Speakers 2019

Speakers 2019

Ankur Agrawal

Head - Data & Tech Innovation Asia,

AXA

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Ross Allen

Managing Director, Strategy, Financial Services

IHS Markit

Ross is a Managing Director in Strategy within the Financial Services division and with specific focus on changes to market structure, regulation and new technology.  Ross is a member of the global benchmark reform program at IHS Markit and is also Global Head of Term Risk Free Rates (TRFR).

Previously, Ross served as Head of Financial Markets APAC and was responsible for leading and growing the IHS Markit Financial Markets business across Asia-Pacific.  Ross has an accounting and OTC derivatives background and has worked extensively on regulatory impact to develop innovative products to meet regulatory change.  Ross has over 20 years experience in the financial services industry covering cash, derivatives and alternative assets markets across a variety of roles.  Ross has worked in London, Singapore and currently based in Sydney and spent the last decade focusing on Asia-Pacific market development.

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Cathie Armour

Commissioner

AUSTRALIAN SECURITIES AND INVESTMENTS COMMISSION

Cathie Armour is one of theCommissionersof the Australian Securities and Investments Commission ("ASIC").

ASIC isAustralia's integrated corporate, financial markets, financial services and consumer credit regulator.

Cathie chairsASIC's Regulatory IssuesCommitteewhich focuses on ASIC’s supervisory functions. Cathie also works closely with the ASIC teamsregulating market infrastructure,market surveillance, supervision of market intermediariesand the enforcement of laws relating tomarket integrityand with ASIC’s Innovation Hub.

Cathie's experience before ASIC wasin legal counsel, compliance and operating riskleadership roles in international financial institutions. She was General Counsel for Macquarie Capital and an ExecutiveDirector of Macquarie Group. She began her career in private legal practice and has worked for law firms in Sydney and New York.

Cathie is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. She is also a member of Chief Executive Women.

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Taimur Baig

DBS

Managing Director and Chief Economist

Taimur Baig, Ph.D., heads economics as well as macro strategy for interest rate, credit, currency, and equities at DBS Group Research. He also advises the bank on risk management and investment strategy.

Prior to joining DBS, Dr. Baig was a Principal Economist in the Economic Policy Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Earlier he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore office, where his last position was Managing Director and Chief Economist, Asia. Before Deutsche Bank, he was based in Washington, DC, at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, for eight years, where his last position was Senior Economist.

Dr. Baig has published extensively for both specialists and a general audience, on areas including monetary policy in a deflationary environment, exchange rate regime determination, demographics, energy sector, frontier markets, fiscal policy efficacy, and financial market contagion.

Dr. Baig sits as a council member for the Asian Financial Think Tank, Economic Society of Singapore, and Women’s World Banking.

Dr. Baig holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He attended London School of Economics and Wabash College for his B.A. in Economics.

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Varsha Bipinchandra

Head of Governance & Risk

SINGAPORE LIFE

Varsha Bipinchandra is a founding member of Singapore Life, with Walter De Oude, the Founder and CEO. Singapore Life has achieved what many thought was an impossible task – starting a life insurance company from scratch. Varsha has extensive insurance experience in Singapore in a broad range of areas including finance, risk management, operations, investments, governance and audit. She is currently the Chief Finance and Risk Officer of Singapore Life, and her previous roles included CFO, COO for HSBC Insurance Singapore as well as Head of Operational Risk for HSBC Insurance Asia Pacific. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Fellow of the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants.

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Kate Birchall | Moderator

Head of Asia Pacific

LCH

Kate Birchall is Head of Asia Pacific for LCH Ltd. In her role, she is responsible for LCH’s business in the region, including the CCP’s existing OTC derivatives clearing operations in Sydney and Tokyo. 

Prior to joining LCH in October 2018, Kate was Head of Portfolio Optimisation and Collateral at National Australia Bank. She has also held senior roles in Structuring, Portfolio Management and Credit Research in Australia and London. 

Kate holds an EMBA from the London Business School and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Queensland.

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Paul Bishop

Director, Credit Analytics

S&P GLOBAL MARKET INTELLIGENCE

Based in Singapore, Paul is the lead for Credit Analytics products in APAC. He has experience as a Product Manager in the credit and counterparty risk space, and was previously the Product Manager for ratings and credit content in EMEA, based in London. Prior to this, Paul focused on market strategy, covering Investment and Commercial Banks, private equity and credit markets. Before working at S&P Global, he was a private equity analyst, concentrating on the infrastructure asset class.

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Rajeev Bhatnagar

Chief Risk & Compliance Officer

BNY Mellon

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Rohit Bhuta

CEO

CROSSINVEST (ASIA) PTE LTD

Rohit has over 30 years’ experience across eight key markets globally with extensive knowledge in asset management, investment banking, private banking and wealth management. He has worked with the Macquarie group for over 22 years in various capacities and geographies including Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, Hong Kong and India. Prior to joining Macquarie, he worked in the UK and New Zealand.

Rohit has held senior leadership and strategic roles over the past 14 years, spanning multiple layers and levels of accountability: from that of a Chief Executive to board representation.  Rohit is currently the CEO of Crossinvest (Asia) Pte Limited. Crossinvest is an award-winning independent private wealth management company, which has been operating in Asia since 2005 and in Switzerland since 1985.  

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Alexandre Bon

Head of marketing, presales and go-to-market, APAC

Murex

Alexandre looks after the definition, positioning and go-to-market strategy of Murex product solutions with a focus on Risk Management and Regulatory Transformation. His most recent work centers on the implementation of the bilateral Initial Margin and Basel III capital reforms, and on XVA desks operating models. Alexandre also co-heads the Murex task force on the Interest Rates Benchmark Reform. 

Since joining Murex in 2000, Alexandre has held both senior client-facing and product management positions, last serving as global head of the Risk Control practice and general manager for Murex Ireland, where he drove the development of the MX.III XVA management solution and Credit Risk simulation engine.

Alexandre holds a « Grande École » MSc in Management and Finance from HEC Paris.

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Catalin Burlacu

Head Investment Solutions

UOB Asset Management

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Mauro Cesa

Quantitative finance editor

Risk.net

Mauro Cesa is quantitative finance editor for Risk.net, based in London. He leads the team responsible for the publication of quantitative research across all brands of the division. The section of Risk.net he manages, Cutting Edge, publishes peer-reviewed papers on derivatives, asset and risk management, and commodities.

Mauro holds a degree in economics from the university of Trieste and a masters in quant finance from the University of Brescia.

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Karen LM Chan

Chief Risk Officer

DWS INVESTMENTS

Karen LM Chan is the Chief Risk Officer of DWS Investments (p.k.a. Deutsche Asset Management) for Asia Pacific.  She is based in Singapore and has been a Director of DWS since 2014 when she joined as the Chief Operating Officer of the DWS Alternatives & Fund Solutions (AFS) team in Singapore.  In addition to her role as CRO, Karen is the APAC Chief Control Officer overseeing the Legal, Compliance, Risk and Anti-Financial Crime teams to bring greater collaboration across functions.

Prior to joining DWS, Karen was the Head of Sales & Distribution Compliance for Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) in Singapore covering the Asia-Pacific region.  She spent 5 years at Goldman Sachs in London holding various leadership positions in Compliance Asset Management and as the Chief Supervisory Officer in Private Wealth Management.  Karen was also previously the Head of Compliance at EFG Private Bank in London.

Karen has an MBA from Henley Business School in the UK and a LLB (Hons) Law from the University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies.  She sits on the board of the Jazz Association of Singapore and is a strong advocate and supporter of various women and girls’ charities.

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Queenie Chan

General Manager, APAC

Symphony Communication Services

Queenie Chan is the General Manager of Asia Pacific for Symphony Communication Services, leading the teams across Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Japan, Korea, Australia, etc.

Queenie joined Symphony in 2016 and was responsible for pioneering the launch of Symphony across 20+ countries in the APAC region. 

