About the Event
To create a flagship annual event in Asia for compliance and legal, the Compliance and Legal
Conference was held on 29-30 May 2019 in Hong Kong.
The two-day conference attracted around 400 participants, including 10% institutional investors,
8% policy makers/ public officials and 3% media. It was indeed a conference “designed by theindustry, for the industry”.

1With over 90 speakers including key representatives from sell side, institutional investors, leading
market practitioners and industry experts in compliance and legal, the conference served as asignificant platform in the region for various key compliance and regulation stakeholders to meetand discuss important issues impacting this area.
We were also honored to have Mr. Ashley Alder, CEO from Securities & Futures Commission ofHong Kong and Ms. Teresa Cheng, GBS, SC, JP, Secretary for Justice, the Hong Kong SAR
Government, as our keynote speakers at this conference.
We specially thank the valuable support from 9 sponsoring firms Compliance Asia, Exiger, Han Kun
Law Offices, Herbert Smith Freehills, Latham & Watkins, Leap Xpert, Llinks Law, Mizuho, Refinitiv
and Thomson Reuters, as well as 11 endorsing associations and 6 media partners.

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We have received very positive feedback from speakers, delegates and sponsors. Most of themfound the conference insightful and relevant regarding the current state of compliance andregulation in the industry; and that the event had a high calibre of speakers and diversity ofaudience that provided a highly efficient platform for networking and interaction.

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List of Participating Organizations
Aberdeen Standard Investments
ACA Compliance Group
AllianceBernstein L.P.
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
AmundiANZAon Hewitt Singapore Pte. Ltd.
AQR Capital Management (Asia) Limited
Asia Cloud Computing Association
Asian Private Banker
ASIFMA
Australian Securities & Investments
Commission (ASIC)
Baillie Gifford & Co
Baker & McKenzie
Bank of America Merrill Lynch
Bank of Montreal
Barings
BlackRock
Bloomberg
BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas Asset Management
BNY Mellon
British Consulate-General Hong Kong
Caixin MediaCAPCO
Capital Group
Capital International, Inc.
Credit Suisse (Hong Kong) Limited
China Construction Bank (CCB)
China International Capital Corporation
Limited (CICC)
Citadel LLC
Citadel Securities (Hong Kong) Limited
Citibank (Hong Kong) Limited
Clifford Chance LLP

CLSA
Commerzbank AG
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
Community Business Limited
ComplianceAsia Consulting Ltd.
Consulate General of Ireland
CorporateTreasurer
Credit Agricole
Credit Suisse Group AG
DBS Bank
Deacons
Deloitte
Deminor Recovery Services
Deutsche BankDLA Piper
DTCC
Eastspring Investments
Edelweiss Alternative Asset Advisors
Emotics
Ernst & Young LLP
Euromoney Institutional Investor
European Union OfficeEversheds Sutherland
ExigerEY
Fangda Partners
Fidelity International
FIL Asia Holdings Pte Limited
FIL Investment Management (Hong Kong)
Ltd
FinanceAsia
Fitch Ratings
Fund Selector Asia
Gekko Lab
Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Guernsey Finance4

List of Participating Organizations (Cont’d):Han Kun Law Offices
Haymarket Media Group
Herbert Smith Freehills
HKEX
HKMA
HKSAR Government
Hogan Lovells
Hong Kong Internet Finance Association
HSBC
IHS Markit
IMC Pacific Pty Ltd
ING Bank N.V. Singapore
International Compliance Training Academy(Hong Kong)
J.P. Morgan
J.P. Morgan Asset Management
Jane Street
JDX Consulting
Kenanga Investment Bank Berhad
Kewei Law
King & Wood Mallesons
Know Your Customer
Korea Exchange
KPMG LLP
Latham & Watkins
Law Offices of Panag & Babu
Leader Corporate Services Limited
LeapXpert
LGFG Fashion House
Linklaters
Liquidnet Asia Limited
Llinks Law
LLINKS Law Offices
Macquarie Group
MarketAxess Singapore Pte. Limited
Matthews Asia

