Students are encouraged to focus on hot topics and specific pain points in financial industry, work as a team to propose practical FinTech solutions with commercial prospects, on either:
1. Any Financial IT related topics, or
2. One of ’Citi Challenges’ listed as below, with the opportunity to win the special prize.
1. Project Area-Data-driven Foreign Exchange Risk Signal Model
Citi Challenges
Sponsored by
Challenge Background:
The global foreign exchange (FX) market is the world's largest financial market by trading volume among assets. Due to its high liquidity and wide participation, FX rates change rapidly. The prices that jump quickly on the screen are often related to multiple factors, including changes in fiscal and monetary policies, geopolitical changes, price fluctuations of related assets, and market risk sentiment. Whether in developed countries or emerging markets, FX movements will have a profound impact on the domestic economy and international trade.
For corporates, FX risk is directly related to the company's profitability, cost control and strategic planning. Similarly, financial institutions are constantly facing market risks brought about by FX fluctuations. Managing FX risk has thus become a key part in promoting the stable development of the real economy. However, how to accurately identify risk signals and seize the best opportunity for risk management in the context of complex market information has long been a problem that has plagued market participants. At Citi, the sales and trading team of the Global Markets relies on years of experience in tracking the market to identify the driving force of the current market and use a series of financial products to help corporates manage FX exposure. With the advancement of data analysis, Citi hopes to use more cutting-edge statistical and AI tools to integrate and analyze past trends, accurately capture exchange rate risk signals through multi-dimensional data models, and provide more forward-looking and scientific risk management support for corporates and financial institutions.
Challenge:
Use statistical learning, machine learning and large language model to process traditional financial data and alternative data set, automatically generate FX risk signals, reasonably explain the logic behind the signals, and show the backtest performance of risk signals under different market dynamics.
• Analyze the impact of different factors on FX rates, form risk signals for single currency pair, and show the backtest result.
• Regarding exposure of multiple currencies, need to consider correlation between involved currency pairs to form multiple risk signals.
Fine-tune signal parameters based on customized requirements for maximum drawdown ratio and trading period.
2. Project Area-AI-Driven Data Processing and Fine-Tuning for Financial Applications
Citi Challenges
Sponsored by
Challenge Background:
In Citi, data scientists are tasked with fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) to improve various financial applications, such as customer service chatbots, fraud detection, compliance monitoring, and personalized financial advice. However, a primary challenge is the transformation of user-provided documents, which contain vast amounts of unstructured information, into well-structured datasets suited for specific model training needs. Leveraging AI to automate the processing, chunking, and extraction of relevant information from these documents can significantly enhance the efficiency and accuracy of model fine-tuning.
Challenge:
Develop an AI-based system that can automatically transform user-provided documents into structured datasets for fine-tuning LLMs, addressing various financial application scenarios. The system should be versatile in handling different document formats and implement advanced data processing techniques such as chunking, retrieval, summarization, question-and-answer generation, and sentiment analysis. The goal is to ensure that the processed datasets are meaningful and contextually accurate, facilitating the fine-tuning of models for:
• Customer Service Chatbots: Generate training data that enables chatbots to understand and respond to a wide range of customer inquiries effectively.
• Fraud Detection: Extract patterns and anomalies from transaction data to train models that identify and prevent fraudulent activities.
• Compliance Monitoring: Summarize regulations and compliance documents to help models ensure adherence to financial regulations.
Additionally, the system should ensure data security, maintain user privacy, and adapt to different document types and financial application scenarios. Consideration of continuous learning and improvement mechanisms for adapting to evolving data and user requirements is also encouraged.
3. Project Area-DLT-based digital identity verification system for financial services
Citi Challenges
Sponsored by
Challenge Background:
Cross-border transactions can take days due to involvement of multiple intermediaries and manual processes for KYC, compliance checks, and AML screening which is time-consuming and high cost. There’s no unified identity verification between institutions which results in redundancy, with multiple institutions having to verify the same identity at different stages.
With the growing importance of online transaction within financial institutions, the need for secure and reliable identity verification has become critical. Traditional identity verification systems are often centralized, leading to potential risks such as data breaches and misuse of personal information. In the contrary, DLT can provide a decentralized approach to storing and verifying identity data, improving security and privacy.
Challenge:
Prove that users can register and manage their digital identity securely, and financial institutions can verify the identities in a decentralized, trustless manner. Key components that you might want to include in your work:
• UI: A simple web or mobile interface for users to register their identity and for financial institutions to verify it.
• DLT Network: The decentralized ledger where identities are recorded immutably and verified.
• Smart Contracts: Used to manage the registration and verification logic on the blockchain.
• Authentication Mechanism: Ensuring that only authorized institutions can access and verify identities.
Innovate and Improve. To guide students to focus on technology application in finance, and to resolve current challenges confronted during the development of the financial industry with knowledge acquired through innovative approaches.
Competition Participants
University students.
Major
No restriction, including but not limited to Software Engineering, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, Management, Information Management, or Language professionals etc.
►Competition Agenda
► Competition Schedule & Rules
1. Now – Jan. 3, 2025(by 12 pm)Registration(online)
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Notes:
1.Each team shall include no less than 3 students who are highly recommended from cross major (Finance, IT, etc.).
2.Each team can invite no more than two teachers/professors as Instructor.
3.Each team can only submit one project.
By due, each team should submit only one ‘Project Report’ (Lean Canvas, format will be notified separately) which will be reviewed by judging committee as reference.
1. Project Report (Lean Canvas, format will be notified separately)
2. Business Plan
3. Technology Implementation
4. Declaration of Originality (format will be notified separately)
Any team which does not submit the ‘Declaration of Originality’ will be deemed to quit.
To promote ‘Citi Challenge’, the judging committee will give priority to reserving up to 10 of the top 20 finalists for the ‘Citi Challenge’ related projects (if any). The remaining places will be determined regardless of the topic selection.
4. Mar.25 – May 8, 2025 1st Round (online)
5. May 9, 2025 1st Round results announcement (online)
6. Jan. 2025 – before Finals(TBD)- Seminar Series (online)
The organizing committee will provide all participating teams with sharing and guidance on a series of topics (technology, business, career development and entrepreneurship, etc.) (will be notified separately).
7. May or June of 2025(TBD)Finals and Awards Ceremony (Onsite)
Each team will have a 10-minute presentation (to be completed by up to two students) and a maximum of 15 minutes of Q&A (to be completed by a maximum of five students) in the final session.
Each team needs to prepare supporting documents related to presentation and Q&A.
The ‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize award selection is only available to teams (if any) who have accepted the ‘Citi Challenge’ topic.
