Building a Fintelligent World Together: Huawei Cloud Accelerates the Leap to Intelligent Finance

May 21, 2026

[Shanghai, May 21, 2026] On May 20–21, the Huawei Intelligent Finance Summit 2026 (HiFS 2026) was held at Huawei's Lianqiu Lake Campus in Shanghai, gathering global financial industry leaders and experts for in-depth dialogue on AI-driven digital transformation in finance.

On May 21, Dr. Peter Zhou, Board Member of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivered a keynote at the summit. He stressed Huawei Cloud's role in delivering resilient financial cloud infrastructure: "Today, Huawei's technology services have earned trust from around the world. We serve over 7,100 financial customers, and we work with over 11,000 partners across more than 80 countries and regions. Huawei Cloud now covers 102 availability zones (AZs) in 34 regions around the world. For Huawei Cloud, security, stability, and quality—these have always been our top strategy. As of today (May 21, 2026), Huawei Cloud has recorded 1,022 days of stable, secure, uninterrupted operations, delivering a solid foundation that ensures always-on availability for core financial services." He went on to explain Huawei Cloud's vision for the AI era: "As we move into the intelligent era, Huawei provides fully cloud-based compute, storage, and networking, amplified by system-level software-hardware synergy, to form a resilient financial foundation. On this foundation, we are building a financial-grade AI agent enablement platform that supports a broad range of models and use cases, powering the leap to intelligent finance."

Dr. Peter Zhou, Board Member of Huawei and CEO of Huawei Cloud, delivering the opening keynote at HiFS 2026

In his keynote, "Huawei Cloud Accelerates AI Innovation for Agentic Banking," Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, emphasized Huawei Cloud's mission as the cloud foundation and industry innovation enabler for the financial sector. He said: "Huawei Cloud ranks No. 1 in China's financial cloud infrastructure market and also leads the emerging Asia-Pacific hybrid cloud market. Huawei Cloud has become the preferred cloud for financial cloud infrastructure." Tim Tao highlighted that Huawei Cloud supports the industry's intelligent transformation through four integrated solutions: Resilient Financial Cloud, Converged Data Intelligence, Value-centric AI Portfolios, and Comprehensive Security.

Tim Tao, President of Huawei Cloud Solution Sales, giving a speech

Resilient financial cloud:

Huawei Cloud provides flexible deployment models, including public cloud, hybrid cloud, and seamless cloud-to-cloud synergy, to meet diverse regulatory and operational needs. Through sustained R&D investment, Huawei Cloud delivers cutting-edge services that empower agile financial innovation while continuously enhancing O&M, disaster recovery, and reliability capabilities. Leveraging Huawei Cloud's agile, scalable services, one top bank in Latin America managed to increase digital channel revenue by 60% while reducing infrastructure costs by 30%. Huawei offers three different hybrid cloud products: Huawei Cloud Foundation (HCF), Huawei Cloud Stack (HCS), and Huawei Cloud Stack Dedicated (HCSD), to meet diverse regulatory compliance requirements and operational needs for financial customers. One top Saudi bank deployed an AI platform on HCSD in just two months, boosting employee productivity by 55%.

Converged data intelligence:

Traditional big data architectures can no longer meet financial AI agents' demands for real-time, high-quality, multimodal data fusion. Huawei Cloud addresses this with an integrated data framework comprising three solutions: One Data, for unified data storage and management; One Lake, for a converged data lake; and One Pipeline, for a one-stop data operations pipeline, enabling banks to streamline data governance and AI-ready data preparation. Huawei Cloud helped a leading Chinese bank build a converged data lake, unlocking data value and achieving 90% storage utilization.

Value-centric AI product portfolios:

At the infrastructure layer, Huawei Cloud offers private clouds to meet security and regulatory requirements for the financial industry. At the model layer, Huawei Cloud provides ModelArts, a one-stop AI training and inference platform, which supports over 160 mainstream models as well as Huawei's own proprietary Pangu models. At the agent layer, Huawei Cloud provides AgentArts, an enterprise-grade AI agent platform, to help customers quickly build enterprise-grade AI agents. Huawei Cloud CodeArts, an AI coding assistant, improves code accuracy by 20% and reduces code review and testing burden for bank developers.

Comprehensive security:

Huawei Cloud holds 140+ global financial compliance certifications and delivers five integrated security capabilities: agent security, model security, data security, AI infrastructure security, and multi-cloud security.

To date, Huawei Cloud serves over 600 financial institutions worldwide, including banks, insurers, securities firms, and fintech companies. By delivering ultra-reliable, secure cloud services spanning compute, storage, networking, and cloud-network convergence, Huawei Cloud has earned the trust of global clients as a resilient digital foundation for finance. Huawei Cloud remains committed to working side by side with financial industry customers and partners worldwide to seize the opportunities of the AI era and help the industry accelerate the intelligent leap in an increasingly intelligent, interconnected world.