Singapore Banking Conference (South & Southeast Asia focus)
What lies ahead amid global headwinds?
IN PERSON EVENT
The Fullerton Hotel, Singapore
Agenda
08.30
- 09.00
SGT
Registration & coffee
09.05
- 09.15
SGT
09.15
- 10.00
SGT
10.00
- 10.30
SGT
Coffee break
10.30
- 11.20
SGT
What are the risks and opportunities for ASEAN and Indian banks amid global economic headwinds?
Panel discussion
- How will slowing global growth and uncertainty in interest rates direction impact asset quality and profitability?
- How will recent developments in the global banking system affect ASEAN and Indian banks’ funding and liquidity?
- How will these challenges affect banks’ ESG push?
11.20
- 12.10
SGT
How will digital assets transform the banking landscape in ASEAN and India?
Panel discussion
- How will CBDCs and digital assets change ASEAN’s and India’s financial sectors?
- What are the challenges to the adoption of such assets ?
- What is the impact of recent developments and emerging regulations and framework?
12.15
- 14.00
SGT
Networking lunch
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Alka Anbarasu is an Associate Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, Alka is responsible for Moody's analytical teams covering ratings and research on banks, insurance companies, and non-bank financial institutions in Japan, ASEAN and Indian Sub-continent. Alka also coordinates the Global Financial Institution Group's efforts on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scoring and research. Alka is a regular speaker at Moody's market briefings, external conferences podcasts and broadcast media. She is very active in promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and is a passionate impact leader for Moody's Community Impact initiatives in Asia.
Alka joined Moody's in 2013 and over the years has led the ratings of several high profile Asian financial institutions. Prior to joining Moody's, she worked in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan in London and Mumbai and ING Vysya Bank in India. She has close to 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Alka holds an MBA from the Xavier Institute of Management in India.
David Yin is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer with the Financial Institutions Group at Moody’s Investors Service Hong Kong Limited. David is covering a portfolio of banks and non-bank financial institutions in China.
Before joining Moody’s, David worked as equity research analyst for Standard Chartered Bank, covering Chinese banks and securities companies. Earlier, he had covered Chinese financial institutions in Bank of China International Securities (China). He had also worked in the ECM department of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities.
David holds a MSc in management and a BA in Economics from Peking University.
Masakazu Osawa was appointed both MUFG and MUFG Bank’s Chief Executive for Asia Pacific on 1 April 2023. Mr. Osawa is responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across the region as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups. He is based in Singapore, the regional headquarters for MUFG in Asia Pacific (APAC).
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Osawa was Head of Digital Service Business Group and Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO), roles which he held for both MUFG Group and the bank. As CDTO, Mr. Osawa was responsible for driving MUFG’s digital transformation to achieve sustainable growth and enhance shareholder value over the medium-to-long term. He also served as a board member in MUFG Bank.
Mr. Osawa holds a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School in Illinois, USA. He also has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Alka Anbarasu is an Associate Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, Alka is responsible for Moody's analytical teams covering ratings and research on banks, insurance companies, and non-bank financial institutions in Japan, ASEAN and Indian Sub-continent. Alka also coordinates the Global Financial Institution Group's efforts on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scoring and research. Alka is a regular speaker at Moody's market briefings, external conferences podcasts and broadcast media. She is very active in promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and is a passionate impact leader for Moody's Community Impact initiatives in Asia.
Alka joined Moody's in 2013 and over the years has led the ratings of several high profile Asian financial institutions. Prior to joining Moody's, she worked in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan in London and Mumbai and ING Vysya Bank in India. She has close to 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Alka holds an MBA from the Xavier Institute of Management in India.
Mr. Manop has been appointed Chief Finance & Strategy Officer of SCB X PCL. since April 2022 and has extensively involved in formulating strategy for the new group structure. He had been Chief Financial Officer of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) from June 2020 to December 2022.
Prior to taking on the CFO role, Mr. Manop had been taking a leadership role as Head of International Banking Business/China Business to develop regional banking platforms for SCB especially in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Under his leadership, SCB was the only Thai bank to receive “Best Local Bank in Asean for Belt & Road Award” from Asia Money for 3 consecutive years in 2017-2019 and “Best Belt & Road Bank for Thailand Award” from Finance Asia in 2018.
Before joining SCB, Mr. Manop served as Head of China A-share Research at CLSA Shanghai/Hong Kong, specializing in China macro strategy and infrastructure sector investment during 2004-2012. Prior to that, he worked at the Thai Ministry of Finance responsible for state-owned enterprise development policies.
Mr. Manop earned his MBA in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, USA under the Royal Thai Government scholarship and BA in Accounting Information Systems from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He is a certified public accountant (Thailand) and was part-time lecturers at Chulalongkorn University and Fudan University (Shanghai). In 2018, Mr. Manop was awarded “Thai Government Scholar Rising Star Award” from the Royal Thai Government.
