Best Derivatives House of the Year in 2017

Asia Take a chance Awards Announcement Plan 2021

*All timings in SGT.

• Sep 30 | Derivatives

• Sep 27 | Risk

• Sep 28 | Investment

• Sep 29 | Digitalisation

Welcome remarks

Steve Coats is an instructional leader and presenter who is at his best when teaching, squad edifice, facilitating meetings, and corporate training, in person and online.  Based in Hong Kong, Steve has worked internationally, collaborating with clients to shape, plan, and bring events to life.

Blake Evans-Pritchard is agency chief, Asia, forChance.net,based in Hong Kong.

Before taking on his electric current role, he spent five years covering regulatory issues across Asia forTake chances.net, including implementation of Basel Three and other international standards in regional jurisdictions.

Previously, Blake spent 5 years in Brussels writing about the European Wedlock's financial services sector and competition policy, and a number of years as Africa editor for a news service covering postal service-conflict restitution around the globe.

During his 16-year journalistic career, he has also reported from Sudan, Italy, kingdom of the netherlands, Ghana and Portugal.

Blake holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Aston in Birmingham.

Recovery step of major APAC countries and the next hazard factors

Economic system outlook

• Condition quo on capital flows and credit weather condition
• Key drivers for economic recovery

Steve Cochrane

Chief APAC Economist, Economics and Business Analytics

Moody's Analytics

Steven G. Cochrane, PhD, is Chief APAC Economist with Moody'south Analytics. He leads the Asia economical assay and forecasting activities of the Moody's Analytics enquiry team, also every bit the continual expansion of the company's international, national and subnational forecast models. In add-on, Steve directs consulting projects for clients to assist them understand the effect of regional economic developments on their business under baseline forecasts and alternative scenarios. Steve'south expertise lies in providing articulate insights into an area'due south or region's strengths, weaknesses and comparative advantages, relative to macro or global economic trends.

A highly-regarded speaker, Dr. Cochrane has provided economic insights at hundreds of engagements over the past xx years and has been featured on CNBC, CNA, Bloomberg Idiot box, Wall Street Radio, and the PBS News Hour. Through his enquiry and presentations, Steve dissects how diverse components of the macro and regional economies shape patterns of growth. His all-encompassing expertise on U.Southward. and global economic issues makes also him a popular speaker at customer conferences and executive briefings.

Steve holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and is a Penn Institute for Urban Research Scholar. He likewise holds a main's degree from the University of Colorado at Denver and a bachelor'due south degree from the University of California at Davis. Dr. Cochrane is based out of Moody's Analytics Singapore part.

Selena Ling

Head of Treasury Research and Strategy

OCBC BANK

Selena is the Chief Economist for OCBC Banking concern. As Caput of Treasury Research & Strategy, she leads a research squad 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 fellow member of the OCBC Wealth Panel for Singapore and Malaysia, every bit well as a council member for the Economical Club of Singapore. She was conferred the IBF Fellow Laurels in Financial Markets in 2017. The IBF Beau award recognises industry veterans who accept demonstrated mastery of a profession and exemplify thought leadership and delivery to industry evolution. Her research writings has been extensively quoted and published by prominent media across impress, goggle box and radio.

Under her leadership, OCBC's research capabilities have been greatly valued by customers and highly ranked in surveys for interest charge per unit inquiry, FX research, market place coverage and Asian macroeconomic research in various forums including the AsiaMoney Stock-still Income and FX polls, Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters polls, amongst others.

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

Michael Spencer

Principal Economist and Head of Enquiry, Asia Pacific

Deutsche Banking company

The economics team, which I took over in 2000 and take expanded over the years, has been, I believe, the almost successful in Asia when judged beyond both the equities and fixed income businesses and achieved #1 ranking in the Institutional Investor broker poll in 2012. I take had a number of dissimilar managerial roles in improver to Chief Economist over the years, only have recently taken on responsibleness for managing all research in Asia Pacific, which includes emerging Asia (mostly HK and Singapore-based analysts) and besides Japan and Australia.

Raymond leads an award-winning China research squad based in Hong Kong and Shanghai. The team has been recognised past KangaNews every bit the #1 Asian Research Puddle in 2021, 2020, 2022 and 2017, and #2 Best Team for Asian Macroeconomic Research in 2022 by Asiamoney. He is the author of Mainland china's Trump Card Cryptocurrency and its Game-Irresolute Role in Sino-US Trade published past John Wiley & Son (ISBN: 978-i-119-69912-five).

Raymond has covered Cathay'due south economy for more than 25 years. His provocative ideas and non-consensus market place calls accept garnered a strong following among ANZ's clients, including cardinal banks, corporate treasurers and portfolio managers. He presents at international conferences regularly and shares his view on Bloomberg, CNBC and CBN. He is often invited to participate in consultative meetings with governments and supranational organisations. He serves on the steering commission of China Chief Economist Forum.

Raymond earned a Ph.D. in economics at Queen's University, Canada, and is a holder of Financial Risk Manager (FRM). He started his career in 1997. Prior to joining ANZ, he was Deputy Head of Asia Economic Research at Swiss Re.

Winners announcement

• Derivatives house of the twelvemonth Japan
• Derivatives business firm of the year Asia ex-Japan
• RMB house of the twelvemonth
• Interest rate derivatives house of the year
• Credit derivatives house of the year
• Equity derivatives firm of the yr
• Currency derivatives business firm of the yr
• Derivatives exchange of the year

Exclusive interviews

Effective collateral management operations

Console give-and-take

• How has Covid-19 impacted the UMR implementation?
• Mitigating regulatory and reputational risks past determining the insourcing and outsourcing of IM calculation with historical data
• How to overcome complexity in IM calculation in view of the increased usage of OTC derivatives and diversified portfolios
• What are the fundamental considerations in implementing consistent models for the valuation and sensitivities calculations across all asset classes?
• How does the adding of pre-trade margin requirements assistance place the cheapest way to trade?

