At Huawei Connect 2024, Sunline took center stage, earning multiple prestigious awards and recognitions that reinforced its position as a pioneer in the financial technology landscape. Held from September 19 to 21 in Shanghai, the event, themed “Amplify Intelligence,” gathered top players from across industries. Sunline, a key financial industry partner of Huawei, showcased its groundbreaking innovations and played a pivotal role in several core segments, demonstrating its leadership in financial digital transformation.

Leading the Future of Core Banking: New Innovations Unveiled

One of the event's highlights was the release of the Modern Finance White Paper: Core System Best Practices (White Paper 2.0), co-authored by Huawei, Sunline, and other leading financial institutions. As the financial industry accelerates its shift toward digital ecosystems, White Paper 2.0 serves as a comprehensive guide for upgrading core banking systems. It highlights best practices from various successful implementations, including those led by Sunline.

Sunline’s contributions, particularly in developing advanced cloud-native core banking applications, were highlighted in successful deployments across a range of banks, from state-owned banks to joint-stock banks, city commercial banks, and rural credit cooperatives. These cutting-edge solutions set a new benchmark for cloud-based, distributed core banking systems, improving scalability, resilience, and operational efficiency for financial institutions.

Disruptive Core Solutions: Sunline and Huawei’s Financial Ecosystem Partnership

In a major announcement, Huawei, in collaboration with Sunline and other partners, launched the Huawei Digital Core Solution 5.0. This solution empowers banks to upgrade their legacy core systems seamlessly, using microservices architecture and containerized workloads to enhance agility, performance, and flexibility.

Further deepening its collaboration with Huawei Cloud, Sunline also unveiled a core modernization solution for mainframe-based core banking systems. During the keynote speech Sunline and Huawei Cloud Stack: Co-developing Financial Mainframe Core Modernization Solutions, Tang Wei, Vice President of Sunline Digital Finance BU, detailed the architectural advancements of this solution. With a foundation rooted in microservices, the solution allows banks to modernize without the risk of business disruption, ensuring high availability, operational resilience, and improved transaction handling.

Powering the Future: Cloud-Native Banking Transformation

As the financial industry transitions into the “unitization + cloud-native” era, banks are facing new challenges due to the complexity of innovative business models and soaring transaction volumes. To address these needs, Sunline and Huawei Cloud have jointly developed a comprehensive solution, based on Huawei Cloud Stack, designed to support distributed architecture, microservices, and cloud-native governance.

This core solution is fully integrated with financial business applications, providing banks with an all-encompassing platform for business-technology alignment, full-stack governance, and unified operations management. The solution supports high reliability, security, scalability, and performance, enabling banks to accelerate their digital transformation and set new standards for financial innovation.

Leading the Way in Financial Innovation: Sunline Secures Four Prestigious Awards

Sunline’s exceptional contributions to the financial technology industry were recognized with four prestigious awards at Huawei Connect 2024. Sunline became the first financial technology company in China to receive the Kunpeng Native Development Certification, recognizing its technological advancements and leadership in this field.

Additionally, Sunline was honored with the Best Practice Partner of Kunpeng Ecosystem award, the only company in the financial industry to receive this accolade, as well as the Outstanding Kunpeng Native Development Practice award. These awards spotlight Sunline's innovation in utilizing Huawei's Kunpeng native development toolchain to optimize distributed core systems, APStack technology platform, and enterprise-grade general ledger products.

Sunline’s Technical Director, Wang Weiwei, was also recognized for his significant contributions to native development, receiving the Outstanding Kunpeng Golden Seed Developer title. These accolades underscore Sunline’s commitment to advancing financial technology and delivering next-gen solutions to banks across the globe.

Global Recognition: Polaris Award and Deep Cloud Integration

During the event, the prestigious 2024 Global Dive into Cloud “Polaris” awards were unveiled, honoring leaders in cloud integration and deep cloud utilization. Among the financial institutions recognized were Agricultural Bank of China, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank, China Everbright Bank, and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange. Sunline was the only technology provider from the financial industry to receive this honor, further showcasing its leadership in cloud-native technologies.

Pioneering Global Financial Application Modernization

As China’s first fintech solutions and services provider to go global, Sunline’s presence at Huawei Connect 2024 attracted significant attention from both local and international attendees. In the Computing and Intelligent Finance exhibition zones, Sunline showcased a wide range of innovative core banking solutions, from distributed ledger technology (DLT) to AI-driven analytics platforms and API-first, cloud-native banking systems.

Since 2018, Sunline and Huawei have collaborated closely, launching solutions such as the Sunline Core Banking Modernization Solution - SunCBS, the distributed core banking solution, and the Kunpeng Native Development Solution. These solutions have been successfully deployed across major financial institutions in China and international markets, driving significant transformations in core banking infrastructure.

Driving Innovation: Sunline's Technological Contributions to the Banking Sector

Sunline’s efforts in native development, utilizing the Kunpeng toolchain, have led to significant optimizations in the distributed core system, APStack platform, and enterprise-grade general ledger products. These technological advancements have significantly improved system scalability, performance, and reliability, positioning Sunline as a leader in financial innovation.

By integrating cutting-edge technologies with a deep understanding of the financial industry’s needs, Sunline is enabling the modernization of global financial services, setting the stage for a new era of financial technology and innovation.

About Sunline
Sunline is a leading Chinese provider of banking IT solutions and services with over two decades of experience. The company specializes in delivering core banking software, digital financial solutions, and cloud-native architectures to banks across the Asia-Pacific region. Sunline has expanded its international footprint since 2016, with offices in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the Philippines. As a leader in digital transformation, Sunline is driving the next generation of core banking systems, helping financial institutions to scale and innovate in fast-growing markets.