Mayer Brown
Mindbridge
MiotechMizuhoMonetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)Morgan Stanley
National Australia Bank Ltd
NatixisNikko Asset Management Co., Ltd.
Nine Masts Capital Limited
NomuraNorton Rose Fulbright
Oliver Wyman
Omgeo Pte Ltd
One Asia Lawyers
OnfidoOptiver
PaRR (Acuris)
PayPalPetroliam Nasional Berhad
Profiviti
PwC
Rajah & Tann Singapore LLP
Refinitiv
Regulation Asia
Relativity
S&P Global Ratings
Schroders
SDL
SEC Thailand
Securities and Futures Commission
SGX (Singapore Exchange Limited)
Shearman & Sterling LLPSociete Generale
Standard Chartered Bank
State Street

5List of Participating Organizations (Cont’d):T. Rowe Price Hong Kong Limited
TaigerTemple Grange Partners
The American Chamber of Commerce inHong Kong
The Hong Kong Association of BanksThe University of Hong Kong
Thomson Reuters
Trading Hub
TradingHub Group Limited

UBS
UBS Asset Management
Vanguard Investments Hong Kong Limited
VERMEG
Volvo Financial Services
Vontobel Limited
Wellington Management Company
Wells Fargo & Company
Westpac Banking Corporation
Winston & Strawn LLP

Event Websites:
For more about the Compliance and Legal Conference 2019: www.asifma.org/compliancelegal2019.
For more information about ASIFMA events: www.asifma.org/events6

Final Program
Dates:
Location:
Remarks:

Wednesday-Thursday 29-30 May 2019
Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong – The Connaught Room, 1st Floor(Address: 5 Connaught Road Central, Hong Kong)
Open to the media except for afternoon Roundtables
DAY 1
Wednesday, 29 May 201908:30-09:00 Check-in, Breakfast, Networking
09:00-09:15 Keynote – Ms. Teresa Cheng, GBS, SC, JP, Secretary for Justice, HKSAR Government
09:15-09:30 Keynote – Mr. Ashley Alder, Securities & Futures Commission Hong Kong
09:30-10:30 Plenary Panel 1 - State of Markets: Trends Shaping Banking and Financial Services
10:30-11:30 Plenary Panel 2 - Financial Regulatory Outlook Globally and Asia
11:30-13:00 Networking Lunch
RegTech Demos - Compliance Stream
12:40-12:47 Gekko Lab
12:50-12:57 LeapXpert

RegTech Demos - Legal Stream
12:40-12:47 Taiger
12:50-12:57 Know Your Customer

Compliance Stream

Legal Stream

13:00-14:00 Panel C1 - AI, Big Data and Robotic 13:00-14:00 Panel L1 - Benchmark; Alternatives
Process Automation: Tools for Analytics andto IBORS; EU BMR
Surveillance
14:00-15:00 Panel C2 – Financial Crime: AML, 14:00-15:00 Panel L2 - Dawn Raids and Forensics
KYC and Sanctions
15:00-15:45
Coffee Break

15:00-15:45
Coffee Break

15:45-16:45
Roundtable C1 - Evolution of Compliance
Functions
Roundtable C2 - Implementation of an
Appropriate Control Framework – Moving
Forward15:45-16:45
Roundtable L1 - GDPR, Data Privacy, Security &Management
Roundtable L2 - Evidencing Best Execution

16:45-17:00 Wrap Up

16:45-17:00 Wrap Up
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DAY 2Thursday, 30 May 201908:30-09:00 Check-in, Breakfast, Networking
09:00-09:05 Welcome Remarks
09:05-09:50 Fireside Chat - Enforcement Trends
09:50-10:50 Plenary Panel 3 - China Compliance and Legal Onshore
10:50-11:50 Plenary Panel 4 - China Compliance and Legal Offshore
11:50-13:15 Networking Lunch
RegTech Demos - Compliance Stream
RegTech Demos - Legal Stream
12:55-13:02 Miotech
13:05-13:12 Emotics

12:55-13:02 LeapXpert
13:05-13:12 Onfido

Compliance Stream

Legal Stream

13:15-14:15 Panel C3 – Conduct, Certification
and Culture, Use of Behavioral Cluster Analysis
14:15-15:15 Panel C4 - New Technology Risks –RegTech, Crypto, and Surveillance