John Feeney manages Martialis Consulting working on fiscal markets product and infrastructure. He has been in financial markets for over thirty years in trading and management roles across almost asset classes. Prior to joining NAB, Mr. Feeney has worked for Commonwealth Banking company in Sydney, Citi in Sydney and London and Macquarie Banking company in Sydney. Over this fourth dimension he has traded and managed interest rate derivative, foreign exchange, traded credit, commodities and funding businesses.

Recently, Mr. Feeney has been an ISDA Lath Member and Vice-Chairman and an AFMA Lath member.

Mr. Feeney has a PhD and BSc (Hons) from University of Sydney.

Brendan Byrne

Head of Collateral Management & Liquidity

Suncorp Banking concern

Brendan has been working in fiscal markets, with a particular focus on Collateral Direction for over 22 years. Starting in London with UBS in 1998, Brendan helped develop UBS's in-house OTC derivatives collateral management solution "Blackout" before condign a Collateral Manager himself and working across the OTC and Stock Lending portfolios. Later, Brendan transferred to Sydney to establish a collateral direction presence in Australia before setting upward and managing the Australian Prime Brokerage operation supporting the UBS Hedge Fund Services business.

Following a move to Brisbane in 2006, Brendan joined Suncorp where he established their OTC Collateral Management function equally well as the Banks'southward Repo business. Currently, Brendan has combined responsibility for Suncorp's Cash and Collateral Direction with a primary focus over the last few years on delivering to the OTC Regulations effectually reporting, UMR and Central Clearing.

Sophie Marnhier Foy is the Director of Production Management for Margin and Risk at Calypso Technology. In her function, she designs the Calypso margin solutions to meet the various regulatory margin and clearing requirements. Currently, she is working very closely with Calypso clients implementing ISDA-SIMM to ensure that their compliance with the Uncleared Margin Rules for September 2022 and 2022 will be successful.

Ms. Marnhier-Foy is too in charge of Calypso Risk solutions including the regulatory, CCP, and counterparty adventure offerings. Prior to this role, she held the position of Chief Production Manager for Calypso Middle Office solutions.

Before joining Calypso, Ms. Marnhier-Foy worked for Calyon (at present Crédit Agricole CIB) in New York and Paris, working on Risk Direction and Front Part project management. Prior to Calyon, she worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) in Paris as a Bank Accountant.

Robert Fievez

Consultant – Derivatives and Investments

Resolution Life

Robert Fievez is Melbourne based with 15 years' experience in Government and Financial Markets specialising in wide scope regulatory change. His experience has focused on helping firms, large and small, to lucifer the regulatory requirement confronting the underlying portfolio impact and make the transition to new operating and business models. Mr. Fievez has likewise led engagement with local (APRA and RBA) and overseas (US Federal Reserve, Japanese Fiscal Services Agency, etc.) regulators beyond a range of reform issues.

Mr. Fievez is currently with Resolution Life, Australia within the Investment Strategy team overseeing implementation of derivatives business strategies for execution, risk direction, compliance and collateral management.

Paul Wylie is Head of Take chances, Asia Pacific for LCH Ltd.  In his role, he is responsible for overseeing the various LCH adventure functions and criterion reform for the APAC region.

Earlier joining LCH in March 2019, Paul headed Structured Products and managed fixed income portfolio mandates at Mason Stevens.  Prior to that, Paul held senior front office trading roles both in Australia and overseas, including running Strategic Trading, CVA Trading, and Credit Solutions for Lloyds bank PLC in London.

Paul holds degrees in Actuarial Studies and Applied Finance from Macquarie University, Australia.

The Country of Asia's Clearing and Collateral Management: What yous need to know

Strategy talk

• Overview of the Regulatory Framework for OTC Clearing
• How has the APAC landscape evolved with adopting Clearing
• What are the touch from UMR and funding cost consideration?
• Forward-looking perspective: challenges, complexities and how clients can cope and drive operational efficiency?

Praveen Vijay is role of the Global Clearing concern at J.P. Morgan, based in Singapore.  In his role, Praveen manages a team that is responsible for non simply overseeing the product P/Fifty for Clearing, but besides acting every bit Business relationship Managers for clients .

Praveen has been with J.P. Morgan for 15 years and has worked in a variety of roles including trading desk banana, risk management and cross-asset pricing. Praveen has been with the Global Clearing business for over 8 years. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Praveen worked at Deloitte as role of  their Securitization group covering Structured Products.

Praveen holds a Masters in Economics caste from New York University.

Winners announcement

• Asia structured products house of the year
• Collateral manager of the year
• Securities house of the year
• Clearing firm of the yr
• OTC trading platform of the year
• Market maker of the twelvemonth
• Derivatives constabulary house of the yr
• Clearing bank of the year

Sectional interviews

Cease of Awards Announcement 2021

Welcome remarks

Steve Coats is an instructional leader and presenter who is at his best when teaching, team building, facilitating meetings, and corporate training, in person and online.  Based in Hong Kong, Steve has worked internationally, collaborating with clients to shape, program, and bring events to life.

Blake Evans-Pritchard is agency chief, Asia, forRisk.net,based in Hong Kong.

