How Leading Chinese Securities Firms Boost IT Efficiency with the DevOps Maturity Model

Introduction

In the context of digital transformation, enterprises adopt DevOps to improve IT efficiency. The “R&D Operations Integration (DevOps) Capability Maturity Model” series standards, led by the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT), provide strong guidance. Leading securities firms have participated in CAICT‑organized DevOps maturity assessments, improving IT capabilities, integrating team resources and talent, and better supporting business systems.

Participating Securities Companies and Evaluation Numbers

Thirteen securities firms—including CICC, CITIC Securities, Guotai Junan, Guoxin Securities, Haitong Securities, China International Capital Corporation, and others—have taken part, completing a total of 46 evaluation items. The statistics are compiled from public news releases and presented in chronological order.

Project Highlights

Huatai Securities

Huatai evaluated two projects—"Zhuifeng" (CRM marketing) and XTrader—covering roles such as product manager, Scrum Master, architect, developer, tester, and operations. The projects followed Scrum agile processes and integrated lean principles.

Anxin Securities

Three projects were assessed: the mobile securities trading service platform (Java stack), the User Center (adding front‑end UI and database), and the Internet Customer Service Platform. The evaluations showed unit‑test coverage rising from 30% to over 75%, automated‑test ratio from 40% to over 80%, and average delivery cycle reduced to 5.7 days, a 70% improvement.

Guoxin Securities – Gold Sun Information Platform

The Gold Sun platform, a self‑developed one‑stop financial investment app with over 16 million registered users, achieved a delivery cycle reduction from 1.5 months to one week, unit‑test coverage increase from 40% to 84.39%, and 100% automated‑test coverage.

Haitong Securities – e‑Haitong Financial Data Service

The e‑Haitong data application service system supports multi‑market, multi‑product data for the e‑Haitong APP/PC client, covering securities, funds, bonds, commodities, and options, as well as diagnostic data.

CITIC Securities – XTP Admin System

The XTP Admin system, part of the high‑frequency trading platform XTP, provides configuration management, account management, service node management, and daily operations, supporting a large volume of orders and logs.

China International Capital Corporation (CICC)

CICC evaluated eight projects across AI‑driven wealth management, RPA digital employee services, ESOP equity incentive management, and institutional client service platforms, illustrating the breadth of DevOps adoption.

Other Notable Projects

China Merchants Securities – two projects passed evaluation.

China Securities – eight projects passed evaluation.

China Securities – two projects passed evaluation.

China Securities – four projects passed evaluation.

DevOps Standard Assessment Areas

Continuous Delivery (Standard 3)

Companies reported improvements such as automated pipeline execution within 8 minutes, unit‑test coverage exceeding 75%, and delivery cycles shortened from one month to under a week.

Technical Operations (Standard 4)

Assessments focused on high‑availability architecture, multi‑active data centers, and containerization, with examples like Huatai’s “Zhangle Wealth‑Pass” app supporting 24/7 real‑time trading.

Security and Risk Management (Standard 6 – DevSecOps)

Security practices included automated scanning, secure code lifecycle management, and risk‑based metrics, as demonstrated by Huatai’s data‑science platform and Anxin’s security platform.

System and Tools (Standard 8)

Several firms deployed internal DevOps platforms—CICC’s “Tianji” platform, CICC Wealth DevOps platform, and Zhongtai’s “Bee‑Bird” performance platform—providing CI/CD pipelines, plugin ecosystems, and integrated security tooling.

Contact Information

For DevOps standard assessment inquiries, contact CAICT (Liu Kaili, phone 15650786171, email [email protected]) or the GreatOps community (Wei Huanxin, phone 18500255645, email [email protected]).