Evaluation Items, Submit Document Checklist (Bilingual in Chinese and English) and Criteria
Prize
Awards
Reward
(the monetary prize will be issued through school)
Team(s)
Top 20 teams
Grand Prize
Certificate + $10,000 equivalent RMB / team
1 team
1st Prize
Certificate + $3,000 equivalent RMB / team
2 teams
2nd Prize
Certificate + $1,500 equivalent RMB / team
7 teams
3rd Prize
Certificate
10 teams
‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize – Citi China Markets Challenge
(If any)
Certificate + $5,000 equivalent RMB / team
1 team
‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize – Citi Innovation Lab Challenge
(If any)
Certificate + $5,000 equivalent RMB / team
1 team
Instructor Prize
Grand Prize: Certificate + $2,000 equivalent RMB / team
‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize:Certificate + $1,000 equivalent RMB / team (If any)
2 teams
Best Investment Potential Award
Post EFG review, RMB 500,000 interest-free loan or RMB 800,000 in equity + entrepreneurial services provided by EFG (More details on the Foundation’s website www.stefg.org)
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Several teams
Teams that completed qualified projects
Participation Certificate
Certificate
Only the team with qualified quality of the project by the judging committee
Participating universities
Best Collaboration University
Plaque (selected according to comprehensive criteria, e.g., number of registered teams, number of teams submitting complete projects, number of teams shortlist for finals etc.)
5 universities
• Additionally, Citi China will provide fast-track internship opportunities to the participant students (including current and previous):
Company
Eligibility
Fast-track Opportunities
Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
Students of Grand, 1st and ‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize winner teams
All relevant majored students will have the second round of
CV rescreening or interview opportunities in late 2025 for:
►2026 Summer Intern:Fresh graduates in 2027 (both undergraduate and graduate students)
Competition Introduction
With the continuous reform and opening up of China’s financial sector, Information Technology (IT) has increasingly become the fundamental driving force for the continuous innovation and healthy development of the financial service industry. At the same time, the majority of college students haven’t fully grasped the importance of IT to the financial industry, and lack the channels to acquire relevant practical knowledge and practical experience.
Aiming to support the development of China’s education and financial technology innovation through the cultivation of Financial IT interdisciplinary talents, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited (hereinafter referred to as “CSTC”) formally established Citi Financial IT Education Fund Program in April 2004. Citi Financial Innovation Application Competition (formerly known as “Citi Financial IT Application Competition”, hereinafter referred to as “Citi Cup”) is an important part of the program, which aims to guide students to combine what they have learned with the development of the financial industry as well as social progress. Stimulate students' passion for science & technology as well as the financial industry, encourage teamwork, comprehensively use the knowledge they have learned, burst out financial innovations, and propose solutions with commercial prospects.
Since its establishment in 2005, Citi Cup has been recognized as a benchmark event in China's financial information technology sector, and has been supported by the Chinese government, education and industry for many years. More than 21,000 students and more than 2,100 teachers have participated in the competition. Every year, tens of thousands of teachers and students learn about the event online and in person. At the same time, through the accumulation of knowledge and experience in the competition, participants over the years have enjoyed positive development in their career in related industries such as Finance and IT after graduation.
Competition Influence
Winning team’s relevant information will be announced in the national mainstream media.
Advisory Committee
Citi Financial IT Education Program Council Committee
Judging Committee
Citi Financial Innovation Application Competition Judging Committee
About Citi Cup
Feel free to contact the Organizing Committee through website, email or call to understand more about the competition e.g. evaluation rules and progress. CSTC reserves all rights of interpretation.
Sponsor :
Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
Government Co-sponsor :
Shanghai Municipal Commission of Economy and Informatization
Host :
Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
Organizer :
Nanjing University; Shanghai Technology Entrepreneurship Foundation for Graduates
Co-Organizer:
The School of Management and Engineering, Nanjing University; The Software Institute, Nanjing University
Copyright Statement:
Citi Cup complies with the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China and related intellectual property law. All submissions must use author’s real name. Copyright of a submission belongs to the project team. Citi Cup Organizing Committee reserves rights to cite, post contents of the projects with project team’s permission. Citi Cup Organizing Committee does NOT take responsibility (and will not be held liable) for any copyright disputes or actions that may result from copyright infringement issues. Copying, reproduction, reprinting of the content of any project in/for any media must consult the project team and Citi Cup Organizing Committee first.
►Winning Projects
2023-2024 Award Winners
Grand Prize
Observers From Luojia and Xipu- Equity Insight — Risk Management Pioneer Based on Equity Knowledge Graph
Wuhan University、Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University、China Foreign Affairs University、Fuzhou University Zhicheng College
2.Ducks Power- Doraemon for Financial Analysts: Media Monitoring & Analysis Platform with advanced Hallucination management
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Second Prize
1.Finance in the News- Enterprise Risk Decision Platform Based on Financial Big Knowledge Graph
Wuhan University
2.IntelliFlux- PropriskAI-One-stop risk real estate information service full vision AI
Wuhan University、Shandong University
3.Mechanized Heart- BondSenti:BERT-based Sentiment Analysis for Bond Default Risk
Sichuan University,Nanjing University
4.NJU_FBARC- Risk Control Platform for Public Customers from the Perspective of Commercial Banks
Nanjing University
5.OceanSing- Wisdom Ark - Deep Learning-based Real Estate Default Event Analysis and Evaluation Platform
Wuhan University,Huazhong University of Science and Technology
6.Viva La Vida- EquityClick- Platform for Generating Public Limited Company’s Equity Structure Charts Directly
Peking University, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Renmin University of China, The Chinese University of Hong Kong(Shenzhen), Wuhan University, Sun Yat-sen University
7.Heroes nowhere-SCCIhub——Credit Rating Framework of Supply Chain Finance based on Multi-module Grading
Nanjing University
Third Prize
1.Nanna University Public Relations Group- Liquidity Risk Analysis System Based on Web Data Mining
Nanjing University
2. SUFE AI Team-ShareView: A Platform for Parsing Equity Information and Dynamic Visualization of Equity Structure of Listed Companies Based on Big Language Models
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
3.Authen Intelligent Detection- Authen Intelligent Detection - Anti AI's "One Body Three Wings" Intelligent Audio and Video Joint Counterfeiting Platform for Multi end Customers
Communication University of China,Southwest University of Political Science and Law,East China University of Political Science and Law
4.Teams from the USTC and SYSU- Qingshan Dream Language:Solution for Hallucination Deviation of Large Language Models under the ESG Evaluation System
University of Science and Technology of China, Sun Yat-Sen University
5.WIS Compass- The RV-GPT financial risk assessment based on the large language model
Southeast University; Nanjing University; Nanjing Agricultural University; Hohai University
6.Yahaaai Financial- Robo-advisors focused on LLM hallucinations solving
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
7.Xi'an Jiaotong University, let's go for it- Shareholding structure of listed companies
Xi'an Jiaotong University
8. XJTLU Citi Cup Champions Team- Regarding the Implementation of Emergency Public Opinion Evaluation Project for Real Estate Enterprises through Artificial Intelligence
Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, University of Berkeley, University of Hong Kong
9.CCHT- Enterprise Equity Structure Generation System Based on Large Language Modeling and Text Mining
Central South University, Central University of Finance and Economics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Technical University of Munich
‘Citi Challenge’ Grand Prize – AI – Risk Control
Observers From Luojia and Xipu- Equity Insight — Risk Management Pioneer Based on Equity Knowledge Graph
Wuhan University、Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University、China Foreign Affairs University、Fuzhou University Zhicheng College
►History of Award Winners
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List of Winning Projects
5th(2009) Award Winners
1st Prize Wuhan University - Financial Information Search Engine 2nd Prize Xi’an Jiaotong University - Dynamic credit authorization system---Innovations on credit card application
Sun Yat-Sen University - Business Based Credit Rating System for SME Financing 3rd Prize Fudan University - Logistics Finance Service System
Wuhan University - Interest Rate Derivatives Related Economic Capital Management System
Xi’an Jiao Tong University - VIP Client Churn Early Warning System of Commercial Banks
Tongji university - MicroFinance Management System
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - Credit Card Cash-out Recognition System
Best Mainframe project
Northeastern University - Mobile Bank with Anti-Money Laundering Warning
4th(2008) Award Winners
1st Prize Xi’an Jiaotong University - Credit Card Risk Management System for
Commercial Bank 2nd Prize Wuhan University - Integrated Personal Credit Risk Management System for Commercial Bank
Dalian University of Technology - I-Core Intelligent Decision Support System for Credit Card Service 3rd Prize Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Autoservice based on the
bank‘s portal sites
Zhongshan University - Stock4Child System
Dongbei University of Finance & Economics - Network Bank Based On RIA
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Bank Marketing Intelligent System(BMIS)
Xi’an Jiaotong University - SME Development Supporting System Best Mainframe project
Dalian University of Technology - I-Core Intelligent Decision Support System
3rd(2007) Award Winners
1st Prize Wuhan University - Active Enterprise-wide Risk Managemen System 2nd Prize
Fudan University - Smart Assistant for Password Management
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Dynamic Enterprise Financial Planning 3rd Prize Huazhong University of Science and Technology - CRM-based Personalization of Bank Portals
Beijing University - Swift-Bank-Service
Tsinghua University - The Third Party Online Payment Monitoring System
Tongji University - Digital Era Bank
Fudan University – SmartCash-Group Liquidity Solution
2nd(2006) Award Winners
1st Prize Tongji University - Mini Bank System 2nd Prize Shanghai Jiaotong University - Bank Paradise
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Doctor of Personal Finance 3rd Prize Dalian Marine University - Demand-Oriented Customer Data Mining
Fudan University - Banking Information Centre
Wuhan University - Bayesian Belief Networks
Beihang University - Three-Dimensional Bar Code
Huazhong University of Science and Technology - System for Analysis of Bank Outlets Queuing Best Mainframe project
Tongji University - Mini Bank System
1st(2005) Award Winners
1st Prize Huazhong University of Science and Technology – Bank – Mobile 2nd Prize Beijing University – Lightweight Workflow Engine and its Financial Application Case
Fudan University - Mobile Stock Assistant 3rd Prize University of Science and Technology - Foreign Exchange Information System
University of Science and Technology - The financial assistant system based on OpenGIS platform
Wuhan University - Query tool for the bank Locator
Tongji University - Bank Anywhere
Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Sciences - Secure Personal Net Bank
List of Winning Projects
10th(2014) Award Winners
1st Prize Nanjing University - Arbitrage system for treasury futures 2nd Prize
Wuhan University - Money Master investment and financing service platform
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - CRiUS intelligent risk control system 3rd Prize
Wuhan University - iBuffett
Dalian University of Technology - U Chain Finance, risk quantification of big data and real-time automatic processing of the supply chain financing platform
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Dynamic Credit
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - Cdream virtual currency trading system
Sun Yat-sen University - Youcai
Best Technology Realization Award
Wuhan University - MetaOption Best Investment Potential Award
Wuhan University – Hiwedo
9th(2013) Award Winners
1st Prize Shanghai Finance and Economics University- Luamatic program trading system 2nd Prize
Sun Yat-Sen University- Win-win Peer-to-peer Credit Platform(WPCP)
Wuhan University- The Loan Era – the integrated loan trading platform for banks and small and micro enterprises 3rd Prize
Xiamen University- AutoHedger
Dalian Technology University- WeGo
Nanjing University- RESS Listed Company Credit Risk Evaluation Service System
Xi'an Jiaotong University- SpeedPay-- QR code Mobile payment
Southwestern Finance and Economics University- Shakepay--The P2P Currency Trading System Combined With Bitcoin And NFC
Best Technology Realization Product Award
Shanghai Finance and Economics University- Luamatic program trading system Best Future Payment Innovation Award
Xi'an Jiaotong University- SpeedPay-- QR code Mobile payment
8th(2012) Award Winners
1st Prize Wuhan University-E-loan Cluster Small and Micro Enterprises Smart Credit System 2nd Prize
Nanjing University- Lofarb LOF Arbitrage Decision Supporting System
North East University- Wealth Home Optimization Platform 3rd Prize
Sun Yat-Sen University- Analytical Report of Financial Theory
Sun Yat-Sen University- Foreign Exchange Link
Chongqing Technology and Business University- Swing Self service and calling machine subsystem(SSC)
Xi'an Jiaotong University- Intelligent ATM Monitoring System
South China University of Technology- F.I.T. Chinese Metal Arbitrage Trading System
Best Mainframe Project
South China University of Technology- F.I.T. Best Digital Banking Project
Xi'an Jiaotong University- Intelligent ATM Monitoring System
7th(2011) Award Winners
1st Prize Wuhan University - MetaFutures Quantitative Investment System 2nd Prize
Wuhan University - MetaFund Replication Software
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Sign-pay mobile payment system 3rd Prize
Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences- Twiker -- Prediction System of Shanghai Composite Index by Data Mining on Internet
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics- iNews Internet News Based Securities Investment Decision Support
Fudan University - Market Forecast Based on Social Networking
Xiamen University-The Intelligent Portfolio Insurance recommend System:Lanrip
Nanjing University-Brisk Stock Rating System
6th(2010) Award Winners
1st Prize Wuhan University - E-Razor Arbitrage Software 2nd Prize Wuhan University - The Internet of Invoices in the Cloud
Xi’an Jiaotong University - Internet-of-things-based Commercial Bank Monetary Logistics Management System(BMLS) 3rd Prize Peking University - Twiker -- the Personalized Consumption Recommendation System for Cardholders
Xi’an Jiao Tong University - Rural Loan Line:Rural loan service system based on industry chain
Xi’an Jiao Tong University - Money Chain Based Mining System for Eligible SMEs
South China University of Technology - Consolidated Supervision Platform of Housing Loans
Wuhan University - Integrated Management System of Rural Microcredit Best Mainframe project South China University of Technology - Consolidated Supervision Platform of Housing Loans Best Rural Finance project Wuhan University - Integrated Management System of Rural Microcredit
List of Winning Projects
16th(2020-2021) Award Winners
Grand Prize Nanjing University- NJU Analyst
1st Prize
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications – Broker++
Wuhan University; Pekin University- Finance-Chain
2nd Prize
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics- SWUFE
Zhejiang University- Serendipity
Sichuan University-Jackdaw youth team
Nanjing University- FinClaw8
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics- Ray Dalio Team
Central South University- CSUBigData
Hunan university- The birds lined up in the three
3rd Prize
Wuhan University - Xtokens
