GTHT held an industry performance press conference, establishing systems and continuously integrating and merging, vigorously promoting ALL in AI

On November 3rd, Guotai Haitong Securities held a performance briefing for the third quarter of 2025.

Chairman Zhu Jian, Director and President Li Junjie, Vice President, Chief Risk Officer, and Board Secretary Nie Xiaogang, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Zhang Xinjun, as well as independent directors attended the meeting and answered questions of concern to investors.

Regarding the market's most pressing concerns about integration progress, including the merger plan between Guotai Junan International and Haitong International, as well as issues related to AI applications and wealth management, responses were provided one by one.

Continuously Promoting Business Integration and Management Unification

Regarding the company's integration progress, Chairman Zhu Jian introduced that after completing the equity delivery of the merger and reorganization, the company actively promotes integration work in business, management, and system platforms in accordance with regulatory requirements.

In terms of business integration, the company has completed the inheritance of business qualifications and limits, the migration of major trading and investment assets, and has accelerated the realization of unified customer service by operating under a new name.

In terms of management integration, the company has implemented integrated operations for compliance and risk control, updated over 600 systems, and further strengthened financial asset and liability management.

In terms of subsidiary integration, the company is researching and demonstrating solutions to issues such as intra-industry competition among subsidiaries and "one participation and one control," and is steadily advancing the integration of asset management subsidiaries.

In terms of legal entity switching, the company has successfully completed the legal entity switch in China Clearing, exchanges, etc., achieving single entity operations.

In terms of customer migration, the company has developed plans for core trading system switching and branch organization implementation, strengthened customer communication, and smoothly advanced system transformation, data migration, acceptance testing, pilot switching, and other work.

In the next step, the company will continue to promote business integration and management unification, and smoothly achieve customer migration. The merged company possesses stronger and more robust capital strength, more professional and comprehensive service capabilities, and is expected to achieve more intensive and efficient operational management, thereby continuously releasing the effectiveness of integration and continuously stimulating the company's high-quality development momentum and vitality.

Enhancing Wealth Management Capabilities

Regarding wealth management, Zhu Jian stated that the company is committed to being a "manager" of social wealth, customer demand-oriented, continuously improving the quality of product and service supply, and providing high-quality financial services to a wide range of customers.

In the first three quarters of 2025, the company's wealth management business has continuously promoted high-quality customer acquisition, enhanced customer trading experience, and achieved net income from brokerage business fees of 10.8 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 143%.

Looking ahead, the wealth management business will adhere to a customer-centric approach, strengthen buyer thinking and professionalism, comprehensively deepen customer group management, and continuously enhance trading services and buyer asset allocation capabilities.

Compliance Operations Ensure Future

Regarding compliance, Zhu Jian stated that the company adheres to a prudent risk culture, clearly identifies "compliance risk management" as one of the company's core strategies, and upholds the belief that "risk management creates value, and compliance operations ensure the future." The company insists on prudent and compliant operations, continuously builds a scientific, complete, efficient, and professional compliance risk control system, and strengthens system and talent development. It aims to promote comprehensive upgrades in compliance management and risk prevention capabilities through digital and intelligent means, focusing on constructing three lines of defense: "business units, compliance risk control, and internal audit," and improving the closed-loop management model of "prevention, control during, and post-supervision," promoting the transformation of risk management from post-event punishment to proactive judgment and from passive management to active empowerment Firmly maintain the bottom line of preventing systemic risks and empower comprehensive and sustainable business development.

The company maintains the highest international credit rating among Chinese securities firms, has been continuously selected for the "white list" of securities companies published by the China Securities Regulatory Commission, and has received the highest rating in industry cultural construction practice assessments for five consecutive years.

ALL in AI

Regarding AI applications, the management stated that Guotai Haitong places great importance on the innovation of technology applications, viewing digitalization and intelligence as an important path to building the company's core competitiveness. In recent years, the company has steadily advanced its digital transformation and has entered a new stage of intelligent development.

Specifically, first, it strengthens innovation-driven initiatives and actively practices the new strategy of "ALL in AI"; second, it collaborates on models, computing power, and data to deepen the exploration of artificial intelligence applications; third, it focuses on customer needs and fully implements innovative applications of large models; fourth, it leads industry development by being the first to launch a fully AI intelligent APP.

Looking ahead, the company will continue to adhere to the customer-centric service philosophy, deeply implement the "ALL in AI" strategy, and continuously transform the dividends of technology applications into the company's value creation capabilities and enhancements in customer service experience, better serving the real economy and a wide range of customers.

Actively Promote International Business Integration

Regarding the situation of Haitong International, the management indicated that Haitong International has further improved asset quality through measures such as reducing risk exposure and enhancing core business competitiveness, achieving significant operational results, with all business development trends continuing to improve.

The company will consider regulatory requirements and market dynamics, based on the overall development plan of the company, to comprehensively consider the overseas layout situation.

In the future, the company will actively promote international business integration, steadily expand its international layout, comprehensively strengthen the construction of core capabilities in international business, optimize cross-border integrated management mechanisms, and better serve "Chinese clients going global" and "overseas clients coming in," thereby enhancing competitiveness and influence in the global market.

As for the merger plan between Guotai Junan International and Haitong International, the company stated that it is analyzing and discussing feasible paths for integration development based on relevant laws, regulations, and regulatory requirements, as well as the overall development plan of the company, considering business characteristics, synergies, and potential risks. Any relevant progress will be disclosed in a timely manner according to regulatory requirements.

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