Market Opportunities in a Fragmenting World
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Mr Alvin Tan,
Minister of State, Ministry of National Development & Ministry of Trade and Industry
Board Member,
Monetary Authority of Singapore
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The Asia Financial Markets Forum (AFMF) is organised by the Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS) and is especially relevant to the treasury and markets professionals in banks, financial institutions and hedge funds who face a major challenge on how to stay ahead of the game.
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Minister of State,
Ministry of National Development & Ministry of Trade and Industry
Board Member,
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Head of Asia Equities ex Japan
and Portfolio Manager
Balyasny Asset Management
Managing Director
Head of Data Analytics,
Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank
Partner
Dymon Asia Capital
Head of Markets Strategy,
Executive Director
Global Economics and
Markets Research
United Overseas Bank
Advisor
GIC Pte Ltd
President
SGX Group
Head of Global Fixed Income,
Asia Pacific
BlackRock
Deputy President, FMAS
Deputy Chairperson, AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director
Senior Relationship Manager,
Asia Pacific
Barclays
Professor (Adj.)
NTU, Newcastle, HKBU, SJTU, Surrey
Distinguish Fellow, Fudan Univ and CFAR(A*STAR),
and
Global Head, Nvidia AI Technology Center
Nvidia
Chief Executive Officer
LCH Ltd
Programme Curator
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director and Chief Economist Group Research
DBS Bank
Global Head, Trading – Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
1.30pm to 1.50pm
2.00pm to 2.05pm
Ms Ping (Yan Pheng) Tan
Deputy President, FMAS
Deputy Chairperson, AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Address by Mr Michael Syn - SGX Group
Navigating Fragmentation: Building Liquidity and Confidence in Asia’s Financial Markets
2.10pm to 2.25pm
Michael Syn
President
SGX Group
Session 1: Fireside Chat with Guest-of-Honour
Economic Resilience Amidst Rising Global Challenges
2.30pm to 3.00pm
Mr Alvin Tan
Minister of State,
Ministry of National Development & Ministry of Trade and Industry
Board Member, Monetary Authority of Singapore
MODERATOR
Mr Heng Koon How
Head of Markets Strategy,
Executive Director
Global Economics and Markets Research
United Overseas Bank
Session 2: Panel Discussion
Can Singapore’s Markets Shine Through Geopolitical and Tech Disruption?
3.05pm to 3.50pm
PANELISTS
Ms Susi de Verdelon
Chief Executive Officer
LCH Ltd
Mr Tony Hall,
Global Head, Trading – Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
MODERATOR
Mr Taimur Baig
Managing Director and Chief Economist Group Research
DBS Bank
3.50pm to 4.10pm
Session 3: Virtual Presentation / Panel Discussion
The Age of Intelligence: How AI is Changing Everything
4.15pm to 5.00pm
SPEAKERS
Mr Gary Lui
Managing Director
Head of Data Analytics, Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank
Professor Simon See
Professor (Adj.)
NTU, Newcastle, HKBU, SJTU, Surrey Distinguish Fellow, Fudan Univ and CFAR(A*STAR)
and
Global Head, Nvidia AI Technology Center
Nvidia
MODERATOR
Mr Samuel Lim
Managing Director
Senior Relationship Manager,
Asia Pacific
Barclays
Session 4: Panel Discussion
Investor panel: Market Strategies Amid Geoeconomic Uncertainty
5.05pm – 5.50pm
SPEAKERS
Ms Archana Parekh
Head of Asia Equities ex Japan
and Portfolio Manager
Balyasny Asset Management
MODERATOR
Mr Gerald Chan
Partner
Dymon Asia Capital
5.55pm – 6.05pm
Mr Taimur Baig
Programme Curator
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director and Chief Economist Group Research
DBS Bank
6.30pm to 9.30pm
SOSPIRI
2 Central Blvd, #07-02 IOI Central Boulevard Towers,
Singapore 018916
Dress Code: Business Formal
Registration starts at 6.15pm.
