Norman Chan was appointed Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) on 1 October 2009. Mr. Chan joined the Hong Kong Government as an Administrative Officer in 1976 and became an Executive Director of the HKMA when it was established in 1993. From 1996 to 2005, Mr. Chan served as Deputy Chief Executive of the HKMA.
From December 2005 to June 2007, Mr. Chan was Vice Chairman, Asia of Standard Chartered Bank. Prior to rejoining the HKMA, Mr. Chan was Director of the Chief Executive's Office of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government from July 2007 to July 2009. He was the Founding Chairman of the policy think tank, the Bauhinia Foundation Research Centre established in 2006.
Arthur Yuen is in charge of the full range of banking policy, development and supervisory issues at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). He joined the HKMA in 1996 as Head of Administration and has since taken up different responsibilities including research and liaison on China economic and market development issues before being appointed Head of Banking Supervision in 2000. He took up the position as Executive Director (Banking Development) in July 2004, Executive Director (Banking Supervision) in June 2005 and Executive Director (External) in July 2008. He was appointed to his present position on 1 January 2010.
Before joining the HKMA, Mr. Yuen worked in the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission for two years after having served as an Administrative Officer in the Hong Kong Government for over eight years.
(Speakers are listed in alphabetical order of their last name)
Iqbal AliKhan is the Strategy and Business Development Executive for the Global Payment Industry & Blockchains at IBM. He has over 20 years of banking experience. Iqbal has conducted strategy and operational projects at commercial banks and global card companies in North America, Europe and Asia. He is well versed in Fintech developments around mobile payments and transaction banking including faster payments and Blockchains. Some of his recent accomplishments include developing point of view of Blockchains deployments in trade supporting PoC's in the space with banks, ports and logistic companies, assisting central banks define platforms enabling higher efficiency payment methods, structuring payment systems that reduce cost of operations for local and regional bank and enabling banks simplify their payment platforms through payment hubs. On the consumer banking side his focus has recently been on mobile payments, the structures and principles of micro credits, roles and the challenges of security in retail payments Among other accomplishments he has conducted the design of a banking back end platform in China; Developing consumer risk system for a consumer lending leveraging decision engines to support authorization, address increasing fraud, squeezed margins & competitive marketplace challenges; Conducted visioning workshops to design next generation payment solutions.
Iqbal structured and operated the private equity arm of IBM in growth markets and the fund management portfolio, globally, helping the organization originate new revenue streams and source acquisitions.
He came into these roles with over ten years of management consulting experience based in the US where he honed an intuitive understanding of the intersection of business and technology. Prior to consulting, Iqbal was a banker with Citibank in Asia, where he started his career as a management trainee at a global bank.
Iqbal holds a BA in History and Economics, an MPhil in Finance and has completed various executive management programs at Citibank, IBM and INSEAD. He is recognized as an IBM Inventor for developing "Method & Application for Business Initiative Performance Management".
Philippa Allen has over 30 years’ extensive experience with business and regulation in Asia. She was one of the drafters of the Fund Manager Code of Conduct in Hong Kong and has been involved in a number of submissions to regulators and lobbying efforts with financial industry bodies.
Philippa’s career includes a role at Dresdner Bank as Head of Compliance for Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for all lines of business including commercial and retail banking, global equities, global debt, investment banking and asset management. After the merger of Dresdner Bank with Allianz AG, Philippa joined Allianz Dresdner Asset Management as Head of Legal and Compliance, Asia Pacific with an additional responsibility for handling regulatory relationships for the Allianz Group within the region. At GT Asset Management, later LEGT Asset Management, until its acquisition by Invesco, Philippa took on the role of Head of Legal and Compliance for Asia. During this time she was responsible for implementing a new compliance regime in the asset management division and advising the private banking division on regulatory issues in the region.
Philippa holds a Bachelor of Jurisprudence and Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from the University of Western Australia. Upon graduation she commenced practice as a barrister and solicitor for Freehill Hollingdale and Page in Perth, Western Australia, primarily in the commercial litigation department but she also spent time in the corporate division.
Douglas W. Arner is a Professor of Law at the University of Hong Kong and Project Coordinator of a major five-year project funded by the Hong Kong Research Grants Council Theme-based Research Scheme on “Enhancing Hong Kong’s Future as a Leading International Financial Centre”. In addition, he is Co-Director of the Duke University-HKU Asia-America Institute in Transnational Law, and a Senior Visiting Fellow of Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Douglas served as Head of the HKU Department of Law from 2011 to 2014 and from 2006 to 2011 he was the Director of HKU’s Asian Institute of International Financial Law, which he co-founded in 1999 along with the LLM in Corporate and Financial Law (of which he serves as Director). He has published fifteen books and more than 100 articles, chapters and reports on international financial law and regulation, including most recently Reconceptualising Global Finance and its Regulation (Cambridge 2016) (with Ross Buckley and Emilios Avgouleas). Douglas is a member of the Hong Kong Financial Services Development Council and of the International Advisory Board of the Australian Centre for International Finance and Regulation. He has served as a consultant with, among others, the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, APEC and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and has lectured, co-organised conferences and seminars and been involved with financial sector reform projects in over 20 economies in Africa, Asia and Europe. He has been a visiting professor or fellow at the Universities of London, McGill, Melbourne, New South Wales, Singapore and Zurich, as well as the Shanghai University of Finance and Economics and Hong Kong Institute for Monetary Research.
Professor Ba Shusong is Chief China Economist of Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX). He is also Chief Economist of the China Banking Association, a member of the HKSAR Government's Economic Development Commission, Deputy Secretary General of China Society of Macroeconomics, a member of MOFCOM's (Ministry of Commerce) Advisory Committee on Economic and Trade Policy, a member of CBRC’s Expert Guidance Committee for the banking industry’s implementation of the new Basel capital accord, a member of CSRC’s M&A Specialists Committee, and a member of China’s “13th Five-Year Plan” National Development and Planning Specialists Committee. Professor Ba is a fellow of experts who receive the State Council Special Allowance. He was previously Deputy General Manager of the Bank of China Hangzhou Branch, Assistant General Manager of Bank of China (Hong Kong), Director-general of the Strategy and Development Committee of the Securities Association of China, and Deputy Director-general of the Financial Research Institute of the State Council's Development Research Centre. He was engaged in post-doctoral researches in the China Center for Economic Research at Peking University and was a senior visiting scholar at Columbia Business School.