13:15-14:15 Panel L3 - Brexit

15:15-16:00
Coffee Break

15:15-16:00
Coffee Break

16:00-17:00
Roundtable C3 – Application of Rules andRegulations to Algo and Electronic Trading - The
Changing LandscapeRoundtable C4 for Asset Management –Compliance around Funds Distribution

16:00-17:00
Roundtable L3 - Diversity and Building a Cultureof Inclusion

17:00 End of Conference

17:00 End of Conference

14:15-15:15 Panel L4 - Automation within Legal
Services

Roundtable L4 – Impact of Social Media andInstant Messaging on Capital Markets

8DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2019
Morning Plenary Sessions
08:30-09:00

Check-in, Breakfast, Networking

09:00-09:15

Keynote Teresa Cheng, GBS, SC, JP, Secretary for Justice, Hong Kong SAR Government
Keynote Ashley Alder, CEO, Securities & Futures Commission Hong Kong

09:15-09:30
09:30-10:30

Plenary Panel 1 - State of Markets: Trends Shaping Banking and Financial Services What are the compliance/legal implications of Brexit, the rise of interest rates,
US-China trade war, slowing down of Chinese economy? How will a move froma multi-polar world impact sanctions, regimes, and compliance therewith?
 Digital transformation – what it means - what has and has not worked? What
will be emergent technologies in the next 2-3 years? How does that impact
compliance and legal functions including RegTech and SupTech?
 What will be the new avenues to raise capital and finance trade?
 Jacob Hook, Managing Partner, Asia Pacific, Oliver Wyman
 Stephen Davison, Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Neil Pabari, Managing Director, North Asia, Refinitiv
 Shaun Roache, Chief Economist APAC, S&P Global Ratings
 Tara Joseph, President, The American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong
(moderator)

10:30-11:30

Plenary Panel 2 - Financial Regulatory Outlook Globally and Asia
 What are the major trends in the global financial regulatory world 10+ years
after the crisis? Will the G20 solve an increasing tendency to regulatory
fragmentation, which is the key point on the Japanese presidency’s agenda?
 What are the future roles of G20, FSB, IOSCO? Have they fulfilled their GFC
role? Does Asia need a stronger voice? How will global regulators deal with
contentious issues of privacy of data, data localization, outsourcing, andKYC/AML? Is the fixation on crypto assets warranted? How will cross-border
frameworks and controls develop?
 Winnie Pun, Managing Director, APAC Head of Public Policy, Blackrock Jiaxing Zhou, Managing Director & Head of Legal Department of Legal andCompliance, China International Capital Corporation (Hong Kong) Limited
 Tony Wood, Partner, Financial Services Risk and Regulatory Leader, Deloitte
China William Hallatt, Head of Financial Services Regulatory, Asia, Herbert Smith
Freehills
 Carmen Chu, Executive Director (Enforcement and AML), Hong Kong
Monetary Authority
 Jenny Cosco, MD, Co-Head, Government Affairs Asia Pacific, Goldman Sachs(Asia) L.L.C (moderator)

11:30-13:00

Networking Lunch
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DAY 1 – WEDNESDAY 29 MAY 2019
Afternoon Breakout Streams and Concurrent Sessions
Compliance Stream
12:40-12:47

RegTech Demo by Gekko Lab Gekko Lab is an award-winning Hong Kong-based RegTech startup forfinancial intelligence and investigation, whose graphical network analytics
software and built-in proprietary database enhance users’ capability todetect and manage risks using data analytics.
 Gekko Lab’s core product Gekko Graph makes monitoring capital market
connections and risks ever easier. The company builds a unique database forquantifying and connecting deep-level relationship and behaviors among
Hong Kong and China financial entities. Gekko Graph has an interactive
visualization interface that empowers users to build visual intuition anduncover hidden insights.
 Ric Cheng, Founder Gekko Lab

12:50-12:57

RegTech Demo by LeapXpert
 LeapXpert is a desktop and mobile platform for compliant and secure
omnichannel communication between companies and their clients.
 LeapXpert allows 3-rd party integration with WhatsApp, WeChat, Line andother messengers. You send a message on one platform, a recipient receives
it on the other.
 Dima Gutzeit, Founder, LeapXpert
 Greg Kail, Business Director, LeapXpert