President, FMAS
Chairperson,
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director,
Group Head of Trading & Structuring
Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank
Deputy President, FMAS
Deputy Chairperson, AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director, Global Head of EFX Liquidity, Product & Governance Head of Asia EFX Trading Global Markets, FICC Trading
Bank of America
Programme Curator
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director and Chief Economist Group Research
DBS Bank
Treasurer
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Partner
Dymon Asia Capital
Head of Markets Strategy,
Executive Director
Global Economics and
Markets Research
United Overseas Bank
Head, Legal, Financial Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
Managing Partner & Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Dymon Asia Capital
Global Head of FX Flow & EM Linear Rates Trading
Global Markets, AEJ
Nomura Singapore
Managing Director,
Head of APAC Fixed Income and FX Trading
BlackRock
Managing Director
Financial Markets Association of Singapore
Group Head of Markets - Asia Pacific
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Senior Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific
Barclays
Formed in 1972, we are the standard bearer for financial markets’ professionals in Singapore. Our history has been inextricably linked to Singapore’s emergence as a leading financial centre in the world.
Financial Markets Association of Singapore (formerly known as ACI Singapore) is affiliated to ACI – The Financial Markets Association (ACI FMA), a Paris-based global umbrella body of financial markets associations, ACI FMA, founded as Association Cambiste Internationale and has more than 8,000 international members worldwide in more than 60 countries, making it the largest international association in the wholesale financial markets and was founded in France in 1955 following an agreement between foreign exchange dealers in Paris and London. Singapore has always been an active participant in the ACI Global arena with elected representatives in the ACI FMA Standing Committees. Our Singapore Committee members have been elected to various global committees over the years and presently to the ACI FMA Board of Education, Working Regulatory Committee, Investment Committee, and Women’s Committee hence having the biggest representation from Asia to the ACI working committees.
Our Singapore Association was officially renamed to Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS) on 31st March 2021 to reflect a stronger focus on the domestic agenda while still affiliated to global ACI FMA entity. FMAS Executive Committee had recommended that the association adopts a progressive mentality and refocus our efforts to promote the association’s key objective of fostering collaboration within the financial market ecosystem within Singapore. This includes promoting and supporting all participants who supports the front office of financial market in Singapore, such as the treasury middle and back office, the risk and compliance professionals and recognised market operators in the ecosystem. In addition, it was recommended to expand our membership criteria and allow these participants supporting the front office to join our membership. By allowing more support function role employees to join FMAS, they will in turn benefit from the association’s activities that includes improving standards, increase collaboration, education, networking and promote charity fundraising initiatives, with a clear mandate to add value to our industry as a whole.
Since the end of 2009, FMAS, first in partnership with the Singapore Management University, had developed a Financial Markets training roadmap for Financial Markets professionals in the front, middle, and back offices in training in that area. But since 2019, FMAS has taken the training and development in-house and is now recognised as a key Financial Markets training provider in Singapore. This underpins FMAS’s commitment to continuing education and professional development for our members and the financial markets industry in Singapore.
As the Industry representative for Financial Markets professionals, FMAS is proud that for the past 32 years to have been able to raise over $15 million for the less fortunate in our society through our annual Charity fundraising initiatives. All funds raised is distributed from the FMAS Trampoline Fund through a grant call. This charity drive is now well recognised as a fixture in the annual calendar, and is widely and actively supported by our members and the wider financial markets fraternity.
In 2021, FMAS organised the inaugural Asia Financial Markets Forum 2021, an event especially relevant to the treasury and markets function in banks, financial institutions and corporates who face major challenges in how to stay ahead of the ever-changing environment. The headwinds created by the COVID-19 pandemic and the use of artificial intelligence has further accelerated the transition towards a more digital customer base and workforce, leading to a world where growth prospects are highly challenged and this makes it more important to have a forum to share the information and progress in markets with all. FMAS hopes that by establishing this as an annual forum, it would help to bring in the fraternity of top thought leaders and establishes lasting networking within our financial markets eco system.