Professor Ba has published a number of academic articles and books on the new Basel capital accord and China’s economic and financial development. He received the Global Youth Leader award from the World Economic Forum in 2009.
Jack is the Managing Partner of Financial Services for Greater China. He has led and participated in many advisory and assurance engagements for financial institutions in China over the last 20 years.
With over 22 years of professional experience in the financial services sector, Jack’s areas of knowledge span assurance, due diligence, and other advisory services such as internal control review, corporate governance, financial restructuring, GAAP conversion and risk management. He works regularly with financial services clients in Hong Kong, mainland China and other Asian and European countries. He is currently the Global Client Service Partner for Bank of China Group (BOC).
Jack joined EY in 2006. Prior to joining EY, he was a partner with PwC in Beijing and a Senior Manager with Anderson in Hong Kong.
Passionate in technology, Ralph is responsible for developing digital strategies, change management and bringing innovation to the bank. In this capacity, he defines, executes and monitors strategic initiatives and projects for Hong Kong and China. He also supports DBS HK to introduce the 1st DBS Accelerator Program focusing on Fintech.
Prior to joining DBS, he was a Consultant focusing on IT advisory, operation modeling and process re-engineering.
Ralph is a Financial Risk Manager (FRM) holder and Certified Public Accountant (CPA).
David Chapman is the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of ANX INTERNATIONAL, a financial technology company specialising in Blockchain technologies, digital assets and payment solutions. Supporting more than 1 million customers and employing over 100 staff, ANX INTERNATIONAL is one of the largest technology companies in the world focused on Blockchain initiatives. Prior to cofounding ANX INTERNATIONAL, Dave spent 12 years in Investment Banking and technology roles, specialising in the analysis of low-latency pre-trade risk and order management systems. Throughout his Investment Banking career, Dave has been responsible for the design and implementation of a wide-ranging suite of trading platforms. He has managed large, global teams at HSBC, Credit Suisse, Barclays Capital, ABN Amro and Bear Stearns, among other financial firms.
In 2014, Chapman was interviewed by Global Trading Magazine, where he discussed digital assets and their role in institutional trading.
In January 2015, Chapman delivered a speech at Blockchain Agenda, held in Singapore, on the global issues and challenges that the FinTech industry faces with regard to current events.
In May 2016, Chapman was chosen to be one of the speakers at the 14th Asia Pacific Trading Summit held in Hong Kong, discussing the "10 Things Traders Need to Know About Blockchain". That same month, Chapman was also invited to be a speaker at KeyNote2016, a blockchain technology conference held in Dubai. He discussed the innovative elements of blockchain in UAE.
In June 2016, Chapman shared his view in regards with the state of digital finance on the Asia panel at BlockFin Asia 2016 in Vietnam.
Sally Chen joins IMF's Resident Representative Office in Hong Kong SAR in January 2016, covering financial market developments in the region. She has been with the Fund since 2010, focusing her attention on macro-financial linkages, with research on global liquidity, financial cycles and the modalities of debt deleveraging. Prior to joining the Fund, Sally was an economist with Fisher Francis Trees & Watts – an asset management arm of BNP Paribas and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Sally is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia University.
Dr. Cheung is CEO of Lattice Limited, an award-winning, intellectual Property (IP)-driven Capital-Markets FinTech company. He was previously head of portfolio analytics at Lehman Brothers and Nomura International plc (London). He consulted with fund managers in Europe, US and Asia; and contributed to Nomura’s No.1 ranking in 2010 Institutional Investor (II) European Quantitative Research Survey. He authored journal publications and developed core industry recognized and proprietary IPs. He speaks at global professional and academic research conferences and works with some of the World’s leading academic and practitioner authors in the portfolio and risk methodology arena. He holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge, where he did mathematical financial economics.
Mr. Angus Choi began serving as Chief Executive Officer of Joint Electronic Teller Services Limited (“JETCO”) in December 2014, overseeing the company’s day-to-day operations and driving the expansion of its automated teller machine (“ATM”) network and payment business platform in Hong Kong and Macau.
Prior to joining JETCO, Mr. Choi was managing director for Hong Kong at TransUnion Limited where he oversaw the company’s credit reporting, analytics and decisioning business.
At JETCO, Mr. Choi’s objective is to enhance the value of the company’s ATM platform for both users and member banks through continuous innovation and the development of cross-border capabilities. At the same time, Mr. Choi also aims at introducing diversified and sophisticated financial and payment services to help member banks expand their business and promote the development of the local financial market.
With almost 30 years of experience in the consumer credit bureau and banking sectors, Mr. Choi has also held senior positions in Citibank’s and DBS’ consumer and corporate banking businesses, as well as regional sales and marketing management positions at Visa International and American Express in Hong Kong and Canada.
Mr. Choi holds an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from Southern Illinois University in the United States.
Hiang Choong is Division President for Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan, and is based in Hong Kong. In this capacity, he is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the business including strategy, business development, acceptance expansion, operations, marketing and product introductions for continued growth and innovation.
Prior to taking up his current role, Mr. Choong was Chief of Staff to the CEO and was based in New York. A lawyer by training, he was the Lead Legal Counsel for the Asia Pacific, and Middle East & Africa regions and was based in Singapore. In that role, he was responsible for leading a team that provided comprehensive legal, regulatory, public policy and compliance support across both regions.
Before joining Mastercard, Mr. Choong held a number of executive roles with various multinational organizations including as director and general counsel for PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting. In that position, he was responsible for legal support across all lines of business ranging from consulting to IT services. Mr. Choong was also an in-house counsel with IBM based in Australia.
Mr. Choong was born in Asia, and educated in Canada & Australia. He is a graduate of the Australian National University with degrees in Law and Arts majoring in Psychology and Sociology. He speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.
