On August 6, Everbright Bank held the opening ceremony of the Tokyo representative office in the form of connecting Beijing and Tokyo. Li Xiaopeng, Chairman of Everbright Group and Everbright Bank, Fu Wanjun, Executive Director of Everbright Group and President of Everbright Bank, Qu Liang, Vice President of Everbright Bank, Yu Zaiqing, Vice Chairman of the International Olympic Committee and Vice Chairman of the Organizing Committee of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, and Song Yaoming, Economic and Commercial Minister of the Chinese Embassy in Japan, attended the event.
Everbright Bank held the opening ceremony of the Tokyo representative office in the form of a Beijing-Tokyo connection
Everbright Bank Tokyo Representative Office is the first important Chinese-funded banking institution to enter Japan in the past eight years, and it is also another important measure for Everbright Bank to firmly follow the pace of national strategy and improve the layout of the international network based on the new development pattern. The opening of the Tokyo representative office marks a new level of Everbright's international development.
Li Xiaopeng delivered a speech
Li Xiaopeng said in his speech that in recent years, as a member of China's financial national team, Everbright Group has closely followed the national strategic orientation, integrated into the new development pattern of "double circulation", taken "building a world-class financial holding group with global competitiveness" as the strategic guide, focused on "wealth management" and "people's livelihood services", and further enhanced its comprehensive strength. In the 2021 Fortune Global 500 list, Everbright Group ranked 194th, up 128 places in four years. As the core enterprise of Everbright Group, Everbright Bank actively plays the role of the Group's international "vanguard" and steadily promotes the layout of overseas institutions. At present, Everbright Bank has basically formed an overseas comprehensive network covering investment/commercial banks, sub-branches, and for-profit/non-commercial institutions, and its overseas layout has begun to show results, and it has obvious leading advantages in the joint-stock banking industry. In the 2021 "Top 1000 Global Banks" ranking, Everbright Bank ranked 32nd, up 17 places in 4 years; Ranked 25th in the "Top 500 Global Banks by Brand Value" list, with a cumulative increase of 19 places in four years.
Li Xiaopeng said that over the years, the Tokyo representative office of Everbright Group and the group's CYTS, Everbright Pension and other institutions have made friends from all walks of life in Japan to conduct in-depth market research and promote coordinated development. In the future, Everbright Bank Tokyo Representative Office will serve as a new bridge and new link for China-Japan financial exchanges, continue to strengthen market research and industry exchanges, strengthen support for the national sports industry, and effectively enhance Everbright's international reputation.
Yu Zaiqing delivered a speech
Yu Zaiqing pointed out in his speech that in recent years, Everbright Group has actively demonstrated the responsibility of major central enterprises in the new era, and its Everbright Bank has signed a contract to sponsor the national badminton team and CYTS Japan to assist in the implementation of the Olympic reception work. Yu Zaiqing expressed the hope that Everbright can steadily advance along the strategic vision of building a world-class financial holding group, promote each other with the world's advanced enterprises in the process of internationalization, and rejuvenate the stronger vitality of large and central enterprises in the vivid practice of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation.
Song Yaoming delivered a speech
In his speech, Song Yaoming congratulated Everbright Bank on the opening of the Tokyo representative office. He pointed out that in recent years, the exchanges and exchanges between Chinese and Japanese enterprises and the establishment of mutual institutions have gradually increased, especially in the new livelihood sectors such as financial services, tourism and health, and information technology, and the scope of cooperation has been continuously expanded. The opening of The Tokyo Representative Office of Everbright Bank will further enrich the theme of Everbright's cooperation in Japan and promote Everbright's more extensive and in-depth cooperation with Japan in the fields of integrated finance and people's livelihood services.
Fu Wanjun announced the official opening of the Tokyo representative office of Everbright Bank
It is understood that as the "vanguard" of the internationalization of Everbright Group, Everbright Bank has steadily promoted the layout of overseas institutions in important financial center cities around the world and countries along the "Belt and Road" in accordance with the three-step principle of "business going out, institutions going out, and influencing the world" and in accordance with the layout idea of "deep ploughing in Asia, consolidating Europe, and opening up the United States and Australia". At present, the bank's Hong Kong Branch, Seoul Branch, Luxembourg Branch, Sydney Branch, CHINAB International, CEB Europe, etc. have been established and operated successively; the Macau Branch of China has been approved by the China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission. At the same time, relying on its overseas institutional layout, Everbright Bank has established an international domestic and foreign linkage and coordination mechanism, based on the overseas platform, to provide customers with "domestic + overseas" integrated FPA services.
Everbright Bank said that it will take the opening of the Tokyo representative office as an opportunity to continue to promote the international development of Everbright and achieve mutual benefit and win-win results at a higher level and in a wider range of fields. At the same time, we will maintain our strategic determination and promote the "leapfrog plan" through the implementation of the "leapfrog plan" in five major aspects, such as profitability, operating scale, wealth management characteristics, customer base, and risk control, so as to open a new journey of high-quality development and promote the construction of first-class wealth management banks to a new level.
Source: Everbright Bank