Prior to joining Symphony, Queenie was in leading positions at Goldman Sachs, Barclays and CLSA.

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Feng Chang

Managing Director and head of Asia Pacific Cross Valuation Adjustment (XVA) Trading

BANK OF AMERICA

Feng Chang is a Managing Director and head of Asia Pacific Cross Valuation Adjustment (XVA) Trading at Bank of America. She is based in Hong Kong.

In this role, she leads the team that is responsible for all aspects of pricing and dynamically hedging counterparty credit risk and the bank’s funding risk. She also advises on capital allocation efficiency for the OTC derivatives business in the region. In addition to her responsibility for generating P&L and managing risk, she is at the forefront of bank’s evolution in the derivative business and the Regulatory changes the industry has been confronted with.

Feng has propelled large-scale, multifunctional strategic initiatives to advance analytical capabilities to integrate xVA across asset classes, improve the efficiency of xVA analysis, optimize internal resources to enhance competitive advantages, and improve return per dollar of resource used.

Feng has more than 15 years’ experience in the rates, foreign exchange and credit derivatives trading business. More recently, she has focused on risk reduction and capital and collateral optimization for OTC derivatives across global markets businesses.

Feng is also very active in participating and leading inter-bank xVA Working Committee, CCP committee, contributing ideas and raising issues related to counterparty credit and funding risk.

She has worked in both London and Hong Kong.

Feng holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Finance from Imperial College, London.

James Cheo

Chief Investment Officer, Southeast Asia

HSBC Private Banking and Wealth Management

James Cheo is Chief Investment Officer, Southeast Asia for Private Banking and Wealth Management at HSBC. Mr. Cheo is a member of the Global Investment Committee for Private Banking and Wealth Management and also a member of the Regional Investment Committee in Asia. In his role, he spearheads the development of investment strategies across all asset classes for private banking and wealth management clients in Southeast Asia. Prior to re-joining HSBC Private Banking, James was Senior Investment Strategist at Bank of Singapore, where he was responsible for asset allocation and thematic research. Before that, James assumed Investment Strategist roles at Barclays Wealth Asia. From 2004 to 2009, James served as Senior Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where he was part of the team that formulated policy actions for Singapore during the 2008 Global Financial Crisis. With his knowledge and wealth of experience, his investment views are frequently sought after. He has established a strong media profile, with appearances on notable financial media including Bloomberg, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Channel 8 Mandarin News; and printed publications such as the Financial Times, Straits Times, Business Times. James graduated with First Class Honours in Finance from Nanyang Technological University. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst charter in 2007.

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Nirman Chhabra

Portfolio manager

Abiman Asset Management

Nirman is in-charge of financial portfolio management at Abiman Asset Management, a single family office located in Singapore. His responsibilities include asset allocation, security selection and risk management. He invests into single bonds, equities and commodities in a multi-asset context. His work is influenced by factor based investing and systematic approach to asset allocation and risk management. Prior to Abiman, he worked at Taurus Family office, a multi-family office. At Taurus, he advised and managed portfolios for high net-worth families in a multi-asset context. He also successfully managed an Emerging market credit fund which ranked in top 1% globally in terms of performance, among emerging market credit funds. Prior to Taurus, Nirman worked for Citi wealth management, within the fixed income department, advising clients on their fixed income investments. Nirman has graduated from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (Masters in Business) and University of Mumbai (Computer Sc. Engineering).

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Juliana Chua

Head of Digital Transformation

NTUC INCOME

Juliana Chua is Head of Digital Transformation at NTUC Income (INCOME), Singapore’s largest composite insurer serving the protection, savings and investment needs of more than 2 million customers and a total assets of over $36 billion.

Juliana has a background in International Business Management (INSEAD), IP Law (NUS Law), Computer Science (Loughborough, UK) and leads the programme to digitise INCOME’s core businesses by adoption of design thinking and agile methodology. Juliana worked across continents in the US, China, Japan, India, UK, Singapore and is inventor to 6 patents/applications and designs for upstream innovation.

Prior INCOME, Juliana is Director of the IP Office of Singapore (IPOS) International where she forayed into US, China, Japan and Singapore markets for strategic partnerships. INCOME is Juliana’s 8th company in her career, where she previously served the World #1 innovation leader – IBM UK, Asia leading IP law firm – Spruson & Ferguson, Singapore’s largest technology office – Exploit Technologies of A*STAR, Japan MNC – Nitto Denko, as well as launched 2 startups into markets worldwide.

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Valerian Crasto

MD and COO, Treasury & Markets

DBS

Valerian Crasto is the Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer for the Treasury & Markets (T&M) business at DBS Bank which is headquartered in Singapore. He joined the T&M business in Jan 2009. As the COO for the business, he is responsible for establishing the systems of governance and controls for the end-to-end process.  He is also responsible for business planning and strategy oversight (including business responses to regulatory reform), product & customer management support and operational risk management.  The T&M business includes Trading & Sales across cash and derivative products for FX, Rates, Fixed Income, Equities; Debt Capital Markets (origination & distribution); Treasury Investments and Treasury Liquidity Management (TLM).

Valerian was with DBS Bank in Group Internal Audit from Jan 2007 until Dec 2008 leading the Audit teams for the following businesses: Treasury & Markets, Global Treasury Services (GTS) and DBS Vickers Securities. In addition, in Internal Audit he also led teams covering the following Global Support Unit functions: Group Finance, Group Risk Management & Group Compliance.

Prior to working with DBS, Valerian worked with Bank of America at their head office in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA from Feb 2001 to June 2005. He held leadership roles in Group Internal Audit and Operational Risk Management covering various businesses from Investment Banking, Sales & Trading, Securities Broker-Dealer, Consumer Products, Retail Banking and Corporate Treasury & Finance.

From June 1997 to Feb 2001, Valerian worked with CIBC in Toronto, Canada in various roles in Internal Audit covering mainly the CIBC World Markets, Financial Products Group (FPG) and Treasury & Balance Sheet Management function. He later re-joined CIBC and worked from July 2005 to Jan 2007 as Senior Director, Policy & Advisory for Group Finance. 

He also worked with the Ontario Pension Board and Bank of Montreal in Toronto, Canada from 1995 to 1997 and with Nomura International, International Bank for Commerce and Ernst & Young in Bahrain from 1986 to 1994 covering finance, operations, treasury and audit of financial services.

Valerian is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) from Canada, qualifying as a Certified General Accountant (CGA) from Ontario in 1998 and is currently a member of the CPA of British Columbia (CPABC).

 

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Bertrand d'Anselme

Head of Derivatives Clearing Services, APAC

BNP PARIBAS

Bertrand d’Anselme was appointed Head of Derivatives Clearing Services, Asia Pacific in January 2014, based in Singapore. Using his 30 years’ experience, Bertrand is responsible for expanding the Derivatives Clearing Services, a newly formed business unit combining the listed  and the OTC clearing services of BNP Paribas.

Bertrand joined BNP Paribas in 2010 as Global Head of listed derivatives, execution and clearing services, based in Paris before relocating to Asia in 2014. He managed the sales and on-boarding team across Europe, Asia and the United States.

Prior to joining BNP Paribas, Bertrand was CEO for Newedge France, a global multi-asset brokerage and prior to that, he was Managing Director Europe for Calyon Financial, a member of Credit Agricole Group for eight years.

Bertrand has a Master’s degree in Finance from Paris Dauphine University.

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Chris Davis

Senior markets reporter and Asia editor

Asia Risk

Ben Dunn

Head of quantitative strategies

Eastspring Investments

Ben Dunn is the Head of Quantitative Strategies (QS). He is also responsible for research and development of quantitative signals and strategies. Ben joined Eastspring Investments (Singapore) Limited in June 2014.

