Fixed Income & FX Leaders Summit APAC 2024
November 19 - 20, 2024
Equarius Hotel, Sentosa, Singapore
Main Conference Day 1, Wednesday 23rd November
8:40 am - 8:45 am
Welcome Address: Danny Levy, Managing Director, FI & FX APAC
8:45 am - 8:50 am
Welcome Address: Yaroslava Bhandari, Lead Editor, Researcher & Producer, FI & FX APAC
8:50 am - 8:55 am
Lead Sponsor Opening Remarks
Ashlesh Gosain -
APAC Head of Electronic Trading Solution,
Bloomberg
8:55 am - 9:00 am
Chairperson Opening Remarks
Brett Elvish -
Director,
Financial Viewpoint
Insights, Analysis and Growth – A View From The Top
9:00 am - 9:30 am
Opening Economist Keynote Interview: How will rising inflation, withdrawal of liquidity, COVID-19 resurgence, emerging markets political crisis and other geopolitical factors affect your trading desk in 2023/24 and how to best prepare
Dr Matthew Peter -
Chief Economist,
QIC
Iris Pang -
Chief economist, Greater China,
ING Wholesale Banking
Brett Elvish -
Director,
Financial Viewpoint
9:30 am - 9:50 am
Case Study: Macro Outlook for 2023: Impact on Fixed Income and Currency Markets – Implications for investment strategy
James Cheo -
MD & CIO, SEA,
HSBC Wealth Management
9:50 am - 10:40 am
Keynote Panel: Future-proofing your trading desk in a post-pandemic environment and high volatile markets – How can you leverage innovations in electronic trading and big data as key differentiators to drive growth and achieve agility?
Martin Viseux -
Head of Fixed Income Trading Asia,
HSBC Global Asset Management (Hong Kong)
Laurent Ischi -
Director, AiEX Product Development,
Tradeweb
Kem Husain -
Managing Director APAC,
AxeTrading
Larry Rorrison -
Head of Fixed Income APAC,
ICE
Brett Elvish -
Director,
Financial Viewpoint
10:40 am - 11:00 am
Fireside Chat: How to select winning credits in a turbulent market
Zerlina Zeng -
CFA, Senior analyst, China Macro & Corporates,
CreditSights
Lakshmanan R -
CFA, FRM, Senior analyst, S&SEA Corporates,
CreditSights
Sandra Chow -
CFA, Co-Head of Asia-Pacific Research,
CreditSights
Volatility creates opportunities: which sectors and issuers should investors choose or avoid in Asian credit?
11:00 am - 11:45 am
Morning Networking Break 1
China – The New Safe Haven?
11:45 am - 12:05 pm
Fireside Chat: What is the outlook on the Renminbi in 2023 and how have the mechanics of the Chinese market evolved?
Patrick Law -
Managing Director, Head of Asia Pacific FX and North Asia Local Markets Trading,
BofA Securities
Mushtaq Kapasi -
Managing Director and Chief Representative, Asia Pacific,
International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
12:05 pm - 12:50 pm
Keynote Panel: With foreign capital still only around 3 percent, how can you best take advantage of the China opportunity to avoid stagnation and drive growth?
Gareth Nicholson -
Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Head of Discretionary Portfolio Management,
Nomura
Joevin Teo Chin-Ker -
Head of Investments,
Amundi Singapore
Gordon Tsui -
Managing Director & Head of Fixed Income Fixed Income Investment,
Ping An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong)
Iain Court -
Managing Director, Head of Asia ex-Japan Index Fixed Income and CorePM,
BlackRock
Ricco Zhang -
Senior Director, Asia Pacific,
International Capital Market Association (ICMA)
Mitul Kotecha -
Head of Emerging Markets Strategy,
TD Securities
Gareth Nicholson
Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Head of Discretionary Portfolio ManagementNomura
Gordon Tsui
Managing Director & Head of Fixed Income Fixed Income InvestmentPing An of China Asset Management (Hong Kong)
12:50 pm - 1:10 pm
Case Study: How does a regulated DLT exchange work? Technology insights from the world’s first fractional bond exchange
Dr. Rahul Banerjee -
Co-Founder & CEO,
BondEvalue
Madhav Kapadia -
CEO & Chairman,
Lucror Analytics
1:10 pm - 1:30 pm
Guest Keynote: Digital assets reshaping the financial ecosystem – The infrastructure and collaboration needed to help digital assets reach full maturity and integrate seamlessly with traditional assets
Shi Mei Chin -
Treasurer,
Singapore FinTech Association
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Networking Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
Invite Only VIP Networking Lunch: Bloomberg
Ashlesh Gosain -
APAC Head of Electronic Trading Solution,
Bloomberg
It's great to meet in person after three long years! Join your peers at this exclusive luncheon hosted by Ashlesh Gosain, Bloomberg APAC Head of Electronic Trading Solutions and Electronic Trading Business. Learn what Bloomberg has undertaken in the past 3 years on product enhancement for the fixed income trading space and gain insights into buyside workflow adoption trends. We look forward to hosting you at this interactive lunch and learn.