Earlier taking on his current part, he spent five years covering regulatory issues beyond Asia forRun a risk.net, including implementation of Basel Iii and other international standards in regional jurisdictions.

Previously, Blake spent five years in Brussels writing most the European Spousal relationship's financial services sector and competition policy, and a number of years every bit Africa editor for a news service covering mail-disharmonize restitution around the world.

During his 16-year journalistic career, he has likewise reported from Sudan, Italy, the Netherlands, Ghana and Portugal.

Blake holds a bachelor'due south degree in informatics from the Academy of Aston in Birmingham.

Peak risks keeping CROs up at night

CRO Spitfire

• Taper Tantrum, fiscal atmospheric condition and vulnerabilities
• Cybersecurity and Work-from-Anywhere Engineering science
• Environmental Risk and ESG

Work Feel

Nomura International (Hong Kong) Limited, Hong Kong

Global Head of Operational Risk, Asia-ex-Japan, 2022 – present

• Oversee and manage the implementation of Nomura'south global Operational Adventure Framework.
• Manage a global team of 50 globally.
• Develop the firm'south take a chance appetite.
• Report to the Nomura Board top and emerging risks.

Caput of Operational Chance Management, Asia ex-Japan, 2022 – nowadays

• Oversee and manage the implementation of Nomura'southward global Operational Chance Framework in Asia-ex Japan.  The Operational Risk Management framework covers regional Wholesale, Wealth, Retail Brokerage and Asset Management businesses in over 8 countries.
• Manage team of 7.
• Provide senior management with overview of the Operational Risk profile for AEJ, highlighting meridian operational risks and emerging take chances.  Adult new methodology for identifying and reporting on Pinnacle Take chances for the region that has improved regional management engagement.
• Face-off to the firm's regulators including HK SFC, Singapore MAS as well as regulators in co-operative countries (Bharat, Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Commonwealth of australia, and Thailand).  Provide details on the firm's operational risk profile and balls around robustness of the operational risk framework.
• Oversee and participate in high contour internal investigations as member of the Internal Investigation Committee.  Conduct forensic deep-dives and interviews on varied cases such as potential fraud, whistle bravado, customer complaints and market corruption.
• Atomic number 82 global projects on Key Take chances Indicators, Gamble Taxonomy and Control Framework.

Head of New Business, Asia ex-Nippon, 2022 - present

• Oversee and manage the implementation of Nomura's New Business Approval framework in Asia ex-Japan.  This includes the new production approval, significant transaction approving and reputational hazard committees.
• Manage team of half dozen (iv Vice-Presidents and 2 Assembly).
• New Business organisation Group ensures appropriate control, governance and challenge around new business initiatives.  Squad reviews feasibility of new production and transactions proposals, challenges front office around key risks and mitigants, financial resource usage, reputational adventure and quality of due diligence.
• Face-off to heads of concern to challenge around key strategic risk and due diligence bug.
• Manage development of Approved Production List for internal and regulatory use.

Main Administrative Officer Chance Management, Asia ex-Japan, 2022 – present

• According and manage annual budget submissions and investment plans and monitor spend against upkeep.  Identify areas of cost savings.
• Manage team of 2 (ane Executive Director and 1 Associate).
• Fix presentations for AEJ CRO for bi-annual town hall meetings, regulatory interactions and executive management presentations.
• Oversee key modify projects, FinTech initiatives and remediation of control bug.

Nomura International plc, London, United kingdom

Global New Concern Division COO, 2012 – 2014

• Drafted the Group New Business organisation Approval Policy roofing Wholesale, Asset Direction and Retail Divisions by working with grouping company executives such as Global CFO, CLO, CRO and concern division management.   The policy was approved past the group Board and was the offset group wide policy for new business approving for the house.
• Adult a new product and circuitous transaction approval procedure for the Global Wholesale business by working with business leadership in Global Markets and Investment Banking.  Created procedures, led IT development of a workflow tool and an approved product database and developed global training.  Resulted in a globally consistent arroyo to new product approval and increased efficiency in approving of cantankerous-edge business concern.

EMEA Caput of New Business, 2011 – 2014

• Implemented new product and transaction blessing in the EMEA business by managing a team of 7 (one ED, three VPs, iii Associates).  Improved efficiency and control around the approval processes by documenting procedures and reducing bureaucracy as measured by improved plow-around times, positive feedback from business lines and reduction in operational risk events or errors as a consequence of new product launches.
• Led interaction with and managed regulatory audits conducted by Bank of England (PRA), UK Financial Behave Authorisation, Bank of Japan and JFSA.  Successfully provided assurance to regulators of the robustness of new product blessing process every bit measured by limited remediation points during a menstruation when regulators were requesting external audits on all focus areas.
• Improved oversight of run a risk and returns of new and complex products by developing product back-testing, whereby revenue generated by products were assessed after i year.  Presented findings to regional Board and business leadership, resulting in sure non-performing businesses lines being discontinued or altered.  Equally a effect, management was provided assurance that business lines were accountable for introducing new products, processes and operational risks to the firm.

Senior Risk Director, Operational Run a risk Management, 2009 – 2011

• Implemented the Operational Adventure Framework in Global Markets and Investment Banking following acquisition of Lehman Brothers EMEA business. Worked with business organization line COOs and managed operational hazard team of 3 individuals to develop the risk and control self-assessments by desk, implement key risk indicators and operational take chances result investigation and reporting.  Operational Chance Framework was rolled-out to the businesses lines within 6 months of integration.
• Initiated and developed reporting for monthly take chances and control meetings by regional concern line which reviewed the operational risk profile front to back with representatives from all corporate departments, resulting in improved ownership of operational take chances.  Expanded regional meetings to global product lines by working with Global Heads of Trading and corporate departments, coordinating with regional ORM and developing a cross-regional aggregated risk profile.  Meetings were led by head of business organisation, demonstrating ownership of Operational Risk by first line of defense.
• Created front-to-dorsum trade process maps by aggregating information betwixt IT, Operations, and trading.  Documented key controls and manual processes, which provided senior management with detailed view on infrastructure requirements.