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Head of Asia Equities ex Japan and Portfolio Manager
Balyasny Asset Management
Archana Parekh is the Head of Asia Equities ex Japan. She joined BAM in November 2022 and is based in our Singapore office. Archana joins us from Millennium, where she worked as a Senior Portfolio Manager covering the Global TMT and Financials sectors. Prior to Millennium, Archana was at Seatown Holdings and Temasek Holdings. Archana serves on the Board of Trustees for Stanford University’s GSB Trust, the Singapore American School, 100 Women in Finance, and United Women Singapore. Additionally, she has previously served on the Boards of WISE and U Go. She received her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and her BA in Computer Science from Mount Holyoke College.
Managing Director
Head of Data Analytics,
Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank
Gary Lui is Head of Data Analytics at DBS Global Financial Markets (GFM), spearheading Generative and Agentic AI solutions for Sales and Trading. He is responsible for building intelligent agents to scale sales and trading AI workflows, and streamline regulatory and operational risk procedures across multiple asset classes.
He joined DBS Hong Kong in 2017 as Head of Digital and Data Initiatives for GFM Greater China where he developed the FX API solutions business in the region and along with his team, pioneered machine learning models for matching corporate sales leads in foreign exchange (FX) at GFM.
A seasoned banking professional with over 25 years of experience, Gary specialises in technology, digitisation, data analytics, and operations & finance process optimisation.
A computer scientist by training, Gary began his career at JPMorgan in New York as a software engineer focused on technology solutions for interest rate and credit derivative risk management systems, before relocating to Hong Kong to drive automation of product control profit and loss (P&L) processes for the Credit Hybrids and collateralised debt obligations desks in the middle office.
He later joined UBS, where he led middle-office and finance teams covering equity and FICC derivatives to streamline and automate their processes and designed robotic process automation (RPA) workflows, enhancing efficiency across Investment Banking Operations and Finance.
Partner
Dymon Asia Capital
Gerald joined Dymon Asia Capital in July 2015 and is currently a Partner.
Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at UBS Singapore. His last role there was Country Head, Singapore.
Head of Markets Strategy,
Executive Director
Global Economics and
Markets Research
United Overseas Bank
Koon How is the Head of Markets Strategy, Global Economics and Markets Research at UOB, where he leads the in-house team to formulate forecasts and house views for Foreign Exchange (FX), commodities and interest rates. Koon How focuses on advising key clients across Wholesale Banking, Global Markets, Corporate and Financial Institution segments throughout the ASEAN region. He has more than 25 years of financial markets experience across the key asset classes.
Advisor
GIC Pte Ltd
Jeffrey Jaensubhakij is Advisor to GIC Pte Ltd. He was previously Group GIO at GIC where he oversaw capital allocation across asset classes and regions and across internal and external investment mandates.
Over the course of his career, he headed GIC’s Public Markets Investments team, its European Operations and Global Equites and North American Equities teams.
A father of three, Jeffrey holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University and a BA from Cambridge University. Jeffrey is a trustee of the Singapore Management University and chairs its Investment Committee, as well as that of the Ministry of Health Holdings.
President
SGX Group
Mr Michael Syn is President of SGX Group. He has management responsibility for SGX’s markets and platforms across asset classes. He heads SGX’s Global Markets Division, and is CEO for SGX’s stock market, central depository and futures markets and clearinghouse.
Mr Syn serves on the board of Sentosa Development Corporation. He chairs Mount Faber Leisure Group, a leading operator of leisure and lifestyle attractions in Singapore anchored around the Singapore Cable Car Sky Network. He graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Cambridge University and attended the Harvard Advanced Management Program.
Head of Global Fixed Income, Asia Pacific
BlackRock
Navin Saigal, Managing Director, is Head of Fundamental Fixed Income, Asia Pacific at BlackRock. He is a member of the Fundamental Fixed Income Executive Committee, a member of the CIO office for Global Fixed Income, and a portfolio manager for global multisector fixed income funds, including the BGF Sustainable Global Bond Income Fund. He is also a member of the Singapore Management Committee.
Navin spent over 12 years in New York as a member of the CIO office for Global Fixed Income, working on asset allocation and derivative strategies, before moving to Singapore to lead Asia Pacific macro strategies, all of which are responsibilities he retains in his current role. He also contributed to the buildout of the investment process for global multi-sector and benchmarked strategies. In addition, Navin remains one of the writers of thought leadership pieces for BlackRock, including Rick Rieder’s Monthly Markets Call and articles in the public domain.
