2007 is to be a year when China’s financial industry becomes open to the outside world. A mature financial market environment is coming into being, which will surely provide foreign financial institutions with more opportunities for developing their business in China. With the deepening reform of China’s capital market, China’s Securities and futures industries are enjoying significant growth opportunities.? In particular, the upcoming Securities index futures trading raises new requirements for the innovation of information technologies.? How to address the needs for the growth of China’s capital market How to adapt to the future trend of mixed operations in the financial industry How to build secure, reliable, convenient, cost-efficient Securities and futures information system technology platforms that meet the needs for the development of multiple services and trading in the future.Those are the issues that need to be discussed and solved quickly by the Securities and futures industries.They also bring massive business opportunities to IT vendors who serve the financial industry.

Information technologies have always pioneered Securities and futures business innovations, according to experience from the worldwide capital markets. They play a dominant role in the development of new services, varieties and trading instruments.? Facing the new growth opportunities, we need to serve continuous Securities and futures business innovations by pooling the resources of worldwide IT companies that serve the Securities and futures industries, learning worldwide experience and exploring information systems that suit China’s financial market.

There are now nearly 400 Securities and futures firms and over 60 million Securities and futures investors in China with a huge demand for quality, complete financial service products, especially for relevant technology products.? The demand from futures firms for rebuilding and upgrading of Securities index futures trading technologies alone is up to RMB300-500 million across the industry.

After the success of Futures Information System Upgrade Technology Conference, China 2006, Beijing Futures Association (BFA) will hold Securities & Futures Information Technology Forum China 2007 under the theme of Build a Unified Stock & Futures Information Technology Platform, Discuss the Needs for Securities & Futures Information Technology Innovations, and Push the Upgrading of Information Technologies across the Industry, bridging the communication and cooperation between Securities & futures firms and IT companies, and sharing growth opportunities from the introduction of Securities index futures.