Matthias Coessens has an extensive background in finance area by working in the past as project manager, presales, functional consultant and business analyst. From these roles, Matthias has developed a strong understanding of the finance challenges that the industry is facing and how best to address them. His key areas of expertise include: International Financial Reporting Standards, accounting ledger, trading systems and product control, financial reporting and management reporting.
During his time with Wolters Kluwer, Matthias has worked with several of the largest financial services firms in the region to recommend strategic forward looking solutions. He frequently speaks at industry events around the topics of IFRS.
As VP Market Management, he’s a member of the APAC management team and responsible for the Finance product strategy & product P&L in APAC.
He holds a Master’s degree, business engineering and technology management from Europese Hogeschool, St Aloysius (EHSAL).
David is the Head of Financial Crime Compliance for Goldman Sachs Asia LLC; David has over 25 years of experience in the financial crime and anti-money laundering space, both as a Compliance Officer and in Hong Kong law enforcement. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, David was the Asia Pacific Head for Global Financial Crimes Compliance at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, previous to his time at Bank of America he was the Regional AML/CTF Compliance Manager for Morgan Stanley Asia. David was also briefly a Partner at KPMG China based in Hong Kong in the forensic practice dealing with AML/CTF and sanctions issues.
In his Compliance roles David led multinational teams dealing with all aspects of financial crime risk management, including client on boarding, sanctions and corruption issues, suspicious activity detection and reporting, and financial crime risk assessments, as well as providing advice and counsel to bank senior management and business leaders for financial crime issues arising in the region. David was also the regulatory and audit exam management lead in the Region for financial crime, and implemented the design and implementation of the regional monitoring and testing program.
Before his time in Compliance, David's 17 year long career in the Hong Kong Police was mainly the focused on the investigation and prosecuted serious complex financial crime and money laundering. David had postings to the Commercial Crime Bureau, Organized Crime and Triad Bureau and Narcotics Bureau. David was also part of the formulation and execution of the Hong Kong Police's financial investigation policy and training including dealing with the Financial Action Task Force Mutual Evaluation process.
David holds a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) from the University of London, and a Master of Social Sciences in Criminology from the University of Hong Kong. David is also a current and founding Board Member of the Hong Kong Chapter of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
都本伟，男，1958年1月生，蒙古族，内蒙古赤峰市人，中共党员，教授，博士生导师。现任东北财经大学党委书记。
主要社会兼职：十二届全国人大代表。曾任中国银行业协会副会长、中国银行业协会农村合作金融工作委员会主任，辽宁省银行业协会会长。
都本伟同志先后毕业于辽宁大学、东北财经大学，获外国哲学专业硕士、工商管理专业硕士学位。曾任辽宁青年干部学院副院长、党委委员，辽宁省教委副主任、党组成员，辽宁省教育厅副厅长、党组成员、省委高校工委委员，辽宁省人民政府副秘书长、辽宁省人民政府学位委员会副主任、招生考试委员会副主任，辽宁省农村信用社联合社党委书记、理事长，辽宁省葫芦岛市市长、市委书记。2016年3月起任东北财经大学党委书记。
Alistair Duff is Director, Business Development at R3, a financial innovation firm that leads a consortium partnership of over 60 of the world's leading financial institutions, to design and deliver advanced distributed ledger technologies to global financial markets.
R3 collaborates with their partner banks on research, experimentation, design and engineering to bring the ultimate users of this technology into the design and production process from the outset.
Prior to R3, Alistair ran a number of e-trading businesses at Barclays both regionally and globally. Alistair has 17 years’ experience in financial technology and over 20 years’ experience across all major assets classes. He has been based in London, New York, Sydney, Hong Kong and now resides in Singapore.
2016.6 - present Chief Economist, Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited
2013 - 2016.6 Heads the economic research division as deputy general manager of economics & strategic planning department of BOCHK
2003 - 2013 Worked at Bank of China New York Branch
2000 Obtained a doctoral degree in economics at the graduate school of the People’s Bank of China
1991 Joined Bank of China
Based in HK, Mr. Philippe ElAsmar is Founding Partner and CEO at Amareos; he is also Founder and Principal at PEA Global Consulting, a boutique consultancy firm specializing in the Financial Services & FinTech segment and a Lecturer at HKUST and HKU on Finance and FinTech.
Prior to FinTech and Consultancy, Mr. El-Asmar had 17 years' experience in global Financial Services. He has worked in the major financial centers (Paris, Tokyo, NY, HK…), across all asset classes and products.
Mr. ElAsmar served as Global Head of Equities Distribution and Head of Distribution of Asia Pacific at Barclays in Hong Kong managing a team of 800 sales professionals globally and as Global Head of Investor Solutions at Barclays in New York.
At Barclays, he was a member of the Equities Executive Committee, Asia Pacific Executive Committee, Global Markets Management Committee and Senior Leadership Committee group.
Mr. El-Asmar pioneered of the Exchange Traded Notes Industry by creating the iPath ETN in 2006.
Prior to joining Barclays Mr. El‐Asmar was the Head of Structured Investments Sales and Head of Structuring at Société Générale in NY and Head of Equity Structuring at Société Générale Tokyo.
Mr. El-Asmar is multilingual and graduated from ESSEC in France.
Chris Foye is a Market Planning Manager for LexisNexis Risk Solutions. Based in London, he is responsible for managing and developing AML, ABC, KYC, credit risk, anti-fraud, identity verification and authentication solutions. Areas of expertise include AML/KYC, media monitoring and anti-bribery and corruption compliance. Chris has over 12 years’ experience in the business information industry holding a range of roles in companies such as Factiva, Dow Jones and Thomson Reuters. He has specialised in AML product and service positions, notably in the areas of watchlist deployment, client screening and Enhanced Due Diligence. Chris was educated in London and Beijing, spending two years in the latter studying Mandarin and Chinese law.
Gordon French is the Head of Global Banking and Markets for Asia-Pacific at HSBC, based in Hong Kong. He was appointed to this position in August 2013, having previously been Head of Global Markets for Asia-Pacific since 2010.