Navin also leads the GFI talent development and mentorship program, and is a regular contributor to the curriculum of the BlackRock Educational Academy.
Prior to his role in the office of the CIO of Global Fixed Income, Navin was a credit and equity research analyst on a BlackRock hedge fund (R3 Capital). Navin graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
Deputy President, FMAS
Deputy Chairperson, AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Global Head of EFX Liquidity, Product & Governance Head of Asia EFX Trading Global Markets, FICC Trading
Bank of America
Ping Tan is a Managing Director at Bank of America (BofA) . She heads the Asia EFX trading team based out of Singapore, with global oversight of the principal EFX traders managing risks for the electronic FX franchise. Besides her trading risk mandate, she is also responsible for product development strategy across EFX and the wider Global FX & Emerging Markets, to continue expanding BofA’s electronic offering, while overseeing all regulatory and governance-related matters for EFX globally.
Ping joined the BofA Singapore office in 2004 as an Emerging Markets FX trader before being posted to the London office in 2006 and established the EFX trading desk operation globally in 2007. She relocated to Hong Kong office in October 2015 to and had the opportunity to move back to the Singapore office in May 2022 on the back of her expanded global role into Product Strategy.
Beyond her day job, Ping is heavily involved in various D&I initiatives at the firm including BofA Philanthropy Committee, as well as past leadership roles chairing the APAC FICC Employee Engagement Committee, co-chair of Hong Kong Parents & Caregivers Network, APAC Women Leadership Council, Global Markets Campus Recruitment Committee, and proud recipient of 2016 Global Volunteer Award. Outside the firm, she sits on FMAS (formerly ACI Singapore) Executive Committee and chairs the Women@FMAS sub-committee, and is the APAC Regional chair for Global ACI Women in Global Markets Committee.
Ping graduated from Nanyang Technological University of Singapore with a Bachelor’s Degree in Accountancy.
Managing Director
Senior Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific
Barclays
Samuel is Senior Relationship Manager, Asia Pacific, and is based in Singapore. Partnering closely with teams from Investment Banking and Global Markets, he focuses on delivering the entire firm to its largest and most complex institutional clients around the world. He is also a member of the Singapore Management Team.
Prior to his current appointment, Samuel was the Head of Real Money and Hedge Funds Macro Distribution, a role which he took on in 2016, and was responsible for distribution of Macro products into the Hedge Fund and Real Money client base.
Samuel was previously Head of Macro Real Money and Official Institutions Sales with teams in Singapore and India where he managed the delivery of currency, interest rates and precious metal products to Asset Managers, Central Banks and Sovereign Wealth Funds.
Since joining Barclays in 2006, Samuel has held a number of leadership positions with various responsibilities, including Emerging Market and FX sales to Official Institutions.
Samuel is also the Chair of the Barclays APAC Citizenship Council.
He joined Barclays from Merrill Lynch where he worked in Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong, having started his career as a FX Forwards trader in London in 2001.
He graduated from Cambridge University in 2001 with a MA in Geography.
Professor (Adj.)
NTU, Newcastle, HKBU, SJTU, Surrey
Distinguish Fellow, Fudan Univ and CFAR(A*STAR),
and
Global Head, Nvidia AI Technology Center
Nvidia
Professor Simon See is currently the Solution Architecture and Engineering Director, Chief Solution Architect and Global Head for NVIDIA AI Technology Center, NVIDIA Corporation. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Conventry University, and Universitas Indonesia (UI) and Newcastle University in Singapore. He is also a distinguished fellow in Fudan University. Previously Professor See is also the Chief Scientific Computing Advisor for BGI (China) and has a position in Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) and King-Mong Kung University of Technology (Thailand). Professor See is currently involved in a number of International computational, mathematical science projects and national AI initiatives. Recently Professor Simon has been appointed as the Executive Director of the ASEAN Applied Research Centre (AARC). His research interests are in the area of High-Performance Computing, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Computational Science, Applied Mathematics and Simulation Methodology. Professor See is also leading some of the AI initiatives in Asia Pacific. He is a Steering Committee member of NSCC’s flagship High Performance Computing Conference Supercomputing Asia (SCA) since March 2018. He has published over 200 papers in these areas and has won various awards in the field.