Prior to joining our Firm, Ben had been a Quantitative Equity Portfolio Manager at Ankura Capital (a BNY Mellon subsidiary) for over 10 years managing both Australian and Japanese portfolios. He previously held various roles spanning quantitative research, equity trading and software engineering at Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) and Queensland Treasury Corporation (QTC). Ben has more than 24 years of investment industry experience.

Ben holds a Bachelors degree in Information Technology from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia. He is also a CFA charterholder.

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Aziz Durrani | Moderator

Senior Financial Sector Specialist, Financial Stability and Supervision and Payment & Settlement Systems

The Seacen Centre

Aziz has over 18 years of experience in international banking and finance, and in setting, enforcing and providing training on regulatory policies and standards. He joined the SEACEN Centre in August 2016 on a sponsored career break from the Bank of England. Aziz is responsible for providing technical assistance, capacity building and delivering training programmes to SEACEN’s 35 member and associate member Central Banks and Regulatory Authorities on issues related to Supervision, Financial Stability, Risk Management and Financial Market Infrastructures.

Before joining SEACEN, Aziz spent 7 years working as a Senior Technical Specialist at the Bank of England / Prudential Regulation Authority. He was originally recruited as the Lead Supervisor of RBS’ Non-Core Bank, following RBS’ collapse in 2009. Aziz was responsible for supervising the management, workout and sell-off of RBS’ assets and portfolios, and its eventual wind-down. Aziz then joined the Risk Specialists Directorate and over several years led the stress testing of Wholesale banking book exposures for all the major UK banks, eventually as part of the Bank of England’s Concurrent Stress Test. He also had responsibility for leading the on-site Asset Quality and Provision Adequacy reviews across Wholesale loan portfolios of major banks, both in the UK and globally. During this time, Aziz was also seconded to the Markets Division within the Bank of England, where he led a team that managed the widening of the BoE’s Funding for Lending Scheme to include a variety of new Wholesale asset classes.

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Stephen Fox

Head of IBM Risk Analytics Pre-Sales, Asia Pacific

IBM ASIA PACIFIC

Stephen leads IBM’s Risk Analytics pre sales team in Asia Pacific. His team manage the pre-sales activities for the financial and non financial risk solutions of the IBM portfolio. Stephen is an experienced risk and IT professional with over 15 years industry experience. He has a deep knowledge of the Governance Risk and Compliance (GRC) domain with a strong focus on Operational Risk and Compliance. Stephen has worked for both software vendor and client, which has given him a unique first hand experience of the challenges and business benefits of implementing risk solutions. Stephen has performed numerous risk engagements across South East Asia within Australia, Singapore and Malaysia.
Prior to joining IBM, Stephen was an Executive Risk Manager at Australia’s largest bank, CBA, where he supported the banks AMA accredited Operational Risk Model, Analytics framework and OpenPages implementation.

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Markus Georgi

Head of Fixed Income Sales US & Asia

Eurex

Markus Georgi has been appointed as Eurex’ American and Asian Fixed Income Sales Head earlier this year. Previously he was responsible for Eurex’ Asian Fixed Income business and also served as Head of Eurex’ Hong office. Markus started his career at Eurex Product Development in Frankfurt in 2001 and then moved to Chicago to take on a role as Lead Business Analyst at Eurex US. In 2008 Markus joined RTS Realtime Systems, a leading trading ISV, in Singapore as Head of Product Management Asia Pacific. Early 2011 Markus moved to Newedge Financial Singapore, a brokerage firm, where he managed Newedge’s key PTG accounts in the region. Markus holds a Master of Finance degree from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany.

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Jing Gu

Senior counsel

ISDA

Jing Gu is a Senior Counsel at ISDA.  Prior to joining ISDA, Ms. Gu was a Director in the Legal and Compliance Department of Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited where she specialized in OTC derivative products and structured finance with a geographical emphasis on Greater China.  Before joining Credit Suisse, she was an associate at Allen & Overy Hong Kong Office where she advised a number of international banks and Chinese banks on derivative transactions and ISDA documentation. 

Ms. Gu holds a Master of Laws degree from Peking University, an LL.M. degree from New York University  School of Law and a Master of Laws degree from Kyushu University in Japan.  Ms. Gu holds the lawyer qualification certificate in China, is qualified in the State of New York and is also admitted as a solicitor of the High Court of Hong Kong. Ms. Gu has been working for ISDA since 2008.

Sanjay Guglani

Founder & chief investment officer

Silverdale

Sanjay Guglani is the Founder of The Silverdale Group, Director & Chief Investment Officer of Silverdale Fund VCC, and Director & Chief Executive Officer of Silverdale Capital Pte Ltd.

Sanjay has over 30 years of investment experience managing over a billion-dollars across a dozen funds, inter alia: Silverdale Bond Fund, Silverdale Asia Bond Fund, Silverdale Fixed Maturity Funds, and Silverdale Multi-Strategy Fund.

Earlier, as Managing Director of Silverdale UK, his firm channelized over US$ 4 billion of investments into emerging markets, including in joint venture with Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Lehman Brothers.

Investing is a passion for Sanjay, and he has been a frequent guest lecturer at various business schools in UK, India, and Singapore. His expert opinions are widely sought by media, from The Wall Street Journal to Economic Times India, The Straits Times Singapore to The Yield Report Australia, from CNBC to ET Now. He has delivered presentations at several forums, including at the United Nations.

By qualification, Sanjay is a Chartered Accountant, Management Accountant, Company Secretary, and Sloan Fellow of Management from the London Business School (as British Chevening Scholar).

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Mark Henderson

Chief Risk Officer, Asia

MUFG SECURITIES ASIA

Mark Henderson joined MUFG Securities Asia in Hong Kong in 2012 as Chief Risk Officer, Asia.  His role encompasses risk on a holistic basis and for business conducted Asia-wide. He is a member of the Executive Committee with responsibilities for the strategic risk of the firm in the region.  Prior to this, he was Head of Credit Risk Management for MUFG Securities in London. He also held various risk roles at ANZ Banking Group in Australia. 

Mark holds a Bachelor of Economics from the University of Queensland.

Fanda Ho

Head of Investment

Prudential Hong Kong

Fanda leads the Investment team in Prudential Hong Kong and is responsible for Strategic Asset Allocation and Portfolio Hedging to enhance the return and risk management for the products in order to meet the long term investment target. She is also responsible for overseeing the selection and performance of underlying managers. She works with key partners within Prudential group to design investment and operational framework for efficiently managing the entire portfolios, including tactical asset allocation, derivatives and other investment strategies (such as ESG and Alternatives). She also drives new product ideas from an investment initiative and supports investment related matters for marketing.

Fanda has over 14 years of experience in asset management and liability hedging for global insurance companies. Prior to joining Prudential Hong Kong in 2017, Fanda was the Client Solutions Director with Aviva Investors in London where she provided asset related solutions to internal and external clients. Before that she was the Senior Portfolio Manager overseeing the investment strategy of ₤50 bn annuity funds and also leading the hedging strategy of ₤100bn With-Profits funds in Prudential UK. Fanda is a CFA Charterholder and possesses BSc Actuarial Science from London School of Economics and MPhil Finance from University of Cambridge.

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John Ho

Head, Legal, Financial Markets

STANDARD CHARTERED

John Ho is the Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”), overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional and documentation support for Financial Markets (FM) business globally for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), its branches and affiliates. Mr. Ho is also the co-chair of the ISDA South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee.

Mr. Ho plays an active role in implementing changes within SCB to conform to applicable OTC regulatory reforms impacting FM business. He has been involved in fostering closer working relationship and rapport with industry groups and regulators on key global and regional regulatory reform changes, including MIFID II/MIFIR, Financial Benchmarks, Dodd Frank, EMIR, CRDIV, FATCA, CCPs and Margin Reforms for Uncleared Derivatives.