Deloitte & Touche, London, United kingdom

Manager, Financial Services Advisory, 2006 - 2009

• Advised clients on implementation of credit, market and operational risk management frameworks; advised clients on implementation of Basel II and CRD requirements.  Clients included leading universal banks, investment banks, asset managers, hedge funds and regulators.
• Advised on the integration of the operational take chances direction part with corporate security and technology risk for a leading European universal banking concern. Assisted in integrating Sarbanes-Oxley procedures into operational risk functions.
• Developed credit run a risk policies and procedures for a The states banking concern starting a new deposit taking and lending establishment in the United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland.
• Projection managed implementation of transaction reporting tool for a leading Swiss investment depository financial institution.
• Assisted a European brokerage in developing counterparty, operational and credit risk direction effectually its margin lending business organisation.
• Adult and implemented the internal capital adequacy cess procedure (ICAAP) for more than 10 banks, investment managers, securities brokers and asset managers.
• Developed a post-merger target operating model and project program for the integration of global Compliance functions of two leading banking groups.
• Clients included UBS, Lloyds, ING, Barclays, RBS and diverse investment managers.

Export-Import Depository financial institution of the The states, Washington, DC, The states

International Business Development Office, 2002 - 2004

• Conducted marketing and sales activities to increase Ex-Im Bank financing in southeast Europe.  Oversaw an increase in business concern activity by xc% and 75% in 2002 and 2003, year on year.
• Bundled and structured and trade finance with banks, private companies, and governments.  Arranged balance sheet loans, letters of credit, secured lending, and projection financing.

• Analyzed financial statements and cash catamenia projections to make up one's mind creditworthiness of counterparties and projects.
• Organized and implemented various marketing events, including Ex-Im Bank's "Southeast and Primal Europe Regional Briefing" in Bled, Slovenia, which drew 250 attendees from regional governments, central banks, businesses and fiscal institutions.

Martin Kimmig is a Principal Risk Officer who heads AIIB's take a chance management. He joined the AIIB from The Rock Creek Group where he held the position of a Managing Director roofing emerging market equities. Prior, he spent a 24-year career at the Earth Banking company Group in particular the International Finance Corporation where he held leadership positions in both investment operations and run a risk management. Martin Kimmig holds a PhD in Economic science from the University of Freiburg and a CFA designation.

Gilbert Kohnke is the Group Chief Take chances Officeholder CRO and a Fellow member of Executive Committee of Maybank Grouping since one Nov 2017. He has Grouping oversight responsibility for the full spectrum of risk. He as well leads an skillful networking group as the Chairman of the Chief Gamble Officers' Forum established by the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers (AICB) to ensure continuous dialogue with key stakeholders and enhance professional banking competencies. Prior to joining Maybank, he was the Group CRO of Danske Bank in Denmark, from 2022 to 2017, where he had similar risk oversight responsibilities. During his time as the CRO of OCBC from 2005 to 2014, OCBC was rated the "Safest Banking company in the Globe" in the post global financial crisis flow.

He has over thirty years of wide-based, global banking feel, working in Asia, Europe, North America, and Scandinavia, alternating between front office and risk command office roles. Gilbert is considered as a "Thought-leader" in digital transformations of risk functions and towards customer-centric financial services. He has a proven record of implementing organization-wide risk transformations in response to the emergence of non-traditional players, increasing regulations such as raising capital requirements, and the imperative to move towards a digital ecosystem. In Maybank, he continues the mission of Maybank becoming 'The Best Risk House Across Asia' with a new focus on value cosmos and innovation to address digital transformations, superior customer experience and regulatory requirements.

Campbell Nicoll is the primary chance officer at Regional Australia Depository financial institution, having over xv years of experience in both credit gamble management and operational gamble management. Campbell brings a balanced approach to risk direction given his groundwork in both chance management and corporate banking. Prior to his role at Regional Australia Bank, Campbell's roles within the financial sector includes general manager positions at ASB Bank (New Zealand) and the CRO part at the Bank of Southward Pacific (Republic of the fiji islands).

Winners proclamation – State categories

• Singapore house of the year
• Taiwan house of the year
• Vietnam business firm of the year
• Thailand house of the yr
• India house of the year

Major regulations that are impacting the risk desk in 2022

Regulatory Reform Expert Spitfire

• LIBOR and the associated regulatory risk
• ESG and Data

Catherine joined Citi in September 2013 every bit head of Government Affairs for Asia Pacific. Catherine works closely with senior management, business organisation heads, and Citi Country Officers on policy and regulatory problems impacting the firm by engaging with policymakers and industry groups. Catherine likewise coordinates and manages the Citi Regime Affairs representatives in the region.

Prior to joining Citi, Catherine worked at State Street Bank and Trust equally Head of Regulatory, Manufacture and Government Affairs, Asia Pacific. Before that Catherine was a diplomat at the Australian Diplomatic mission Beijing, a research beau in the Faculty of Constabulary and Politics at Keio Academy Japan and a policy advisor in the Australian Departments of Prime number Minister and Cabinet and Foreign Affairs and Trade on political, strategic and trade issues.