Mr. French is responsible for all Global Banking and Markets’ businesses in Asia-Pacific: Global Banking, Global Markets, Securities Services, Balance Sheet Management and Payments and Cash Management for HSBC’s Global Banking and Markets clients.
In his previous position as Head of Global Markets for Asia-Pacific, Mr. French was responsible for HSBC’s Credit, Debt Capital Markets, Rates, Foreign Exchange, Equities, Global Research, Balance Sheet Management and Securities Services businesses across 20 markets in the region. He was instrumental in strengthening collaboration between Global Markets and the Bank’s customer-facing groups in Global Banking, Commercial Banking and Retail Banking and Wealth Management.
Mr. French joined HSBC in 1988 with Wardley Australia in its Futures division. He subsequently worked for the Group in senior Markets positions in Singapore and London before moving to Hong Kong as Head of Sales and Regional Treasury Management, Global Markets, Asia-Pacific, in 2005.
He joined the Global Markets Management Committee in July 2006 and has represented HSBC on various exchange and regulatory bodies.
Mr. French holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from The University of Melbourne.
Dr. Patrick Yuk Bun Fung obtained his MBA degree from University of Toronto in 1973, and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Business Administration by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2001 and an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the University of Toronto in 2005. Dr. Fung joined Wing Hang Bank (currently known as OCBC Wing Hang Bank) in 1976 and was appointed a Director of the Bank in 1980. He was appointed Chief Executive in 1992, and then Chairman and Chief Executive in April 1996. Dr. Fung is currently the Chairman of OCBC Wing Hang Bank.
Dr. Fung is a Non-Executive Director of Miramar Hotel and Investment Company Limited. He is a honorary member of the Court and Adjunct Professor with the Faculty’s School of Accounting and Finance of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, a court member of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, a member of Board of Governors of The Hong Kong Philharmonic Society Ltd. and a member of Hang Seng Management College – Foundation Management Committee.
Johnson is the Head of Storage Business Unit, with the responsibility of overseeing the company’s entire storage business and its strategic development in Hong Kong and Macau. Prior to his current assignment, Ho held several positions in IBM Systems Hardware business, including Product Line Manager and PureSystems Business Manager.
Frazer Lam is now the Head of Risk Management & MIS Division in the IT department of Banking Industry. With his rich IT experience in banking industry, various strategic projects were implemented for credit systems, compliance, monitoring, planning & customer relationship analytic. Throughout his career, he was working as the team leader of the Banking Sector of consulting firm in Hong Kong & China. Fintech related technologies become the hot topic in recently years and he lead the team to plan and implement the business strategic solutions.
K. F. is the Executive Director and Head of Compliance of United Overseas Bank Limited Hong Kong Branch. He has more than 14 years of AML/CFT and regulatory compliance experiences in various Asian / HK-based banking groups. Prior to his career in compliance, K. F. was an audit manager in one of the leading local banks.
K. F. is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, Certified Information Systems Auditor, a Certified Internal Auditor, CPA (HK) and FCCA and holds master’s degrees in Computing and Business and bachelor’s degrees in Laws and Accountancy.
Ken Lee has 24 years of experience in investment banking, global markets and investment research. In November 2015, Ken founded Belleview Research (BVR) together with his partner Alvin Wong. Prior to BVR, Ken was the Head of Asia for 13D Research (a renowned independent investment research firm), where he founded its Hong Kong Office in 2010 and spearheaded its Asia operations. Ken has built strategic footprint for 13D - in terms of research and business development - with the senior management of sovereign wealth funds, central banks, insurance companies, banks, corporates, family offices and other financial institutions.
Ken is a regular speaker in major forums and conferences. The most recent ones are the Yabuli Chinese Entrepreneurs Forum, the Australian Leadership Retreat organized by the Australian Davos Connection, Beirut Institute Summit, the Australian Investment Conference organized by the Australia CFA Institute, and the Asian Bankers Association (ABA) Conference recently held in Taipei.
Ken spent 14 years in Goldman Sachs on its sales and trading floor prior to joining 13D. Ken was appointed Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in 2003 and Head of the Corporate Sales Group, where he managed a team of professionals and covered hundreds of institutional clients across the Asia ex-Japan region.
Before joining Goldman Sachs in 1996, Ken started his career in the Fixed Income Division of Sumitomo Bank Capital Markets. He graduated in 1992 from The Chinese University of Hong Kong with a bachelor degree of business administration (concentration in finance).
Vincent Lee has been appointed to the present position since September 2014 with responsibilities for promoting Hong Kong's international financial centre development, RMB business, and policies at international forums to advance financial stability. Mr. Lee joined the HKMA in 1994 after graduation from London School of Economics. Previously, he worked on areas including prudential and conduct regulation of banks, deposit protection, financial consumer education, the setting up of Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation, and served as Administrative Assistant to Chief Executive, HKMA (2001-2004) and Chief Representative, New York and London Offices (2005-2007). Prior to this appointment, Mr. Lee was Director-General (Enforcement) (2013-2014).
Connie Leung is the Senior Financial Services Industry Director of Worldwide Industry and Global Accounts Asia. Connie is responsible for driving high level engagement and sales within Financial Services Industry. She provides strategic direction and leadership for all aspects of the Financial Services business, including Banking, Capital Markets and Insurance. Connie brings many years of diversified industry experience in banking & finance with vertical business segment such as payments, treasury, trade and supply chain, technology & infra-structure, sales and management experience to this role.
Before joining Microsoft, Connie was a Director, Payments & Trade markets, Asia Pacific at SWIFT responsible for corporate, payments and trade markets activities in Asia Pacific. She was with SWIFT since March 2006 initially focusing on launching the new Trade Services Utility (ICCBPO) to the market and moved into her last position in September 2010 to develop SWIFT’s corporate, payments and trade business in Asia Pacific.
Prior to joining SWIFT, Connie held management positions with various financial information services providers including as Misys, Surecomp and Fidelity Information Services, offering trade finance, core banking, treasury and payment systems to banks. Prior to that, Connie served as vice president and in other management roles for companies such as smart card management system, credit card payment terminals and internet e-commerce portals for the financial sector.