Frankie Phua is the Managing Director and Head of Group Risk Management at UOB. In this role, he oversees all risk management matters for UOB Group including credit risk, market risk, balance sheet risk, operational risk, risk strategy, fraud risk, technology risk, product control and risk analytics. Prior to joining UOB Risk Management, Frankie spent more than 10 years in the frontline in Corporate/Commercial banking.
Frankie, a seasoned risk practitioner, is an active contributor to the risk management community. For the past 10 years, he has been the Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association (RMA), an organization associated with RMA USA. He is appointed by Risk Management Institute (RMI), National University of Singapore (NUS) as a lecturer for the Specialist Diploma course in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. He is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses.
Frankie was conferred the IBF Distinguished Fellow Award in Risk Management. The "IBF Distinguished Fellow" is a prestigious title conferred upon industry leaders who are the epitome of professional stature, integrity, and achievement. The Distinguished Fellows serve as a beacon of excellence for the industry.
Gilbert Kohnke currently serves as an advisor and executive coach with Maybank, one of the largest banking groups in ASEAN, after having served as its Group Chief Risk Officer from 1 November 2017 to 30 June 2023.
He has led Group Risk’s continued strategic transformation and strengthened the Group’s operational resilience to deliver optimal support and experience for customers and communities during the pandemic.
He has over 30 years of experience in global financial institutions, with a proven track record of risk expertise serving as the Group Chief Risk Officer for Danske Bank AS and OCBC Bank. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (International Finance and Cross-Cultural Management) from the University of Hawaii.
Eugene Tarzimanov is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he is the Lead Analyst for banks in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Eugene is also responsible for coordinating banking research across Asia Pacific, and actively represents Moody’s to regulators, investors and the media on analytical and methodological views. Eugene moved to Singapore from Moody’s Moscow office, where he covered the largest banks in Russia, as well as financial institutions in Europe and the Middle East.
Before joining Moody’s in early 2009, Eugene held senior positions during his five years with Standard & Poor’s, where he was responsible for the analysis of banks in Europe and the Middle East. He has also worked at the CEO’s office of Bank VTB, where he was responsible for inhouse research.
Eugene holds an MBA in financial management from New York’s Pace University, and a BSc in international economics from Moscow’s Finance Academy.
Amit Pandey joined Moody’s APAC FIG in Singapore in 2023. He covers a rating portfolio of banks in Asia-Pacific, in particular the South and Southeast Asian region.
Previously, Amit was with S&P Global Ratings for over 10 years in Singapore covering a portfolio of ASEAN and South Asian financial institutions. Prior to that, he served in the debt capital market team of HSBC India and the credit department of Axis Bank in Mumbai.
Amit has extensive credit experience in providing rating and capital advisory services to issuers across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as debt origination and management services of credit portfolios.
Amit has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Rehan is General Manager and Chief Product Officer, and a founding team member of Marketnode, an SGX Group and Temasek joint venture and digital markets infrastructure operator. Within this role, he focuses on product development and the digitalization of capital markets products including bonds, funds infrastructure, and structured products. As Head of Fixed Income Products & Digital Assets at SGX Group, Rehan oversaw the launch of a digital bond issuance platform that culminated in Marketnode.
Rehan has over 17 years of experience in fixed income, currencies and commodties and fintech, and has been involved in the launch of multiple regional market trading initiatives such as the launch of Pakistan’s first online debt auction system and Sri Lanka’s interdealer debt trading platform.
At SGX Group, Rehan was also involved in the launch of its institutional bond trading platform in 2016, and led its General Counterparty service rollout in 2018, before focusing on digital assets. He is one of SGX Group's key representatives on industry bodies such as ICMA, FIX Trading Community, and Singapore National Markets Practice Group.
Rehan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University and a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Cyrus is the Managing Director for IDC’s Global Financial Services and FinTech practices. Cyrus and his worldwide teams focus on all aspects of run-the-firm or change-the-firm. His research and advisory practices cover Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets and topics such as Legacy Modernization and Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Big Data & Analytics, Customer Lifecycle Management, Digital Experience (DX), e-Commerce eco-systems, IoT, Cognitive, Blockchain and Fintech. For the past 22 years, Cyrus and his global teams have been working with financial institutions to help them assess their business and operational and technical challenges, select the right vendors/partners, better understand their IT TCO, and grow their customer base.
Before merging with IDC, Cyrus was Managing Director for IDC’s Asia Pacific FSI practice. Before IDC, Cyrus was the partner with a regional research and publication firm. He was instrumental in growing their proprietary as well as subscription-based research business along with their publishing businesses. Cyrus spent 10 years with HSBC in Asia, managing their Operations. Cyrus has lived and worked in the UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia for nearly 12 years before he moved back to Singapore in 2000.