13:00-14:00

Panel C1 - AI, Big Data and Robotic Process Automation: Tools for Analytics andSurveillance What are the leading data analytics/AI tools in enforcement/surveillance?
 Will it make regulatory compliance easier, or raise the bar higher?
 Is there convergence forming on the regulatory approach to AI globally?
 Are LCs well equipped in terms of upcoming timely/ongoing surveillance?
 What are the challenges in surveillance, especially between 1LOD vs 2LOD?
 How to design your AI governance frameworks in a way that is safe, future
proof?
 Chad Olsen, Partner, Forensic/Financial Crime, Deloitte
 Joseph M. Quiazon, MD, Head of Financial Crime Compliance, APAC, Exiger
 James Phillips, Head of Regulatory Reporting Strategy, VERMEG Laurence Van der Loo, Director, Technology and Operations, ASIFMA(moderator)10

14:00-15:00

Panel C2 – Financial Crime: AML, KYC and Sanctions
 What are the most pressing challenges of KYC/AML requirements in the Asia
region?
 How can these be solved, or can they be solved?
 Are industry best practices a way forward?
 Is regulatory standardization possible globally or within Asia? Alternatively,
are utilities the solution?
 What is the appropriate role for regulators to play?
 Can we leverage technology to solve the problem?
 Are there unique challenges for KYC/AML for the fund business? What about
layering for AML in the markets business?
 Alisa Milburn, APAC Head of Financial Crime Blackrock
 Helena Tang, Head of Risk Proposition Sales, North Asia, Refinitiv
 Raymond Wong, Director, Intermediaries Supervision, Intermediaries,
Securities and Futures Commission Hong Kong
 Cowina Leung, Head of Anti-Money Laundering and Anti-Bribery &Corruption, Asia Pacific, T. Rowe Price Lisa Brander, Global Head of Client Onboarding and Regulatory Reporting,Operations, CLSA (moderator)

15:00-15:45

Coffee Break11

(The below Roundtables are closed to the media)
15:45-16:45

Concurrent Roundtable C1 - Evolution of Compliance Functions (closed to media)
 What are the tensions between the role of legal to protect the firm andcompliance in driving better management decision (compensate clients,
dismissing high performers with cultural issues, escalating breaches toregulators, etc.), and how can they be resolved?
 What do we think compliance should be?
 What is the increasing role of technology in making compliance easier? Is thisthe workforce of tomorrow?
 Eileen Koo, MD, Compliance APAC ex Japan, AllianceBernstein Mark Satterthwaite, APAC Head of ICG Compliance, Citi
 Philippa Allen, CEO and Founder, ComplianceAsia
 Sue de Broglio, Head of Compliance – Asia, Macquarie

15:45-16:45

Concurrent Roundtable C2 – Implementation of an Appropriate Control
Framework – Moving Forward What is the relevance concerning the increasing focus of individual
accountability?
 How is the MIC regime operating?
 What about Singapore? Malaysia?
 Luke Holder, Vice President, APAC Lead, Regulatory Risk and Review,
Blackrock Tim Woodward, Head, Financial Markets Compliance, BNP Paribas
 Julie Wan, Managing Director, APAC Markets Control & Regulatory COO,
Credit Suisse William Hallatt, Head of Financial Services Regulatory, Asia, Herbert Smith
Freehills

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Afternoon Breakout Streams and Concurrent Sessions (Con’t)
Legal Stream
12:40-12:47

RegTech Demo by Taiger
 TAIGER is a visionary Artificial Intelligence (AI) company, pioneering nextgeneration AI solutions. TAIGER uses human-like logic to automatically read,understand and extract information, guaranteeing unrivalled levels of
accuracy of 90% and above. TAIGER is headquartered in Singapore with
offices in Hong Kong, New York, Madrid and Mexico City.
 Henri-Christian Hartloff, SVP Business Development, Taiger

12:50-12:57

RegTech Demo by Know Your Customer Know Your Customer provides end-to-end digital solutions that quickly andaccurately identify companies and individuals during client on-boarding. Its
platform offers ultimate Beneficial Owner identification, ID verification andautomated anti-money laundering checks in multiple languages and acrossjurisdictions, automating 90% of compliance routine tasks.
 Wendy Clarke, Country Manager, Know Your Customer

