Exhibitors ⇽ 2024 UK-China（SZ） Digital Finance Summit | British Embassy of Beijing on Glue Up

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Proposed Audience: BritCham Shanghai
The British Chamber of Commerce Shanghai is a dynamic network of international businesses with a common interest in China. Our members are the pulse of our organisation — we advocate best practice; we share knowledge; and we build trusted and long-lasting friendships. Let’s connect.

Working with purpose
Our purpose is to make connections. Connections that open opportunity, empower businesses and unite our community in China.

Members from all over the world join BritCham Shanghai to gain access to China’s most dynamic trading hub, Shanghai. With over 250 member companies already operating in China, we provide the best possible on-the-ground intelligence for companies and brands hoping to grow in China.

The value we bring
BritCham Shanghai delivers value to its members through the advocacy of policies and industries; timely knowledge sharing and insights; as well as community based activities.; London Stock Exchange Group
LSEG is one of the world’s leading providers of financial markets
infrastructure and delivers financial data, analytics, news and index
products to more than 40,000 customers in over 170 countries.
We help organisations fund innovation, manage risk and create jobs by
partnering with customers at every point in the trade lifecycle: from
informing their pre-trade decisions and executing trades to raising
capital, clearing and optimisation.
Backed by more than three centuries of experience, innovative
technologies and a team of 25,000 people in over 60 countries, we are
driving financial stability, empowering economies and enabling you to
grow sustainably.
The London Stock Exchange is at the heart of where ideas meet capital
and become reality.
Whether you’re a business seeking greater horizons, a government with
an ambitious sustainability agenda, or a pension fund seeking returns for
your client, we provide the flexibility to make the connections you need
and create real impact.
We offer our customers extensive access to capital markets and liquidity
across multiple asset classes. We operate a broad range of international
equity, fixed income, exchange-traded funds/exchange-traded products
and foreign exchange markets. London Stock Exchange is home to
several capital formation and execution venues - London Stock Exchange,
AIM, and Turquoise.
We make things happen, out there in the real world, where it matters.; Yingke Law Firm
YINGKE LAW FIRM
Yingke Law Firm, a global legal service organization established in 2001 and based in Beijing, China, is a co-founder of the United Nations Global Coalition of Think Tank Networks for South-South Cooperation. It has been the No.1 law firm among the Global 200 law firms by total number of lawyers since 2022.
Yingke sticks to the principle of “Building a world-class law firm lead by the CPC” with “Global Mindset, Local Instinct,” to proactively deal with changes of the law service market and progress steadily. In 2008, we paved the path of “Scaled out, Specialized, Branded, and Internationalized.” In 2021, we stepped into a new era of “international, professional, digital and smart, and low-carbon high-quality development.”
Our headquarters directly invest in and manage up to 119 branches in the Chinese Mainland. Yingke is dedicated to building the “a global ecosystem of legal service response within one hour” covering 190 international cities in 100 countries, including France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, and Singapore, as well as retail branches in 31 countries such as the US, Australia, Germany, and Korea.
With the principle of “seeking client-oriented, lawyer-centered and sustainable development that makes the party and people satisfied,” Yingke has established 45 National Special Committees, 2 professional legal service centers, and 7 market operation service centers, and each branch comes with over 1,000 professional departments, to meet the diversified legal demands of clients worldwide. In addition, we have established an expert advisory team by employing prestigious legal experts at home and abroad in the field of legal theories and practices. More than 20,000 staff are dedicated to providing clients with global commercial legal services and creating value. During the over two decades since its establishment, Yingke has provided legal services for over 1,000,000 companies at home and abroad to their satisfaction or better.
Public welfare is also what defines us. Yingke proactively shoulders its social responsibilities, keeps forging innovative and trustworthy public welfare platforms, and helps public welfare services progress by means of non-profit foundation, legal aid, lecture on general knowledge of law, donation for school, and poverty alleviation.
