The first domestic custodian bank with experience advantages. In February 1998, with the approval of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the People's Bank of China, ICBC became the first bank in mainland China to obtain the qualification for securities investment fund custody.

In March of the same year, it took the lead in custodian funds Kaiyuan and Jintai in China. It is the first custodian bank in China with a long history of development and rich business experience.

(2) The best custodian bank in China with brand advantage. ICBC has always been committed to brand building of custodial services. The brand influence and market reputation of "ICBC Custody" are increasing day by day.

Since 2004, ICBC has won a total of 80 "Best Custodian Bank of the Year" awards from authoritative financial media at home and abroad, making it the domestic custodian bank that has won the most awards.

(3) The largest asset custody bank in China, with market advantages. As of the end of 2021, the scale of assets under custody of ICBC (including outsourcing) reached 22.06 trillion yuan, further consolidating its absolute leading position in the market; among which, the net value of various types of assets under custody reached

19.54 trillion yuan, ranking first in market share for 23 consecutive years; outsourcing scale reached 2.51 trillion yuan, ranking first among banks.

After 23 years of development, ICBC has established the most comprehensive custody product system in China, including 8 major categories and 34 sub-categories of products, fully covering the large asset management market.

(4) It has a powerful custody technology information system and has scientific and technological advantages. ICBC is the only custody bank in mainland China that has always insisted on independent research and development of custody business systems. It has always attached great importance to the investment in information technology for custody business. In recent years, the investment in technology research and development of the custody business line has been every year.

Growing at about 10%.

From the launch of the custody business in 1998 to 2019, ICBC has independently developed and put into production six generations of domestically leading comprehensive custody business systems, which has strongly supported the development of the custody business and has always maintained a leading position in the industry in the construction of custody systems.

The construction of a smart custody system began in 2019 and was officially released in March 2021, ushering in the 2.0 era of custody system construction in the domestic asset management industry, using technology to drive the comprehensive improvement of ICBC's custody comprehensive service capabilities.

The smart hosting system is divided into five platforms and three levels: the first level includes the smart operation platform and the smart data platform, aiming at "the entire operation process and the full information map" to reconstruct back-end and middle-end resources; the second level includes

The smart management platform and smart investment service platform aim to create a digital open custody service with the goal of “full product cycle and full investment perspective”; the third level is the smart customer service platform, aiming to create an asset management platform with the goal of “services across all channels”.

The industry’s super agency entrance.

(5) It has a strict asset custody risk prevention system and has risk control advantages. ICBC has built a comprehensive risk management system for the custody business, incorporated the risk prevention and control of the custody business into the bank-wide risk management system, and used comprehensive risk management methods to carry out various aspects of the custody business.

For risk management and control, three lines of defense for risk prevention and control have been established, forming a risk control mechanism for organization, guidance, coordination and supervision between the internal supervision department of the head office and the internal independent risk control agency.

Under the normalization of global epidemic prevention and control, ICBC has formulated and continuously improved emergency plans, organized emergency drills, and established an emergency mode of "working from home + off-site switching" to achieve continuity and stability of custody business under extreme circumstances.

(6) Covering the entire process of investment services and having the advantage of value-added services. ICBC can provide customers with custody value-added services in the three stages of pre-investment, investment and post-investment, focusing on the entire investment process of custody customers. It can also provide customized services according to customer needs.

Hosted value-added services.

The pre-investment process includes comprehensive financial information services, bond default warnings, and investment manager analysis.

Comprehensive financial information services can provide relevant financial information such as macroeconomics, markets, industries and products; bond default warnings can provide weak qualification bond subject reminders, risky bond warnings, etc.; investment manager analysis can provide investment manager portraits, investment managers and investments

Portfolio risk-return characteristics, etc.

The investment link includes over-the-counter investment account opening and transaction facilitation services. It is oriented to the field of over-the-counter investment, focusing on customer account opening, transactions and other related links, and improving the efficiency of off-site investment through information and process integration and direct system connection.

Post-investment links include performance evaluation services, data mining and research support, etc.

Performance evaluation services can provide risk-return analysis, attribution analysis, major asset analysis, etc.; data mining and research support can provide data research, model construction and other related research services based on big data.

(7) Having a complete global custody network and leading global service advantages, ICBC makes full use of domestic and overseas branches and customer resources to actively promote the construction of a global custody network and the integration of global custody service resources.

ICBC's many overseas branches provide global custody services locally, and cooperate with leading global custody banks to establish a stable and mature global custody network that combines overseas branches and global custody banks to provide "one point" to many domestic and foreign customers.

Access, global response” comprehensive managed services.

At the same time, ICBC continues to lead market innovation, including the first or first batch of business in various cross-border innovation projects in recent years, with significant professional advantages.