DAY 1 – Wednesday, 5 October
IN-PERSON EVENT WITH LIVE STREAMING ACCESSMORNING SESSION: DIGITALISATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS
09:00 – 12:45
Opening Remarks
Morning Panel 1:
Digitalisation and Innovation in Capital Markets – a State of PlayMorning Panel 2:
Public Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets: Opportunities and Roadblocks
Morning Panel 3:
Leveraging the Power of Data to Drive Digitalisation in Capital Markets
Morning Panel 4:Digital Assets: The Regulatory Environment
12:45 – 13:45

Networking Lunch

AFTERNOON SESSION: ZOOMING IN ON DIGITAL ASSETS
13:45 – 17:15
Afternoon Panel 1:
Digital Assets Adoption and Take-up in Capital Markets and the Intersection with TradFi
Afternoon Panel 2:
Stablecoins
Afternoon Panel 3:
DeFi
Afternoon Panel 4
Case Studies: Tokenised Securities and Leveraging DLT in Capital Markets
Closing Remarks
17:15 – 18:15

Networking Drinks

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DAY 2 – Thursday, 6 October
VIRTUAL ACCESS ONLYOPERATIONAL OUTLOOK, RESILIENCE AND ESG
12:35 – 17:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Opening Keynote
Panel 1:
Implementing Operational Resilience in APAC
Panel 2:
Outsourcing / Critical Third Parties
Panel 3:
Greentech and Operationalising ESG
Afternoon Keynote
Panel 4:
CBDCs: Capital Markets Considerations
Panel 5:The Evolving Cyber Threats and Regulatory LandscapeClosing Keynote
Closing Remarks

At ASIFMA, we are committed to ensuring diversity and inclusion in our workplace and this policy is applied in all areas of ourbusiness including speaker roles at our events and conferences. We wish to work with members and partners who share this samecommitment and are willing to support this policy.

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DAY 1 | WEDNESDAY | 5 OCTOBERTECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN CAPITAL MARKETS
Hybrid Conference | Fairmont, 80 Bras Basah Road, 189560, Singapore
08:30-08:55

Registration – Stamford Foyer, Level 2

09:00-09:05

Opening Remarks
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech & Ops, ASIFMA

09:05-09:10

Welcome Remarks
Alice Law, CEO, ASIFMA

09:10-10:00

Morning Panel 1: Digitalisation and Innovation in Capital Markets – a State of Play• What are the megatrends and new technology developments in capital markets?
• How to deliver change while supporting stability?
• How are firms managing tech resilience?
• How to ensure integration of innovative solutions in the existing capital markets ecosystem?
Panelists:
Laurence Thiery, Head of Financial Services, Asia, Amazon Web Services
Puay Hwa Ling, MD, Head of Investment & Trading Technology, DBS
Jennifer Peve, Managing Director, Head of Strategy and Business Development, DTCC
Sharon Toh, Head of ASEAN Region, SWIFT
Moderator: Zennon Kapron, Founder and Director, KapronAsia

10:00-10:45

Morning Panel 2: Public Cloud Adoption in Capital Markets – Opportunities and Roadblocks• Benefits and opportunities for cloud adoption in capital markets, what are the use cases?
• What are the current regulatory approaches in the region and globally?
• How do firms move from legacy systems to cloud and what are the practical operational challenges?
• How to drive interoperability and data portability in a cloud environment?
Panelists:
Peter Shen, Head of Innovation and Market Data, Eastspring Investments
Stuart Houston, Director, APAC Financial Services, Google Cloud
Kevin O’Leary, Managing Director & APAC Regional CISO, JP Morgan
Anthony Hodge, Head, Cloud Governance and Product Owner, Standard Chartered Bank
Moderator: Rhys McWhirter, Partner, Head of Technology, Asia, Eversheds Sutherland