In addition, Mr. Ho has supported digitisation in SCB and adoption of new or innovative technology initiatives such as blockchain, distributed ledger technology and smart contracts. He is an active participant in the industry’s Fintech events and has shared insights on the legal and regulatory framework relating to the development of Fintech. Mr Ho is the chair of the FIA Fintech and Digital Asset Study Group.

Prior to joining SCB, Mr. Ho was the Managing Director Principal in the legal department of Bear Stearns (Japan), Ltd (“Bear Stearns”) where he supported the Asia franchise (including Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, India and South-east Asia) from January 2003 to August 2008 covering various structured products and derivatives including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, fixed income and commodities.

Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Ho worked as Asia equity counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo with experience dealing in convertibles, options, warrants, delta one products and other types of equity derivatives transactions, equity finance and equity capital markets.

He is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore since 1995 and he received his law degree from the National University of Singapore.

Justin Ho

Beacon Platform

Justin Ho is part of the Beacon Apps and Partnerships team at Beacon Platform.

He currently works on platform engineering as well as new business activities

 

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Man Juttijudata

Deputy Secretary General, Investment Strategy & External Fund Management Group

Government Pension Fund of Thailand

Dr. Man Juttijudata has a background in Engineering. He got his Bachelor from Chulalongkorn University and continued his path for the Master from Columbia University in New York, USA. He also received a scholarship to pursue Ph.D. from the George Washington University in DC. After gained some experiences in the US, he returned to Thailand. He joined TISCO as specialist in Economic and financial modeling covering Equity, Fixed Income and Currency. Later on he moved to Kasikorn Asset Management as Risk Manager. He also involved not only in Risk and Performance Measurement but also in Derivatives and Structured Funds. Finally, he joined Government Pension Fund in the same field of Risk Management. Then he moved to the head of Investment Strategy Department responsible for long-term Strategic Asset Allocation and short-term Tactical Asset Allocation. He was also a member of Asset Allocation team, Fund Manager Selection team, and Member Investment Choice team. Due to his exemplary performance, he was promoted as Assistant Secretary-General responsible for Strategic Management and Business Development, Corporate Consulting Group. At present, he is Chief Risk Officer responsible for Investment Risk Management, Corporate Compliance, and Enterprise Risk Management.

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Johan Jooste

Managing Director, Chief Investment Officer

Purple Investments

Johan is now the managing director at Purple Investments. Before this role, Johan was the managing director and chief investment officer for Bank of Singapore, which he joined after more than 20 years in the fund and wealth management industry in South Africa and the UK. In previous roles, Johan has been responsible for multi-asset investment research and fund management. He holds a master's degree in economics from the University of Johannesburg.

Robin Kaniah

Director, Global Distribution

LEGG MASON GLOBAL ASSET MANAGEMENT

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Martin Kimmig

Chief Risk Officer

AIIB

Martin Kimmig is a Chief Risk Officer who heads AIIB’s risk management. He joined the AIIB from The Rock Creek Group where he held the position of a Managing Director covering emerging market equities. Prior, he spent a 24-year career at the World Bank Group in particular the International Finance Corporation where he held leadership positions in both investment operations and risk management. Martin Kimmig holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Freiburg and a CFA designation.

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Agnes Koh

Chief Risk Officer

SGX

Ms Agnes Koh was appointed Chief Risk Officer of SGX from January 2014. She is responsible for championing and leading enterprise risk management activities across the organisation, formulating the risk framework and assessments for new products and business strategies, and managing the clearing risk of SGX’s securities and derivatives clearing houses. Since September 2015, Ms Koh oversees the business continuity management of SGX. She is also appointed as Chairman of Energy Market Company (EMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of SGX which operates Singapore’s wholesale electricity market from 1st October 2018. She is an Executive Committee member of CCP12, a global association for central counterparties that work together on issues of mutual interest and benefit to minimise global systemic risk and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of international markets.
Ms Koh joined SGX on 1 December 2005 as Vice President in Risk Management and has worked through various roles within risk management. Prior to joining SGX, she had more than 11 years of experience in managing the foreign reserves of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and was also an auditor with a public accountancy firm.
Ms Koh was conferred the Distinguished Fellow award by the Institute of Banking and Finance Singapore (IBF) in 2016. The IBF Distinguished Fellow is a significant role model who serves as a beacon of excellence for the financial industry. She is a Certified Public Accountant from Institute of CPA and holds a Bachelor of Accountancy (Hons) from National University of Singapore.

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Paul Landless

Partner

Clifford Chance

Paul Landless is a partner in our Singapore office who specialises in structured finance, derivatives and financial markets products, including securitisations, repackagings, structured notes, securities lending and repo. He leads the financial markets team in Singapore and South East Asia. He also has extensive experience in various types of structured transactions, including in relation to commodities trading, and he regularly advises on global and local financial market regulatory developments and financial market infrastructure. He is also a member of the firm's Brexit Markets Group and recently has been very active with FinTech developments in Singapore.

Paul has worked in our London, Hong Kong and Singapore offices and helps lead the FinTech Practice, ASEAN Focus Group, Philippines Focus Group.

 

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Kok Chong Lam

Executive Director, Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities

SGX Group

Mr KC Lam joined SGX in October 2013. He has overall responsibility for FX and Interest rates and holds the position as the Head of FX and Interest Rate derivatives business in SGX. He is responsible for rolling out new innovative FX and Rates products, driving adoption globally, diversification of customer base and in the promotion of the OTC FX Clearing solutions

Mr Lam joined SGX from CME Group, where he was Executive Director heading the FX / OTC Business Line Management in Asia. Prior to CME Group, Mr Lam was Head of Sales for EBS Asia (ICAP E-Broking, now known as NEX group), where he led the firm's new and existing product sales efforts throughout the Asia Pacific.

Mr Lam also previously held regional leadership positions with Siebel Systems and Commerce One and consulting roles with Oracle Corporation and Booz-Allen & Hamilton.

Mr Lam holds a Bachelor of Engineering from the National University of Singapore and an MBA degree.

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Shawn Lim

Head of Rates & Credit consulting APAC

MUREX

Shawn is in charge of project delivery and client services activities for the Murex Interest Rates and Credit Derivatives business solutions across the APAC region.

Since joining Murex in 2008, he has successfully led numerous system implementations and advised Murex customers on their capital markets transformation programs – notably on the evolution of their risk and valuation frameworks from a mono-curve LIBOR discounting approach to multi-curve OIS and collateral-based discounting.

Based in Singapore, Shawn collaborates closely with the Murex product development team to drive the evolution of the MX.III platform to address the specific needs of APAC-based institutions.

Shawn holds a Masters of Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University.

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Kate Lin

Reporter

RISK.NET

Kate Lin is a Hong Kong-based reporter on the asset management desk at Risk.net, covering systematic investment, risk management and regulation affecting the buy side. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the Hong Kong Baptist University.

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Selena Ling

Chief economist

OCBC

Selena is the Chief Economist for OCBC Bank. As Head of Treasury Research & Strategy, she leads a research team that is responsible for Treasury market research, forecasts and trading recommendations for the bank, covering fixed income, interest rates, corporate credit, foreign exchange and macroeconomic commentary.

She is a member of the OCBC Wealth Panel for Singapore and Malaysia, as well as a council member for the Economic Society of Singapore. She was conferred the IBF Fellow Award in Financial Markets in 2017. The IBF Fellow award recognises industry veterans who have demonstrated mastery of a profession and exemplify thought leadership and commitment to industry development. Her research writings has been extensively quoted and published by prominent media across print, television and radio.

Under her leadership, OCBC’s research capabilities have been greatly valued by customers and highly ranked in surveys for interest rate research, FX research, market coverage and Asian macroeconomic research in various forums including the AsiaMoney Fixed Income and FX polls, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters polls, amongst others.

