Transforming Securities Operations: AI, Big Data, and Cloud Innovations

With the rapid rise of fintech and accelerated digital transformation, the securities industry is at the forefront of change, facing both challenges and opportunities as new technologies such as big data and artificial intelligence reshape the sector.

The 22nd GOPS Global Operations Conference and XOps Technology Innovation Summit will be held on April 25‑26, featuring experts from leading domestic securities firms including Huatai Securities, Guotai Junan, China Merchants Securities, Shenwan Hongyuan, CITIC Wealth, GF Securities, and Guotou Securities. The agenda focuses on hot topics such as large models, domestic innovation (Xinchuang), SRE, and databases, sharing each firm’s digital transformation experiences.

Session 1: Building an Infrastructure Operations Data System – Huatai Securities

Speaker: Zhou Pengfei, Senior Operations Development Expert, Huatai Securities

Abstract: Introduction to Huatai Securities’ data system construction, governance, and application in infrastructure operations. The talk covers the role of data across three stages—manual ops, tool‑assisted ops, and data‑driven ops—and the supporting software architecture. It also presents data‑driven value realization paths for monitoring, inspection, change, drills, and emergency response.

Audience Benefits:

Understand the architecture of securities industry infrastructure operations.

Learn data construction and governance pain points.

Explore Huatai’s data‑building practices.

Gain insights into data‑driven operations for the securities sector.

Session 2: End‑to‑End Optimization from Data to Alerts – Guotai Junan

Speaker: Pan Chenyi, Intelligent Operations Algorithm Engineer, Guotai Junan

Abstract: The session shares the company’s recent optimizations in the full intelligent operations workflow, from data source handling to alert management. It highlights challenges in data and algorithm implementation, standards for data processing, metric and log anomaly detection, alert localization and analysis, and explores large‑model applications in this workflow.

Audience Benefits:

Learn key challenges and solutions for intelligent operations in securities.

Understand the end‑to‑end management of intelligent operations.

Explore potential large‑model applications in securities intelligent ops.

Session 3: Overcoming Xinchuang Barriers with Joint Software‑Hardware Tuning – China Merchants Securities

Speaker: Huang Jun, Core Trading System Architect, China Merchants Securities

Abstract: The talk reviews the 2023 Xinchuang adaptation of the new generation core trading system, comparing distributed and centralized databases, and demonstrates how centralized Xinchuang databases surpass single‑node Oracle performance. It also looks ahead to cloud‑native microservice architectures and discusses Nvme‑over‑RoCE networking, Kunpeng CPU NUMA‑aware core binding, and provides practical guidance for Xinchuang adaptation.

Audience Benefits:

Learn the evolution of core trading system architecture.

Compare use cases and trade‑offs of distributed vs. centralized databases.

Gain practical experience in full‑stack software‑hardware tuning.

Session 4: Business‑Mid Platform Quality Exploration – Shenwan Hongyuan

Speaker: Bian Fengjie, Senior Test Expert, Shenwan Hongyuan Securities

Abstract: The presentation details how the business‑mid platform advanced from agile testing to continuous testing, addressing high interaction costs, unclosed test assets, unquantified efficiency, and unmeasured product quality, achieving significant results after years of practice.

Audience Benefits:

Understand the transition from agile to continuous testing.

Explore quality practices and experiences of the testing team.

Learn deep insights into interface automation and its benefits.

Session 5: Digital Empowerment of IT Emergency Management – GF Securities

Speaker: Chen Yanfei, Digital Operations R&D Expert, GF Securities

Abstract: GF Securities built a complete IT emergency management system based on digital concepts, introducing a methodology of “online, automated, digital, and service‑oriented” with a “1 bus + 2 engines + 3 mechanisms + 4 roles” solution. The approach leverages SLO‑driven metrics, ChatOps collaboration, and intelligent bots, and explores large‑model applications in emergency scenarios.

Audience Benefits:

Gain practical experience in digital IT emergency management for finance.

Learn the “1 bus + 2 engines + 3 mechanisms + 4 roles” methodology.

Explore AIGC algorithm applications in operations.

Session 6: Stability Driven by Business – Chaos Engineering Insights – Guotou Securities

Speaker: Liang Enhao, Chaos Engineering Expert, Guotou Securities

Abstract: The talk examines how product thinking and operational tool development can enhance system stability in business‑centric environments, focusing on securities trading systems and presenting practical experiences for improving stability and security.

Audience Benefits:

Understand the importance of business‑driven stability.

Learn practical experiences in product‑oriented stability engineering.

Apply insights to improve system reliability and safety.

Session 7: Multi‑Cloud IT Resource Management Practice – Guotou Securities

Speaker: Jiang Zhengyu, Operations Development Expert, Guotou Securities

Abstract: In a multi‑cloud, virtualized, containerized environment, the session describes the planning of a unified IT resource model, lifecycle management, and unified multi‑cloud resource governance, supporting intelligent operations, root‑cause analysis, alert suppression, and cost‑optimized resource allocation.

Audience Benefits:

Learn how to design an internal resource management system.

Gain experience in building resource consumption scenarios.

Understand data‑driven governance for optimizing operations.