Inheriting, innovating, and advancing with the times. While entering the digital era, Yingke speeds up in transforming and upgrading into a “digital and smart law firm,” and launches a big data management & control platform that monitors Yingke data in real time. Additionally, “Law Wit” cloud-based office system was put into practice, to break through the limitation of space and effectively match lawyers; Yingke AI smart space was also officially launched to offer clients worldwide with timely and high-efficiency one-stop self-help legal services via IoT + New Media + Video + AI.
“Honesty, Excellency, Innovation, Openness, Sharing” is Yingke’s corporate culture. In the future, Yingke Law Firm will continue to give full play to its advantages, keep pursuing premium, efficient and satisfactory legal services for clients by integrating global resources, build itself into a world-class law firm, and contribute to the rule of law in China.; Partner Bird& Bird
About Bird & Bird
With more than 1,700 lawyers and legal practitioners across a worldwide network of 32 offices, Bird & Bird specialises in delivering expertise across a full range of legal services. Our specialisms include advising on privacy & data protection, regulatory, commercial, corporate, EU and competition, intellectual property, dispute resolution, employment, finance and real estate matters.
The key to our success is our constantly evolving sector-focused approach. Our clients build their businesses on technology and intangible assets and operate in regulated markets. To better meet their needs, we have developed deep industry understanding of key sectors, including tech & comms, retail & consumer, financial services, media, entertainment & sport, automotive, aviation & defence, energy & utilities, and life sciences & healthcare.
Deep industry knowledge:
• Expertise in the legal and regulatory framework relating to each sector.
• A practical, commercial approach, supported by advisors with decades of experience working in the relevant industries.; Shanxi Securities
Shanxi Securities Co., Ltd. was established in July 1988 and is one of the first batch of securities companies in China, characterized by state-owned controlling interests. After more than thirty years of development, it has become a securities company known for its prudent style, stable operations, standardized management, and strong performance. In September 2010, the company's initial public offering (IPO) application was approved by the China Securities Regulatory Commission's Issuance Examination Committee. On November 15, 2010, it was officially listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange with the stock code 002500.
Shanxi Securities' business scope broadly encompasses all areas of the securities sector, spanning wealth management, corporate finance, asset management, FICC, equities, and international business, among others. Specific services include: securities brokerage; proprietary trading; securities asset management; securities investment consulting; financial advisory related to securities trading and investment activities; distribution of securities investment funds; providing intermediary introduction services for futures companies; margin financing; and distribution of financial products. Additionally, the company is qualified to manage publicly raised securities investment funds and has been authorized to conduct bond pledge-style repurchase transactions, stock pledge-style repurchase transactions, securities repurchase agreements, securities lending, financing for listed companies’ equity incentive exercises, direct investments, over-the-counter markets, fund investment advisory, over-the-counter options, trial market making in the interbank bond market, Bond Connect market making, and underwriting debt financing instruments for non-financial enterprises.; Dowsure
Dowsure is a cross-border e-commerce ecosystem insurance company that primarily utilizes API and blockchain technology to connect the fragmented information silos within the cross-border e-commerce industry. It establishes a global protection network, constructs cross-border e-commerce financial scenarios, and develops risk control models through data technology, enabling the innovation of new products. In 2017, Dowsure pioneered the first cross-border e-commerce insurance in China. In 2019, it launched the first banking inclusive financial product for cross-border e-commerce.

In October 2019, Dowsure Technology's headquarters settled in the Shenzhen International FinTech Center. In 2020, Dowsure successively established official partnerships with well-known cross-border e-commerce platforms such as Amazon, eBay, and Shopee. At the same time, it achieved significant breakthroughs in data security, receiving SOC 1 Type 1 certification from KPMG.
Dowsure have recently completed a Series B funding round of nearly $20 million.The funds raised in this round will be primarily used to expand into international markets to serve more local sellers overseas, deepen our multi-platform layout with eBay and Shopee, and recruit research and development talent.
