How China’s Leading Banks Leverage DevOps Standards to Boost Efficiency

The "2022 First XOps Industry Ecosystem Summit" hosted by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology took place on July 28, focusing on the theme "Intelligent Efficiency Empowerment·Value Leadership, Building a New XOps Blueprint" to enhance enterprise R&D and operations capabilities and promote XOps system construction.

At the summit, two outstanding cases from Bank of Communications—Cross‑border Finance and Smart Human Resources—won the "Research and Operations Quality Benchmark" award.

The Cross‑border Finance system integrates customs, payment companies, and foreign service providers, offering identity authentication, risk control, foreign exchange, settlement, and trade financing functions. The Smart Human Resources platform provides AI‑driven, mobile‑enabled digital management of personnel, payroll, talent, training, attendance, and performance.

Bank of Communications has applied DevOps since 2019, deploying a unified development‑testing‑operations platform across more than 200 systems. By adopting standardized, end‑to‑end delivery pipelines, the bank has unified development, testing, and operations, embedded quality standards, and achieved continuous improvement, boosting automation, response speed, and overall R&D efficiency.

The "R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model"—co‑created by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology, the Cloud Computing Open Source Industry Alliance, leading internet companies, and major financial and telecom enterprises—represents the first comprehensive DevOps standard in China, recognized by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and adopted by numerous enterprises. The model covers agile development management, continuous delivery, technical operations, application design, security and risk management, systems, and tools. It was also finalized as the world’s first international DevOps standard by ITU‑T in July 2020.