Prior to joining OCBC in August 2000, Selena was with the Fiscal Policy Unit under the Ministry of Finance (MOF) and the Economics Department in the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). She received her Bachelors of Science (Economics) from the London School of Economics and also her Masters in Applied Economics from the National University of Singapore.

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Guan Yi Low

Chief Investment Officer, Fixed Income

EASTSPRING INVESTMENTS

Guan Yi Low joined Eastspring Investments, the Asian asset management business of Prudential plc, in August 2007.

As CIO of the Fixed Income team, Guan Yi is responsible for overseeing the management of the firm’s fixed income strategies. She is also the lead Portfolio Manager for Eastspring’s Asian local currency and total return bond funds.

Prior to joining Eastspring Investments, Guan Yi was managing Asian local currency and credit portfolios at Bank Pictet et Cie Asia Ltd, Fullerton Fund Management Company and Standard Chartered Bank Singapore. Guan Yi has 20 years of investment experience.

Guan Yi holds a Bachelor of Business from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She is also a CFA charterholder

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Chern Lu

Distinguished Professor of Harvard University BPSY; Chief Economist

Mushroom Artificial Intelligence MUA

Applied Math Ph.D of Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences,CFA,FRM,PRM; , former Head of  Market  Risk, Asset Liability Management, Interest Rate Risk, Counter-party Credit Risk Management for PwC, Deloitte HK; Conducted Market Risk Management, Liquidity Risk Management Training for the State Bank of Southeast Asia Sponsored by Germany GIZ and World Bank for 2 Years

Visiting MBA professor of Harvard Business Psychology(BPSY), EMBA Professor of Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance, SAIF; Adjunct Professor of the University of Hong Kong , SPACE ICB;Executive Director of Risk Management Research Centre, Asian Institute of Investors;Visiting Honorary Fellow of MF Tsinghua University & Macquarie University

Led PA Pioneer Capital to become one of the first 9 Chinese Alternative Investment firms

Led PA Pioneer Capital to win 4th place in 2015 PE Star Contest with a mananged AUM 11 billions

Take the Leadership in Risk Management Due Diligence Work for China’s COFCO to pay $1.5 billion for stake in Noble's Agriculture Business

Lead the Basel II Risk Management Project for one of the largest Southeast Asian Banks, Won the Prestigious Asia Risk Consultant of the Year 2013 Award of Asian Risk Magazine

As One of 3 Invited Overseas Trading Risk Management Experts to Sit on the Advisory Committee for guiding EVERBRIGHT Securities on its Shocking ETF Arb Trading Error Incident

Jacky Mak

Managing director, head of fixed income & currency product development, markets division

HKEX

Jacky Mak has more than 20 years of experience in financial services and consulting.  His roles have included chief financial officer of the Hong Kong and Taiwan branch of Societe Generale's corporate and investment banking unit and director, OTC product development of HSBC's global banking and markets group in Hong Kong.  Before joining HKEX, he was a Hong Kong-based director in Bank of America Merrill Lynch's global markets division.

In addition to an undergraduate degree in computer science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Mr Mak has an MBA and a Master's degree in investment management from HKUST.  He also has completed the advanced management programme of French graduate business school INSEAD.

Jean-Philippe Malé

Chief Executive Officer

BIDFX

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Dr Matthew McCarten

Lead Spatial Finance

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD

Matthew is the spatial finance lead at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. He is responsible for carrying out research at the intersection of  sustainable finance and data science, with a particular focus on the integration of earth observation and machine learning into traditional financial analyses. He holds a Doctorate in Finance from the University of Otago.

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Costas Mourselas

Financial journalist

Risk.net

Costas Mourselas is a financial journalist and deputy editor on the risk management desk at Risk.net. He previously reported on derivatives at GlobalCapital. Costas has a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of York, UK.

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Sam Mukhopadhyay

Director, Risk and Finance, Asia Pacific

WOLTER KLUWER

Sam Mukhopadhyay is the newly appointed Director, Risk and Finance, Asia Pacific at Wolter Kluwer Financial Services, responsible for an integrated set of solutions in Finance, Risk and Regulatory Compliance.  In this role, he owns the Wolters Kluwer’s value proposition, advising customers and partners on both compliance imperatives and performance improvement.  Prior to joining Wolters Kluwer, Sam was the Risk & Compliance Solutions Executive for IBM in Asia Pacific.  Over the years, he has worked with financial institutions of diverse business, size and sophistication.

Sam interacts with a wide range of market participants as a thought leader and has addressed and moderated panel discussions at banking and finance forums including IDC Financial Services Congress, FST Media Risk Roundtables, Asia Financial Compliance Summit, and the likewise.

Sam holds a Bachelor of Technology (Hons) in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kharagpur, and an MBA from IIM Bangalore.

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Jean-Louis Nakamura

Chief Investment Offier, Asia Pacific & Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong

Lombard Odier

Jean-Louis Nakamura is the Chief Investment Officer, Asia Pacific and Chief Executive Officer, Hong Kong for Lombard Odier group.

Jean-Louis joined Lombard Odier in March 2008 to head the executive board of the Paris office. In late 2008, he was transferred to Geneva as Head of Quantitative & Overlay Management Team. He was appointed Deputy Global CIO in June 2012 and CIO, Asia Pacific in January 2014.

Prior to joining Lombard Odier, Jean-Louis was CEO of the French Civil Service Pension Fund (ERAFP) after having spent five years as CIO of the French Pensions Reserve Fund (FRR).  Previously, he was Head of International Forecast and Macro Analysis at Ministry of Economy & Finance, France from 2001-2003 and as a financial expert covering euro related issues and banking and insurance industry for the European Council from 1999-2001. Jean-Louis began his career in 1995 as an economist at the French Ministry of Finance.

Jean-Louis graduated from the Ecole Nationale d’Administration in 1995 and from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in 1991.
 

Dr Anna Napier

Global Risk and Finance, Regulatory Capital Engine Director

WOLTERS KLUWER

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Pedro Duarte Neves

Former vice-governor

Bank of Portugal

Pedro Duarte Neves is Adviser for the Board of Directors of Banco de Portugal. He was Vice-Governor of Banco de Portugal from June 2006 to September 2017. Pedro Duarte Neves participated at the main high-level supervisory and regulatory fora like the EBA, SSM, ESRB, and FSB. He was Alternate Chairperson of the EBA from July 2013 to June 2018 and he has chaired a number of committees in the scope of the FSB, EBA, and the Joint Committee of the ESAs. His research interests include banking supervision and regulation, macro-prudential policy, and the real economy.

Pedro Duarte Neves is a Visiting Professor at Católica Lisbon School of Business and Economics. He is also Associate at the Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics. Pedro Duarte Neves holds a PhD in Economics from Université Catholique de Louvain. He published in scientific journals like The Journal of Econometrics, Economics Letters and Economic Modelling.

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Andrew Ng

Group Executive, Managing Director and Head of Treasury and Markets

DBS

Mr Andrew Ng is Group Executive of DBS & Head of Treasury and Markets. He joined DBS in 2000 and was named Managing Director and Regional Head of Trading in 2005.

Since 2006, Andrew has been instrumental in leading DBS Treasury and Market’s expansion in the region. In addition, he helped build a pan-Asia trading platform on different asset classes and established a region-wide local currencies derivative capability for the bank. He has also expanded DBS’ capabilities in generic and exotic derivatives.

Andrew has worked in the treasury business for over 32 years. Prior to joining DBS, he was Executive Director at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce from 1995 to 1999. In that role, he set up CIBC’s trading platform and derivative capabilities on Asian currencies. Between 1986 and 1995, Andrew was Head of North Asia Trading and Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank in Taipei.

