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Wednesday, November 13 2019 - 23:09
AsiaNet
Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore Intrigued by WeBank's Fintech-powered Services at SFF x SWITCH
SINGAPORE, Nov. 13, 2019 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --

From Nov. 11 to 13, 2019, WeBank showcased a series of new generation fintech 
capabilities at the Singapore Fintech Festival. On Nov. 12, Lee Hsien Loong, 
Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore, visited WeBank's booth and 
communicated with Henry Ma, Executive Vice President and Chief Information 
Officer of WeBank. Henry introduced how WeBank adopted fintech capabilities in 
the areas of ABCD (AI, blockchain, cloud computing and big data) to promote 
financial inclusion as China's first digital bank. He suggested that by 
leveraging these technologies, WeBank was enabled to increase operational 
efficiency, reduce costs, and scale faster. Then Henry intrigued the Prime 
Minister with a demonstration of real user journey of WeBank's fintech-powered 
microloan service.

Photo - https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20191113/2641552-1-a 
(Caption: Lee Hsien Loong,Prime Minister of the Republic of Singapore,visited 
WeBank's booth at the Singapore Fintech Festival)

As a world's leading digital bank, WeBank reaches out for international 
collaborations on promoting financial inclusion through fintech. Alan Ko, Head 
of Fintech Innovation (international) at WeBank, addressed WeBank's open 
mindset towards promoting digital financial inclusion at the festival. "Fintech 
holds the potential to revolutionize future financial services, that is why our 
fintech solutions have garnered so much attention here at the event, especially 
our showcases in fields like AI, blockchain, cloud computing and big data. As a 
technology innovator in the world's leading digital bank league, we are 
actively looking for partnership and collaboration to take a step further in 
promoting financial inclusion through new technologies.

Photo - https://photos.prnasia.com/prnh/20191113/2641552-1-b 
(Caption: WeBank Fintech Solutions)

To provide partners more effective and low-cost approaches to tackle fintech 
problems in their businesses, WeBank's professionals presented solutions from 
four major areas-AI, blockchain, cloud computing and big data:

In terms of AI, WeBank is building a series of advanced AI applications for 
financial inclusion scale-up and technology-driven financial ecosystem. One of 
them is Federated AI Technology Enabler (FATE), China's first industrial level 
federated learning platform open sourced by WeBank. FATE helps businesses and 
organizations build AI models effectively and collaboratively, by using data in 
accordance with user privacy protection, data security, data confidentiality 
and government regulations. So far, it has already been applied in credit, 
insurance, supervision and retails.

WeBank also provides comprehensive blockchain solutions including the infra 
platform FISCO BCOS, middleware kits WeBase, and applications including 
WeIdentity and WeEvent:

-- FISCO BCOS (Be Credible, Open & Secure) is an open consortium chain 
platform, built with an aim to facilitate partnerships and inspire 
collaboration amongst businesses. It is the largest open source consortium 
chain ecosystem in China with 10,000+ members (500+ enterprise members). And it 
has launched more than 60 applications in interbank reconciliation, tourism 
finance, supply chain finance, judiciary services, copyright protection, 
entertainment & gaming, and social management & public services. 

-- WeBASE (WeBank Blockchain Application Software Extension) is a bridge 
connecting applications with the blockchain infrastructure. 

-- WeIdentity is an open source solution which offers a safe and efficient 
solution for identity authentication and data cooperation based on blockchain. 
WeEvent is a distributed event-driven architecture developed for 
cross-institutional and cross-platform event notifications in loosely coupled 
systems that support the Collaborative Business models.

-- WeBank adopted and reinvented many cloud-based technologies including 
Fintech Sandbox and WeCube. WeBank FinTech Sandbox is a virtual innovation lab 
designed for individual developers, as well as technology and business 
partners. It provides a testing ground to build, demonstrate, share, augment 
and test cutting edge financial technologies, reference implementations as well 
as various other business applications and solutions. We encourage fintech 
innovators to build their own disruptive business models based on technologies 
which have been tested and proven at scale and applicable for a multitude of 
use cases including virtual banking, supply chain finance, mobile payment, 
smart retail, and others.

WeCube tackles the challenges of managing a fully distributed architecture 
require smart ops & maintenance tools for higher efficiency. It is the 
all-in-one tool to address the issue as being an open-sourced and self-evolving 
working platform.

In the big data area, WeBank extracts the essence of its financial-grade data 
technologies and designed WeDataSphere. It is a platform with financial grade 
computing, data storage and exchange, and machine learning capabilities 
developed based on various open-source components like Hadoop, spark, HBase, 
KubeFlow and FFDL. Enormous enhancements and reinforcement efforts were made by 
WeBank on top of the open-source components to tackle financial application 
issues related to security, performance, high availability, and traceability.

To find more WeBank Fintech solutions, follow their official website at 
fintech.webank.com/en.

SOURCE  WeBank






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