Professor See is a Fellow member of IET, Chairman of TaskForce of IEEE’s CIS Neural Networks Technical Committee, a member of SIAM, IET, AAAI, SCS, and also on the Advisory Team of AIP (AI Professional Association), International Advisory Board of Institute of Operations Research & Analytics (IORA), Advisory Team of Machine Intelligence and Data Analytics Research Centre (MIDARC), School of Computing Sciences (India) and Board of Studies, MS Tech Programs of Mahindra University, Editorial Board Member of Journal of Computational and Cognitive Engineering (JCCE), The Industry Advisory Committee for Bachelor of Science in Computer Science in Real-time Interactive Simulation and Interactive Media and Game Design at Singapore Institute of Technology (SIT) and the committee member of more than 50 conferences.
Professor See graduated from the University of Salford (UK) with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and numerical analysis in 1993. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Professor See worked for SGI, DSO National Lab. of Singapore, IBM, International Simulation Ltd (UK), Sun Microsystems and Oracle. He is also providing consultancy to a number of national research and supercomputing centers.
Chief Executive Officer
LCH Ltd
Susi de Verdelon is CEO at LCH Ltd, where she is responsible for driving continued expansion across LCH’s services, with a focus on sustained growth, innovation and operational excellence. She serves on the Markets Leadership Team.
Susi previously was Group Head of SwapClear and Listed Rates, where her key achievement includes executing the LIBOR transition across 9 markets, launching new data and analytics products, launching a new US ETD clearing service and significantly expanding SwapClear through the Brexit environment and more globally. She also initiated several significant technology programmes. As Group Head, Susi served on the Financial Risk Committee of LSEG, and the
LCH LTD ExCo.
Prior to joining LCH in 2017, Susi was a Managing Director in the Securities Division at Goldman Sachs, where she led the front office team in charge of cross-asset regulatory change for Europe. Susi holds an MA in Economics and Management from Oxford University. Susi is a board member, Co-Head of Europe, of Women in Financial Markets (WIFM).
Programme Curator
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director and Chief Economist Group Research
DBS Bank
Taimur Baig, PhD, heads global economics as well as macro strategy for interest rate, credit, and currency at DBS Group Research. He also advises the bank on risk management and investment strategy.
Prior to joining DBS in 2017, Dr. Baig was a Principal Economist at the Economic Policy Group, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). Earlier, he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore office, where his last position was Managing Director and Chief Economist, Asia. During 1999-2007, he was based in Washington, DC, at the headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, where his last position was Senior Economist.
Dr. Baig has published extensively for both specialists and a general audience, on areas including monetary policy, digital currency, financial technology, climate change, demographics, frontier markets, fiscal policy efficacy, and financial market contagion. He is the host of “Kopi Time,” a widely followed podcast series on markets and economies.
Dr. Baig is an Honorary Advisor to the Global CFO Network, Director Fellow at the Asian Financial Cooperation Association, and Council Member of the Economic Society of Singapore. Dr. Baig holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign. He attended London School of Economics and Wabash College for his B.A. in Economics.
Global Head, Trading – Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
Tony Hall joined Standard Chartered Bank as Global Head of Macro Trading, Financial Markets in July 2019. In April 2024, he was appointed Global Head of Trading and XVA for Markets where he manages a team of traders covering FX, Rates, Commodities, Credit and XVA. He is a member of the CIB Management Team and the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee.
Tony has 30 years of global experience in financial markets including more than 20 years in Singapore. He began his career with UBS in 1995 as an FX Derivatives Floor Trader on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and went on to hold various leadership positions from 2008 to 2019, including Global Head of FX Derivatives Trading and Head of FX, Rates & Credit, APAC.
