At the 3rd China Cross-Border Finance and Industrial Chain Supply Chain Going Global Exchange Conference and the "Golden Rudder Award" ceremony held in Beijing on June 25, 2026, CBHB distinguished itself through multiple rounds of expert review to win the "Best Cross-Border Financial Growth Bank" award, recognizing its rapid growth and outstanding performance in the cross-border finance sector.
The award was jointly initiated and presented based on a rigorous selection process across five core dimensions, including industry leadership and product innovation.
As a key supporting event for the 4th China International Supply Chain Expo, the gathering focused on the theme of cross-border finance empowering industrial and supply chains, bringing together government experts, commercial banks, and representatives of leading domestic and international enterprises.
Building a Foundation with Strategic Planning
In recent years, CBHB has been steadily advancing its strategic deployment, aiming for transformation through specific development goals and paths while deepening institutional reforms as a safeguard.
In the cross-border finance domain, the bank leverages a development framework centered on its headquarters and domestic branches, with its Hong Kong and free trade zone branches serving as key extensions.
It has been continuously improving its integrated account service system and anchors its position on providing expert solutions, products, and comprehensive service management.
Through an efficient head office-branch coordination mechanism, it rapidly responds to corporate needs across the entire service chain, including cross-border settlement, financing support, exchange rate hedging, and compliance consulting, striving to be a trusted financial partner for Chinese enterprises expanding overseas.
Enhancing Capabilities with Infrastructure
At the infrastructure level, CBHB was approved as a direct participant in the Cross-Border Interbank Payment System (CIPS) in 2025, becoming the first legal entity bank in Tianjin with this qualification, significantly improving the efficiency and coverage of its cross-border RMB settlement services.
In May 2026, the Free Trade Account system of CBHB's Tianjin Branch was officially launched, making it the first local legal entity bank in Tianjin to complete this rollout.
Simultaneously, it introduced a comprehensive product suite, offering enterprises one-stop cross-border financial services covering deposits, loans, remittances, and currency exchange.
The successive implementation of CIPS direct participation and the FT account system has provided solid support for enhancing CBHB's cross-border financial capabilities, leading to accelerated business growth.
Its total international settlement volume for 2025 exceeded $100 billion, with the coverage and structure of its cross-border corporate clients both domestically and internationally continuously expanding and optimizing, positioning the bank as an important financial conduit for serving Chinese companies going global and connecting domestic and international economic cycles.
Fostering Growth through Collaboration and Compliance
In deepening bank-insurance collaboration, CBHB has established a comprehensive strategic partnership to continuously enhance its service system, covering a spectrum of insurance products including short-term, medium- and long-term, overseas investment, and leasing insurance.
In shipping finance, it has innovatively implemented green vessel cross-border financing projects.
Leveraging export credit insurance for risk mitigation, it has formed a comprehensive financial service model covering the entire lifecycle from shipbuilding and delivery to cross-border leasing, ocean operations, and freight settlement.
It has successfully executed key projects such as a $160 million vessel cross-border leasing project and a €70 million African sovereign credit insurance project, providing solid support for foreign-related enterprises through integrated "insurance + financing + settlement" services.
Concurrently, CBHB consistently adheres to national policies and regulatory requirements, treating foreign exchange compliance as the fundamental operating principle for its cross-border business.
By improving systems, empowering through technology, and ensuring unified execution for rigid control, it embeds compliance requirements into the entire process of pre-event prevention, in-process control, and post-event supervision.
It has established a closed-loop management mechanism covering areas like cross-border trade, investment and financing, and free trade zone development, upholding compliance leadership, professional empowerment, and innovation drive to safeguard the high-quality development of its cross-border business to a higher standard.
Standing at this new starting point, winning the "Best Cross-Border Financial Growth Bank" award represents authoritative industry recognition of CBHB's upgrades in cross-border financial infrastructure, breakthroughs in product innovation, and effectiveness in serving the real economy.
Looking ahead to a new phase of global development, CBHB will closely follow national deployments for stabilizing foreign trade, continuously deepen innovation in cross-border financial products and services, and assist Chinese enterprises in steadily expanding into global markets.
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