Nanjing University- IM Credie
Nanjing University- T-Bank
Wuhan University -The needle does not poke
Wuhan University - PUPOP
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics-Golden Hind
Fudan University; Sanda University-Fudan Sanda
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics; Beihang University; Dalian University of Technology; Beijing Jiaotong University----Count the money to buy a fleet of planes
Wuhan University -learning
Wuhan University -Luojia Hill flag guard team
15th(2019) Award Winners
1st Prize ShanghaiTech University – Praise the sun
2nd Prize
Nanjing University -Networker
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics-CitiCoin Hut
3rd Prize
Wu Han University--- PBChain
Nanjing University – NJU Dove
Wuhan University – HelloWorld
Nanjing University – A-Riose
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - TickPicker
Best Mobile Open Banking Innovation Application
Dalian University of Technology, Peking University - Breakers
14th(2018) Award Winners
1st Prize Nan Jing University – A+QUANT
2nd Prize
Wu Han University - Points League
Nan Jing University - OptAdvisor
3rd Prize
Wu Han University--- Parknology
Nanjing University – Machine Insight
Nanjing University– Chain up
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics - The ECDS system of Shanghai Bill Exchange
Nanjing University- IPNET
Best Open Bank
Wu Han University - Points League
13th(2017) Award Winners
1st Prize Nan Jing University - FOF Navigator Multi-Strategy Fund Investment System Based on Omnibearing Evaluation
2nd Prize
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics-Linkers —— Account Conversion System Based on Blockchain
Wu Han University- Smart Hedge Consulting Company
3rd Prize
Wu Han University--- IP Assessment and Prediction System of Network Literature
Wu Han University- Ignition—— Commercial bank credit risk management system covering shadow banking
Nanjing University– ABS cloud platform
Sichuan University- CTA automated trading system
Wu Han University- U Hui - C2C coupons trading platform Best Technology Realization Award
Nan Jing University - FOF Navigator Multi-Strategy Fund Investment System Based on Omnibearing Evaluation
Best Investment Potential Award
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics-Linkers —— Account Conversion System Based on Blockchain
Best Mobile Application Award
Wu Han University- U Hui - C2C coupons trading platform
12th(2016) Award Winners
1st Prize Wu Han University - Gugu 2nd Prize
Nanjing University - FOF quantitative asset management system
Nanjing University - Futures and insurance portfolio management system
3rd Prize
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics - Yirong
Nanjing University - Q-Executor
Xi’an Jiao Tong University – Location Based Intelligent Insurance Service
Sichuan University - EaseCar
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - Instant-International Remittance Platform Best Technology Realization Award
Wu Han University - Gugu
Best Future Payment Innovation Award
Nanjing University - Q-Executor
Best Mobile Application Award
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics-Ting Coin
11th(2015) Award Winners
1st Prize
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - Your Exchange Society 2nd Prize
Sichuan University - Yi Bang Ren
Nanjing University - Advanced Derivative Dealer and Portfolio Management System 3rd Prize
Sun Yat-sen University & Tsinghua University - The bull
Dalian University of Technology - Splendid Financing
Nanjing University - Coprofii NDF Arbitrage decision support system
Wuhan University - Maxwheat
Nanjing University - SSE 50ETF
Best Technology Realization Award
Dalian University of Technology - Splendid Financing Best Future Payment Innovation Award
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics - Your Exchange Society
List of Winning Projects
18th(2022-2023) Award Winners
Grand Prize
Epiphany: Empowering Responsible, Sustainable and Smart Financing with Innovative ESG Analysis
City University of Hong Kong
First Prize
1.StarGallery —NFT Minting Game for Special Children's Artwork
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Xiamen University, East China Normal
University
2.Disruptive Tech—Evaluation and investment platform for disruptive technological innovation
Nanjing University
Second Prize
1.R&H ESG—An intelligent decision engine for ESG based on multi-source data
Dalian University of Foreign Languages, Nanjing University, Harbin Institute of Technology, Fudan University, The University of Edinburgh, Boston University, Yunnan University, Northeast Normal University, Northwood Univer- sity, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Liaoning University, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai Business School
2.TJ-FD ESG- YesG-ESG evaluation and analysis system based on natural language processing
Tongji University, Fudan University
3.The Eye Of Sentiments- Enterprise Risk Profiling System Based on Knowledge Graph of Financial Public Opinion Events
Wuhan University, Communication University of China
4.Qing Yun Guang Hua- NESG++Enterprise Sustainability Intelligence Evaluation System
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
5.Potential_∞ESG- ESG intelligent rating and financing analysis
Nanjing University
6.Little Planet
Fudan University, The University of Hong Kong, China University of Political science and Law, Changsha University of Science and Technology
7.All Ashore-Anti-Money Laudering Alliance⸺NFT Suspicious Transaction Monitoring and Security Evaluation Platform Based on Federated Learning
Wuhan University
Third Prize
1.DataStill—A Trusted AI-Based Data Transaction Solution
Tsinghua University, Peking University, Fudan University
2. Bytepic-- NFT Epoch ⸺A UGC Mode Digital Asset Circulation Platform with Block Chain Intelligent Contract as Core Technology
Wuhan University, Peking University, Tsinghua University, University of International Busi- ness and Economics
3.CO-14UEC-- Customized ESG rating and report generation system, based on Intelligence & machine learning
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, BeiHang University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Peking University, Renmin University of China, Minzu University of China, Hunan University, Jiangsu University Chongqing University, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University
4.SSE_STAR_MARKET_MAKER- Management Platform for Science and Technology Innovation Board Market Making Strategy
Nanjing University
5.Upupup- NFT Valuator⸺NFT valuation and transaction risk assessment platform for blockchain games
Wuhan University
6.CSU Metaverse Vanguard- META Trade—META Digital Works Service Platform Based on Block Chain And Digital Watermarki
Central South University, Hunan University, Dalian University of Technology
South Western University of Finance and Economics, University of Electronic Science andTechnology of China
8. WHU Security- COAN-Virtual asset service platform based on integrated security system
Wuhan University, Tsinghua University
9.Universe Time-- Space-Time Binary Chain
Jiangxi Normal University, East China Normal University, Tsinghua University, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Liaoning University Of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Jilin University, Jiangxi Science and Technology Normal University, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Shanghai International Studies University
10.ESG Focusers--- ESGsite
Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
‘Citi Challenge’ Grand Prize – ESG
Epiphany: Empowering Responsible, Sustainable and Smart Financing with Innovative ESG Analysis
City University of Hong Kong
‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize – Virtual Economy
StarGallery —NFT Minting Game for Special Children's Artwork
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Xiamen University, East China Normal
University
17(2021-2022) Award Winners
Grand Prize
NJU Text Analysts-Textual ESG —— an ESG rating system based on multi-source texts
Nanjing University
First Prize
1.LinkingText-Digital Intelligent Marketing (MarTech) Analyst under the Wave of "Alternative Data"
Harbin Institute of Technology, Australsian National University, Minzu University of China, Northwest Minzu University, University of Sydney, University of Liverpool
2.CO-14-iBMS-Smart Power Batter Asset Management Platform