Embracing New Innovations
Fixed Income
2:30 pm - 3:20 pm All Star Panel: Meet the non-bank market makers – Evaluate the new market makers with your buy side peers to understand who is best placed to help you meet your liquidity needs Rachana Mehta - Co-Head of Regional Investments Fixed Income, Maybank Asset Management Singapore Anson Chow - Institutional Sales & Trading, Jane Street Laura Lui - Partner, Co-CIO, Premia Partners Lili Wang - Managing Director, Finex Hong Kong Limited
Fixed Income
3:20 pm - 3:50 pm Case Study: Why automating Fixed Income RFQ workflows feels like a game of Whack-A-Mole Steve Toland - Co-Founder, TransFICC
Winning In The New FX Marketplace
2:30 pm - 3:10 pm All-Star Panel: What are the top 3 trends shaping and disrupting the future of the FX trading ecosystem and how can you rethink your strategies to thrive in a fast-evolving FX market? Sagar Anand - Regional Head - Global Markets, Edelweiss Shiva Iyer - CEO, Eaton Vance Management International Karen Foo - Award Winning Trader & Financial Trader, Karen Foo International
Winning In The New FX Marketplace
3:10 pm - 3:30 pm Case Study: Which trading strategies and technologies will have the biggest impact on driving performance? Karen Foo - Award Winning Trader & Financial Trader, Karen Foo InternationalWinning In The New FX Marketplace
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Case Study: How can you leverage the latest data analytics tools and capabilities to provide automated trade feedback and to help achieve best execution results? Manu Sharma - Trading Solutions Head of APAC Sales, FactSet
Women in Trading
2:30 pm - 3:40 pm Women in Trading Synergy Panel: Improving the opportunities for women in capital markets: Covering everything from communications, self-branding and career progression and how diversity should be used as a competitive advantage on your fixed income desk Kat Furber - Global Head of Emerging Markets Trading, Bloomberg Carol Wong - Director, Fixed Income, LGT Bank Singapore Ashvin Parkash - Global Head of eFX Distribution, APAC Head of eFI Distribution, Nomura Cici Lu - Founder and Principal Consultant, Venn Link Partners Ee Leen Yueh - Director, APAC Trading Desk, BlackrockFollowing on from FILS in Nashville and Nice, Bloomberg will once again be hosting a fantastic interactive panel discussion on diversity, inclusion and equality at FIFX Leaders Singapore. With a primary focus on the female community we look to discuss what is and isn't working with recruitment and development, discussing privilege and the importance of becoming an intersectional ally.
Digital Assets
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm Synergy Workshop: What are the latest developments in crypto assets and transactional systems and how is institutional participation evolving? Sonny Mohanty - Co-Founder, Bitqin
3:50 pm - 4:20 pm
Afternoon Networking Break
Private Banking & Family Offices – The Latest Innovations
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm All-Star Panel: How have advances in electronification and demand for additional functionality across trading platforms and analytics functions changed execution for Asia’s top private banks and family offices? Martin David - Head of Trading APAC, UBS Asset Management Prashantha Mundkod - Sales Director - APAC at Solve Advisors Inc., SOLVE Arjun Chib - MD, Global Head, Consumer, Private and Business Banking on Boarding Operations Hub, Standard Chartered Kat Furber - Global Head of Emerging Markets Trading, Bloomberg Eric Neo Say Wei - Board Director, RF International Holdings
Arjun Chib
MD, Global Head, Consumer, Private and Business Banking on Boarding Operations HubStandard Chartered
Maximising Your Liquidity Access
4:20 pm - 5:00 pm Sell Side Panel: What are the latest offerings from banks and non-bank liquidity providers that will enable you to increase your access to new liquidity pools and achieve best execution? Alexandre Manakyan - Co-Head International eMacro Trading, Credit Suisse John Rothstein - CEO, Optiver Ashvin Parkash - Global Head of eFX Distribution, APAC Head of eFI Distribution, Nomura
Maximising Your Liquidity Access
5:00 pm - 5:20 pm Fireside chat: How to unearth liquidity in times of market stress to enhance relationship based trading decisions and better manage costs? Varun Nayyar - STIR Portfolio Manager and FX/Rates Overlay, Hong Kong, Segantii Capital Management Sam Luft - Principal CEO, Mel Global Advisors
ETFs
4:20 pm - 5:20 pm Synergy Workshop: Cash Bond and ETF Trading - How a specialised market maker can provide extra liquidity Viktor Ostebo - Head of Institutional Trading, Flow TradersWhat’s the best practice to trade ETFs, and how a market maker can provide extra liquidity to cash bond markets.
FlowTraders is one of largest ETF market makers, quoting more than 8000 globally-listed ETFs. The session will cover how investors can trade ETFs with access of full liquidity, not limited by onscreen volume and exchange trading hour, together with a ETF trading demo showing how easy and cost-efficient ETF-trading can be. The session will also discuss how ETF market maker can provide extra liquidity in cash bonds vs traditional dealers.
5:20 pm - 6:50 pm
Fixed Income & FX APAC End Of Day One - Time for networking drinks!
Sponsored by: ICE Data Services