To date, Dowsure have served tens of thousands of sellers and covered tens of billions in GMV across cross-border e-commerce platforms. It aspires to become the world's leading cross-border e-commerce digital API platform, establishing a global digital infrastructure to provide technological products to millions of sellers and partners worldwide.; Finogeeks
Founded in 2017, Finogeek is dedicated to providing a solid foundation for the efficient operation of the digital world through a proprietary, neutral, reliable, and flexible enterprise-level cloud-native digital engine. This technology accelerates the digital transformation across various sectors and industries.
Finogeek's core product, FinClip, is known for its plugin-based, embedded, lightweight, and flexible characteristics, which have established it as a leader in the industry. FinClip has been successfully implemented in multiple sectors including banking, securities, government and enterprise, e-commerce, aviation, parks, retail, and education. Its solutions have served industry leaders such as Huatai Securities, China Merchants Securities, GF Securities, Essence Securities, Huaxi Securities, Zhongtai Securities, Great Wall Securities, Dongwu Securities, Bank of Communications, Langfang Bank, Air China, Beijing Capital Airport, CRRC Data, and Suzhou Research Institute, earning recognition from numerous enterprise clients.; Archforce Technology
Shenzhen Archforce Distributed Technology Co., Ltd. (referred to as "Archforce Technology") is a leading company specializing in distributed low-latency foundational software and a provider of core business systems for securities and asset management. The company has independently developed the distributed low-latency message middleware AMI, which boasts internationally top-tier capabilities in terms of high reliability, high availability, high concurrency, low latency, and horizontal scalability. Based on the distributed low-latency in-memory computing architecture of AMI, the company has reconstructed core business systems such as trading, risk control, market data, and investment management in the securities and asset management industries. Compared to traditional solutions, the performance has been improved by 20 times, and costs have been reduced by two-thirds, marking a generational shift in financial core systems.

The company is dedicated to assisting financial institutions in transitioning their core business systems to distributed architectures, enhancing the capabilities of China's financial IT infrastructure, and stands as a pioneer in distributed low-latency technology. Archforce Technology has been granted 102 invention patents and has been selected for four consecutive years from 2020 to 2023 for the KPMG China Leading Fintech 50 Companies list, as well as the "IDC China FinTech 50" list in 2023.; China Merchants Securities
China Merchants Securities Co., Ltd. (referred to as China Merchants Securities) is a securities company under the century-old China Merchants Group. It inherits the group’s long-standing spirit of innovation, market-oriented management philosophy, international operational model, and prudent management style. Over the past thirty years, it has grown into a first-class brokerage firm with a full-service license in the domestic securities market.
China Merchants Securities went public with its initial offering of A-shares in November 2009 and was listed on the main board of the Shanghai Stock Exchange under the code 600999. In October 2016, it issued H-shares for the first time and was listed on the main board of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the code 06099.
China Merchants Securities possesses stable and continuous profitability, a scientifically sound risk management framework, and comprehensive professional service capabilities. It maintains multi-level customer service channels with 12 branches and 259 business departments across China, as well as subsidiaries in Hong Kong, the United Kingdom, South Korea, and Singapore. It wholly owns China Merchants Securities International Co., Ltd., China Merchants Futures Co., Ltd., China Merchants Securities Asset Management Co., Ltd., China Merchants Zhiyuan Capital Investment Co., Ltd., and China Merchants Securities Investment Co., Ltd., and holds stakes in Bosera Asset Management Co., Ltd. and China Merchants Fund Management Co., Ltd., forming an integrated comprehensive securities service platform with both domestic and international business.
China Merchants Securities is committed to “boosting the transformation and upgrade of the Chinese economy and helping to preserve and increase social wealth.” It upholds the core values of “national sentiment, era responsibility; striving for renewal and earnest practice,” aiming to build a “distinctive, innovation-led, quality-first, and outstandingly contributive top investment bank in China.” We strive to realize clie; Bank of Communications Shenzhen Branch
Bank of Communications, founded in 1908, is one of China's oldest banks. On April 1, 1987, the bank was re-established and began operations as the first nationwide state-owned joint-stock commercial bank in China, headquartered in Shanghai. In June 2005, the bank was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, followed by a listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in May 2007. In 2023, according to The Banker magazine, it ranked ninth globally in terms of Tier 1 capital.