 

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Maggie Ng

Founder and Chief Risk Officer

FinEX ASIA INVESTMENT LIMITED

Maggie has close to 20 years of banking experience and held various senior positions in both business and risk management at Citibank. In 2017, she co-founded FinEX Asia, the first global fintech marketplace connecting Asian investors with global high quality and low volatility asset classes. Maggie most recently served as the Asia and EMEA Head of Unsecured Lending at Citibank N.A. Prior to that, she headed credit card and unsecured lending businesses at Citibank Hong Kong. In addition to a broad geographic business experience, Maggie also gained extensive risk management knowledge as Chief Risk Officer for Citibank Hong Kong. Prior to Citibank, Maggie held senior positions at Ernst & Young (Australia) and Broken Hill Proprietary (HK) Ltd.

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Duong Minh Ngoc

Chief Risk Officer

ERGO INSURANCE

Duong Minh Ngoc is Chief Risk Officer of ERGO Insurance in Singapore, a subsidiary of ERGO Group, which is the primary insurance arm of Munich Re Group. With over 15 years in the insurance industry, Ngoc’s expertise is in investment management, asset-liability management and risk management. She previously worked for Allianz in its regional office in Singapore from 2001 to 2017. She was part of the team which set up Allianz Investment Management in Singapore in 2017 and managed Allianz’s insurance assets in Asia, steering Allianz’s investment portfolio in Asia safely through the financial crisis and improving its asset-liability management in an environment of low interest rates. Ngoc is Vietnamese, has a degree in Economics & Management from Oxford University and is a CFA charterholder.

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Jonas Von Oldenskiöld

Director, Asset Management

Swiss Re

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Stanley Park

Managing Director & Head of Legal APAC

SCOTIABANK

Stanley Park is Managing Director and Head of Legal - Asia Pacific Region for Scotiabank's Global Banking and Markets Division. He is based in Singapore and is responsible for all legal matters across the region, including China, Japan, Korea, India, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Singapore. Among other responsibilities, Stanley provides (i) transactional advice and support to the Bank's businesses related to capital markets, investment banking, commodities, corporate lending/trade finance and global transaction banking; (ii) regulatory advice and support re the Bank's businesses; (iii) management of litigation and disputes; (iv) advice and support to the Bank's internal or proprietary functions (including proprietary investments, HR matters, Finance); and (v) participation in corporate governance or oversight.

Prior to joining Scotiabank, Stanley was with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Coudert Brothers in NYC, from 1992 - 2001; with Salomon Smith Barney and UBS Securities in Tokyo from 2001 - 2007; with DKR Oasis, as Chief Compliance Officer, in Hong Kong in 2008; with Barclays Global Investors, as General Counsel, in Tokyo from 2009 - 2010; and with Daiwa Capital Markets, as Senior Legal Counsel, in Singapore and Hong Kong from 2011 - 2014.

Stanley graduated from Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics in 1985 and received his law degree from the Harvard Law School in 1988, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Stanley has been a member of the New York State Bar since 1994.

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Ravi Pandit

Executive director, foreign exchange and interest rate products, Asia-Pacific

CME Group

Ravi Pandit is executive director, foreign exchange and interest rate products, Asia-Pacific at CME Group, and is responsible for expanding its existing FX and interest rate business and developing new opportunities across the region. He joined CME Group in August 2015 and he has 25 years' experience in the financial markets. Prior to joining CME Group, Pandit was a consultant to Singapore Exchange, where he provided strategic advice and project management for its launch of listed FX futures. Before that, he worked for 12 years in Dresdner Bank and subsequently Commerzbank, where he headed up the local markets trading team and helped build its Asian presence in interest rate and FX derivatives trading. Pandit also worked in various trading roles at Barclays, and in operations and technology at Citibank.

Dimitrios Papanastasiou

Head of risk and finance solutions

Moody’s Analytics

Dimitrios is a Head of Risk and Finance Solutions in Moody’s Analytics, leading the Asia Specialist team that focuses on Risk Analytics, Stress Testing and IFRS 9 solutions.

During his time in Moody’s and prior to his move to Asia, Dimitrios led the efforts on designing and successfully implementing IFRS 9 modelling and software solutions for more than 50 banks in Europe and Middle East.

Prior to joining Moody’s in January 2016, Dimitrios worked as Senior Technical Specialist at the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) in London. During that time, he led the internal stress testing model development across the majority of risk types, with a particular focus on wholesale credit risk globally, retail credit risk in the UK and econometric models for key ALM risk metrics. Before joining the PRA, he was part of UBS Group-wide Stress Testing Team where he developed stress testing models for the held to maturity assets of the investment banking arm. Prior to his time at UBS he held various modelling positions at the former Financial Services Authority (FSA), Lloyd’s Banking Group and HBOS.

Dimitrios holds a PhD from the University of Edinburgh Business School and an MSc in Applied Economics and Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business. He is a certified Professional Risk Manager (PRM) since 2006 and tutored at University of Edinburgh where he has conducted extensive research on credit risk modelling and the interaction between credit risk and the real economy.

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Bipin Patel

Group Risk Officer

HKEX

Bipin PATEL, Group Risk Officer, HKEX (Joined in April 2019)

Past offices:

Japan Securities Clearing Corporation, JPX Group – senior risk advisor (2017-2019)

Deutsche Bank – senior risk consultant (2015-2017)

LCH Clearnet – head of risk, SwapClear listed rates (2014-2015), head of risk, exchanges (equities, commodities, listed rates) (2014), and quantitative risk manager, Forex Clear & Capital SME, LCH Group (2012-2014)

Barclays Capital – quantitative risk manager, global markets (prime services) (2011-2012)

GFT (Rule Financial) – principal consultant, derivatives and risk analytics (2009-2011)
Qualifications

Master of Science in Theoretical Physics (University of Pennsylvania, USA), Bachelor of Science in Physics with Honors (McGill University, Canada), Certificate in Quantitative Finance

Sage Patel

Managing director

S&P Global Market Intelligence

Sage Patel joined IHS Markit (Markit Asia) in March 2011. Before joining IHS Markit, Sage was responsible for Pricing and Valuations at Fitch Solutions. Sage has extensive product and commercial leadership responsibilities across fixed income, derivatives, and structured credit and at tier-one investment banks, starting at Salomon Brothers, Citigroup Global Markets, Bank of America N.A and RBC Capital Markets across London, New York, and Toronto.

Sage has been driving IHS Markit's (now S&P Global Market Intelligence) continued expansion into Asia-Pacific capital markets which will continue to provide optimized solutions and best practices for market reforms adoptions in an ever-changing regulatory landscape in Asia.

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Ned Phillips

Founder & CEO

BAMBU

Ned Phillips, CEO & Founder, Bambu, has been based in Asia for the past 25 years; starting his journey in FinTech since 1999 with E*TRADE as one of the very first online brokers before becoming Managing Director in 2007. He was part of the transformation of the stock exchange where he developed two pan-Asian exchange, one of which is in conjunction with SCX and Chi-X. Ned had the opportunity to experience the first dot-com boom with one of the original FinTech companies as well as become appointed as a consultant to 8 Securities when they launched the first robo-advisor in Asia.

With such an insightful exposure and development over the years, Ned saw an opportunity in the B2B space to build a solution for various sectors that lead to the birth of Bambu.

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Frankie Phua

Managing Director, Head of Group Risk Management

UOB

Frankie Phua is the Managing Director and Head of Group Risk Management at UOB. In this role, he oversees all risk management matters for UOB Group including credit risk, market risk, balance sheet risk, operational risk, fraud, product control and model validation.

Prior to joining UOB Risk Management, Frankie spent more than 10 years as a corporate and investment banker at international banks.

Over the past 19 years in his career with UOB, Frankie has developed expertise in areas such as credit risk modelling, counterparty credit risk, economic capital, stress testing, credit portfolio optimization and country risk management. From 2004 to 2006, he was the Basel II Project Coordinator for UOB, where he led the Group’s Basel II Internal Rating-Based implementation and obtaining approval from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) to adopt the Internal Rating-Based Approach (IRBA) for credit risk with effect from 1 Jan 2008.