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10:45-11:15

Refreshment Break

11:15-12:00

Morning Panel 3: Leveraging the Power of Data to Drive Digitalisation in Capital Markets• What is the role of data in digitalising capital markets?
• How to transform into a data-driven organisation and how to incubate a data-driven culture?
• What are the implications of open banking and data sharing (including data privacy and security)and how to address these?
• What is the importance of data for regulatory reporting, innovation, AI adoption, regtech adoption?
• Can we move to a regional/global standard?
Panelists:
Guy Sheppard, General Manager for Financial Services, Aboitiz Data Innovation
Duncan Cooper, Head of Omni Digital Services, BNY Mellon
Sigrid Rouam, Global Head of Data Science and Analytics, Credit Suisse
Moderator: Alice Law, CEO, ASIFMA

12:00-12:45

Morning Panel 4: Digital Assets: The Regulatory Environment• Overview of the emerging regulatory approaches• How to ensure a globally consistent regulatory framework?
• How do you balance innovation, customer protection and financial stability?
Panelists:
Lena Ng, Partner, Clifford ChanceJohn Ho, Head of Legal, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered Bank
Irfan Ahmad, APAC Product Lead, State Street Digital
Moderator: Adrian Chng, Founder & CEO, Fintonia Group

12:45-13:45

Networking Lunch

13:45-14:35

Afternoon Panel 1: Digital Assets Adoption and Take-up in Capital Markets and the Intersection withTradFi• What are the institutional considerations for entering crypto markets?
• Which services are traditional capital market participants venturing into (eg custody, brokerage,
private asset digitalisation, tokenised securities). Where is the demand and how are FIs responding?
• What are the benefits of blockchain in capital markets and of tokenising securities?
• How is DLT being integrated by banks and what are the impacts to the system architecture internallyand externally?
• How are traditional financial services and established digital assets firms working together toinstitutionalise digital assets?
• What will be the trigger point for mass adoption? What will the end state be?
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Panelists:
Vince Turcotte, Director, Digital Assets, Asia Pacific, Eventus
Rajeev Tummala, ASEAN Head of Securities Services (Interim); Director, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC
Singapore
Sriram Chakravarthi, Head, Regulatory Affairs & Industry Engagement, Marketnode
Damien Fontanille, Institutional Sales, Societe Generale FORGE
Moderator: Whikie Liu, Director, Capital Markets Strategy, SWIFT
14:35-15:25

Afternoon Panel 2: Stablecoins• How are stablecoins different from cryptocurrencies and CBDCs?
• What is the main motivation to issue stablecoins?
• What is their use case?
• Suggested governance arrangements (including blockchain governance, settlement mechanism, KYCetc)• The role of stablecoins as a linkage between TradFi and DeFi
• How should stablecoins be regulated?
Panelists:
Andrew McCormack, Centre Head, Singapore, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH)
U-Zyn Chua, Co-founder & CTO, Cake Defi
Boon-Hiong Chan, Global Head Fund Services & Head APAC Securities Market & Technology Advocacy, Deutsche
Bank
Julian Kwan, CEO and Co-founder, InvestaX
Moderator: Yixiang Zeng, Southeast Asia correspondent, Thomson Reuters

15:25-15:55

Refreshment Break

15:55-16:40

Afternoon Panel 3: DeFi
• Functions of DeFi infrastructure including smart contracts, decentralised applications, oracles andstablecoins• What are the problems that DeFi is trying to solve?
• DeFi use-cases including credit/lending, decentralised exchanges, derivatives and tokenisation• DeFi related risks and compensating controls, including smart-contract risk, governance risk, oracle
risk, scaling risk, DEX risk and regulatory risk
• How should DeFi be regulated?
• Scalability, interoperability and adoption issues and solutions
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Ben Wee, Vice President, Crypto.com Capital
Danny Chong, Co-founder, Tranchess
Chuan-Ji Lim, APAC Strategic Development Lab, UBS
Moderator: Hock Lai Chia, Co-chairman, Blockchain Association Singapore
16:40 -17.10:

Afternoon Panel 4: Case Studies; Tokenised Securities and Leveraging DLT in Capital Markets
Presenters:
Oi-Yee Choo, CEO, ADDXDavid Z Wang, Co-founder, Group CEO, Helicap
Yongchuan Pan, Portfolio Manager, Ternary Fund Management
Moderator: Emir Hrnjic, Academic Director, UCLA-NUS Executive MBA Program,Head of FinTech Training, Asian Institute of Digital Finance, NUS Business School

17:10-17:15

Closing Remarks
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech & Ops, ASIFMA