His understanding of a range business, market, regulatory, and investment related issues enable him to work closely with financial institutions, consultants, vendors, and government agencies on various multi-disciplinary initiatives.
Srikanth Vadlamani is a Vice President – Group Credit Officer, APAC Banking for the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he is primarily responsible for the credit ratings of banks and finance companies in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Prior to joining Moody’s, he was a Director in Daiwa Securities’ research department in Singapore, where he was responsible for the coverage of banks in the ASEAN region. He has also worked for other investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Nomura, where he covered banks and other financial institutions in India, Southeast Asia and emerging Europe.
Srikanth holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, majoring in Finance and Economics.
Eugene Tarzimanov is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he is the Lead Analyst for banks in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Eugene is also responsible for coordinating banking research across Asia Pacific, and actively represents Moody’s to regulators, investors and the media on analytical and methodological views. Eugene moved to Singapore from Moody’s Moscow office, where he covered the largest banks in Russia, as well as financial institutions in Europe and the Middle East.
Before joining Moody’s in early 2009, Eugene held senior positions during his five years with Standard & Poor’s, where he was responsible for the analysis of banks in Europe and the Middle East. He has also worked at the CEO’s office of Bank VTB, where he was responsible for inhouse research.
Eugene holds an MBA in financial management from New York’s Pace University, and a BSc in international economics from Moscow’s Finance Academy.
Masakazu Osawa was appointed both MUFG and MUFG Bank’s Chief Executive for Asia Pacific on 1 April 2023. Mr. Osawa is responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across the region as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups. He is based in Singapore, the regional headquarters for MUFG in Asia Pacific (APAC).
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Osawa was Head of Digital Service Business Group and Chief Digital Transformation Officer (CDTO), roles which he held for both MUFG Group and the bank. As CDTO, Mr. Osawa was responsible for driving MUFG’s digital transformation to achieve sustainable growth and enhance shareholder value over the medium-to-long term. He also served as a board member in MUFG Bank.
Mr. Osawa holds a Master of Laws from the University of Chicago Law School in Illinois, USA. He also has a Bachelor of Laws degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Tokyo, Japan.
Mr. Manop has been appointed Chief Finance & Strategy Officer of SCB X PCL. since April 2022 and has extensively involved in formulating strategy for the new group structure. He had been Chief Financial Officer of Siam Commercial Bank (SCB) from June 2020 to December 2022.
Prior to taking on the CFO role, Mr. Manop had been taking a leadership role as Head of International Banking Business/China Business to develop regional banking platforms for SCB especially in China, Myanmar, and Cambodia. Under his leadership, SCB was the only Thai bank to receive “Best Local Bank in Asean for Belt & Road Award” from Asia Money for 3 consecutive years in 2017-2019 and “Best Belt & Road Bank for Thailand Award” from Finance Asia in 2018.
Before joining SCB, Mr. Manop served as Head of China A-share Research at CLSA Shanghai/Hong Kong, specializing in China macro strategy and infrastructure sector investment during 2004-2012. Prior to that, he worked at the Thai Ministry of Finance responsible for state-owned enterprise development policies.
Mr. Manop earned his MBA in Finance from Carnegie Mellon University, USA under the Royal Thai Government scholarship and BA in Accounting Information Systems from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. He is a certified public accountant (Thailand) and was part-time lecturers at Chulalongkorn University and Fudan University (Shanghai). In 2018, Mr. Manop was awarded “Thai Government Scholar Rising Star Award” from the Royal Thai Government.
Frankie Phua is the Managing Director and Head of Group Risk Management at UOB. In this role, he oversees all risk management matters for UOB Group including credit risk, market risk, balance sheet risk, operational risk, risk strategy, fraud risk, technology risk, product control and risk analytics. Prior to joining UOB Risk Management, Frankie spent more than 10 years in the frontline in Corporate/Commercial banking.
Frankie, a seasoned risk practitioner, is an active contributor to the risk management community. For the past 10 years, he has been the Chairman and a Director of the Board of the Singapore Chapter of the Risk Management Association (RMA), an organization associated with RMA USA. He is appointed by Risk Management Institute (RMI), National University of Singapore (NUS) as a lecturer for the Specialist Diploma course in Credit Risk Management – Corporate Banking. He is also regularly engaged by NUS RMI to teach customized risk management courses.
Frankie was conferred the IBF Distinguished Fellow Award in Risk Management. The "IBF Distinguished Fellow" is a prestigious title conferred upon industry leaders who are the epitome of professional stature, integrity, and achievement. The Distinguished Fellows serve as a beacon of excellence for the industry.
