HiFS 2026: Upgrading Four Major Digital Finance Solutions to Accelerate Financial Institutions Toward Agentic Banking

SHANGHAI, May 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- The Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit (HiFS) 2026 (Global Session), themed "Hello Fintelligent World: Beyond Digital, Advance to Agentic Banking," opened today at Huawei's Lianqiu Lake Campus in Shanghai. At the summit, Huawei announced six key initiatives to accelerate the large-scale deployment of financial AI, launched its Financial Data Intelligence Solution 6.0 and Digital CORE Solution 6.0, and unveiled a resilience infrastructure for both general-purpose and AI computing. These efforts aim to empower global financial institutions to unleash AI productivity, driving the digital and intelligent transformation and business success of customers worldwide.

Focusing on Four Business Strategies and Building a 4-Win Model to Drive Success for Global Financial Institutions

During the summit, Jason Cao, CEO of Huawei Digital Finance BU, noted that over the past 16 years of deep engagement in the financial sector, Huawei's financial strategy has continuously evolved from financial-grade hardware and software to industry solutions. By driving sustained innovation in foundational software and hardware, building systematic engineering capabilities, developing a diverse ecosystem, and providing localized services, Huawei has established an effective business growth flywheel.

Huawei Digital Finance is committed to advancing its four core business strategies. Backed by Huawei's resilient ICT infrastructure, the company continues to deepen its RONGHAI global partner ecosystem, co-creating financial solutions to foster a new "4-Win" collaboration model encompassing customers, ISVs, SIs, and Huawei. As Agentic AI crosses the inflection point toward production-grade intelligence, accelerating its effective, large-scale adoption becomes paramount. To this end, Huawei has introduced a hybrid AI architecture powered by open-source foundation models, empowering global financial institutions to scale AI across high-value scenarios. In international financial markets, Huawei is focusing on six key initiatives—scenarios, architecture, engineering, data, AI infrastructure, and talent—collaborating with customers and partners to accelerate the transition to Agentic Banking.

Pioneering New Paths for AI Value Realization via Open-Source Models and Hybrid AI Architecture: Six Initiatives to Accelerate Agentic Banking

Building core advantages based on open-source models is becoming the strategic direction for global financial institutions.

Leveraging open-source models and hybrid AI architecture, Huawei is driving six key initiatives spanning scenarios, architecture, engineering, data, AI infrastructure, and talent:

Building a Solid Data Foundation for AI: Driving the R.A.C.E. Upgrade of Financial Data Architecture

Huawei unveiled its Financial Data Intelligence Solution 6.0, delivering a three-layer capability upgrade spanning data platforms, data governance, and data applications.

Accelerating Application Modernization with AI: Upgrading to Digital CORE Solution 6.0 as the Foundation for Agentic Banking

Drawing on over a decade of expertise in core application modernization, Huawei has developed systematic capabilities across four pillars: platforms, databases, engineering, and O&M. To date, these capabilities have empowered more than 150 financial institutions worldwide to modernize their core systems, utilizing AI to further accelerate the "Free Legacy" process for financial core architectures.

At this summit, Huawei unveiled its Digital CORE Solution 6.0, featuring comprehensive upgrades across scenarios, AI-powered development, engineering, architecture, and platforms:

Building "4 Zeros" AI-Ready Infrastructure to Strengthen Financial Resilience

From traditional DCs to cloud DCs, and further to AIDCs, resilience remains an indispensable foundation for financial institutions. Anchored by its "4 Zeros" resilience value proposition and the product framework of the R-A-A-S solution, Huawei has comprehensively upgraded its architecture, solutions, and infrastructure. By delivering cutting-edge capabilities that span DR consulting, intelligent traffic scheduling, and heterogeneous DR, Huawei upgrades active-active DR capabilities to a premium level. Facing the AI computing era, Huawei is further constructing a converged general-purpose and AI computing resilience architecture. Through its AIDC integrated inference and full-lifecycle intelligent DC O&M solutions, Huawei empowers global financial institutions to fast-track AI innovation while building future-proof, resilient infrastructure.

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