Conference Program(Final Version)
Dates:
Venue:

Thursday 13 March 2014
Marina Mandarin Hotel, Singapore (Marina Mandarin Ballroom, Level 1)

8:00-8:30

Delegate Check-in

8:30-8:35

Welcome Remarks
Mark Austen, Chief Executive Officer, ASIFMA

8:35-8:45

Opening Speech
Lenny Feder, Group Head, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered

8:45-9:05

1st Keynote
Leong Sing Chiong, Assistant Managing Director,
Development and International Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)9:05-9:20

2nd Keynote
Alain Raes, Chief Executive, Asia Pacific and EMEA, SWIFT

9:20-10:10

Panel Discussion 1 – Growth in the Use of CNY Internationally for Trade Purposes
Zhang Weiwu, General Manager, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China(ICBC), Singapore
Hu Beihai, Assistant General Manager, Bank of China Singapore Branch
Lum Yin-Fong, MD, GTS – Cash and Trade, Institutional Banking Group, DBS
George Nast, Global Head of Product Management, Transaction Banking,Standard Chartered (Moderator)

10:10-10:35

Coffee Break

10:35-10:55

3rd Keynote
Alexa Lam, Deputy Chief Executive Officer,
Executive Director – Investment Products, International & ChinaSecurities and Futures Commission (SFC), Hong Kong

10:55-11:45

Panel Discussion 2 – Primary Market Developments
Ken Wei Wong, Director, Head of Asia Bond Syndicate, Barclays
Liang Si, Director, Asia Debt Syndicate, Fixed Income, BNP Paribas
Clifford Lee, MD, Head of Fixed Income, Treasury & Markets, DBSJames Fielder, Director, Head of Local Currency Syndicate, Debt Syndicate, Asia-Pacific,
Debt Capital Markets, Capital Financing, Global Banking and Markets, HSBC
Ivan Chung, VP - Senior Credit Officer, Project Infrastructure Finance Group, Moody’sHenrik Raber, Global Head of Debt Capital Markets, Standard Chartered (Moderator)
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11:45-12:35Lunch

12:35-12:45

4th Keynote (video)
Mark Boleat, Chairman of the Policy and Resources Committee, City of London

12:45-13:35

Panel Discussion 3 – Secondary Market Developments
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Ben Davies, MD , Credit Trading, Treasury & Markets, DBSSoushan Wu, Chairman, GreTai Securities Market
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Chew Sutat, Executive VP, Head of Sales & Clients, Singapore Exchange (SGX)Dominic Schnider, ED, Head Non-Traditional Asset Classes (NTAC) Research,UBS Wealth Management
Patrick Pang, MD – Head of Fixed Income and Compliance, ASIFMA (Moderator)

13:35–14:25

Panel Discussion 4 – Latest Trends in Offshore/Onshore ConvergenceNathan Chow, VP, Economist, Group Research, DBSAugustine Fan, ED, Goldman Sachs
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Adrian Harrison, Director, Sales and Marketing, Prime Finance, Asia-Pacific,HSBC
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Rajeev De Mello, Head of Asian Fixed Income, Co-head of Emerging MarketsBonds, Schroders
Stephen Green, Head of Research Greater China, Standard CharteredPeter Thal Larsen, Asia Editor, Reuters Breakingviews, Thomson Reuters(Moderator)

14:25-15:15

Panel Discussion 5 – Infrastructure: Trade Clearing, Payments and Swap
Documentation
Paul Landless, Counsel, Clifford ChanceJing Gu, Assistant General Counsel Asia, International Swaps and Derivatives
Association (ISDA)
Eli Cohen, Senior VP, Head of Legal - Regulation, Singapore Exchange (SGX)Alexandre Kech, Director, Securities Market Infrastructures, Asia Pacific, SWIFT(Moderator)

15:15-15:40

Coffee Break

15:40-16:00

5th Keynote
Antony Phillipson, British High Commissioner to Singapore

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16:00-16:50

Panel Discussion 6 – Central Banks and RMBThierry de Longuemar, VP, Finance and Risk Management, Asian Development
Bank (ADB)
Anastuty Kusumowardhani (Nita), Deputy Director - Head of Emerging MarketInvestment Division, Department of Reserve Management, Bank Indonesia
Julien Martin, Head of RMB Competence Centre, BNP ParibasEsmond Lee, ED, Financial Infrastructure, Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA)Jukka Pihlman, Global Head, Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds,
Standard Chartered
Saikat Chatterjee, Senior Asia Financial Markets Correspondent, Thomson Reuters(Moderator)
16:50-17:00

Closing Speech
Nigel Fuller, Head of Liquidity Sales, Asia, Financial & Risk, Thomson Reuters3