University of Science and Technology of China, McMaster University, New York University, Northwestern University, Tsinghua University, Tongji University, Beijing Technology and Business University, Shanghai University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen University of Technology, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Zhongnan University of Economics and Law, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Donghua University, Sichuan University, University of Ottawa, Xi'an Jiaotong University, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Wilfrid Laurier University
Second Prize
1.Supernova-A blockchain-based "bank-enterprise" green financial data service provider
Shanghai University of Finance and Economics,Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,University of International Business and Economics,Nanjing University,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Tongji University,Sichuan University
2.R&H Investment——ESG Pooled Investment Leader
Dalian University of Foreign Languages、Liaoning University、Tongji University、National University of Singapore、Wuhan University、Harbin Institute of Technology、Zhongnan University of Economics and Law、Nanjing University、The University of Chicago、Shanghai Business School
Tongji University, McMaster University, Fudan University, New York University, Northwestern University, University of Science and Technology of China, University of Toronto, The University of New South Wales, China University of Geosciences, Macau University of Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, Inner Mongolia University, Tianjin University, Peking University, University Of Electronic Science And Technology Of China, University of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, University College London, Georgetown University
4.MDFZers-Personal Carbon Credit Evaluation Platform Based on TOPSIS Model
Wuhan University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sichuan University, Xidian University, Beijing Jiaotong University, Tongji University and Shanghai International Studies University
5.WIN-WIN QI——Enterprise intelligent evaluation platform based on deep learning
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
6.Transocean Rangers-Turning Carbon into Gold - The platform of carbon finance in supply chain
Wuhan University Communication University of China Zhongnan University of Economics and Law East China Normal University Xiamen University Southeast University Fudan University Dalian Ocean University University of Toronto Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
7.Citi Global Green——One-stop ESG service platform
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Third Prize
1. Matrix resurrections-GIS Banker-personal credits evaluation system based on spatial intelligence
WuHan University
2. “Opt-Liquidity”:The maturity mismatch risk warning and Matching Optimization system of commercial banks in the context of e-CNY
——based on deep learning DEEPAR prediction method
Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Macao Polytechnic University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
3.Citi-cup unit from Nanjing University-QuantServer Platform
Nanjing University
4."E-Heritage"——An enabling engine for the development of intangible cultural heritage based on blockchain and big data
Xi´an University of Finance and Economics,Hebei Finance University
5.Saventeen-ZhanXin - A Personal Credit Evaluation Platform Based on Deep Learning
Tongji University
6.Swufer Happy Team-Soil to Feed Flowers——An Auction Platform for Unused Items Based on Blockchain Technology
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics,Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics,University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
7.New Soul Tech-Index investment strategy integrated management system based on ESG evaluation system
Tongji University,Hong Kong Baptist University,Liaoning University of Technology
8.Luojia Wisdom Department-Agricultural Products Traceability And Quality Credit Enhancement System Based On Open Alliance Chain
Wuhan University
9.You're right right right team-Citigroup-ESG investment strategy evaluation and analysis platform
Beijing University Of Technology,Dalian University of Technology,University of International Business and Economics,Minzu University of China,Beijing Jiaotong University
10.MultiBallSquare-MBS Citi ESG Rating Platform
Central South University,Hunan Normal University,Hunan University
Citi Challenge’ Special Prize – ESG
NJU Text Analysts-Textual ESG —— an ESG rating system based on multi-source texts
Nanjing University
‘Citi Challenge’ Special Prize – Commercial Bank Customer Intelligence
WIN-WIN QI——Enterprise intelligent evaluation platform based on deep learning
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
►Judging Committee (In alphabetic order)
2024-2025 20th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Deng, Xiao
GM, Shanghai Finance Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
2) Mr. Long, Yonghong
Former Deputy GM, Rongan China (Beijing) Limited
3) Ms. Lin, Qing
Director, SMB Tech., Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
SVP, Wealth Tech., Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
7) Mr. Yang, Yaojin
Senior Program Manager, Core Commerce Platform, Microsoft
8) Mr. Yang, Ji
EVP, MD, Head of Global Markets, Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
9) Mr. Zheng, Hao
Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Advisory
►History of Judging Committee Members
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Judging Committee(In alphabetic order)
2009 5th Judging Committee Members :
1) Mr. Ko, Alan: Manager of ASG project, Microsoft
2)Mr. Li, Dapeng (David): Chief Technology Officer, Shanghai Future Exchange
3)Mr. Liang, Yansui: Vice President, Head of SD division, CSTC
4)Mr. Liu, Shufeng: President of Hundsun Technologies Inc.
5) Mr. Long, Yonghong: GM, e-banking biz of Bank of Shanghai
6) Mr. Pan, Xinping: Vice Dean, CCCE, Graduate School of CAS
7) Mr. Wang, Fanghua: Dean, Antai College of Economics & Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University
8) Ms. Wang, Lei: Senior Project Manager, KfW Beijing Office
9) Mr. Wang, Yun: Chief Architecture officer IBM office
10) Mr. Ye, Fei: Deputy General Manager, Taiping life insurance CO.,LDT.
2008 4th Judging Committee Members :
1) Mr. Pan Xinping, Vice Dean, CCCE, Graduate School of CAS
2)Mr. Wang Yun, Chief Architecture officer IBM office
3) Mr. Horst Loechel, President of Shanghai International Banking and Finance Institute
4) Mr. Alan KO, Manager of CSD project, Microsoft
5) Mr. David Chong, The Chief Representative of BOC Credit Card in Shanghai office
6) Mr. Jiang Jiansheng, Executive President of Hundsun Technologies Inc.
7) Mr. Jiang An, General Manger of Biz development department Shanghai HuaTeng Software Systems co; LTD
8) Mr. Sun Chon Li, Vice Dean of Zhang Jiang Innovation Institute
9) Mr. Richard Hosang, General Manager of CSTC, Citi
10) Mr. Margam Sundararajan, Vice President of Citi
2007 3rd Judging Committee Members :
1) Alex Chan, Director of Connected Systems Division, Microsoft
2) Anup Das, Vice President, ITO, Citi
3) Bhaskar Pant, Managing Director, ETS Asia Pacific
4) Chen Fengji, Professor, People’s Bank of China
5) Li Hengguang, Director, The Ministry of Science & Technology of PRC
6) Pan Xinping, Vice Dean, CCCE, Graduate University of CAS
7) Wang Yun, Chief Architecture officer, IBM Fellow
8) Wilson Wong Kok Hee, Vice President, CSTC, Citi
9) Zhang Yangqing, GM, CMB Software Center
2006 2nd Judging Committee Members :
1) Arthur Chen, Vice President, CSTC
2) Gong Jianping, Vice President, BearingPoint, Inc.
3) Ian Cramb, CIO, Citigroup EMEA
4) Pan Xinping, Dean of graduate school of Chinese Academy of Science
5) TC Kong, VP, Unysis
6) Wang Yun, Chief Architect of Information Management, IBM Fellow
7) Wang Shenke, VP, China Construction Bank
8) Xi Junwen, VP, WorkSoft Creative Software Technology, Ltd.
9) Zang Bingyu, Dean, Fudan University
10) Zhang Jiatian, Director, Hisoft
2005 1st Judging Committee Members :
1) Aaron Ho, GM of CSTC
2) Huang Xiaotao, Director of Huazhong University of Science and Technology
3) Ian Cramb, CIO, Citigroup EMEA
4) Karen Carrington, Senior VP, FDC North Asia Area
5) Liu Yan, Technology Director of Dalian Haihui Software Company
6) Mu Bin, Assistant Dean, Tongji University
7) Pan Xinping, Dean of graduate school of CAS
8) Wang Yun, Chief Architect of Information Management, IBM fellow
9) Xi Liming, GM of Information Technology Department, Shanghai Pudong Development Bank
10) Zang Bingyu, Dean, Fudan University
Judging Committee(In alphabetic order)
2014 10th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo-Chief Technology Officer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
2)Mr. Deng Xiao-GM, Shanghai Industrial Finance Investment Co., Ltd.