The strategic goal of the Bank of Communications is to "build a world-class bank group with distinctive advantages." During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, the bank firmly advanced its "1-4-5" strategy, led by its strategic goals to develop distinctive features in inclusive finance, trade finance, fintech, and wealth management, while integrating green finance as the underlying theme for business operations across the group. This approach aims to enhance customer operations, technology leadership, risk management, collaborative operations, and resource allocation capabilities. In implementing these strategies, the bank focuses on pioneering innovations in "Shanghai as its main arena" and digital transformation, setting a standard for high-quality development across the bank.
Bank of Communications is committed to "creating shared value," aiming to achieve growth and harmonious development for its customers, shareholders, employees, and society at large.; Cogo
Cogo is a carbon footprint management product that helps individuals and businesses to measure, understand and reduce their impact on the climate.
Cogo does this through partnerships with some of the world's largest banks to integrate leading carbon-tracking functionality into their banking apps. Cogo uses best-in-class models to provide accurate ways to measure carbon emissions specific to local markets and cutting edge behavioural science techniques to nudge customers to make more sustainable choices and adoption of green loans, sustainable products and services.
Cogo currently works with fifteen the banks globally, including OCBC (Asia), Commbank, WestPac(Australia), NatWest (UK), and ING (Netherlands) and currently helps over a million customers around the world track their carbon footprint.; KPMG
KPMG China has offices located in 31 cities with over 15,000 partners and staff, in Beijing,
Changchun, Changsha, Chengdu, Chongqing, Dalian, Dongguan, Foshan, Fuzhou, Guangzhou,
Haikou, Hangzhou, Hefei, Jinan, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Shanghai, Shenyang,
Shenzhen, Suzhou, Taiyuan, Tianjin, Wuhan, Wuxi, Xiamen, Xi’an, Zhengzhou, Hong Kong
SAR and Macau SAR. Working collaboratively across all these offices, KPMG China can deploy
experienced professionals efficiently, wherever our client is located.
KPMG is a global organization of independent professional services firms providing Audit,
Tax and Advisory services. KPMG is the brand under which the member firms of KPMG
International Limited (“KPMG International”) operate and provide professional services.
“KPMG” is used to refer to individual member firms within the KPMG organization or to one
or more member firms collectively.
KPMG firms operate in 143 countries and territories with more than 273,000 partners and
employees working in member firms around the world. Each KPMG firm is a legally distinct
and separate entity and describes itself as such. Each KPMG member firm is responsible for
its own obligations and liabilities.
KPMG International Limited is a private English company limited by guarantee. KPMG
International Limited and its related entities do not provide services to clients.
In 1992, KPMG became the first international accounting network to be granted a joint
venture license in the Chinese Mainland. KPMG was also the first among the Big Four in the
Chinese Mainland to convert from a joint venture to a special general partnership, as of 1
August 2012. Additionally, the Hong Kong firm can trace its origins to 1945. This early
commitment to this market, together with an unwavering focus on quality, has been the
foundation for accumulated industry experience, and is reflected in KPMG’s appointment for
multidisciplinary services (including audit, tax and advisory) by some of China’s most
prestigious companies.; Barclays
About Barclays
Our vision is to be the UK-centred leader in global finance. We are a diversified bank with comprehensive UK consumer, corporate and wealth and private banking franchises, a leading investment bank and a strong, specialist US consumer bank. Through these five divisions, we are working together for a better financial future for our customers, clients and communities.
For further information about Barclays, please visit our website home.barclays
About Barclays in Asia Pacific
Barclays has been in Asia Pacific for over 50 years and primarily supports corporations and financial institutions across the Asia Pacific region, catering to their cross-border Corporate and Investment banking needs and connecting them to the capital markets of UK, Europe, and the Americas. Barclays in Asia Pacific is headed by Jaideep Khanna, its regional Investment Banking and Global Markets business is respectively led by Vanessa Koo and Hossein Zaimi. Pushkaraj Gumaste heads its regional Corporate Banking business.