SHANGHAI, May 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit (HiFS) 2026 (Global Session), themed "Hello Fintelligent World: Beyond Digital, Advance to Agentic Banking," opened today at Huawei's Lianqiu Lake Campus in Shanghai. At the summit, Huawei announced six key initiatives to accelerate the large-scale deployment of financial AI, launched its Financial Data Intelligence Solution 6.0 and Digital CORE Solution 6.0, and unveiled a resilience infrastructure for both general-purpose and AI computing. These efforts aim to empower global financial institutions to unleash AI productivity, driving the digital and intelligent transformation and business success of customers worldwide.
Focusing on Four Business Strategies and Building a 4-Win Model to Drive Success for Global Financial Institutions
During the summit, Jason Cao, CEO of Huawei Digital Finance BU, noted that over the past 16 years of deep engagement in the financial sector, Huawei's financial strategy has continuously evolved from financial-grade hardware and software to industry solutions. By driving sustained innovation in foundational software and hardware, building systematic engineering capabilities, developing a diverse ecosystem, and providing localized services, Huawei has established an effective business growth flywheel.
Huawei Digital Finance is committed to advancing its four core business strategies. Backed by Huawei's resilient ICT infrastructure, the company continues to deepen its RONGHAI global partner ecosystem, co-creating financial solutions to foster a new "4-Win" collaboration model encompassing customers, ISVs, SIs, and Huawei. As Agentic AI crosses the inflection point toward production-grade intelligence, accelerating its effective, large-scale adoption becomes paramount. To this end, Huawei has introduced a hybrid AI architecture powered by open-source foundation models, empowering global financial institutions to scale AI across high-value scenarios. In international financial markets, Huawei is focusing on six key initiatives—scenarios, architecture, engineering, data, AI infrastructure, and talent—collaborating with customers and partners to accelerate the transition to Agentic Banking.
Pioneering New Paths for AI Value Realization via Open-Source Models and Hybrid AI Architecture: Six Initiatives to Accelerate Agentic Banking
Building core advantages based on open-source models is becoming the strategic direction for global financial institutions.
Leveraging open-source models and hybrid AI architecture, Huawei is driving six key initiatives spanning scenarios, architecture, engineering, data, AI infrastructure, and talent:
- Targeting high-value scenarios to accelerate deployment: Aiming at four major domains—intelligent interaction, efficient operations, intelligent risk control, and revenue growth—Huawei and its partners have jointly launched nine AI agent business solutions.
- Building a hybrid AI architecture that balances security, compliance, business performance, and cost: Ensuring data security while leveraging engineering optimization to minimize token costs, enabling the large-scale deployment of innovation.
- Consolidating leading engineering practices to accelerate AI adoption: Leveraging open-source models and open compute power, Huawei drives low-latency AI interactions, optimized domain-specific models for risk control, and deep agentic engineering with seamless partner integration. Through computing engineering, model engineering, and agentic engineering, Huawei enhances both the effectiveness and speed of AI adoption for financial institutions.
- Building a digital-intelligent foundation: Delivering a three-layer capability upgrade across data platforms, governance, and applications to establish an AI-ready R.A.C.E. foundation for finance.
- Building an enterprise-grade, high-performance AI computing foundation: Unveiling the Huawei Atlas 850E SuperPoD, which provides an enterprise-grade, efficient AI computing foundation powered by a leading compute architecture and high-performance networking.
- Launching an AI talent development program: Over the next three years, Huawei aims to cultivate more than 10,000 interdisciplinary "Finance + AI" experts for the global financial industry.
Building a Solid Data Foundation for AI: Driving the R.A.C.E. Upgrade of Financial Data Architecture
Huawei unveiled its Financial Data Intelligence Solution 6.0, delivering a three-layer capability upgrade spanning data platforms, data governance, and data applications.
- Building a converged data-AI platform: Powered by hardware-software synergy, the newly launched AI data lake supports multimodal storage and computing, enabling the efficient processing of unstructured data such as documents and videos.
- Establishing one-stop data governance: In collaboration with Keyrus and Sunline, Huawei has developed a comprehensive data governance framework designed to enhance data utilization efficiency.
- Advancing data-AI applications: Together with Sensors Data, Huawei has introduced a hyper-personalized marketing solution that utilizes over 5,000 customer tags to deepen user operations. In addition, a joint intelligent anti-fraud solution developed with TrustDecision achieves a 30-millisecond detection response time, incorporating AI-driven case analysis to drive a 40-fold efficiency gain.
Accelerating Application Modernization with AI: Upgrading to Digital CORE Solution 6.0 as the Foundation for Agentic Banking
Drawing on over a decade of expertise in core application modernization, Huawei has developed systematic capabilities across four pillars: platforms, databases, engineering, and O&M. To date, these capabilities have empowered more than 150 financial institutions worldwide to modernize their core systems, utilizing AI to further accelerate the "Free Legacy" process for financial core architectures.