Tony grew up in the Chicago area and graduated from the University of Illinois. He later received a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a Master of Business Administration from University of Chicago. He is a Singapore citizen where he resides with his wife and three children.
President, FMAS
Chairperson, AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Managing Director,
Group Head of Trading & Structuring
Global Financial Markets
DBS Bank
Jacky Tai is the Group Head of Trading & Structuring for Global Financial Markets at DBS Bank. Assuming this role since 2018, Jacky has been responsible for the management of trading, market making, product structuring and risk warehousing activities across asset classes regionally.
He joined Treasury & Markets at DBS in 1999 and was tasked to build up DBS Greater China trading operations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and China. In addition to driving business outcomes, the teams in Greater China have also won many awards and accolades in local and derivatives markets from Asian Risk, Global Finance, Banker, and other leading market intelligence under Jacky’s stewardship.
An avid innovator and market pioneer, Jacky has also represented DBS Hong Kong, Singapore, and China in public forums and associations initiated by regulators such as the Hong Kong Treasury Market Association committee, ACI, ASFIMA task force, China QFII, Singapore RQFII, FX Global Code, Blue Book, China Bond Connect. He was appointed as President of the Financial Markets Association of Singapore in January 2024 and previous held the role of Treasurer since 2021. Jacky is also a strong believer in embracing Asian connectivity and digitalisation for the advancement of financial markets. He was conferred the Singapore IBF Fellow Award in Financial Markets in 2022.
Before joining DBS Bank, Jacky was Head of Asian Derivatives Trading at Dresdner Bank AG. He has also worked at Nomura, and JP Morgan in Hong Kong, Singapore, and New York.
Jacky graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Computer Science from the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Treasurer
AFMF 2025 Organising Committee
Partner
Dymon Asia Capital
Mr. Lee Beng Hong is now Partner (CEO office) at Dymon Asia. Under the CEO office, he holds oversight responsibilities for the firm’s trading, treasury, and technology functions, contributing to the strategic direction and operational efficiency of the organization.
Prior to joining Dymon Asia, Mr. Lee was a member of the Group Executive Management Committee at SGX Group and served as Head of Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities (FICC) & Head of Wholesale Markets & Platforms (WMP). During his tenure, he spearheaded the growth of the Group’s core FICC businesses and new off-exchange businesses and advanced its technology services in digitalisation and automation.
With over 20 years of experience in financial markets, Mr. Lee previously held senior roles at Deutsche Bank, specializing in Asian FICC. His last role was leading Deutsche Bank’s financing and solutions group for North Asia, alongside his responsibilities as Executive Vice President of Deutsche Bank China and Head of Global Markets, China. He began his career at Deutsche Bank Singapore, managing rates and FX trading books.
Mr. Lee holds a Master of Science in Financial Engineering from Nanyang Technological University and a Master of Engineering (Civil) from the National University of Singapore.
Head, Legal, Financial Markets
Standard Chartered Bank
John Ho is the Global Head of Legal, Financial Markets for Standard Chartered Bank (“SCB”), overseeing and providing legal advisory, transactional and documentation support for Financial Markets (FM) business globally for Standard Chartered Bank (SCB), its branches and affiliates. Mr Ho is a member of Regulatory Working Group of the ACI FMA. Mr. Ho is also the co-chair of (1) the ISDA South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee and (2) the ISDA Asia Pacific ESG Working group.
Mr Ho is on the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB’s) Taskforce on the Legal, Regulatory and Supervisory Frameworks, GFMA Artificial Intelligence (AI) Steering Group, and the FIA Asia Pacific Advisory Board. Mr. Ho is also the co-chair of (1) the ISDA South East Asia Legal and Regulatory Committee and (2) the ISDA Asia Pacific ESG Working group. Mr. Ho is a member of the panel of experts of P.R.I.M.E. Finance, the financial markets dispute resolution service based in The Hague.
He is an active participant in the industry’s Fintech events and is a public speaker on topics such as Central Bank Digital Currencies, Blockchain, Digital Assets, Financial Markets, Sustainability and Regulatory Reforms. He serves as a mentor to startups and co-authored a publication from the World Economic Forum called The Digital Currency Governance Consortium Whitepaper, published in November 2021. He is a also mentor for the UK FCA Sustainability TechSprint, FCA Digital Sandbox, R3 and LongHash.