13:00-14:00

Panel L1 - Benchmark; Alternatives to IBORS; EU BMR
 What is the impact to the market from a legal perspective? Will the transition
be smooth and consistent across the world? Is Asia behind or impacted in thesame way as the US, UK, EU and Japan?
 Who will be the winners/losers after implementation? Is there a risk of misselling? Market abuse? How challenging is the repapering exercise?
 Francis Edwards, Partner, Clifford Chance Randolf Tantzscher, Director, Indices APAC, IHS Markit
 Sergey Volkov, Director, PwC
 Damien Jones, Partner, EY (moderator)

14:00-15:00

Panel L2 – Dawn Raids and Forensics
 How to prepare for a dawn raid? Can appropriate training be provided?
 What can be expected on the day? The limits of the powers? What are thechallenges?
 How to cooperate but also protect confidential information, privilege, etc.?
What happens afterward?
 What are the trends we are seeing from regulators?
 Ben Hamilton, Head of Legal Asia, ANZ Bank Deborah Kaplan, Litigation Counsel, Morgan Stanley Ramesh Moosa, Partner, Forensic Services, PwC
 Leonie Tear, Senior Associate, King & Wood Mallesons
 Hannah Cassidy, Partner, Financial Services Regulatory, Hong Kong, Herbert
Smith Freehills (moderator)

15:00-15:45

Coffee Break
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(The below Roundtables are closed to the media)
15:45-16:45

Concurrent Roundtable L1 - GDPR, Data Privacy, Security & Management
 What challenges do firms face by existing privacy regulations, cybersecurity
threats, and the move in Asia to data onshoring? These risks are usuallylooked at separately. How do they interact? Is the sum of the risks greater?
 How specifically will data localization requirements impact the financial
sector? Will privacy regulations make this even more difficult or can they beamended to allow the industry to flourish? Can we distinction between
personal and non-personal data as a way forward? Are trade agreements a
possible solution to all of this?
 Are cybersecurity concerns an impediment to the use of data?
 What will be the cost of all these new regulations?
 What are the unique challenges of data security in China?
 Otto Lee, Security Assurance Manager APAC, Amazon Web Services
 Kieran Donovan, Associate, Outsourcing and Technology Transactions
Department, Latham & Watkins
 Kriti Trehan, Partner, Law Offices of Panag & Babu, New Delhi

15:45-16:45

Concurrent Roundtable L2 - Evidencing Best Execution
 How do we move away from a tick-the-box approach?
 How to deal with non-best execution scenarios?
 Are compliance systems the best at identifying best execution?
 Prashant D Joshi, Director, Regulatory Affairs & Implementation, Global
Markets, Asia Pacific, BNP Paribas
 Jianing Song, Partner, Advisory, KPMG
 Sumit Indwar, Partner, Financial Regulation, Linklaters
 Jennifer Hsieh, Head of Asia Pacific, Trading Hub

16:45-17:00

Wrap Up

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DAY 2 – THURSDAY 30 MAY 2019
Morning Plenary Sessions
08:30-09:00

Check-in, Breakfast, Networking

09:00-09:05

Welcome Remarks

09:05-09:50

Fireside Chat - Enforcement Trends

Sharon Concisom, Executive Director Markets Enforcement, Australian
Securities and Investments Commission
Beng Hwa Tan, Director/ Head of Enforcement Department’s Market
Conduct Investigations Division I, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Thomas Atkinson, Executive Director, Enforcement, Securities & Futures
Commission Hong Kong
Mark Austen, CEO, ASIFMA (moderator)

09:50-10:50

Plenary Panel 3 – China Compliance and Legal Onshore What are the paths into China and legal/compliance challenges associatedwith entry? How are firms achieving a level playing field, the opening of thefinancial sector, and ownership caps? What are the issues around that?
 How are firms solving legal and compliance issues with JV partners,
counterparties, distributors, and customers (eg, KYC/AML, data, andcybersecurity)? How do firms keep abreast of China regulatorychanges/initiatives? Also, how is the engagement with the regulators on
interpretations and applications of regulations?
 What is the understanding the regulatory expectations – rules vs. guidance?
 Arthur Qian, Head of Compliance, China, Aberdeen Standard Investments
Lydia Li, Head of Legal and Compliance, China, Fidelity International
 Sandra Lu, Partner, Llinks Law Offices
 Gang Dong, Head of China Compliance, Morgan Stanley Carol Wong, Director, Head of EQD Compliance, Société Générale
 Philippa Allen, CEO and Founder, ComplianceAsia (moderator)15

