In recent years, the extensive application of science and technology in the field of finance not only has a profound impact on financial practice, but also put forward an urgent need for the construction of financial science and technology. In order to better understand the industrial development and talent demand of Fintech, on the morning of September 16th, 2020, Professor Zhang Pingdan, the Vice Dean of BNUBS, led a team of six teachers, including Teacher Hu Haifeng,Teacher Wu Yanran, Teacher Sun Yunchuan, Teacher Jiang Jie from the Department of Finance, and Teacher Zhao Xiangyang from the Department of Business Management, went to TANSUN for investigation and cooperation negotiation.

TANSUN (stock code: 300872), whose main business is to provide IT solutions for banks and other financial institutions, is one of the large scale and fast growing IT solutions providers for banks in China in recent years. According to the “2019 China Banking Industry IT Solutions Market Share Analysis Report” released by CCID Consulting in June 2020, TANSUN ranked the fourth in the comprehensive ranking, the first in terms of credit card, risk management and transaction banking solutions, and the third in terms of credit, business intelligence, online lending and customer relationship management.

Mr. Ouyang Jianping, Chairman and CEO of TANSUN, and Mr. Shi Haifeng, Director and Senior Vice CEO of TANSUN as well as Mr. Xiao Yang, General Manager of Learning and Development Center, extended a warm welcome to the visits of the teachers in Department of Finance, Beijing Normal University. First of all, Chairman Ouyang Jianping introduced the main products and services of TANSUN, which can be summarized as ACTORS. To be more specific, A stood for big assets, including credit, transaction banks and supply chain finance; C stood for credit card and retail finance; T stood for general technology; O represented operation management, including business intelligence, regulatory reporting, customer relationship management, marketing, performance, etc.; R stood for risk management, which helped Banks to realize the credit risk, market risk and operational risk management required by Basel Accord; S stood for services, including consulting, development, testing, operations and system integration. The Fintech used by TANSUN included cloud computing and distributed computing, big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain technology, mobile applications, process engine and rule engine, testing and IT operation and maintenance monitoring, etc. Chairman Ouyang Jianping also explained that TANSUN was dedicated to be expert of some specific areas rather than covering too much to make progress. For example, there were more than 20 business segments of banks, but TANSUN only focused on one third of them, so as to strive to be perfect in some specific industry areas and became the industry leader in these areas.

Then, teachers from the Department of Finance introduced the status quo of Fintech major in Beijing Normal University, and communicated with experts in TANSUN on such issues as talent demand, curriculum setting and training scheme design of Fintech major. Chairman Ouyang Jianping and Director Shi Haifeng said that they were very glad to give full play to TANSUN’s advantages in the application of Fintech, and cooperated with schools and enterprises to improve the quality of future-oriented talent training. Finally, the two parties discussed possible cooperation in the future.

Provided by the Department of Finance