The school started with the training course for bank cadres held by the head office of Northeast Bank in July, 1946, and experienced several historical periods, such as Northeast Bank Cadre School, Northeast Bank Specialized School, Changchun Bank School, Jilin Finance and Trade College and Jilin Finance and Trade School, and resumed Jilin Finance and Trade College in May, 1978.
The school insists on establishing a school by discipline, strives to build a discipline ecological system of "highlighting advantages, supporting emerging and laying a solid foundation", and forms a discipline characteristic with economic management as the main body and coordinated development of law, literature, science and engineering. The school has six subjects: economy, management, law, literature, science and engineering.
The school insists on focusing on developing the school with talents. In the magnificent course of running a school, there are elites and famous teachers. Famous scholars and experts such as Yuan, Yu Xingyuan, Hu and Song have taught in the school successively.