10:50-11:50

Plenary Panel 4 - China Compliance and Legal Offshore What are the legal and compliance challenges faced by the requirements foraccess channels into China: Bond Connect, Stock Connect, QFII, London
Connect?
 How do firms engage with regulators, both onshore and off, and what are theexpectations of foreign firms? Are there specific challenges around FX andRMB compliance?
 Simon N. Williams, Managing Director, APAC Head of Equity Trading,Blackrock Nikki Tanner, Head of APAC Market Structure, Deutsche Bank Yin Ge, Partner, Han Kun Law Offices
 Garbo Cheung, Managing Director, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing
Limited David Ngai, APAC Head of Compliance, State Street Global Markets
 Annabella Fu, Financial Regulation Partner, Hong Kong, Linklaters(moderator)

11:50-13:15

Networking Lunch

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DAY 2 – THURSDAY 30 MAY 2019
Afternoon Breakout Streams and Concurrent Sessions
Compliance Stream
12:55-13:02

RegTech Demo by Miotech

MioTech provides AI-Driven market intelligence on investment
opportunities, risks, and returns in Asia. They process billions of structured
and unstructured data in real time and provide Asian market insights and risk
monitoring. With full coverage of China database and Asian edge, they serve
international banks, brokers, multi-asset management firms through SaaS
platform and API connection.
Intelligent AML Compliance risk monitoring by leveraging NLP and machinelearning technologies over diverse aggregated datasets.

Lawrence Yin, Sales Director, Miotech

13:05-13:12

RegTech Demo by Emotics
 Applications of Facial Micro-expression Analysis in Finance for ComplianceTraining and Alternative Data.
 Ray Horan, Founder & CEO, Emotics

13:15-14:15

Panel C3 - Conduct, Certification and Culture, Use of Behavioral Cluster Analysis
 How to measure risk and culture? Is this possible?
 Can you incentivize good culture?
 Has conduct improved?
 Aveline San, Chief Compliance Officer, Asia Pacific, Citi Samantha Willis, Executive Director, Asia Pacific Culture & Conduct Lead andAsia Pacific Controls, J.P. Morgan Karen Au, Chief Compliance Officer, Wellington Management Hong Kong Ltd
 Eugène Goyne, Associate Partner, APAC Financial Services Regulatory Leader,
EY (moderator)

14:15-15:15

Panel C4 - New Technology Risks – RegTech, Crypto, and Surveillance What are the risks facing the industry from new technologies such as crypto?
What is the impact of the SFC conceptual framework for digital asset
platforms?
 How can RegTech help to solve those issues?
 Are surveillance techniques developing or readily available to monitor chatrooms?
 Ray Horan, CEO, Emotics
 Steve Poon, Associate Director, Intermediaries Supervision, Intermediaries,
Securities & Futures Commission Hong Kong
 Kris Daswani, Head, Legal, Transaction Banking, Standard Chartered Bank Douglas Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, The University of Hong Kong
 Simon Hawkins, Counsel, Financial Regulation, Latham & Watkins(moderator)

15:15-16:00

Coffee Break
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(The below Roundtables are closed to the media)
16:00-17:00

Concurrent Roundtable C3 – Application of Rules and Regulations to Algo andElectronic Trading – The Changing Landscape What are the regulatory expectations around algos and electronic trading?
 What is happening in Europe and what will be its impact on Asia?
 Should there be more exchange of information between European
exchanges?
 Is India finally solving its algo testing regime?
 John Buckley, Chief Operating Officer, Citadel Securities Asia
 Nicholas Peach, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
 Kishore Ramakrishnan, Partner, Temple Grange Partners
 Peter Wun, ED, COO, Greater China Equities, APAC Equities Electronic Trading
and APAC Cash Equities, UBS

