In 2025, the number of financial institutions of various types in Suzhou reached 1,000. The domestic and foreign currency deposit balance of all financial institutions amounted to 5,727.21 billion yuan and the balance of domestic and foreign currency loans of all financial institutions stood at 6,015.61 billion yuan.
Digital RMB application have been rolled out across the entire city and in all sectors, with the cumulative transaction volume reaching 12.92 trillion yuan. The annual volume of cross-border RMB settlements totaled 1,255.22 billion yuan.
At the end of 2025, there were 93 insurance organisations and 703 bra nch out lets cit y w ide. Throughout the year, the premiumincome hit 120.39 billion yuan. Soochow Property & Casualty Insurance Company was approved to commence operations.
In 2025, Suzhou added 20 new domestic and overseas listed companies, including 12 A-share listed companies in the domestic market. By the end of the year, the total number of domestic and overseas listed companies stood at 284, including 229 domestic A-share listed companies. 3 new companies were listed on the STAR Market, bring the total to 58 by year-end. Additionally 4 new enterprises were listed on the Beijing Stock Exchange, totaling 16 by year-end. The total market value of listed companies based in Suzhou reached 3.3 trillion yuan.
Suzhou pioneered the "Four-Loan Coordination" mechanism, integrating first-time loans, credit loans, loan renewal without principal repayment and bridge loan. The city issued a total of 1,402.6 billion yuan in loans to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs).
The city also took lead in establishing the Jiangsu Social Security Sci-Tech Innovation (Suzhou) Fund with an initial scale of 50 billion yuan. With the establishment of the Municipal Major Industrial Development Fund, a diversified fund matrix comprising a 10-billion-yuan M&A fund, a 100-billion-yuan fund and a 1-trillion-yuan venture capital fund has begun to take shape.