At this summit, Huawei unveiled its Digital CORE Solution 6.0, featuring comprehensive upgrades across scenarios, AI-powered development, engineering, architecture, and platforms:
- Enriched core scenarios: Huawei is collaborating with top-tier global partners to co-develop new solutions across three pivotal domains: credit cards, central bank payments, and insurance core modernization.
- AI-powered application modernization: Driven by Huawei CodeArts and co-developed with Stefanini and Sunline, the AI-powered mainframe code transpilation solution achieves an adoption rate of over 90%, significantly accelerating application modernization.
- Engineering and process upgrade: Comprehensively upgrading application refactoring and zero-downtime migration solutions to shorten planning and design cycles by over 50%; collaborating with ecosystem partners to build the Switchover system, ensuring seamless, zero-downtime service switchovers.
- Enhanced cell-based architecture: Deepening cell-based and auto-scaling architectures to support 10-fold traffic surges, while minimizing the blast radius to achieve 99.999% high availability.
- New cross-platform container solutions: Capitalizing on its multi-core, high-concurrency performance, TaiShan general-purpose computing has empowered application modernization for over 80% of Chinese banks and financial institutions across eight countries. This year, Huawei has further partnered with container leaders like Alauda and Rancher to co-develop a cross-platform container solution. Already deployed at scale across leading banks in Asia-Pacific and South Africa, this solution enables more flexible application containerization.
Building "4 Zeros" AI-Ready Infrastructure to Strengthen Financial Resilience
From traditional DCs to cloud DCs, and further to AIDCs, resilience remains an indispensable foundation for financial institutions. Anchored by its "4 Zeros" resilience value proposition and the product framework of the R-A-A-S solution, Huawei has comprehensively upgraded its architecture, solutions, and infrastructure. By delivering cutting-edge capabilities that span DR consulting, intelligent traffic scheduling, and heterogeneous DR, Huawei upgrades active-active DR capabilities to a premium level. Facing the AI computing era, Huawei is further constructing a converged general-purpose and AI computing resilience architecture. Through its AIDC integrated inference and full-lifecycle intelligent DC O&M solutions, Huawei empowers global financial institutions to fast-track AI innovation while building future-proof, resilient infrastructure.
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HiFS 2026: Upgrading Four Major Digital Finance Solutions to Accelerate Financial Institutions Toward Agentic Banking
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HONG KONG, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The fast pace of modern life and an aging population drive demand for mental health and non-pharmacological holistic wellness. In alignment with the health development priorities of the national 15th Five-Year Plan and the Healthy China Initiative, the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) held the launch ceremony for its Centre for Music Therapy Research (CMTR) at the Sky Concert Hall in Shenzhen on 16 September. The launch aims to address the demand for innovative healthcare talent while fostering Guangdong-Hong Kong integration.
The event gathered prominent leaders across government, business, higher education, and technology sectors, including Mr Paul CHONG Kin-lit, BBS, MH, Vice Chairman, THEi's Board of Governors; Professor Alan LAU Kin-tak, President of THEi; Ms LIU Ying,
Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Digital Innovation and Technology, THEi and
Director of Centre for Music Therapy Research, THEi; Mr YANG Pengda, Education Entrepreneur and Deputy Director of Centre for Music Therapy Research, THEi; Mr WAN Kun, Deputy Director-General, Development and Reform Bureau of Futian District, Shenzhen Municipality; Ms MA Hui, Director of Tchaikovsky Conservatory (China) International Exchange Centre; Dr CAI Yuejun, Key Laboratory of AI-Enabled Music Therapy, Shanghai Conservatory of Music; Dr PANG Yan, Associate Research Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Doctoral Supervisor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).
The event featured strategic partnership signing ceremonies and a cross-industry networking reception, alongside an immersive "Emotional Healing Show" concert performed by celebrated musicians, including winners of 'Golden Bell Awards' and 'Wenhua Award', as well as former members of the renowned Twelve Girls Band. A key highlight was the live instrumental and choral performance of the iconic pop song Beneath the Lion Rock, which resonated with the Centre's positioning of "Hong Kong's International Connectivity"—marking a major milestone of advancing interdisciplinary mind-body wellness in the GBA.
Empowering Big Health with Applied Sciences: Nurturing "Work-Ready" Professionals in the GBA
Mr Paul CHONG Kin-lit, BBS, MH, Vice Chairman, THEi's Board of Governors, delivered opening remarks, stating: "As an applied discipline bridging art, science, and medicine, music therapy plays a pivotal role in tackling mental stress, broader wellness demands, and specialised healthcare needs. Guided by our education philosophy of 'applied science and immediate application,' THEi drives industry-academia-research integration. By extending the reach of our Centre to Shenzhen, we leverage the GBA's innovative ecosystem and expanding demand to pair global music therapy standards with cutting-edge technology—building a premier hub for scientific research, practical application, and community service."