Prior to joining SCB, Mr. Ho was the Managing Director Principal in the legal department of Bear Stearns (Japan), Ltd (“Bear Stearns”) where he supported the Asia franchise (including Tokyo, Hong Kong, China, Taiwan, Korea, India and South-east Asia) from January 2003 to August 2008 covering various structured products and derivatives including equity derivatives, credit derivatives, fixed income and commodities.
Prior to joining Bear Stearns, Mr. Ho worked as Asia equity counsel for Lehman Brothers in Tokyo with experience dealing in convertibles, options, warrants, delta one products and other types of equity derivatives transactions, equity finance and equity capital markets.
He is qualified as an advocate and solicitor in Singapore since 1995 and he received his law degree from the National University of Singapore.
Managing Partner & Deputy Chief Executive Officer
Dymon Asia Capital
Mr. Kenneth Kan is the Managing Partner and Deputy CEO at Dymon Asia Capital. With extensive experience in trading and portfolio management, he joined Dymon Asia in 2012 and has since played a vital role in the firm’s growth.
As Deputy CEO, Mr. Kan focuses a lot of his time on Talent; overseeing the Business Development department, ESG efforts, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Communications, CSR, and Group Administration.
Mr. Kan’s industry involvement extends beyond his role at Dymon Asia. He serves on the Exco of the Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS), where he also chairs the Education sub-committee. Furthermore, he actively participates in three working groups initiated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS): the Human Resources Industry Group, the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee and the Financial Sector Tripartite Committee. He is also a valued member of the SBAI ESG working group and holds the distinction of being an IBF Fellow.
Outside of his professional roles, Mr. Kan contributes to non-profit organizations as a board member of The Majurity Trust, Ray of Hope, and the Children’s Museum of Singapore. He graduated from Santa Clara University with a Bachelor of Science in Commerce (Finance).
Through his leadership and expertise, Mr. Kenneth Kan continues to make a significant impact in the financial sector and the community.
Global Head of FX Flow & EM Linear Rates Trading
Global Markets, AEJ
Nomura Singapore
Mr. Leng Hoe Lon is Global Head of FX Flow & EM Linear Rates Trading Global Markets, AEJ at Nomura Singapore. He also leads Nomura’s Cross Markets proprietary trading business in Asia.
Hoe Lon has 25 years of experience in trading and investing in financial markets. He started his career at Deutsche Bank, followed by trading roles across Asia and London with JP Morgan, ABN AMRO, Goldman Sachs, and Tudor Capital. Prior to joining Nomura, Hoe Lon was Head of Financial Markets (Singapore, Brunei and Australia) and Head of Macro Trading (ASEAN and South Asia) at Standard Chartered Bank.
In addition to his sellside and buyside experience, Hoe Lon has been a founder, advisor, and investor of various startups in Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, and Blockchain. He has published two books: Decrypted – A Financial Trader’s Take on Cryptocurrency and Deflated – How To Find Your Footing in a Shaky Blockchain Investment World.
Hoe Lon earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Warwick, and he is a CFA charterholder.
Managing Director,
Head of APAC Fixed Income and FX Trading
BlackRock
Patrick Leung, CFA, Managing Director, is head of APAC Fixed Income and FX trading. He is responsible for overseeing fixed income and FX trading activity in the region.
Mr. Leung’s service with the firm dates back to 2005, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009.
Mr. Leung earned an M. Eng degree from Cornell University and an MBA from New York University.
Managing Director,
Financial Markets Association of Singapore
Ravi started his career in the financial markets as a broker followed by a couple of years’ stint in Tokyo. In 1994, Ravi joined HSBC’s Global Markets sales team in Singapore where he worked for twelve years covering execution flow in treasury products before joining Traditions to establish the THB IRS Desk. In 2006, Ravi joined SCB Singapore to cover the SEA Financial Institutions and Central Banks on flow execution and soon after, headed the bank’s sales desk. Ravi has always dedicated himself in building lasting relationships in Singapore and in the region.