Catherine has played an active role in various industry associations, including the U.S. National Heart for APEC (Lath Fellow member), US-Association of southeast asian nations Business organization Council (Fiscal Services Commission and Chairman Council), Asian Securities Manufacture and Fiscal Markets Association (Public Policy Committee Fellow member and former Alternating Board Member), the American Sleeping accommodation of Commerce in Hong Kong (former Financial Services Committee Head and former Lath Fellow member), Asia Pacific Council of American Chambers (Member of Chairman'south Circumvolve) and the Asia Business Trade Clan (Member). Catherine has as well been active in the APEC Concern Advisory Quango, Advisory Grouping on APEC Financial System Capacity Building and the APEC Asia Pacific Fiscal Forum and the World Economical Forum Digital Asean Initiative.

Catherine speaks English, Mandarin and Japanese.

Regulatory good and manager roofing legal and regulatory developments impacting the cyberbanking activities, market activities and post merchandise activities.

Winners announcement

• Risk management consultant of the yr
• Counterparty risk solution of the year
• Cyber take chances solution of the year
• LIBOR solution of the year
• Risk data repository of the year
• Liquidity gamble solution of the year
• Credit hazard management solution of the year
• AML/Fraud solution of the year

Sectional interviews

Trends on the banking fraud landscape and best strategies

AML/Fraud Spotlight

• New forms of financial crimes
• What are banks fighting against those and how technologies can assist

Operational Resilience for Banks

Fireside conversation

• Business Continuity Planning - what has the electric current crises taught us?
• How can we successfully accost issues surrounding remote working in the changing world of work?
• How can we reduce operational risks and the costs of disruption?
• A design to delivering consistent approach to operational resilience across an enterprise

Nina is currently HSBC's Head of Adventure Management for CMB and GBM in Asia.   She moved to Hong Kong 5 years ago later joining the Group in London. She has all-encompassing knowledge in risk direction, framework design and implementation, across multiple strands. She has experience in engaging internal and external  C-Suite stakeholders beyond Europe and Asia and is keenly exploring risk management in a digital historic period.

Since moving to HK, she has been instrumental in driving high-profile change initiatives across HSBC in the areas of diversity and inclusion. She currently co-chairs the ethnicity resources group for the Bank globally, and is working to connect other organizations to drive the disinterestedness and inclusion agenda.

Prasoon Agarwal is co-head of Asia ex Japan Credit Hazard at Goldman Sachs. He has spent by xv years in credit chance managing risk across various business stripes including global markets, investing & lending and asset management. Some of his areas of focus take been managing portfolio level risks, use of technology & data for enhanced determination making and maintain a people focused approach for effective hazard management arrangement.

An internationally recognized financial services expert, Soon Kit offers deep and broad experience accumulated over 15 years in the financial services sector. Bringing a global perspective enriched with grounded feel, he is currently Enterprise Resilience Officer at BNY Mellon assuring the firm wide business concern and operational resilience across multiple lines of business.

Prior to this, he was Risk Vice President ofFullerton Fund Direction andWolters Kluwer'southward Asia-Pacific Risk Practice Managing director guiding regional risk and financial practices for its software clients. AtOCBC Bank Group, Soon Kit was managing the take chances of Global Treasury, Investment Banking, OCBC Securities and Banking company of Singapore. He complements his expertise with international advisory experience garnered at financial software houseMisys / Finastra where he led the risk management teams to solve broader subjects of banking risk with fiscal firms, banks, regulators in Europe and Asia. Prior to this, Before long Kit provided consulting atMoody's Analytics.

Recognized for his applied expertise past regional banking conferences and professional person media, Soon Kit has contributed many live and example interviews to breaking news developments and manufacture best practice conferences.

Graduating with honors inQuantitative Finance from the National University of Singapore, he is also a certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and an Energy Risk Professional.

End of Awards Announcement Day Ane

Welcome remarks

Steve Coats is an instructional leader and presenter who is at his best when teaching, team building, facilitating meetings, and corporate preparation, in person and online.  Based in Hong Kong, Steve has worked internationally, collaborating with clients to shape, plan, and bring events to life.

Asset class spotlight: Equities

James White

Principal Investment Officer

Eminence Nugget Management HK

The Fund works on the footing that the world is enjoying a period of substantial productivity growth as the consequences of engineering science, a changing policy surroundings and faster capital accumulation ameliorate global living standards. But every bit with all cracking productivity shifts, this era is characterised past rapid change that destroys capital and impacts people'southward lives. Such an historic period needs an investment approach that tin harness these trends.

My Global Opportunities Fund at Colonial First State Global Asset Management was open for 18 months. It returned 38.04% from inception. In relative terms information technology beat its benchmark (MSCI ACWI) past 15.53%.

Lessep Investment Management is an Australian-based Global Equity Investment firm. Eminence Asset Management HK is a Hong Kong based investment firm.

Asset class spotlight: FX

James Cheo

Chief Investment Officer, Southeast Asia

HSBC Private Banking and Wealth Direction

James Cheo is Chief Investment Officeholder, Southeast Asia for Private Banking and Wealth Management at HSBC. Mr. Cheo is a member of the Global Investment Committee for Individual Cyberbanking and Wealth Management and as well a fellow member of the Regional Investment Committee in Asia. In his role, he spearheads the development of investment strategies across all asset classes for individual cyberbanking 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 enquiry. Before that, James assumed Investment Strategist roles at Barclays Wealth Asia. From 2004 to 2009, James served as Senior Economist at the Monetary Authorisation of Singapore, where he was function of the team that formulated policy actions for Singapore during the 2008 Global Fiscal Crisis. With his knowledge and wealth of experience, his investment views are frequently sought after. He has established a strong media contour, with appearances on notable financial media including Bloomberg, CNBC, Channel News Asia, Channel viii Mandarin News; and printed publications such equally the Financial Times, Straits Times, Business organisation Times. James graduated with Beginning Class Honours in Finance from Nanyang Technological University. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Annotator lease in 2007.