Frankie, a seasoned credit risk practitioner, is an active contributor to the risk management community. Currently he is Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association ("RMA"), an organization associated with RMA USA. He is currently appointed by Risk Management Institute (“RMI”), National University of Singapore ("NUS") as a lecturer for the Specialist Diploma course in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. He is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses specially tailored to clients' needs.

Frankie is a frequent speaker and shares his perspectives and experiences at various international risk management conferences such as those organized by RiskMinds – the world's largest risk management conference, the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers (IACPM) and NUS RMI. Regionally, Frankie has also conducted credit risk training for banks in Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, Laos, Myanmar, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Frankie was conferred the IBF Fellow Award in Risk Management. The "IBF Fellow" is an industry veteran recognized for mastery and leadership in his profession, and commitment to industry development.

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Blake Evans-Pritchard

Bureau Chief, Asia

Asia Risk

Blake Evans-Pritchard is bureau chief, Asia, for Risk.net based in Hong Kong. Before taking on his current role, he spent three years covering regulatory issues across Asia for Risk.net, including implementation of Basel III and other international standards in regional jurisdictions. Previously, he spent five years in Brussels writing about the European Union’s financial services sector and competition policy and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering post-conflict restitution around the world.

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Rainer Michael Preiss

Portfolio Strategist

Taurus Family Office

Currently serves as Portfolio Strategist at Taurus Family Office.   Taurus is Multi Family Office based in Singapore which advised on USD 2.1 billion in Assets under Advise.

Previously, Chief Equity Strategist at Standard Chartered Bank and a member of the bank’s Global Investment Council where he was responsible for the” house-view” on Equities.  

Mr. Preiss has 25 years experience in global financial markets have worked in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Middle East and Africa and Singapore in various investment and research functions.

Mr. Preiss is a graduate of the European Business School with a major in Finance and international economics, having studied at the schools centers in London, Paris and Bologna, Italy in the respective local languages. In addition he studied in Japan, Korea, and China.

Mr. Preiss has taught extensively on Finance and Wealth Management in Asia, Middle East and Africa.

He has also been a guest lecturer at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he taught on Technical Analysis as well as a course on Banking & Financial Institutions with a focus on China's Financial System. In Singapore he taught a course on Credit Derivatives at SMU (Singapore Management University)

Mr. Preiss has also been invited to teach and has designed courses for The Graduate School of The People's Bank of China, China's Central Bank and is currently an Adjunct Researcher at Singapore’s  NTU – Nanyang Technology University Centre of African Studies.  The mandate of the NTU-SBF Centre for African Studies (CAS) is to develop awareness of Africa as an investment destination, and to develop thought leadership and capacity for doing business in Africa.

Previously he was advisor and founding member of the Asian Bond Market Forum an initiative by the Thai Ministry of Finance. In Singapore he is the co-founder of the Blockchain and Crypto Association of Singapore.

Mr. Preiss is also a frequent contributor to International media like CNBC and Bloomberg TV and a Columnist for FORBES Magazine global edition www.forbes.com as well as local editions in Indonesia, Vietnam and Kazakhstan.  In Vietnam he is a columnist and editorial adviser to The Manager Magazine, http://nhaquanly.vn/

 

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Ahmad Shukri Abd Rahman

Chief Risk Officer

Bank Rakyat

Ahmad Shukri has over 28 years of experience in banking and finance, focusing on areas of risk management and Islamic Finance. He is at present the Chief Risk Officer of Bank Kerjasama Rakyat Malaysia Berhad. Prior to his current appointment, he was the Head of Risk Management, OCBC Al-Amin Bank Berhad where he served there for about 8 years. Shukri had also served at the following Banks respectively Al-Rajhi Bank Malaysia ,Bank Muamalat Malaysia, the Pacific Bank Berhad and Oriental Finance Berhad.

Shukri is Certified Professional in Islamic Finance (CPIF) under the Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance Professional (CIIF). He also holds an Executive Master in Islamic Banking and Finance from Asia E University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration majoring in Finance from Texas A&M University, Commerce, USA.

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Kishore Ramakrishnan

Partner

Temple Grange Partners

Kishore is the head and founding partner of Temple Grange Partners, Asia business. He comes with over 21+ years of industry & consulting experience spanning across multiple continents including Americas, Europe, Asia & Japan. He has advised top-tier U.S., U.K., Swiss, European, Japanese & Chinese banks, Financial Market Infrastructure [FMI] & Buy-side on the “structural” & “operational” implications on global and regional derivative regulations, Basel capital reforms, OTC derivative margin reforms, Volcker reforms, MiFID II, FRTB, front office trading supervision etc. His client engagements span multiple asset classes covering equities, derivatives & fixed income and his body of work includes but not limited to advising clients on booking model and legal entity strategy, margin model approvals, CPMI P-FMI assessments for CCP’s, target operating model design, industry benchmarking exercises covering banks, broker dealers, custodians, exchanges, CCP’s, asset managers, insurance firms. He has several national & international publications to his credit and has worked closely with global & regional regulators, industry associations such as ISDA, ASIFMA, HKSI, AIMA.

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Filippo Santilli

APAC Head of Liquidity and Segregation

BNY MELLON, HONG KONG

Filippo joined BNY Mellon as head of global liquidity services for APAC in August 2009, expanding the Liquidity DIRECT business across the region. This was followed by 4 years as regional head of Sales&RM, Liquidity and Segregation for Markets. As of August 2018 Filippo heads up Liquidity & Segregation in APAC with a strong focus on UMR, derivatives, collateral administration and segregation.

Filippo worked for Morgan Stanley Investment Management in Luxembourg from 1999 to 2005, following which he moved to London and joined Lehman Brothers Asset Management in its start-up liquidity funds business, eventually spearheading efforts in Asia by moving to Hong Kong in 2007.

Filippo has a laurea in economics from LUISS University, Rome, and an MSc in international business and finance from the European Academic Consortium, Netherlands and France.

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Steven Scheurmann

Leader- Financial CrimesInsights, Asia Pacific

IBM ASIA PACIFIC

With more than 25 years of experience across Asia Pacific & Japan, Mr. Scheurmann has held senior management, governmental, pre-sales, and project direction positions for large MNCs, a leading finance and banking consultancy firm, and a major ERP software supplier. Steven is currently responsible for leading and working with a team of subject-matter experts and business partners that address the challenges associated with: Anti-Money Laundering (AML), Combating Financing of Terrorists (CFT) and Politically-Exposed Persons (PEP). His team works with end-customers leveraging deep insights, machine learning and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, leveraging Data & AI to determine the risk of a Party being involved in a Financial Crime.

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Frederick Shen

Former senior vice president and head of business management for global treasury

OCBC

Dr. Frederick Shen formerly (ret.) was OCBC’s Senior Vice President and Head of Business Management for Global Treasury, OCBC Bank, leading to strengthen the infrastructure, processes, monitoring and analytics to tackle the increasing regulatory and risk requirements, all the while enabling the markets business for strategic growth in countries we currently operate in while planning for the future. He also led the Global Treasury FinTech strategy employing new and innovative technology solutions to deliver Treasury products to clients and to enhance productivity and efficiencies within the organisation. Fred re-joined OCBC in mid-2013 from Emirates NBD, Dubai, where he headed up the Group Market Risk unit. Prior to the Middle East assignment, he was with OCBC Bank Market Risk for 3+ years, and appointed its Head of Market Risk in 2011.

Fred started his career as a Professor of Finance at the University of Waterloo, Canada, before joining the financial industry, starting with global risk oversight of the financial engineering trading group at RBC Capital Markets. With over 25 years in the financial industry, his extensive experience includes assignments with various global financial institutions and specialisations, including structured credit and real-asset securitizations at a privately held investment bank, Head of bank-wide economic/risk capital and risk modelling/analytics at Bank of Montreal, and Head of life insurance and asset management risk management at Manulife. Fred has a PhD in Financial Economics.