3)Mr. Dang Huarui-SVP, Head of Regional Technology Asia Unit, CSTC
4)Mr. Li Dapeng-Senior Advisor to CEO, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.
5)Mr. Long Yonghong-Managing director, Shanghai MIyork Information Technology Ltd.
6)Mr. Liu Shufeng-CEO, Hundsun Technologies Inc.
7)Mr. Pan Jianyu-SVP, ICG China Development Center, CSTC
8)Mr. Su DongLin -Director, Oracle Partner Solution Center
9)Mr. Yang Yaojin-Program Manager, Microsoft Asia- Pacific Research and Development Group
10)Mr. Wang Yun-Fellow, Tai Wan Industrial Technology Research Institute
2013 9th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo—Chief Technology Officer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
2)Mr. Deng Xiao—GM, Shanghai Industrial Finance Investment Co., Ltd.
3)Mr. Li Dapeng—Consultant, Hong Kong Exchanges
4)Mr. Long Yonghong—Executive director, Shanghai Miyue Information Technology Ltd
5)Mr. Liu Shufeng—Vice Chairman, Hundsun Technologies. Inc.
6)Mr. Lu Jian—VP, ICG China Development Center, CSTC
7)Mr. Ma Yunhai—VP, Asia Card Testing Head, CSTC GCT
8)Mr. Su DongLin —Director, Oracle Partner Solution Center
9)Mr. Yang Yaojin— Program Manager, Microsoft Asia- Pacific Research and Development Group
10)Mr. Wang Yun-—Fellow, Tai Wan Industrial Technology Research Institute
2012 8th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo—Executive Assistant, Chief Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
2)Mr. Cango He—Vice President, Head of GCT-WM, CSTC
3)Mr. Eugene Huang—Senior Vice President, ICG China Development Center, CSTC
4)Mr. Hans Lu—Vice President, Head of GCT-eBT, CSTC
5)Mr. Li Dapeng—Consultant, Hong Kong Exchanges
6)Mr. Liu Shufeng—Vice Chairman, Hundsun Technologies. Inc.
7)Mr. Long Yonghong—Vice President, Sure KAM Corporation
8)Mr. Ratikant Sahu—Director of International eBusiness, Citi
9)Mr. Steve Dai— Vice President, ICG China Development Center, CSTC
10)Mr. Su Donglin-—Director of Oracle Partner Solution Center
11)Mr. Wang Yun— Chief Architecture officer, IBM Fellow
12)Ms. Xue Minmin—Senior Manager of Application Server Group, Microsoft
2011 7th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo: Executive Assistant, Chief Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
2)Mr. Li Dapeng-- CEO OF Global Financial Technology Consulting Co., Ltd
3)Mr. Liu Shufeng-- Vice - Chairman, Hundsun Technologies. Inc.
4)Mr. Long Yonghong-- GM, e-banking biz of Bank of Shanghai
5)Mr. Ren Yi-- VP of CSTC Testing Center
6)Mr. Simon Kwok-Wei Chiang-- Director of International Cards, Citibank Global Consumer Technology
7)Mr. Su Donglin-- Director of Oracle Partner Solution Center
8)Ms. Wang Lei-- Senior Project Manager, KfW Beijing Office
9)Mr. Wang Yun-- Chief Architecture officer, IBM Fellow
10)Ms. Wei Hopeman-- Managing Director, Citi Ventures of Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
11)Ms. Xue Minmin-- Senior Manager of Application Server Group, Microsoft
2010 6th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo: Executive Assistant, Chief Engineer, Shanghai Stock Exchange
2)Mr. Chandra Prakash Sharma, Director of Core Banking, ITO, Citi
3)Mr. Li, Dapeng (David): CEO, Global Financial Technology (GFT)(Ex-CTO, Shanghai Future Exchange)
4)Mr. Gardner Weekes: Vice President, Head of CSTC Testing Center
5)Mr. Liu, Shufeng: President of Hundsun Technologies Inc.
6)Mr. Long, Yonghong: GM, e-banking biz of Bank of Shanghai
7)Mr. Pan, Xinping: Vice Dean, CCCE, Graduate School of CAS
8)Mr. Su Donglin: Director of Oracle Partner Solution Center
9)Ms. Wang, Lei: Senior Project Manager, KfW Beijing Office
10)Mr. Wang Xin: Assistant General Manager of Taiping Financial Services Center (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
11)Mr. Wang, Yun: Chief Architecture officer IBM office
12)Mr. Xue Minmin: Manager, ASG project, Microsoft
Judging Committee(In alphabetic order)
2020-2021 16th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo
Dean of Hundsun research insititute;Director,Dworld AI Tech
2)Mr. Deng Xiao
GM, Shanghai Finance Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
3)Mr. Li Weidong
SVP, GCT Digital Site Head, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
4)Mr. Long Yonghong
Deputy GM, Rongan China (Beijing) Limited
5)Mr. Lu Jian
Director, GFT, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
6)Mr. Pan, Jianyu
CIO, Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
7)Mr. Su, DongLin
Director, Oracle Customer Success – PaaS
8)Mr. Yang, Yaojin
Senior Program Manager,Core Commerce Platform, Microsoft
9)Mr. Zheng Hao
Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Advisory
10)Mr. Zheng Jun
Director, ICG China Development Center, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
Senior Advisor to CEO, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.
5)Mr. Long Yonghong
Managing director, Shanghai MIyork Information Technology Ltd.
6)Mr. Liu Shufeng
CEO, Hundsun Technologies Inc.
7)Ms. Lin, Qing
VP, ICG China Development Center, Apps Dev Sr. Manager, CSTC
8)Mr. Su DongLin
Director, Oracle Partner Solution Center
9)Mr. Yang Yaojin
Program Manager, Microsoft Asia- Pacific Research and Development Group
10)Mr. Wang Yun
Fellow, Tai Wan Industrial Technology Research Institute
Judging Committee(In alphabetic order)
2023-2024 19th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo
Chief Scientist, Hundsun
2) Mr. Deng, Xiao
GM, Shanghai Finance Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
3) Mr. Long, Yonghong
Deputy GM, Rongan China (Beijing) Limited
4) Mr. John Pu
SVP, Wealth Tech., Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
5) Mr. Su, DongLin
Director, Customer Success – PaaS, Oracle
6) Mr. Wang, Bing
SVP, Function Tech., Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
7) Mr. Yang, Yaojin
Senior Program Manager, Core Commerce Platform, Microsoft
8) Mr. Lin, Hai
Head of Commercial Bank, Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
9) Mr. Zheng, Hao
Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Advisory
10) Mr. Zheng, Jun
Director, SMB Tech., Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
2022-2023 18th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo
Chief Scientist, Hundsun
2)Mr. Dai, Yao
Director, ICG China Development Center, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
3) Mr. Deng, Xiao
GM, Shanghai Finance Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
4) Mr. Long, Yonghong
Deputy GM, Rongan China (Beijing) Limited
5)Mr. Lu, Xuan
Head of Corporate Bank, Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
6) Mr. John Pu
SVP, PBWMT, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
7) Mr. Su, DongLin
Director, Customer Success – PaaS, Oracle
8) Mr. Wang, Bing
SVP, GFT, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
9) Mr. Yang, Yaojin
Senior Program Manager, Core Commerce Platform, Microsoft
10) Mr. Zheng, Hao
Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Advisory
2021-2022 17th Judging Committee Members:
1)Mr. Bai Shuo
Dean of Hundsun research insititute;Director,Dworld AI Tech
2)Mr. Dai, Yao
Director, ICG China Development Center, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
3)Mr. Dang, Huarui
SVP, GCT, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
4)Mr. Deng Xiao
GM, Shanghai Finance Science and Technology Co., Ltd.