16:00-17:00

Concurrent Roundtable C4 for Asset Management – Compliance around Funds
Distribution
 What does the Unit Trust code revamp mean for the industry?
 What are the challenges of retail fund authorization and distribution in Hong
Kong and Asia?
 Jeremy Lam, Partner, Deacons Elaine Yu, Head of Compliance, Hong Kong and China, Eastspring Investments
 Julie Moon, Executive Director, Legal, J.P. Morgan Asset Management

17:00

Close of Conference

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Afternoon Breakout Streams and Concurrent Sessions (con’t)
Legal Stream
12:55-13:02

RegTech Demo by LeapXpert
 LeapXpert is a desktop and mobile platform for compliant and secure
omnichannel communication between companies and their clients.
 LeapXpert allows 3-rd party integration with WhatsApp, WeChat, Line andother messengers. You send a message on one platform, a recipient receives
it on the other.
 Dima Gutzeit, Founder, LeapXpert

13:05-13:12

RegTech Demo by Onfido
 Onfido is the new identity standard for the internet. Their AI-based
technology assesses whether a user’s government-issued ID is genuine or
fraudulent, and then compares it against their facial biometrics. That provide
their customers like Revolut, Zipcar and Bitstamp the assurance they need toonboard customers remotely and securely.
 Patrick Penzo, Region Lead, Onfido

13:15-14:15

Panel L3 – Brexit
 What does Brexit mean for Asia?
 Will the EU become more insular and will a different approach to equivalence
have knock-on impacts on Asian markets? Will the UK enhance its bilateraloutreach to Asia? Will we see further London-Shanghai connects?
 Andrew Heyn, British Consul General to Hong Kong and Macao, British
Consulate-General Hong Kong
 David Costello, Consul General, Consulate General of Ireland to Hong Kongand Macao
 Carmen Cano, Head of the EU Office to Hong Kong and Macao, European
Union Office Mark Austen, CEO, ASIFMA (moderator)

14:15-15:15

Panel L4 – Automation within Legal Services What are the challenges for regulators and financial services firms?
 What impact does artificial intelligence have on the legal function?
 How developed is the idea of machine-readable regulation?
 The role of automation in data room, transaction documentation, contract
management, and performing due diligence.
 How much more is there to automate?
 Whitney Whisenhunt, Vice President and Counsel, BNY Mellon
 Adam Singer, MD, Asia Pacific Core Compliance, J.P. Morgan Urszula McCormack, Partner, King & Wood Mallesons
 Henri-Christian Hartloff, SVP Business Development, Taiger
 Frankie Tam, International Technology Lawyer, DLA Piper (moderator)

15:15-16:00

Coffee Break
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(The below Roundtables are closed to the media)
16:00-17:00

Concurrent Roundtable L3 - Diversity and Building a Culture of Inclusion
 Is the industry on a pathway towards achieving gender balance at leadershiplevels within the banks? Is there data to support that?
 Diversity is more than gender - how to deal with age, race, sexual orientation?
Does it include class, professional background, or even culture?
 Peter Siembab, MD, Global Corporate and Investment Banking Counsel, Legal
Department, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Rakesh Vengayil, Deputy CEO Asia Pacific; Head of Business Strategy &Support, BNP Paribas Asset Management
 Tina Arcilla, Head of Diversity and Inclusion Asia Network, Community
Business Steven X. Chan, Regional Head of Regulatory & Government Affairs, Asia
Pacific; Founding Board Dir., PayPal Inc.

16:00-17:00

Concurrent Roundtable L4 – Impact of Social Media and Instant Messaging on
Capital Markets
 What are the challenges of surveillance of staff activities on social media andinstant messaging, particularly in China?
 What is the impact on financial institutions directly by negative news (fake orotherwise) on social media?
 What is the impact on financial institutions indirectly via dealings withcompanies negatively impacted by social media?
 Legal and compliance responses and developments to the aforementioned.
 James Walker, Managing Director, Compliance, Credit Suisse Avi Pardo, Co-founder and COO, LeapXpert
 Amita Haylock, Counsel IP & TMT Group, Mayer Brown
 Cáitrín McKiernan, Associate, Shearman & Sterling LLP

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