Connie has a strong track record in sales, marketing and is capable of bringing innovative solutions to the financial market. She is a regular speaker at industry events such as Eurofinance, Asia Trade Finance week, Exporta, Finance Asia, APEC and Euromoney events and contributor to media and publications such as GTR, The Asian Banker, The Asset, Finance Asia and the BAFT newsletter. Connie holds an honors degree in Computer Science and is fluent in English and Chinese.
Jacky Leung has around 20 years of risk and compliance experience in the banking and finance industry. He started with KPMG as the external auditor and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority in the banking supervision division. Jacky had also worked in the commercial sector, i.e. Socgen group, HSBC and Natixis, for various business lines, including brokerage, corporate banking and wholesale banking within the Asia Pacific region.
Jacky is also one of the founding council members of the Asia Financial Risk Think Tank and founding committees of the Institute of Operational Risk – Asia Chapter.
Michael Leung was appointed Chief Information & Operations Officer of China CITIC Bank International in December 2013. In this capacity, he manages the Banks operations, information technology and innovative projects towards enhancing service quality and operational efficiency. At the same time, Michael serves as a key member of the Bank's management team, looking after a wide range of functions.
Michael is a Fellow and President of the HK Computer Society, a Fellow of the HK Institute of Directors, an Exco Member of the HK Institute of Bankers, Chair of the IS Departmental Advisory Committee of CityU, Chairman of the HK Down Syndrome Association. Separately, Michael has chaired many QF accreditation panels for HKCAAVQ in the past years.
Simon is presently the Head of AML of China CITIC Bank International. He has over 15 years of AML/CFT experience that was attained from the police and banking industry. He was the officer-in-charge of the Joint Financial Intelligence Unit (JFIU) for 2 years and a qualified AML Law Enforcement Expert who had represented Hong Kong and the Asia Pacific Group on Money Laundering to participate in the IMF-led mutual evaluation assessment on Cook Islands AML Regime in February 2004. Before joining China CITIC, he was the Regional Head of ML Investigation & Analytic, Asia Pacific, HSBC. He holds a Master Degree of Social Science in Public Policy and Management.
Mr. Weber Lo is Citi Country Officer & Chief Executive Officer for Citi Hong Kong and Macau, responsible for all businesses across the Citi franchise in the two markets, including corporate & investment bank, consumer bank, commercial bank, private bank, treasury and trade services, markets and securities services, and investment research & analysis. He is also a non-executive director for the Board of Director of Citibank (China) Co., Limited.
Before assuming this role, Weber was Country Business Manager for Citibank Global Consumer Banking in Hong Kong and Macau, which covers retail banking, credit card and small business clients. During the five years of his tenure in this position, the business saw rapid growth and expansion while its branch network doubled and the smart banking concept took shape.
Weber joined Citi in 2000 as Head of Citigold, the retail bank’s wealth management business. In 2001, he was appointed Head of Bankcard Marketing and was subsequently promoted to Country Marketing Director in 2002, with added role as Director of Retail Banking in 2003. In 2004, he took up the position of Chief Operating Officer while serving concurrently as the Director of Retail Banking. Weber was named the ‘Promising Young Banker of the Year for Hong Kong’ by The Asian Banker in 2008. He was named ‘CEO of the Year for Banking’ in the BENCHMARK Wealth Management Awards 2013 in Hong Kong.
Prior to joining Citi, Weber held senior positions in Coca-Cola China Ltd. and Procter and Gamble (HK) Ltd.
Weber currently serves in various public service roles, including Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of Bankers, members of the following committees:
Banking Advisory Committee under the Hong Kong Monetary Authority; Financial and Treasury Services Committee of the Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Hong Kong Association of Banks Main Committee; Council of the Treasury Markets Association; Industry Advisory Committee on Long Term Business to the Independent Insurance Authority; Corporate Advisory Council in the Hong Kong Securities and Investment Institute; and Hong Kong Strategy for Financial Literacy Steering Committee of Investor Education Centre.
Simon Loong is the Founder and CEO of WeLab, Asia’s leading internet finance company. WeLab operates Wolaidai (我来贷), one of China’s largest mobile lending platforms, and WeLend.hk, Hong Kong’s leading online lending platform. An entrepreneur at heart, Simon founded WeLab after working in the banking industry for over 17 years. WeLab has sourced more than US$3.7 billion (HK$29 billion) in loan applications since launching in 2013.
In January 2016, WeLab announced a US$160 million (HK$1.2 billion) Series B fundraising from a stellar consortium of international and domestic Chinese investors, including Khazanah Nasional Berhad, ING Bank and Nan Fung Group. This financing represented the first-ever fundraising by a Chinese financial technology firm from both an international bank and government investors, and also one of the first financings of an international financial institution in a leading Chinese fintech player.
This Series B fundraising followed the completion of a US$20 million Series A round in January 2015 from a group of strategic and financial investors, including CK Hutchison’s TOM Group, Sequoia Capital, Yuri Milner (Founder of DST Global), ICONIQ Capital, and Ule.com, a joint venture between China Post Group, China’s state-owned postal service and the TOM Group, which enabled WeLab to launch new products in mainland China and solidify its credit risk modelling capabilities with big data solutions.
Prior to founding WeLab, Simon was the North East Asia Regional Head of Unsecured Lending at Standard Chartered Bank, where he was responsible for managing the bank’s credit card and consumer lending business in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China. In this capacity, Simon was also appointed to the Management Committee of its Consumer Banking business. Before joining Standard Chartered Bank, Simon held various senior positions at Citibank in the Asia-Pacific region, with his most recent position being Senior Vice President and Credit Card Marketing Director for Citibank Taiwan, where under his leadership, the division became the most profitable credit card issuer in Taiwan.
Simon has a Masters of Science in Management (MSM) from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He was awarded Silicon Dragon’s Entrepreneur Achievement Award in 2014.
Edmund Lowell is a serial entreprenuer living in Asia since 2011, innovating at the crossroads of finance, regulation and technology. Edmund has built a number of RegTech products during this time including KYC-Chain which utilizes distributed ledger technology (blockchain) to create efficiencies in the KYC onboarding and refresh process for both financial institutions and account holders.
