Tsinghua PBC School of Finance and Huawei Central Bank Integrated Corps Jointly Hold Closed-Door Thematic Forum on Payment and RegTech, Serving the Development of a Financial Powerhouse and the Belt and Road Initiative
On May 19, 2026, during the Tsinghua PBC Global Finance Forum, the Huawei Central Bank Integrated Corps and the Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance jointly hosted a closed-door thematic forum titled “Digital Empowering a New Generation of National Payment and Regulatory Technology.” The event brought together over 40 high-level global guests, including senior officials from central banks and financial regulatory authorities of countries such as Cambodia, Bangladesh, Indonesia, the Philippines, Nigeria, and Tanzania. Special invitees included Jacob Aharon Frenkel, former Governor of the Bank of Israel and internationally renowned financial scholar; Marc Uzan, Founder and Executive Director of the Reinventing Bretton Woods Committee; and Chea Serey, Governor of the National Bank of Cambodia.
The closed-door forum served as a high-end exchange platform for central bank executives and senior financial policy makers, facilitating in-depth discussions on the construction of a new generation of national payment infrastructure, regulatory compliance trends, and practical implementation. The forum aimed to build industry consensus and support global central banks in entering a new phase of digital transformation.
Scene from the closed-door thematic forum
The current acceleration of global financial digitization has made the need for highly resilient financial infrastructure increasingly urgent. Digital technology has become a core driving force for improving the efficiency of payment operations, strengthening financial security safeguards, and enhancing cross-border regulatory penetration. Against this industry backdrop, central banks around the world are accelerating the innovation and upgrading of national payment systems and the deployment of supervisory technology (SupTech). Leveraging technological breakthroughs to address transformation challenges and achieve high-quality development in the financial sector has become a central issue of common focus in the global financial community. This round table forum, centered on the theme of technology empowerment and precisely aligned with the actual needs of global central banks in their digital transformation, serves as an efficient and high-level dialogue bridge facilitating deep interoperability between central bank institutions, the financial industry, and technology enterprises.
Fernando Liu, President of the Huawei Central Bank Integrated Corps
Fernando Liu, President of the Huawei Central Bank Integrated Corps, engaged in in-depth exchanges and discussions with the guests at the event. He stated that leveraging Huawei’s deep ICT technology expertise and full-stack solution advantages, along with the Ronghai Partner Program, Huawei will collaborate with leading global financial industry associations, prestigious academic institutions, top-tier software service providers, and local experienced system integrators to build an industrial ecosystem covering core areas such as national central bank payment systems. This initiative aims to comprehensively support central banks worldwide in advancing their digital transformation and helping countries develop a new generation of efficient, secure, and intelligent national financial infrastructure.
Lv Chen, Head of the Solution Sales Department of the Huawei Central Bank Corps
Lv Chen, Head of the Solution Sales Department of the Huawei Central Bank Corps, introduced Huawei’s overall business layout, industry digitalization empowerment experience, and mature implementation cases. Addressing three core challenges commonly faced by central banks worldwide—the digital development gap, lagging regulatory systems, and low cross-border payment efficiency—he elaborated in detail on Huawei’s approach to leveraging its end-edge-cloud-AI integrated technology architecture to assist central banks in building national financial infrastructure. He highlighted how cutting-edge technologies can deeply serve the popularization of inclusive finance and the steady growth of the real economy, comprehensively demonstrating Huawei’s strong technical capabilities and rich project experience in the central bank sector. He also shared benchmark practices of leveraging highly resilient infrastructure to empower central banks to achieve intelligent and digital transformation.
During the forum, guests engaged in in-depth discussions on the regulatory practices of the People’s Bank of China, systematically reviewing the development history of China’s national payment infrastructure and industry standard-building practices. They comprehensively shared China’s mature experience in financial risk prevention and control and comprehensive governance, providing practical and feasible Chinese insights and solutions for countries worldwide to optimize and upgrade their payment systems and modernize their regulatory frameworks.
In the session on overseas practices, Muhammad Zakir Hasan, Head of ICT of the Central Bank of Bangladesh, shared his country’s digital transformation journey and practical experience in its national payment system, considering the current state of Bangladesh’s financial development. He explored in depth the application pathways of digital technologies in scenarios such as promoting inclusive finance and improving payment services for people’s livelihoods, offering highly valuable overseas practice examples for global peers.
At the conclusion of the forum, all participating guests engaged in open discussions on the core pain points and strategic development measures that central banks need to urgently address in payment system construction and regulatory compliance in the digital era. The guests freely exchanged views based on the actual financial development situations of their respective countries, engaging in thorough discussions on key issues such as data sovereignty, financial infrastructure resilience, and comprehensive security control, thereby laying a solid foundation for future deepened practical cooperation and joint technological innovation among multiple parties.
Looking ahead, the Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance will further promote all-round cooperation with the Huawei Central Bank Integrated Corps. Through activities, online and offline training, and other means, it will promote to global financial regulators China’s achievements in digital finance and inclusive finance, as well as the practices and solutions of leading Chinese technology enterprises represented by Huawei in applying cutting-edge digital technologies such as artificial intelligence and intelligent agents, cryptographic security, cloud computing, and big data analytics to the financial sector. This will continue to inject new momentum into promoting the sustainable and high-quality development of global finance.