In 2019, Ravi joined FMAS as the Managing Director, spearheading the association’s mandate for its members’ networking, education courses as well as mooting of the Asia Financial Market Forum. Ravi is also a member of ACI FMA Global Board of Education. Most importantly, Ravi is very proud and passionate about being part of the committee, instrumental in setting up the FMAS Trampoline Fund in 2020, an annual charity fundraising initiative of FMAS with more than 30 years of legacy.
Group Head of Markets - Asia Pacific
London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG)
Rohit Verma is Group Head of Asia Pacific, responsible for managing Markets business to ensure continued expansion in the region. The remit includes London Clearing House and other trading platform, risk and capital optimization propositions.
Rohit has over 24 years’ experience in the derivatives, prime brokerage, and risk management space. Before joining LSEG in 2021, he spent over nine years in senior strategic roles at Citi, including Head of Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage in APAC. During his tenure, Rohit also represented Citi at various Asian exchange risk committees and workgroups. Prior to this, he was Deutsche Bank’s APAC Head of Risk Management, overseeing market and counterparty risk management for their asset management business.
Rohit holds an MBA in Finance from the National University of Singapore and is FRM certified.
In addition to representations on various LSEG management committees, Rohit Chairs the Board of Directors for Refinitiv Transaction Services Pte Ltd. He is also on the Executive committee of Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS) as well as a member of the Singapore Foreign Exchange Market Committee (SFEMC).
Master of Ceremonies
AFMF 2024
Visiting Professor-in-Practice
London School of Economics
Lutfey Siddiqi is a Visiting Professor-in-Practice at the London School of Economics where he also sits on the advisory boards of the Systemic Risk Centre, the foreign policy think-tank LSE IDEAS, and the Inclusion Initiative in the Behavioural Science department. He is an Emeritus Governor of LSE and a former member of LSE investment committee.
Concurrently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the National University of Singapore and advisory board member at the centre for governance and sustainability, NUS Business School.
He is a member of the governing board of UWC Atlantic College, Wales and a former member of the governing board of New City College Group, England.
Lutfey is a member of the World Economic Forum global future council on fiscal and monetary policy, having previously served on the councils for inclusive finance, capital markets, and infrastructure investment.
He was previously Global Head of Emerging Markets for Foreign Exchange, Rates & Credit at UBS Investment Bank where he was also the founding head of UBS Knowledge Network. Prior to that, he worked at Barclays and Deutsche bank in both London and Singapore.
Head of Marketing, ASEAN, ANZ and South Asia,
Bloomberg L.P.
Eric is a curious marketer who had the privilege to enable brands and businesses achieve tangible results for more than 20 years. He prefers to think without boxes and believes in continuous learning. He also still harbours hope to be a professional footballer one day.
Deputy President,
FMAS
Head of Global Treasury International
OCBC Bank Ltd
Mr Samuel Koh joined Global Treasury, OCBC Bank in April 2013. His current role is the Head of Global Treasury International. With more than thirty years of experience in the financial market, he has been a thought leader at various stages of the development in the emerging markets in Asia. He started his career with Citibank Singapore in 1990 and has worked in various capacities in Citibank, Pacific Asset Management and OCBC Bank in Singapore, as well as HSBC and Bank of China in Hong Kong.
During the span of his career, he was involved in the development and trading of Asian regional currencies Interest Rate and FX Derivatives. In 1998, he transacted the first interbank Singapore Dollar interest rate option contract. On top of that, he spends time training and mentoring the newer generations of financial market professionals across many countries.
He is the Deputy President of the Financial Markets Association of Singapore (previously known as ACI Singapore). Within the organisation, he promotes the welfare and education of financial market practitioners in Singapore. He was the Chairman of the ACI Charity Golf which raises funds for charity organisations in Singapore in 2007, 2008 and 2017. He was awarded the 2019 Institute of Banking and Finance, IBF Fellowship Award, recognising his contribution to the financial industry in Singapore.
Mr Koh holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the National University of Singapore and a Masters in Applied Finance from Macquarie University Australia.
