How Chinese Securities Firms Boost IT Efficiency with DevOps Maturity Models

Overview

In the context of digital transformation, enterprises are adopting DevOps to improve IT efficiency. The "R&D‑Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model" series standards, led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), provide strong guidance. Leading securities firms have participated in CAICT‑organized DevOps maturity assessments, improving IT capabilities, integrating team resources and talent, and better supporting business systems.

Securities Industry Participation

Companies such as Huatai Securities, Guotai Junan Securities, CITIC Securities, Haitong Securities, Guoxin Securities, Anxin Securities, and Zhongtai Securities have collectively completed 28 DevOps maturity assessment projects.

Case Studies

Huatai Securities

Huatai passed two projects (CRM Marketing and XTrader) with roles including product manager, Scrum Master, architect, developer, tester, and operations. The projects follow Scrum and lean practices tailored to the team.

Anxin Securities

Three projects—Mobile Trading Service Platform, User Center, and Internet Customer Service Platform—were evaluated. The Mobile Trading platform, launched in 2019, is a complex, self‑developed system requiring frequent iterations. The User Center adds front‑end UI and database components, expanding testing capabilities. The Internet Customer Service platform complements the previous projects, achieving unit‑test coverage >75%, automated‑test ratio >80%, and reducing average delivery cycle to 5.7 days (a >70% improvement).

Guoxin Securities

The Jin‑Taiyang Information Platform, a self‑developed one‑stop financial investment app with over 16 million registered users, achieved significant metric improvements: delivery cycle reduced from 1.5 months to one week, unit‑test coverage from 40% to 84.39%, and 100% automation success rates.

Haitong Securities

The e‑Haitong Finance Data Application Service System supports securities, funds, bonds, precious metals, and options data, achieving daily deployment capability and zero production defect escape rate over three months.

Zhongtai Securities

The XTP Admin system, a sub‑project of the high‑performance XTP trading platform, provides configuration, account, node, and daily operation management for a platform serving 90% of the company’s institutional clients.

Technical Operations (Standard 4) and Security (Standard 6)

Huatai’s Data Science Development Platform offers web‑based project development, model training, and workflow orchestration, with strict security requirements and a DevSecOps toolchain integrated into the DevOps pipeline. Guoxin’s security platform and Anxin’s DevSecOps initiatives further illustrate the integration of security into continuous delivery.

Systems and Tools (Standard 8)

Various platforms such as Zhongtai’s “Bee‑Bird Performance Platform” and CICC’s “Tian‑Ji DevOps Platform” provide CI/CD, quality inspection, automated testing, approval workflows, and performance reporting, supporting multi‑environment delivery and improving development efficiency.

Contact Information

For DevOps standard assessment inquiries, contact CAICT (Liu Kailin, phone 15650786171, email [email protected]) or GreatOps Community (Wei Huanxin, phone 18500255645, email [email protected]).