5)Mr. Liu, Chang
Director of CCB, Deputy Manager of Shanghai Branch and Branch Manager of Shanghai Free Trade Zone Sub-branch, Citibank (China) Co., Ltd.
6)Mr. Long Yonghong
Deputy GM, Rongan China (Beijing) Limited
7)Mr. Su, DongLin
Director, Oracle Customer Success – PaaS
8)Mr. Wang, Bing
SVP, GFT, Citigroup Services and Technology (China) Limited
9)Mr. Yang, Yaojin
Senior Program Manager, Core Commerce Platform, Microsoft
10)Mr. Zheng, Hao
Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Advisory
Grand Prize
Observers From Luojia and Xipu- Equity Insight — Risk Management Pioneer Based on Equity Knowledge Graph
Aiming at the current situation of financial risks based on equity spillover, Equity Insight, designed for asset allocation and M&A restructuring, builds equity penetration maps using equity knowledge graphs, supports the display of equity-related information, and can carry out visual annotation of risk spillover, quantitative assessment, stress testing and AI dialogues for specific enterprises, so as to realize early warning of corporate financial risks.
ChatWhale - LLM-based Equity Intelligence Analysis Interactive Platform is an intelligent financial information Q&A platform focusing on equity structure analysis. Aiming at the current pain points in the market of business query platforms as well as the difficulties in the field of equity analysis, our product provides a solution based on a large language model, relying on regulated open-source data, and constructs a set of accurate, reliable, comprehensive, and intelligent listed company's financial information Q&A system and a reliable equity identification and analysis system.
Ducks Power- Doraemon for Financial Analysts: Media Monitoring & Analysis Platform with advanced Hallucination management
"Doraemon for Financial Analysts" is a dynamic media monitoring and intelligent financial analysis platform. Centered around the LLM Agent, the platform utilizes RAG, Multi-Agent, Knowledge Graph, and Multimodal Technologies to build a cyclic iterative optimization architecture, specifically addressing the issue of hallucination bias in financial analysis. The product is designed around three core technological concepts: Customization, Lifelong Learning, and Embodiment. It includes multiple tool modules such as hot-spot focus, structured analyzer, and human-PC interaction to provide users with professional-grade financial analysis support, aiding in in-depth industry research, risk identification, and investment decision-making. The analysis platform is now live in service(http://47.109.180.217:8004/).
Second Prize
Finance in the News- Enterprise Risk Decision Platform Based on Financial Big Knowledge Graph
Finance in the News discuss leveraging financial big data with characteristics such as multi-source correlation, multi-frequency time series, high-dimensional heterogeneity, and heavy-tailed peaks. We mentions developing key technologies like time series conduction forecasting, graph representation learning, and prompted ensemble learning. The goal is to address the common features and personalized needs of cross-domain financial applications, and to construct a unified financial time series big knowledge graph. Based on this big knowledge graph, an enterprise risk decision-making platform is developed, which enables four major functions: risk discovery, risk analysis, risk evolution, and risk decision-making. The ultimate aim is to provide a technical solution based on the financial knowledge graph to solve key pain points in the real estate economy.
IntelliFlux- PropriskAI-One-stop risk real estate information service full vision AI
Proprisk AI is a platform dedicated to providing liquidity risk assessment and decision support for real estate companies, financial institutions, and investors. It can monitor and predict liquidity risks in the real estate market in real-time through multi-channel data collection and AI analysis. The platform offers personalized financial metrics and solutions, helping users manage risks more efficiently and make informed investment decisions.
Mechanized Heart- Sichuan University,Nanjing University
The current era witnesses the flourishing of large models based on the Transformer architecture. However, there remains a blank space in research and application in vertical domains such as bond default risk. This project, leveraging fine-tuned BERT, extracts bond entities and financial entities from unstructured financial texts. It conducts fine-grained sentiment analysis on each entity regarding default risk and integrates empirical analysis with traditional structured indicators like credit spread default probability. This effectively enhances the accuracy of bond default risk prediction.
NJU_FBARC- Risk Control Platform for Public Customers from the Perspective of Commercial Banks
FinSentry is a risk control platform designed for commercial bank customers, through RPA, LLMs, OCR, NLP and knowledge graph technology, to achieve process-based and automated operations, to provide financial institution customers with the risk profile and risk report of the legal person organization that wants to have business relationships, and improve the efficiency of business decision-making.
OceanSing- Wisdom Ark - Deep Learning-based Real Estate Default Event Analysis and Evaluation Platform
In order to solve the problem of information asymmetry and decision-making blindness in bond defaults in the real estate industry, we have integrated multi-channel and different structural data, and developed a one-stop real estate bond defaults information service platform with genetic algorithms and neural networks at its core - Wisdom Ark- to help real estate-related enterprises develop healthily and financial market stability.
Viva La Vida- EquityClick- Platform for Generating Public Limited Company’s Equity Structure Charts Directly
EquityClick is an equity structure diagram generation platform that focuses on helping users such as financial institutions, professional investors, lawyers and company managers conveniently view listed companies' equity structure information. Through the use of Camelot, OpenCV, LLM model and other technologies, EquityClick realizes the automatic collection of equity information, AI processing and interactive presentation of equity structure maps, which solves the problems of inefficiency of relying on manual collection of information and creating equity structure maps. Meanwhile, it has strong editability and expandability to better adapt to the diverse internal systems of various companies as an extension.
Heroes nowhere- SCCIhub——Credit Rating Framework of Supply Chain Finance based on Multi-module Grading
SCCIhub is a credit rating framework for supply chain finance based on multi-module grading, using AWP clustering, Tri-training and other algorithms to calculate module grading, and combining the fine-tuned large language model with instructions to display the rating and early warning report on the front-end, and is committed to creating a "one-stop service focusing on multi-dimensional data acquisition, rule calculation and risk control strategy".
3rd Prize
Nanna University Public Relations Group- Liquidity Risk Analysis System Based on Web Data Mining
To address potential liquidity crises in real estate enterprises, our team has developed a platform called LRAS based on liquidity risk assessment models and technologies such as LLM. This platform is capable of conducting corresponding analyses for enterprises and their suppliers. It automates data processing, generates lists of affected upstream suppliers, and produces liquidity risk analysis reports. Additionally, it employs interactive visualization methods such as graphs for presentation.