Winners announcement – Country categories

• Australia house of the year
• Mainland china house of the twelvemonth
• Indonesia house of the year
• Hong Kong house of the year
• Malaysia house of the year

Exclusive interviews

Nugget grade spotlight: Fixed income

Fanda Ho

Director, Caput of Strategic Investment

Prudential Hong Kong Limited

Fanda leads the Strategic Investment squad in Prudential Hong Kong's investment function and is responsible for optimising and implementing Strategic Asset Resource allotment and Portfolio Hedging. She as well designs the investment and operational structures for efficiently managing derivatives and other investment strategies.

Prior to joining Prudential HK, Fanda was the Client Solutions Managing director with Aviva Investors in London. Before that, she was the Senior Portfolio Director of Annuity Funds with Prudential Portfolio Management Grouping (PPMG) in the Uk. Fanda is a CFA Charterholder and possesses BSc Actuarial Science from London School of Economic science and MPhil Finance from University of Cambridge.

Asset class spotlight: Commodities

Chris Whiteley is a Partner of our Finance Group.

Chris specialises in structured finance, peculiarly "OTC" derivative transactions. He advises in relation to traditional hedging and trading activities and complex strategic and funding transactions, together with related credit support arrangements. He too has extensive experience of key clearing and other credit gamble mitigants. He also advises in relation to the regulatory aspects of financial markets, peculiarly wholesale markets.

Chris has previously worked as a lawyer in London and Paris, besides as with JP Morgan in London where he worked in the credit portfolio group and corporate derivatives group.

Errol Bong

Caput Of Compliance & Legal Counsel

Noble Group

Errol has worked as Global Head of Compliance & Legal Counsel, APAC Caput of Compliance & Legal and Legal Director at height tier investment banks, securities brokers, fund managers and listed blue fleck corporates in Hong Kong. Prior to working at financial institutions, Errol worked at magic circumvolve law firms in London and Sydney. Errol has managed Compliance teams, partnered with Master Operating Officers to successfully execute MIFIDII & Brexit Compliance programs, addressed MAS & ASIC inspections, conducted internal anti-bribery investigations, established KYC, AML & anti-bribery policies and delivered IT solutions to implement AML & KYC programs. He has also organised the media strategy for responding to bribery allegations. He is a leading speaker at conferences organised by Asia Risk & International Financial Law Review and asked for his views in GC Magazine - The Legal 500.

Errol is a qualified lawyer who is licensed to practice in Hong Kong, Australia, England and New York.

Amelia Xiao Fu is the head of Article Markets Strategy at Depository financial institution of China International. Her team covers all article sectors ranging from energy, base metals, precious metals and agriculture. The team's focus is to combine summit-downwardly global macro / financial drivers with fundamental assay to provide investment communication. In 2019, BOCI won 'Bolt Research Firm of the Year' Award by Energy Adventure.

She speaks regularly at global conferences and is ofttimes quoted past media including Bloomberg, Reuters, the FT and the Wall Street Periodical.

Before joining BOCI, Xiao worked equally a article strategist at Deutsche Bank in London. She studied Economic science at the London School of Economics and Harvard Academy.

Winners declaration

• Deal of the twelvemonth
• Buy-side trading organisation of the yr
• Best structured products support system
• ESG data vendor of the year

Exclusive interviews

How to comprise ESG in your portfolio?

ESG Focus

• ESG portfolio and taxonomy: key lessons learnt to help y'all through 2021
• Constructing an optimised portfolio that avoids bias and looks for a specific result

Jenn-Hui Tan

Global Head of Stewardship and Sustainable Investing

Fidelity International

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

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

Jenn-Hui has been with Allegiance 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 volition exist responsible for Fidelity's ESG teams based in Europe and Asia.

Sangeeta Venkatesan is the co founder and chairman of FairVine Super, an independent and solutions focused superannuation fund, and the co founder of Applegrove Majuscule, a majuscule advisory and investment management firm focused on sustainable investment including renewable energy, healthcare and food security with an emphasis on regional Australia She has recently been appointed as the non e xecutive chairman of IBA Novatti, a subsidiary of the ASX listed Novatti Group Ltd.

She as well serves as a Lath Member and Treasurer of Women in Banking and Finance (Treasurer of Australia Bharat Business concern Council NSW Advisory Board G ember of JC Happiness Charity Foundation (Hong Kong), in partnership with the Fred Hollows Foundation and Advisory Board Fellow member of Run a risk Australia.

Having worked in the banking and finance sector for shut to two five years, Sangeeta's experience spans the globe including London, Bombay, Singapore, Hong Kong a nd Sydney, at some of the most prominent and globally recognised firms such as KPMG, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers/Nomura, and The Commonwealth Bank of Australia ('Before commencing her journey in entrepreneurship she was the CEO of an Australian stock broking house where she grew its reven ue by 30% in under 18 months.

Whist at CBA Sangeeta represented the depository financial institution at various government led Australia Prc financial collaboration dialogues and co authored a book titled "The Renminbi from the Peoples' Coin to a
Global Currency" focusing on the evolving Chinese economy and financial liberalisation.