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Ryo Shimizu

Representative Director

BEACON PLATFORM K.K.

Ryo serves as Representative Director of Beacon Platform K.K. and works closely with Beacon Platform Inc’s current and prospective clients throughout the APAC region.

Prior to Beacon, Ryo spent ten years at Goldman Sachs Asia where he built and headed the APAC Franchise Market Making Desk (Central Risk Book) and led the APAC Equities One Delta Strategies group and co-headed the APAC Algo Strategies group.

Prior to Goldman Sachs Ryo spent five years at The Mathworks, Inc. as a software engineer.

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Tony Smith

Head of Collateral Management Product, Asia Pacific

BNY MELLON CLEARANCE AND COLLATERAL MANAGEMENT

Tony is a Director and leads the Collateral Management Product team based in Hong Kong.  He focuses on new product development and enhancements to our collateral management capabilities for the APAC markets. Tony has 36 years’ experience in the securities industry and joined BNY Mellon in 2007.  He relocated to Hong Kong in 2012.

For the last 30 years Tony has specialised in securities finance with roles in stock borrowing and lending, repo, product management, business planning, sales, relationship management, marketing and collateral management. Commencing in 1989 with Enskilda Securities, he set-up a stock borrowing and lending operation for the proprietary trading desk. Tony has also created and managed securities lending arrangements at both Commercial Union Investment Management and Sun Life Investment Management. Tony initially merged the stock lending desks of Sun Life and AXA Equity & Law before moving to Global Head of Business Planning and Marketing for AXA Investment Managers. It was at AXA in 1999 when Tony first travelled to Asia for a PASLA (Pan-Asia Securities Lending Association) conference from which point his association with, and focus on, Asia began.

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Jenn-Hui Tan

Global Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investing

Fidelity International

Jenn-Hui Tan was appointed to the role of Global Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investing in July 2019.

Previously Head of Capital Markets and Corporate Governance for Asia Pacific at Fidelity International, Jenn-Hui is responsible for providing external and internal leadership for Fidelity’s sustainable investing activities globally, including strategy and policies on engagement, voting and ESG integration.

Jenn-Hui has been with Fidelity International for 12 years, having joined as Senior Legal Counsel in 2007, and was previously a solicitor at Norton Rose Fulbright in London. Jenn-Hui is based in Singapore and will be responsible for Fidelity’s ESG teams based in Europe and Asia.

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Keeve Tan

Head, Futures & Leveraged FX

OCBC Securities

Keeve is the Head of Futures and FX for OCBC Securities. He looks after more than 30 staff over the two departments, where he oversees the growth and development of the cleared Futures and OTC FX businesses.

Prior to joining OCBC, he was most recently the Director of Sales at UOB Bullion and Futures, looking after the Business Development of listed derivatives and OTC clearing for UOB Global Markets. Keeve was before that, a trader in proprietary trading firms, heading market making desks and algorithmic trading desks. His buy-side experience coupled with his current role in the sell-side, gives him a wholesome view of the industry and its developments.

Keeve is married and has a daughter. He holds a BSc with honours from the Nanyang Technological University and graduated with an MBA on the Dean's List from the Singapore Management University.

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Kiet Tran

Managing Director, Asia Pacific Financial Services

IHS MARKIT

Kiet Tran serves as managing director and heads the Financial Services division for IHS Markit in Asia Pacific.

Previously, he was the firm's global head of Pricing and Reference Data, an award-winning set of services providing independent pricing and market data to help financial institutions manage risk and operations effectively. As a senior leader, Mr. Tran has been involved in multiple acquisitions in the IHS Markit pricing, indices and loans businesses. He had joined Markit in 2005 to run North American credit operations and build the firm's comprehensive services for the syndicated loan market. He started his career as a fixed income analyst at BlackRock. Mr. Tran graduated magna cum laude with a degree in economics and business management from Binghamton University in New York, United States.

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Scott Treloar

Founder and Chairman

NOVISCIENT

Scott has more than 20 years of financial markets experience. He founded Noviscient, a next-generation investment manager based in Singapore.

Previously he worked as Chief Risk Officer and Portfolio Manager at an alternative investment firm for four years, as well as eight years heading up a quantitative team within Deutsche Bank’s Asian trading business in Singapore.  Before that he worked in venture capital with Macquarie Bank for five years.

Scott has a BEng, an MBA, a Master of Quantitative Finance and he is completing a PhD in Finance with EDHEC.

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Roger Wong

Managing Director, Client Solution Group, North Asia

NUMERIX

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Frank Wu

Global Head of Structured Products Trading

PING AN BANK

Frank started his career in the risk management in World Bank in D.C. USA. Before joining Ping an Bank, it has been 8 years since he was looking after the FX/IR exotic trading in Socgen and Barclays in various Asian financial center. During the 4 years in Ping An Bank in Shanghai, he led the Fx Option market maker business in onshore market and now heading the structured product trading business and hold the position of deputy general manager of the financial market in Hong Kong branch.

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Yvonne Zhang

Head of Product & Partnerships

HEVEACONNECT PTE LTD

Yvonne is the Head of Product & Partnerships at HeveaConnect Pte Ltd, she is responsible for value creation and ecosystem development for the suite of products and services that makes sustainability good business, namely: HeveaGrow, HeveaPro, HeveaTrace and HeveaConnect platform.   

Yvonne brings in more than a decade worth of trading and product structuring experience in the commodities industry, leading the development of new benchmarks and markets for Chicago Mercantile Exchange Group, Morgan Stanley, Societe Generale and ANZ Banking Group. As an early adopter of blockchain and innovative payment technologies, she leads the technical committees contributing to the International Standards Organization ISO/TC 307 (Blockchain and distributed ledger technologies) and ISO200022 (Universal financial industry message scheme) working groups.

Knowledge sharing and serving the community at large is an important part of Yvonne’s life, she is a teaching fellow at Singapore University of Social Sciences and speaks at professional conferences on sustainability, fintech, trading and social impact. Prior to entering the commodities world, she worked in the legal industry and was a board member at the non-profit Redfern Legal Centre in Australia.

Yvonne holds a BCom/LLB (Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws) from the University of Sydney.

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Marko Stanojevic

VP, NDF Trading

Dax Partners LP

Marko worked as a Proprietary Futures Trader for HTG Capital in New York for 7 years, trading FX (G10), Fixed Income, Commodity and Equity futures on a variety of exchanges. Starting in 2014, Marko worked at Three Arrows Capital in Singapore for two years as a Senior FX Trader, focusing on Asian currencies. Currently, he runs NDF desk for Dax Partners in Singapore. He earned an MBA from IE Business School in Madrid and he is a CMT (Chartered Market Technician) holder.  

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Vishal Nanwani

MD & Portfolio Manager

Crossinvest

Vishal began his career in a local Private Bank in 2014 as part of the investment advisory team where they managed global, cross-asset allocation investment portfolios for high and ultra-high net worth individuals. He then went on to become a Private Banker building up a large client base and, through the close relationships developed during this time, he understood the odds at which the fiduciary aspect of a private based business model. Thus, at the start of 2019, Vishal pivoted his career to the Multi-Family Office business at Crossinvest (Asia) Pte Ltd wherein he could continue to be a fiduciary advisor to the families he works with, but  without the conflict of interest that occurs in private banking today. Importantly, Vishal seeks to continue to develop his knowledge in asset management and with the Team at Crossinvest, he has found strong mentors as well as the freedom to develop. It is his view that the institutional-level of asset management ability brought to clients from the Crossinvest Investment Management team is unrivaled across the industry, and is aligned with his vision of how portfolios, derived from the savings of families, ought to be managed.
Lastly, he believes that the wealth held by clients today, is the result of the time they sacrificed away from their family to ensure their financial security and hence, as fiduciary advisors, it should be our mission to ensure we protect as well as build on this sacrifice.