 major trends in digital banking ever since the introduction of direct banking to the maturity of internet financial ecosystem today.

  President of China Internet Finance Innovation Research Centre and director Financial Law Institute of Central University of Finance and Economics, Mr Huang Zhenceng expressed the growth of digital banking will revolve around 4 key areas:
  1. Ecosystem – Future of an innovation must create an ecosystem and the core of interactions are the flow of data and capital, instead of flow of product in past ecosystems. From the introduction of computers to mobile and wearable devices, advancement of AI and internet of things (IOT), intelligent and mobile technologies will continue to become a larger part of our lives. With more comprehensive coverage of wireless broadband, wider usage of cloud computing, real-time updates from big data analysis and mass data flow, these technologies will become productive resources in the ecosystem.
  2. Scenario – The core of scenario based technology is the flow: From the flow and fusion of products, user group as well as industry. Consumer financing and internet insurance will be the next outburst in scenario based growth. Others with greater opportunity include credit, investment, finance management. Digitization is the essential direction for these services.
  3. Market – Third-party service providers are the new market for traditional financial institutes to leverage on for collaborations. One of the main characteristics of the digital economy that traditional financial institution can leverage on is having other market players cover the increasing service charges by prospering the market through addition of more third-party services.
  4. Technology – The constant iteration of new technologies like block-chain, intelligent contracts, AI etc will continuously promote growth to the financial industry.

  With the rapid development of digital banking and the intensifying competition in the industry, banks are beginning to pay more attention towards the development of more exclusive financial services. Hence, a system with ability to efficiently process mass data is essential for banks to stay ahead in the competition.
Sunline’s new generation core banking system with an open architecture is optimised from both horizontal and vertical levels. The system’s immense scalability and efficient processing capability provides a comprehensive solution for mass data management.
  The core system’s horizontal expansion capability adopts the deployment structure of application and database services in separated application framework which effectively avoids the interruption between both services. The use of application service modules from different application servers to support different business processes boost the elasticity and scalability of the system. The system can achieve accounting processing capability of up to 10,000TPS, scalability of application servers according to need of business development as well as unlimited expansion of application services.
  Developed in pure JAVA language with the support of PCServer hardware and deployment using standby master mode, the stability and robustness of system is greatly improved. Backup machine is always on standby mode under normal circumstances. Only if the main server fails, the system automatically switches the transaction services to the backup machine. This will maintain a single node application while allowing zero-downtime.
 
  Sunline core banking system uses 4 processing technologies in its application to effectively improve the business processing ability and processing efficiency:
  Read / write separation technology – The system supports separation of accounting processing and information inquiry. After the completion of each transaction, the system pushes all related transaction information to the information inquiry system through the application platform. This improves the independency of the inquiry service application for each customer’s inquiry.
  Table – The system recognises stored data in information table or transaction table and allow split of multiple structure in the same table. With the use of Hash algorithm, these data can be stored in different sub tables according to user needs and improves system query efficiency.
  Caching – The use of system parameter to improve the operational capacity of memory and SQL caching support the execution of the transaction in the unified disposable SQL statement before a transaction hence effectively reduce the number of interactions of business processing and database.
  Asynchronous processing technology – The use of this technology allows processes to occur on different threads simultaneously effectively. With automatic identification of current accounts, handling locks, waiting times and accounting processing efficiency, the the impact of deadlock on system processing can be further minimised.
  The distributed architecture of the new generation system is based on SOA design while leveraging on the advantages of the internet architecture to support load balancing. High scalability, concurrency and “two hundred million” processing capabilities is a core banking system for the future. Throughout continuous innovation and internal function optimisation, the new generation system is greatly improved to specially handle mass data. Sunline has successfully deployed the new generation core banking system for numerous banks to not only support their development of traditional banking services but also their digital banking services.