On the evening of April 7, Linkage Software Co.Ltd(688588) released its annual report for 2021. During the reporting period, the company actively expanded new customers and projects, strengthened technology and product innovation, steadily increased its business volume, and achieved an operating revenue of 653 million yuan, a year-on-year increase of 3.58%; The net profit attributable to the shareholders of the listed company was 146 million yuan.
The annual report shows that in 2021, the company increased its efforts to explore the two major markets of Japan and China, and the Japanese market added TDC ソフト Co., Ltd., DTS and other industry customers; Nomura international Orient Securities Company Limited(600958) , Standard Chartered securities (Hong Kong), Ping an asset management and many other well-known securities companies and asset management customers have been added to the Chinese market.
In 2021, when the Japanese yen exchange rate fell by more than 12%, the company’s business revenue to Japan still achieved steady growth, which not only determined the high growth of the company’s core business, but also reflected the company’s strong ability to resist external risk factors. The company also mentioned in the annual report that if calculated at the yen exchange rate of the same period in 2020, the company’s operating income will increase by 520606 million yuan and the exchange loss will decrease by 331185 million yuan during the reporting period (deducting the income generated by the company’s purchase of yen forward foreign exchange settlement products).
It is understood that while the basic business with Japan has maintained stable growth, the digital transformation in China’s financial field has brought new opportunities to Linkage Software Co.Ltd(688588) development in recent years.
Driven by market demand and regulatory policies, Linkage Software Co.Ltd(688588) complies with the requirements, actively arranges wealth management solutions, deeply improves solutions such as large investment banks, institutions and asset management business, and improves product competitiveness. In 2021, the company’s wealth management solution has been successfully implemented in Western Securities Co.Ltd(002673) and institutional CRM products have added a number of customers.
In addition, as a national key area of overall development, financial innovation is gradually developing and accelerating, and the number of pilot institutions of financial innovation is also expanding. At present, Linkage Software Co.Ltd(688588) ‘s various products can highly adapt to the compatibility and reliability requirements of domestic operating system, middleware and database. For example, lmsp enterprise management system development platform, lcoder low code development platform, mot, investment banking business management platform and other products have completed compatibility test with Galaxy Kirin advanced server operating system, and passed mutual certification with database management systems such as Damon and Nanjing University General.
Currently, there are six categories, including business architecture, digital analysis tools and solutions, and enterprise data and solutions.
According to the company, through continuous R & D investment and a large number of business practices, Linkage Software Co.Ltd(688588) has formed many core technologies at the forefront of the industry, and has leading advantages in big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technical fields. Since 2021, the implementation of blockchain technology achievements of the company is even more remarkable: the blockchain project jointly declared with China Securities Co.Ltd(601066) , Shanghai stock exchange information network has been shortlisted as one of the first 16 “pilot publicity projects of financial science and technology innovation in capital market”; The “evidence project on the appropriateness of investors’ behavior based on Shanghai stock exchange chain” has successfully passed the seventh batch of domestic blockchain information services filing of the state network information office; The joint commissioning of blockchain self-supporting node, IPFs and digital envelope under the environment of investment banking business quality evaluation system carried out by “Securities Link Chain” has been successfully realized.
In addition, by using Internet of things, cloud computing, blockchain and other technologies, the company has developed and launched products and solutions such as Internet of things service cloud, spatial reservation and settlement engine, unattended hotel front desk and so on, forming a new growth pole for the development of the company’s new business.
It is worth noting that the company previously jointly launched the “Yangtze River Delta data element circulation service platform” with enterprises in the multi parent Delta. It reached a strategic cooperation with Shanghai technology exchange to cultivate new business forms and models of digital industry around the upstream and downstream of data resources and stimulate the innovation and development vitality of digital economy.
The company said that in the future, it will continue to consolidate its internal strength, continuously launch and iterate products and solutions in line with national development and market demand, and help the innovation and development of financial institutions through emerging technologies.