Hugh is a financial markets and security professional with 17 years of experience and has expertise in developing and managing institutional/retail financial industry technology operations, and architecting low latency trading platforms.
Hugh is also a successful serial entrepreneur, formerly running a Linux security company and an engineering firm delivering risk and trading systems to multiple Investment Banks. Hugh has previously served in HSBC, AXA, Commonwealth Bank of Australia, Lloyds, HBOS and State Street.
In December 2015, Madden was invited to be a speaker at FINNOVASIA held in Hong Kong. He spoke on the issue of the scalability of digital assets, establishing his opinion that the concerns about blockchain’s ability to scale are a "red herring".
In March 2016, Madden was invited as a speaker in “The Future of Digital Banking: Asia Pacific” conference in Singapore alongside the heads of major institutions such as HSBC, Google, MasterCard and DBS. His topic was on the blockchain hype cycle. In May 2016, Madden spoke at the Cloud Expo Asia in Hong Kong about blockchain in the cloud, and how to bring software to the market as a service product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no9vbjyDGrs.
Andrew Mahony's key areas of focus include cyber risk and financial lines policy wording efficacy. Before joining Aon, he was a Senior Associate at a leading Australian insurance law firm, where he provided coverage advice to major insurers and defended third party claims specialising in professional indemnity and directors' and officers' liability programmes.
Andrew moved to the financial services and professions group at Aon to develop solutions in Asia. His focus is on cyber risk, product efficacy and complex claims, where he leverages his legal background to empower positive results for key clientele. He has worked closely with Aon's offices across the region to develop tailored policy solutions and improve terms for clients across professional indemnity, cyber, directors' and officers' liability, crime, bankers' bond and medical malpractice insurances.
Kyran has more than 20 years of experience in the financial, banking and gaming services sectors where he has led major Global and Asia Pacific assessments of AML and Sanctions compliance programmes – he has also provided recommendations on the design and implementation of AML and Sanctions compliance programmes to ensure compliance with regulatory expectations.
He has also led large KYC remediation projects and he has helped multiple financial institutions and gaming operators create effective governance structures for their AML and Sanctions programmes.
Kyran has led financial crime and fraud investigations for a number of global financial institutions (including an Asia-wide investigation into potential rogue trader activity).
He has also led regional AML and Sanctions compliance due diligence exercises for major IPOs and M&A transactions.
Kyran frequently speaks about AML regulatory developments and compliance challenges, economic sanctions, bribery and corruption risks. He has conducted training for several global financial institutions and gaming operators in China, Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan and Thailand.
Mr. Stewart McGlynn is a Division Head with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, responsible for anti-money laundering and financial crime risk. In addition to supervision of the HKMA’s AML/CFT specialist on-site examination teams, Mr. McGlynn also oversees AML/CFT policy development and represents the HKMA in a variety of AML forums including the Financial Action Task Force and the Basel Committee's AML/CFT Expert Group.
James is a Partner within KPMG's Advisory practice and has over 17 years experience with the firm and 3 years with Barclays Wealth in London.
With much of his experience coming from the Financial sector, he has also worked in pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, petroleum and gas industries, public sector and retail.
James has been working in Hong Kong for over 6 years specialising in KPMG's services with emerging technologies in Data & Analytics, Digital and Payments. James also leads KPMG’s FinTech agenda involved with multiple aspects of the ecosystem from incubators and accelerators, through to investors and the major Corporates.
Paul has nearly 11 years experience in Hong Kong serving a wide range of financial institutions, having previously worked for KPMG in the UK for eight years.
Paul has worked with a range of international Financial Institutions in Hong Kong and around the AsiaPac region providing audit, assurance and risk compliance services. Paul has worked with clients in the investment banking, private banking & wealth management and commercial banking sectors.
Paul is KPMG’s Head of Banking in Hong Kong, is a member of the HKICPA Banking Regulatory Liaison Committee, is a member of the British Chamber of Commerce Financial Markets Committee and is a member of the Accreditation and Examination Committee of the Private Wealth Management Association.
Steve Monaghan is Regional Director, Head of Edge AIA accountable for AIA’s group innovation agenda, a Limited Partner in True Global Ventures focused on Fintech, a board member of Proximiti and a private investor in AI, Life Sciences, HealthTech and Fintech.
Originally a commercial pilot, Steve has held a number of senior corporate and banking roles in product, marketing, operations and general management. He has worked for leading corporations and financial institutions including Dell, Compaq, Citigroup, OCBC, Shinsei and DBS Bank. Throughout his career, Steve has specialized in introducing new business models, businesses and products in all major markets in Asia and has filed 6 patents.
Steve was on the startup team for Dell Computer, introducing Dell’s consumer business to Asia. Later he developed and executed the branded manufacturing and retail model catapulting Compaq to number one in the Indian consumer market. In banking Steve developed and patented the first mobile payments platform for Citigroup, developed a Consumer Finance Division for OCBC and lead the retail bank turnaround of Shinsei Bank in Japan growing revenues USD$500M, deposits 25% and improving net income by USD$100M during a 9-month transformation. As Chief Innovation Officer for DBS Bank, Steve drove the innovation agenda focused on Intelligence, Big Data and Social culminating in the $220+M investment of DBS in IBM Watson, DBS A*Star R&D Lab and Digital Banking.
At AIA Steve and the Edge team have built Asia and Oceania's leading corporate Accelerator ranked No. 5 overall, become the first Insurance company to join R3 guiding the future of insurance on the blockchain, pioneered Digital Health in Asia and is pioneering new applications of AI in Insurance in partnership with Universities and Government research institutions.
Steve is a frequent presenter and lecturer around the world on subjects including Innovation, banking, Working Capital, M&A and Investing in China. He co-authored a five-year China IPO study and has been frequently published on topics including Working Capital, Investing in China and Capital Collaboration. Steve holds an EMBA with ‘first in class academic standing’ from the Helsinki School of Economics and has attended senior leadership courses at IMD and Wharton.