She played a significant function in integrating the erstwhile Lehman Bothers' concern into Nomura and represented the house at ISDA Credit Derivatives Committee and AFME Credit Board.

She is a highly sought afterward speaker and idea leader across the banking and finance sector covering a diverseness of topics including fintech, sustainability and equality and variety.

Sangeeta won the Innovator of the Twelvemonth honour at Money Direction and Super Review's Women in Financial Services Awards 2022 and was featured in the CEO Magazine for her contribution to women in business.

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Welcome remarks

Steve Coats is an instructional leader and presenter who is at his best when teaching, team building, facilitating meetings, and corporate training, in person and online.  Based in Hong Kong, Steve has worked internationally, collaborating with clients to shape, programme, and bring events to life.

Change management in financial services

Transformation expert spitfire

Benedicte Nolens

Head of BIS Innovation Hub Hong Kong Centre

Bank for International

Bénédicte is the Head of the BIS Innovation Hub, Hong Kong Centre. Prior to this appointment, she was a managing director at SC Ventures, the innovation arm of Standard Chartered Bank that leads a serial of new ventures across digital banking, banking as a service, SME finance and blockchain. From 2018-2019, she was the Vice President of International Government Relations at Circle, involved in the development of blockchain and digital assets. From 2012-2018, she was the Head of Run a risk & Strategy of the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (SFC), and in that capacity as well acting equally the Vice Chair of the Commission on Emerging Risks and the Fintech research atomic number 82 for the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). From 2007-2012, she was a managing director at Credit Suisse and before that from 1997-2007 she was an associate and executive director at Goldman Sachs. Originally from Kingdom of belgium, she holds LL.M. and M.B.A. degrees from the Academy of Chicago and the University of Leuven. She is admitted to the New York Bar since 1999. In 2016, she was a recipient of the China Daily Asian Women Leadership Awards for her efforts related to entrepreneurship, innovation and charity. She remains closely engaged in these topics, nearly recently through her involvement in the Fintech Association of Hong Kong (FTAHK) and Women in Finance Asia (WiFA.)

Nagarajan (Nags) Sankaranarayanan is Primary Financial and Administrative Officeholder for Asia ex-Japan currently based in Singapore. He has regional responsibility for over 600 professionals across 12 countries, overseeing Operations, Information technology, Finance, Corporate Real Estate and Services, Data Direction and Security, Corporate Transformation and Fin-Tech projects besides every bit Business Continuity Management. He also sits on the board of various Nomura's companies.

Nags has 25 plus years of work experience in various leadership roles beyond both business and wide corporate/support areas in investment banks and start-up hedge fund. Prior to joining Nomura, he worked at Goldman Sachs, LionRock Capital (hedge fund) and JP Morgan in capacities as Equity Sales Trader, COO, and in the CFO role. Nags also has all-encompassing experience in setting up and managing businesses, Grand&A, risk direction, business strategy, global project and cost direction programs, offshoring and managing large teams. Over his career, he has lived and worked across multiple Asian countries, including India, Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.

Nags is also passionate about technology and finance, as well as a keen supporter of entrepreneurship. He has invested in and actively advises and mentors technology and finance-related startups.

Nags holds an MBA from The University of Chicago Booth Schoolhouse of Business, is a qualified Chartered Auditor and a Cost Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

Winners proclamation – Technology categories

• XVA solution of the yr
• IFRS ix solution of the twelvemonth
• ALM solution of the twelvemonth
• Market information vendor of the year
• Cloud solution provider of the twelvemonth
• Collateral direction solution of the year

Sectional interviews

Buy-side perspective: How are adventure landscape and business organisation priorities shifting in the postal service COVID environment?

Strategy talk

Dominic Wu

Managing director, Head of Risk Management

BCT Group

Dominic Wu is the Manager & Caput of Risk Management at BCT Group.  He has twenty+ years of experience in cyberbanking, securities, assets management, pension fund and consultancy. Dominic is a qualified auditor, fraud examiner and professional risk manager and did his MBA from University of Hull, U.k.. He is sought out speaker in risk management and provides training to the regulators, universities, fiscal institutions and professional person bodies. He is the Founding Chairman of the Hong Kong Affiliate of the Plant of Operational Risk (IOR) and Asia Financial Risk Call up Tank.

Winners announcement – Applied science categories

• Margining solution of the year
• IFRS 17 solution of the year
• FRTB management solution of the year
• All-time AI or car learning innovation
• Pricing and trading organisation of the twelvemonth

Exclusive interviews

Must do's for digital transformation

Strategy talk

Reuben Athaide

Head, Business organization Deject Enablement

Standard Chartered Bank

A senior leader in financial services with over ten years of progressive experience and accomplishment in building and managing teams, program management and organizational process comeback. A seasoned problem solver with a proven track tape in overseeing and delivering multi-1000000 dollar projects, post-acquisition integrations and turning around troubled projects. A focused achiever excelling in envisioning the large picture show and conveying a projection/vision through from infancy to fruition. As well managed Capital Markets evolution teams covering Equities, Prime number Brokerage, Structured Notes, FX & MM delivering solutions for Front, Middle and Dorsum-office. Likewise equally managed programs and projects for Oil, Gas, Base of operations Metals, Ability, Structured Notes, NDF, FX Forwards, FX Options and Interest Rate Swaps.

Winners announcement – Applied science categories

• Vendor for system support and implementation of the year
• Technology vendor of the year
• Governance, run a risk and compliance solution of the year
• Best operations or back part solution
• Operational risk solution of the year

Sectional interviews

Buy-side perspective: How to drive operational shared services in the new hybrid working surround?

