# 6.2 Commerce and Logistics Finance

In 2018, the Bank adhered to the unique positioning as a “commerce and logistics bank” and constructed a “Five-Clouds” platform to strengthen product and service innovation. Specifically, the Bank built a professional value-added “Cloud Service” platform by establishing the “Cloud Logistics” and “Cloud Business” product systems and improving the “Cloud Financing” and “Cloud Trading” functions to provide full-process transaction services for enterprises and enhance customer experience, so as to accrue settlement deposits and broaden income sources of intermediary business.

# “Cloud Trading“

The Bank’s “Cloud Trading” platform uses advanced financial technology and scientific and agile iterative development methods to develop a complete set of solutions for treasury management of enterprises. The Bank introduced products such as corporate online banking, cash management, bank-enterprise direct link, interbank treasury management cloud platform, corporate settlement card and e-government to provide enterprises with a series of innovative payment and settlement services. By embedding financial services in transaction links to satisfy the needs of enterprises in various application scenarios, the platform can help enterprises achieve a range of treasury management goals such as pooling resources, reducing costs, accelerating fund flow, controlling risks and enhancing asset allocation. As at the end of the Reporting Period, the Bank had signed 28,025 corporate online banking customers with a transaction amount of RMB656.5 billion; the cash management platform had provided treasury management solutions for 839 large and medium-sized enterprises and public institutions; the bank-enterprise direct link had successfully connected with a number of medium and large group customers; the Bank had issued 2,316 corporate settlement cards in total; and the Bank had provided cash management solutions for many institutional customers including the public resources trading centre, courts, housing provident fund centre, land and resources trading centre, etc.

# “Cloud Financing“

The Bank established an online supply chain financing platform based on the credit of core enterprises to develop financing services for upstream and downstream customers nationwide. With system connection and information exchange among the Bank’s online supply chain financing platform, fund supervision system, core enterprises’ ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) systems and order systems, the Bank employs electronic signature law and electronic signature technology and draws on the credit of core enterprises to provide full-process online financing services for upstream and downstream partners of the core enterprises. Currently, the online 1+N prepayment financing, online 1+N factoring pool financing, online factoring and online 1+N re-factoring, financing functions have been up and running. During the Reporting Period, the “Cloud Financing” platform achieved the direct connection among multiple B2B (Business-to-Business) e-commerce platforms, supply chain finance platforms and core enterprises, and commenced business operations in June 2018, thus expanding the Bank’s channels to secure customers in large quantities for its “Cloud Financing” business. As at the end of the Reporting Period, more than 100 customers received financing online via the “Cloud Financing“ platform, and online financing business exceeded RMB400 million.