Ned Phillips is the Founder of Bambu. A B2B Robo Advisor based in Singapore that offers digital wealth services to all companies looking to tap into the rapid change of financial technology. Bambu started in February 2016 and within two months secured its first contract. Bambu has partnered with world leading companies such as Thomson Reuters to create a cutting edge Robo Advisory service that is scalable and useable by our customers.
He has been based in Asia for 25 years. Having been in FinTech since 1999, he has been through the first dot com wave in the early 2000's with E*TRADE. Ned was part of the transformation of stock exchange technology with the SGX and Chi-X in the late 2000's and early part of this decade and now see this FinTech wave as the culmination of the advances over the last 20 years.
Bambu is positioned to be a leading FinTech player through Asia.
Michael Silva focuses his practice on international tax law, with emphases on US investment structures, cross-border tax issues, tax treaty planning, withholding obligations of US real property investments and US activities of foreign banks. He has significant experience providing counsel in connection with the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), a complex, unilateral US tax legislation that imposes third-party reporting obligations on global financial entities.
As a part of his practice, Michael:
Jessica So leads the actuarial and analytical (A&A) practice in Asia, providing risk retention and transfer strategy optimisation solutions to corporate clients, as well as actuarial services (such as premium pricing, loss reserving and premium allocation modelling) to our captive clients. Aon's Cyber Impact Analysis and Cyber Risk Analytics quantifies exposure to cyber risk losses and evaluates the effectiveness of insurance programme structures.
Jessica has served in her current role from Singapore starting 2008 and has been a part of the Aon Global Risk Consulting A&A team in London since 2005. She was previously a senior actuarial analyst in the Aon Re Services team in London and Hong Kong.
Abraham Tachjian is an experienced lawyer in capital markets and financial services. Throughout his career, he has been involved in large and complex deals where he has provided legal support through a pragmatic and business oriented approach. He has advised on transactions with respect to structured products, debt capital markets, investment banking and derivatives. He is common law and civil law qualified and practices in both English and French.
Abraham is also a strong proponent of fintech and an industry recognised expert. He focuses on the numerous potential applications of blockchain in the context of financial services as well as the burgeoning field of regtech. His background in law and banking along with his understanding of technological underpinnings allows him to provide counsel with a unique point of view that bridges the gap between these fields.
May Tan is currently Chief Executive Officer of Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited (“SCBHK”).
May joined the Bank in 2009 as Global Head, Equity Corporate Finance. In April 2012, she was appointed Vice Chair, Asia accountable for governance and senior client coverage for Corporate Banking in the region. May has also been on the board of SCBHK since 2009. In the past 30 years May has completed many landmark corporate finance transactions in Asia.
Before joining Standard Chartered, May was the Chief Executive Officer of Cazenove Asia since 1993, and was a partner of Cazenove and Co.
May has made significant contribution to Hong Kong through numerous public roles. She is the Chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Banks, and Director of the Hong Kong Interbank Clearing Limited. She is a member of the Banking Advisory Committee and a member of the Exchange Fund Advisory Committee Sub-committee on Currency Board Operations of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority. She is also a member of the Council of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council.
May is an Independent Non-Executive Director of Link Asset Management Limited since February 2013. She has been on the Council of Oxfam Hong Kong since 2008 and is now its Vice Chairman.
Leo Tong is the General Manager at Wellchamp Capital Limited, a multi-strategy investment management firm in Hong Kong. In his capacity, he is responsible for strategic development, operation & technology management, and regulatory compliance of the firm. Prior to current appointment, he took various executive roles of capital management, HKMA regulatory reporting, and information technology at HSBC.
Leo is an enthusiastic financial technology (fintech) advisor and he authors fintech articles in business magazines and newspapers. He is a Council Member at Hong Kong Computer Society (HKCS) and Vice Chairperson at HKCS FinTech Special Interest Group. He also serves as an assessment panel member of the Enterprise Support Scheme (ESS) under the Innovation Technology Fund (ITF) at the Government of the HKSAR. He is a Research Director at Asia Financial Risk Think Tank.
Mr. Tong holds a master’s degree in finance from The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Simon is a Partner in KPMG’s Financial Risk Management practice in Hong Kong/China and also has a regional role as Head of KPMG’s Financial Services Regulatory Centre of Excellence for the ASPAC region. A former Executive Director of the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Simon has nearly 40 years of experience of the banking industry, including over 20 in Asia.
His role involves: providing advice on regulatory compliance, governance, anti-money laundering, remediation of regulatory examination findings, regulatory applications, Basel III (capital, liquidity, recovery and resolution planning), ICAAP/capital management, operational risk, stress-testing, outsourcing, Director training, and the impact of regulation on business models; advising on regulatory relations, governance, Asian strategy, restructuring of Asian operations, and booking models; and providing input to both banking and securities regulators on various areas of regulatory reform.
Jyoti is a Partner with KPMG and has over 20 years of experience working with global financial services organizations in the United States, Europe and Asia. She has advised a number of these global organizations in broad risk and regulatory transformation efforts focused on building governance, enterprise risk management, regulatory compliance, operational and technology capabilities.
Jyoti has assisted multiple global banks and insurance organizations to design and implement committee structures and mandates, management structures, matrix reporting lines, three lines of defense, accountabilities and authority, policies, reporting and supporting processes.
She has developed and implemented integrated risk methodologies for analyzing risks of ERM in conjunction with Compliance, and Internal Audit across all business units. She has designed and implemented for multiple financial services organizations, compliance and operational risk processes to identify, assess, measure and report risks including establishing risk and control assessments, scenario analysis, mitigation strategies, key risk indicators and loss event monitoring.
In addition, she has assisted a number of banks to respond to regulatory actions, establish and execute remediation plans across strategy, risk management, compliance, internal controls, vendor management, shared services, data and technology.
Lee Volante is the Head of Strategic Engagement for TEMENOS across the Asia-Pacific Region. Based in Singapore, Lee is responsible for the Team that supports Bank Transformation strategies through the implementation of underlying Temenos Solutions and Software Products, ensuring that the Client’s Business and Technology Requirements are met while delivering quantifiable value from the deployed solutions.