Strategy talk

Marking Morris

Global Caput of Business organization Development, Managed Services

SmartStream Technologies

I have over 30 years feel in Investment Banking Operations, spanning all aspects of the Trade Life Cycle.
I am highly motivated and I am comfortable in either Transformation or Service Delivery roles.
I have a proven track record of delivery at a varied array of Organisations.

Digitalisation and innovation of the fiscal market place

• Who are the industry disruptors in the financial market today?
• How digital transformation is mainstream, what adjacent?
• The utilise of culling data for credit scoring and machine learning
• In a post digital transformation world how does adventure management need to accommodate

Sidharth Kamani is an FRM certified Risk professional. He currently manages Credit Risk at New Development Banking company, a multilateral establishment founded past the Governments of the BRICS countries. At NDB, he is responsible for credit appraisals and pricing of the banking concern's lending products in hard currencies and in local currencies. Prior to his current role, he worked with Goldman Sachs in the Market chance and Treasury functions, where he gained hand-on experience working on various run a risk regulations such as CCAR, LCR and NSFR. Sidharth's interests prevarication in the areas of international finance, sovereign risk analysis, infrastructure financing and the evolving landscape of digital finance.

Alex Twigg is banker, technologist, and entrepreneur, having cofounded or helped launch two FinTech's, Spriggy and Douugh and v neobanks banks, including Egg, UBank, unicorn Judo Bank and Alex.  He is as well a non-executive director of Australian payments scheme Eftpos,  a Co-founder of no-lawmaking tech startup Appeggio and is technology focused affections investor.

Forth the way he has been recognised ASIA top 100 Fintech Leaders and one of Australia's top 50 CIO'southward, been invited to sit on the University of Queensland Business School, Service Innovation Brotherhood Board, is a Fellow of FINSIA and Graduate of the AICD.

Micky Lo

Managing Director, Primary Engineering science Gamble Officer APAC

The Depository financial institution of New York Mellon

Micky Lo joined BNY Mellon in July 2013 every bit Chief Applied science Gamble Officer APAC. He is leading the regional team with the mission to enable business concern solutions while proactively protecting BNY Mellon from information risks in a balanced control environs. He oversees and govern the implementation of the banking company wide information risk roadmap in the region with particular focus on IT regulatory compliance.

He has over 30 years of IT experience in Financial Service Industry that spans across a diversified IT management disciplines including regional and location management, It and security architecture, distributed computing technology, applied science infrastructure operation, outsourcing/in-sourcing management, Information technology risk management and technology audit.

Before joining BNY Mellon, Micky was the Head of Information technology Security APAC and Head of Applied science Greater China for Deutsche Depository financial institution. Micky has held diverse management positions in IT direction, IT Security/Take chances management and Audit with JPMorgan and Citibank.

Micky received a Available of Mathematic caste from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and an Executive Principal of Business Administration caste from University of Western Ontario (Canada).

I manage the Australian and New Zealand operations at Galvanize with a mandate to develop the market for our market place leading software. I am besides responsible for strategic initiatives around business evolution and customer success. I take all-encompassing easily on feel implementing projects for large organisations across a range of industries and institutions including Coca Cola Amatil, Flying Heart, NSW Teaching, City of Melbourne and WorkSafe Victoria.

My experience is in IRM, GRC, ORM and ERM SaaS solutions with a item focus on automation and data assay. I have coupled this with risk and assurance subject matter expertise gained at consulting firms Ernst and Immature in San Francisco and Deloitte in Sydney to develop robust sustainable solutions for organisations.

With over twenty years of experience in roles including financial analysis, external and internal audit I have a deep understanding of business processes, financial systems, regulatory environments and effective hazard management. I take the passion and drive to identify and develop ways for technology to enhance and develop business concern capability. I strongly believe that successful management is achieved by constructive utilise of data and automation and a deep understanding of the business organization, its environs, governance and stakeholders.

Sangeeta Venkatesan is the Chairman of FairVine Super, a superannuation fund designed for women, and CEO and Co-founder of Applegrove Capital, a upper-case letter advisory business firm focused on sustainable investment including renewable energy, healthcare and agronomics. She is a highly sought-after speaker, media commentator, gauge for awards functions and thought leader beyond banking and finance, superannuation, fin-tech, sustainable investing and gender equality. She is no stranger to breaking through the glass ceiling. Thus far she is the simply female person who has been the CEO of a stockbroking firm (APP Securities) in Commonwealth of australia. She also serves as a Board Fellow member of Women in Banking and Finance, and Treasurer of Commonwealth of australia-Republic of india Business Council NSW. Having worked in the banking and finance sector for more than 23 years, Sangeeta's experience spans several continents including London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Sydney, at some of the most prominent and globally recognised firms, including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers/ Nomura, KPMG, and The Republic Bank of Australia ('CBA'). Whist at CBA Sangeeta represented the banking company at various authorities led Australia-China financial collaboration dialogues and co-authored a book titled "The Renminbi – from the Peoples' Money to a Global Currency" focusing on the evolving Chinese economy and financial liberalisation, and opportunities for both Australian and Chinese companies that trade or invest beyond the corridor. She played a pregnant function in integrating the erstwhile Lehman Bothers' business into Nomura and represented the firm at The International Swaps and Derivatives Association'due south (ISDA) Credit Derivatives Committee and Association for Financial Markets in Europe's (AFME) Credit Lath. Sangeeta won the 'Innovator of the Year' award at Money Direction and Super Review's Women in Financial Services Awards 2019.

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