SUFE AI Team-ShareView:Platform for Parsing Equity Info and Dynamic Visualization of Equity Structure of Listed Companies Based on LLM
ShareViewis an equity structure visualization platform that uses natural language processing and large language modeling technologies to deeply analyze and dynamically display listed companies' equity information. Through intelligent data extraction, precise business unit identification and visualization tools, this platform is able to effectively handle and display complex shareholding structures, including the identification of overseas entities and precise extraction of shareholding levels. ShareView not only helps decision makers to grasp the internal management and investment risks of enterprises, but also devotes to providing a reliable decision-making tool for investors and regulators.
Authen Intelligent Detection- Anti AI's "One Body Three Wings" Intelligent Audio and Video Joint Counterfeiting Platform
Authen Intelligent Detection Technology has launched a revolutionary intelligent audio and video joint anti-counterfeiting system, aiming to provide users with a comprehensive, efficient, and accurate false content identification solution. The system adopts multimodal and multi platform functions, supports the identification of video, audio, and image content, and responds to the increasingly upgraded forgery technology through continuously iterating intelligent anti-counterfeiting algorithms. Authen Intelligence is committed to becoming a leading global guardian of information authenticity, building a safer, more transparent, and trustworthy digital world.
Teams from the USTC and SYSU- Qingshan Dream Language:Solution for Hallucination Deviation of LLM under the ESG Evaluation System
Big language models have potential biases and illusions when processing ESG-related content, exacerbating subjectivity and information asymmetry in the ESG rating process, which may lead to misleading results and decisions. The Qingshan Dream Language project is based on ESG underlying data, using big data technology engines such as NLP, text analysis, and data labeling algorithms. Through in-depth analysis of the causes and effects of illusory biases in ESG ratings, it detects illusory biases existing in the rating process and uses knowledge Methods such as retrieval, instruction fine-tuning, and model integration are used to identify and reduce the illusory bias of large models in the ESG rating process, and to establish a more objective and accurate evaluation index system. In terms of technical framework design, a multi-tech stack including Python, HTML, Javascript, CSS, JQuery and PyTorch is used to establish a visual and efficient rating system.
WIS Compass- The RV-GPT financial risk assessment based on the large language model
The work is based on large language models, enhanced by retrieval and combined with deep learning techniques. It significantly reduces the hallucination bias that may occur in intelligent risk assessment processes, providing users with a more accurate and reliable method for financial risk evaluation.
Yahaaai Financial- Robo-advisors focused on LLM hallucinations solving
This project aims to create an efficient, intelligent, and personalized robo-advisory system. Based on the generalization ability of the large model (LLM), it can effectively improve the problems of inaccurate construction of traditional robo-advisory persona and lack of explainability of decision-making. Through Designs such as multi-agent with summarization in rounds,RAG with knowledge combing, etc., optimize LLM's illusion problems in complex interactive tasks and massive information input, achieve the system's accurate grasp of user investment needs and intelligent optimization of asset allocation, and help users realize wealth steady growth.
Xi'an Jiaotong University, let's go for it- Shareholding structure of listed companies
At present, the equity structure charts provided in the market are relatively single, containing less effective information, part of the required information has not yet been reflected in the equity structure charts, in most cases can not comprehensively reflect the real situation of the enterprise.Based on such pain points, this product generates the constituent structure delineation diagrams of specified listed companies through artificial intelligence data collection and big model technology. The main structural division part of the focus of this project is based on visual language big model fine-tuning technology, which provides the nation's leading customised service of listed company's shareholding structure charts and improves the accuracy and precision of the information. The target customer puts forward personalised requirements to this product by providing the name or stock code of the listed company to be researched, and the Company carries out the generation of the equity structure diagram of the relevant listed company through its self-developed products, and ultimately realises the delivery of the product.
XJTLU Citi Cup Champions Team-Regarding the Implementation of Emergency Public Opinion Evaluation Project for Real Estate Enterprises
This project is an analysis and evaluation platform designed for financial institutions to analyze the disaster situation of upstream enterprises in real estate public opinion disasters. It uses enterprise relationship structure graphs, artificial intelligence, NLP and other technologies to provide comprehensive upstream enterprise data and disaster assessment. This project focuses on real-time collection and analysis of public opinion, constructing quantitative and dynamic thresholds for monitoring disasters in real time, training and fine-tuning the deployment of financial language models to make timely reports.
CCHT- Enterprise Equity Structure Generation System Based on Large Language Modeling and Text Mining
To address the challenges of the existing enterprise shareholding structure generation system in terms of immediacy and accuracy, this project uses generative large language model to enhance text mining, and builds a precise visualization system of shareholding structure for the market to provide a one-stop solution that comprehensively reflects the real shareholding structure of enterprises.
Q: We notice that "IT Development" has a relatively high score (40%). How can we get high scores in this part?
A: Regarding ‘IT Development’ evaluation of Citi Cup as a FinTech contest, we focus on the Completion, Originality and Normativeness of each team’ product functions achievement by using reasonable technical solutions based on its own business plan goals to solve the specific problem and challenge in financial industry. We will not make horizontal technical complexity comparisons among teams.
We notice ‘Citi Challenge’ special prizes have been added to the competition since 17th Citi Cup.
Why? How does this impact participants (on topic selection, evaluation, prize etc.)?
A: In order to guide students to focus on hot topics such as ESG (Environment, Society and Corporate Governance) etc. the organizing committee launched ’Citi Challenges’ to encourage students to propose practical FinTech solutions to tackle the specific problems of financial industry. It is a positive supplement to this FinTech competition, which has remained open on themes. More details about the adjustments (e.g. topic selection, evaluation rule and awards, etc.) are available in the competition introduction.
Q:Why has the competition schedule has been adjusted since 16th Citi Cup?
A: Because of the pandemic, and based on suggestions from partner universities including Citi Financial IT Education Program Council Committee universities, the organizing committee has adjusted the overall schedule from calendar year basis to academic year basis since 16th Citi Cup.
Q: What are the qualifications for the participants?
Can I register again if I participated in previous competitions? Can participant students come from different majors or schools?
A: Citi Cup is open to all undergraduate and graduate students nationwide and overseas regardless of their majors. We welcome and encourage all students (including alumni) to build a cross-majors (especially finance and IT related), cross-schools and even multinational teams. Since prizes will be distributed through the winning schools, for cross-school/multinational teams, it is highly recommended that students clarify the future prize distribution school when forming teams.
Q: Does the final presentation need to be bilingual (Chinese and English)?
A: All documents need to be bilingual. Final presentations and Q&A have no rigid language requirements. As long as the judges including foreign judges can fully understand the content, the teams can speak in Chinese or English.
Q: On top of the prize money, will the top 20 team also receive accreditation for their achievements?
Will the rest of the teams will be awarded ‘participation certificate’?
A: Yes. The top 20 teams will receive the corresponding certificate awarded by CSTC and the organizing committee. Other teams that successfully complete qualified projects will also receive participation certificates.
Q: Who owns the intellectual property of the project?
A: The participating teams will own the intellectual property of the project. Projects must be original. Teams that have participated previously are permitted to make innovation and improvement based on their original works. Citi has the privilege to buy the product, should another buyer bid for the product after the competition.