Lee has over 25 years of experience working within the banking software sector, the majority of this time working with Banks to modernize, replace and consolidate evolved legacy applications that have become significant constraint to their competitive capabilities. Before joining TEMENOS, Lee held a number of senior executive positions in Sales and Delivery, in the Americas, Europe, South Africa and Asia.
Committee Member, BI & Big Data Special Interest Group, HKCS
Research Director, Asia Financial Risk Think Tank
Assistant General Manager, Data Governance, Full Licensed
International Bank in HK
Jacob has 18+ years of experience in the IT industry, specialising in reporting & analytics solutions for companies across different industries from FSI to FMCG Retail with core focus in the Asian regions, with locations such as Australia, Beijing, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Seoul, Taipei and Singapore, but also experienced in global settings such as UK, US, Swiss and France.
Mr. Wai is currently heading Data Governance for an international bank in HK, implementing the governance initiative for the BCBS239 framework.
Formerly an Associate Director for Regional Trading Risk Analytics and Reporting IT for UBS AG and past roles includes global development lead for the VaR & PnL simulation aggregation and analytics system at HSBC, and heading the HK analytics consulting arm of Getronics HK, with expert knowledge of market risk analysis and reporting and limits monitoring, specifically in addressing BCBS239.
Jacob received a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) from University of Technology, Sydney and an MBA from University of Wales. In addition, he is a Certified Financial Risk Manager (GARP), Certified Management Accountant (Aust) and regularly addresses at events such as providing keynote in HK BI and Analytics forum 2012 (content published), and Big Data Innovation Summit (HK) 2013, and panelist in the ComputerWorld Big Data & Business Analytics forum 2014 (content published), and Computerworld C-suite series 2011 (content published) and is a columnist in various publications.
David Wu is the Executive Director for EY FSRM （Financial Service Risk Management）Advisory team who based in Shanghai, PRC. He is leading a team on creating digital solutions （BD&A, Cloud & Block Chain etc.）for Financial Industry in China as well as risk transformation and innovation solutions.
Prior to EY, David Wu was the Big Data worldwide Industry consulting leader/Risk Solution Leader and worldwide Risk Tiger for IBM. In those role, he is responsible for coordinating IBM big data/risk solutions for Banking Industry, covering all IBM GBS service and SWG software including Big Data scenario design, risk management consulting and implementation, concentrating on those offerings that are relevant to the Banking industry. His role includes Go To Market strategy design and execution.
David is a Financial Services industry veteran, with 20 years of experience supporting solutions in the Industry, and 5 years with IBM. Prior to his IBM life, David served as a Risk Solution Director for Atos Consulting Singapore Lte., Singapore (2007-2010) and as the Senior Manager for Scotiabank and Scotia Capital in Toronto, Canada (1997-2007).
David has deep experience in retail, corporate banking, and financial markets. He is a member of IBM world wide banking framework (big data/risk) team and a member of IBM GMU thought leader. He also served as an external advisor for China Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC). He is also a visiting professor for Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai University of International Business and Economics.
David earned his BS degree Electronic Engineering at The East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, and holds an MBA from the York University, Schulich School of Business, Toronto.
Dominic Wu is the Managing Director and Senior Risk Manager with BNY Mellon for APAC. Dominic having 20+ years of experience in banking, securities, assets management and consultancy. Dominic is a qualified accountant, fraud examiner and professional risk manager and did his MBA from University of Hull, UK. He is sought out speaker in risk management and provides training to the regulators, universities, financial institutions and professional bodies. He is currently a member of Hong Kong Chapter of the Institute of Operational Risk (IOR) and Asia Financial Risk Think Tank.
Mr. Paul Yang is Head of Greater China at BNP Paribas, overseeing the Group’s strategic business development in the China, Hong Kong and Taiwan markets.
He is also the Head of Country for China since 2014 and Head of Country for Hong Kong as well as Chief Executive Officer of BNP Paribas’ Hong Kong Branch since 2011. He is based in Hong Kong.
Mr. Yang is a veteran banker with extensive experience in a wide range of financial services. He joined BNP Paribas in Paris in 1988 and has held various senior positions in France and Asia over the years.
Mr. Yang was Deputy Head of Corporate Finance for Greater China from 2007 to 2011, during which he led a number of high profile IPOs and share placements for clients across the region. Before this, he was Deputy Head of North and East Asia, and Deputy CEO of BNP Paribas’ Hong Kong Branch from 2004 to 2011, and was Head of Country for Taiwan from 2001 to 2004.
Mr. Yang holds a General University Degree in Economics Science and a Bachelor Degree of Science in Information Systems from the University of Paris XII.
Miss Winnie Yeung is the Managing Director of Cimigo. Prior to joining the company, she was the director of Customized Research at The Nielsen Company, Hong Kong. She had additional roles of champion of banking, insurance and finance industry group and is an expert in the realm of customer and employee satisfaction/ mystery shopper studies.
Winnie is a research expert with over 20 years of experience. She handles clients from all kinds of industries including public utilities, telecommunications, transportation, Fast Moving Consumer Good (FMCG), the insurance and finance sector, the pharmaceutical industry, retail and statutory bodies. She has vast experience of designing local or cross-country research projects; specifically projects relating to customer and employee satisfaction and loyalty, mystery shopping, new product launches and brand building. Prior to joining The Nielsen Company, she worked for Taylor Nelson Sofres.
Winnie holds a Bachelor degree of Social Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, major in Psychology and minor in Sociology.
Mr. Zhu Qi has been appointed Executive Director and Chief Executive of Wing Lung Bank Limited since September 2008. He also holds the position of Executive Vice President of China Merchants Bank.
From 1986 until 2008, Mr. Zhu worked with Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC). From 1994, he was assigned to ICBC Hong Kong Branch and became General Manager in 1998. From 2000 until 2008, he had been the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (Asia) Limited.
Mr. Zhu graduated from Dongbei University of Finance and Economics and has a Master degree in Economics from Middle China Economy and Financial University.
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