In December 2022, Xiamen International Bank signed a cooperation agreement with UCAS to support the discipline construction and research of SEM. According to the agreement, Xiamen International Bank would provide a total amount of 4.5 million CNY to set up the Education Development Fund to support SEM’s discipline development, scientific research, talent cultivation, personnel incentive, holding academic conferences, lectures, and summer schools, etc., as well as carrying out special studies in the financial industry, and setting up chair professors. The two sides would cooperate in the research of evaluation of financial technology competitiveness as well.
Xiamen International Bank, founded in 1985, was the first sino-foreign joint venture bank in China, and was restructured into a Chinese commercial bank in 2013. Over the past 30 years, Xiamen International Bank has been committed to building a benchmark for small and medium-sized banks. In the list of “Top 1000 Global Banks in 2022” published by The Banker magazine in the UK, Xiamen International Bank ranks 154th in terms of total assets, and has been listed in the Top 200 Global Banks for six years.