Professor Alan LAU Kin-tak, President of THEi, emphasised in his keynote that higher education must stay attuned to modern trends and national developments: "Music is undergoing a redefinition where sound, emotion, and AI intersect. As a pioneer in applied science and work-ready education, THEi sees growing demand in the GBA for expertise in non-pharmacological therapies, mental wellness, and the silver economy. By launching the Centre in Shenzhen, we fuse academic research with regional innovation. Through short-term and professional training programmes, we aim to fast-track market-ready, multidisciplinary talent equipped with technological, clinical, and commercial expertise to directly address key social needs.
Top Academic Talent Joins Forces
The newly launched Music Therapy Research Centre is directed by Ms LIU Ying, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Digital Innovation and Technology at THEi. A distinguished expert in Chinese traditional music, Ms LIU leads the Centre's core content strategy, backed by international innovation expertise from Dr PANG Yan, Associate Research Professor, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); Doctoral Supervisor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS) and his team.
As the champion of the Guzheng category at the 9th Chinese Music 'Golden Bell Awards', and the exclusive recipient of the gold, silver, and bronze awards in this category. Ms LIU noted that the Centre maximises synergy between Hong Kong and Shenzhen by pairing "Hong Kong's global perspective with Shenzhen's development speed" to construct a regional cross-disciplinary hub. Guided by the vision of "medical treatment in hospitals, healing in daily life," the Centre uses Five-Tone theory and AI-based EEG technologies to deliver non-clinical wellness solutions. She stressed that with a clear focus on problem-solving over sheer size, the Centre will advance practical training programs, therapeutic products, and industry benchmarks through the integration of arts, science, and commercialisation.
Mr YANG Pengda, Education Entrepreneur and Deputy Director of Centre for Music Therapy Research, THEi, underscored his belief that "investing in education is a high-value commitment, not a cost," – a vision driving his multi-year support for THEi's research centres. Praising THEi's work-ready degree's programmes - which features a 100% internship placement and over 95% graduate employment, he noted that the Institute's programmes are tailored to industry needs. He emphasised that the new Centre is grounded in societal demand, tackling issues like sleep disorders affecting 300 million individuals and elder care for 320 million seniors—effectively leveraging technology and humanity to improve the quality of lives.
The Centre signed strategic MoUs with Key Laboratory of AI-Enabled Music Therapy, Shanghai Conservatory of Music and Tchaikovsky Conservatory (China) International Exchange Centre The partnerships will foster deep collaboration across music arts research, professional talent training, and international exchange, laying a solid artistic foundation for the Centre's ongoing development.
Moving ahead, the Centre will focus its efforts on four core strategic pillars: advancing AI-assisted music therapy research to improve personalised non-pharmacological treatments; exploring traditional Chinese music to unlock its therapeutic emotional benefits; delivering arts-based healing to support seniors and individuals with special needs; and integrating digital music with immersive technology to drive music therapy beyond traditional stages into a smart, holistic era of care.
Following the official launch of the Centre and its upcoming professional training programmes, THEi is set to reinforce its leadership in regional applied science education—accelerating sustainable innovation to support high-quality development across the GBA and nationwide.
About the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Music Technology
The programme places a strong emphasis on cross-cultural exchange, covering three major professional domains: game music design, contemporary music composition, and film scoring. By integrating artificial intelligence and augmented reality/virtual reality (AR/VR) technologies into practical learning, the programme equips students with professional mastery in audio engineering and sound design, enhancing their ability to combine artistic creativity with technological innovation.
About Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi)
Founded in 2012, the Technological and Higher Education Institute of Hong Kong (THEi) is a member institute of the Vocational Training Council (VTC). THEi offers over 20 professional "Applied Science-Oriented" undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes across seven academic areas: Product and Fashion Designs, Sports and International Events Management, Digital Construction and Building Services, Horticulture, Arboriculture and Landscape Management, Chinese Medicine and Food Science, Hotel Management and Culinary Arts and Technology, and Digital Technology and Innovative Business. The programmes integrate theoretical knowledge with practical applications, and cover industries with growth potential in Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific region, ensuring that students can apply what they learn effectively.
THEi's undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes are accredited by the Hong Kong Council for Accreditation of Academic and Vocational Qualifications. The curriculum emphasises the practical application of applied science, aligning with the latest developments in business and industry. The undergraduate degree programmes offer 100% work-integrated learning training to support students in building their career paths at an earlier stage.
THEi Chai Wan Campus was awarded the "Leadership in Sustainable Design and Performance Award - Institutional" of the Asia Pacific Leadership in Green Building Awards presented by the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) in 2020.
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When Music Reads Emotion: THEi Launches Centre for Music Therapy Research to Deepen Guangdong-Hong Kong Integration and Leverage AI to Fill the Healthcare Talent Gap
When Music Reads Emotion: THEi Launches Centre for Music Therapy Research to Deepen Guangdong-Hong Kong Integration and Leverage AI to Fill the Healthcare Talent Gap