17:15-18:15

Networking Drinks

DAY 2 | Virtual Event | THURSDAY | 6 OCTOBEROPERATIONAL OUTLOOK, RESILIENCE AND ESG
12:35-12:40

Opening Remarks
Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech & Ops, ASIFMA

12:40-12:55

Opening Keynote
Julia Leung, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Executive Director Intermediaries, Securities and Futures
Commission (SFC), Hong Kong

12:55-13:40

Panel 1: Implementing Operational Resilience in APAC
• Updates on relative policy work of global standard-setting bodies• How are authorities and firms implementing operational resilience policies including the BCBSprinciples, early lessons learned, consistency across firms/jurisdictions, measuring areas of success,and meeting supervisory expectations?

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Challenges FIs are facing when implementing global and local frameworks in Asia jurisdictions•
Panelists:
Brandon Lim, Head of Security Assurance (Regulated Sectors), APAC, Amazon Web Services
Cliff Bullock, Regional Head of Operations, Asia Pacific, Invesco
Raymond Chan, Executive Director, Banking Supervision, Hong Kong Monetary Authority
Moderator: Janice Goh, Partner, Cavenagh Law LLP, Clifford Chance Asia

13:40-14:25

Panel 2: Outsourcing / Critical Third Parties• How are regulators and firms addressing the risk posed by critical third parties?
• What are some of the emerging regulatory approaches?
• What is the view of the critical third parties?
• How are FIs navigating a fragmented regulatory landscape?
Panelists:
Frankie Tam, Of Counsel, Eversheds Sutherland
Vincent Loy, Assistant Managing Director, Technology Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Mark Morris, Global Head of Business Development, Managed Services, SmartStream
Moderator: Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director – Tech & Ops, ASIFMA

14:25-15:10

Panel 3: Greentech and Operationalising ESG• How can tech support ESG goals?
• How can data support ESG initiatives?
• How are ESG considerations shaping the implementation, development and use of newtechnologies?
Panelists:
Tamara Singh, Citi - D10X team, Institutional Clients Group, Citi
Helena Fung, Head of Sustainable Investing, Asia Pacific, FTSE Russell, an LSEG Business
Benjamin Soh, Managing Director, STACS
Moderator: Diana Parusheva-Lowery, Executive Director, Public Policy and Sustainable Finance, ASIFMA

15:10-15:25

Keynote address
Yuan Lyu, Director of the Innovation Division, Digital Currency Institute, The People’s Bank of China

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Panel 4: CBDCs: Capital Markets Considerations• Impact of CBDCs on traditional capital market participants• What are the conditions needed for CBDCs to be a major benefit in wholesale markets?
• Considerations concerning the design, issuance and legal status of wCBDCs• What is needed to enable globally interoperable CBDCs for cross-border payments in the wholesalespace• Use cases for wCBDCs in capital markets• Overview of recent CBDC developments in the region and globallyPanelists:
Benedicte Nolens, Centre Head, Hong Kong, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH)
Felix Yip, Global Head of Digital Assets Engineering, Goldman Sachs
Tetsuya Inoue, Senior Researcher, Financial Market & Digital Business Research Department, NRI
Douglas W. Arner, Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, University of Hong Kong
Moderator: John Ball, Managing Director, Global FX Division, GFMA

16:15-17:00

Panel 5: The Evolving Cyber Threats and Regulatory Landscape• What is the evolving threat landscape?
• Harmonising and facilitating regulatory compliance• The role of the financial sector cybersecurity profile• Thoughts on establishing an efficient firm-led penetration testing framework• Incident reporting: fragmentation challenges and proposed solutions
Panelists:Nan Maguire, Head of Information Security, Privacy and Resilience APAC, abrdn
Natsuko Inui, Regional Director for Japan and East Asia, FS-ISAC
David Leach, Managing Director, Cybersecurity and Technology Controls, JP Morgan Chase
Moderator: Julian Gordon, VP, Asia Pacific, Hyperledger Foundation and Open SFF, Linux Foundation, APAC

17:00-17:10

Closing Keynote
Eva Hüpkes, Head Regulatory and Supervisory Policies at Secretariat, Financial Stability Board

17:10-17:15
Closing Remarks
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