Gilbert Kohnke currently serves as an advisor and executive coach with Maybank, one of the largest banking groups in ASEAN, after having served as its Group Chief Risk Officer from 1 November 2017 to 30 June 2023.
He has led Group Risk’s continued strategic transformation and strengthened the Group’s operational resilience to deliver optimal support and experience for customers and communities during the pandemic.
He has over 30 years of experience in global financial institutions, with a proven track record of risk expertise serving as the Group Chief Risk Officer for Danske Bank AS and OCBC Bank. He also holds a Master of Business Administration (International Finance and Cross-Cultural Management) from the University of Hawaii.
Rehan is General Manager and Chief Product Officer, and a founding team member of Marketnode, an SGX Group and Temasek joint venture and digital markets infrastructure operator. Within this role, he focuses on product development and the digitalization of capital markets products including bonds, funds infrastructure, and structured products. As Head of Fixed Income Products & Digital Assets at SGX Group, Rehan oversaw the launch of a digital bond issuance platform that culminated in Marketnode.
Rehan has over 17 years of experience in fixed income, currencies and commodties and fintech, and has been involved in the launch of multiple regional market trading initiatives such as the launch of Pakistan’s first online debt auction system and Sri Lanka’s interdealer debt trading platform.
At SGX Group, Rehan was also involved in the launch of its institutional bond trading platform in 2016, and led its General Counterparty service rollout in 2018, before focusing on digital assets. He is one of SGX Group's key representatives on industry bodies such as ICMA, FIX Trading Community, and Singapore National Markets Practice Group.
Rehan holds a Bachelor of Arts from Concordia University and a Masters in Science from the London School of Economics & Political Science.
Cyrus is the Managing Director for IDC’s Global Financial Services and FinTech practices. Cyrus and his worldwide teams focus on all aspects of run-the-firm or change-the-firm. His research and advisory practices cover Banking, Insurance and Capital Markets and topics such as Legacy Modernization and Transformation, Hybrid Cloud, Big Data & Analytics, Customer Lifecycle Management, Digital Experience (DX), e-Commerce eco-systems, IoT, Cognitive, Blockchain and Fintech. For the past 22 years, Cyrus and his global teams have been working with financial institutions to help them assess their business and operational and technical challenges, select the right vendors/partners, better understand their IT TCO, and grow their customer base.
Before merging with IDC, Cyrus was Managing Director for IDC’s Asia Pacific FSI practice. Before IDC, Cyrus was the partner with a regional research and publication firm. He was instrumental in growing their proprietary as well as subscription-based research business along with their publishing businesses. Cyrus spent 10 years with HSBC in Asia, managing their Operations. Cyrus has lived and worked in the UK, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and Australia for nearly 12 years before he moved back to Singapore in 2000.
His understanding of a range business, market, regulatory, and investment related issues enable him to work closely with financial institutions, consultants, vendors, and government agencies on various multi-disciplinary initiatives.
Alka Anbarasu is an Associate Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, Alka is responsible for Moody's analytical teams covering ratings and research on banks, insurance companies, and non-bank financial institutions in Japan, ASEAN and Indian Sub-continent. Alka also coordinates the Global Financial Institution Group's efforts on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scoring and research. Alka is a regular speaker at Moody's market briefings, external conferences podcasts and broadcast media. She is very active in promoting Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DE&I) initiatives and is a passionate impact leader for Moody's Community Impact initiatives in Asia.
Alka joined Moody's in 2013 and over the years has led the ratings of several high profile Asian financial institutions. Prior to joining Moody's, she worked in the investment banking division of J.P. Morgan in London and Mumbai and ING Vysya Bank in India. She has close to 20 years of experience in the financial industry. Alka holds an MBA from the Xavier Institute of Management in India.
Eugene Tarzimanov is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he is the Lead Analyst for banks in Southeast Asia, including Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh.
Eugene is also responsible for coordinating banking research across Asia Pacific, and actively represents Moody’s to regulators, investors and the media on analytical and methodological views. Eugene moved to Singapore from Moody’s Moscow office, where he covered the largest banks in Russia, as well as financial institutions in Europe and the Middle East.
Before joining Moody’s in early 2009, Eugene held senior positions during his five years with Standard & Poor’s, where he was responsible for the analysis of banks in Europe and the Middle East. He has also worked at the CEO’s office of Bank VTB, where he was responsible for inhouse research.
Eugene holds an MBA in financial management from New York’s Pace University, and a BSc in international economics from Moscow’s Finance Academy.
Srikanth Vadlamani is a Vice President – Group Credit Officer, APAC Banking for the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he is primarily responsible for the credit ratings of banks and finance companies in India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka.
Prior to joining Moody’s, he was a Director in Daiwa Securities’ research department in Singapore, where he was responsible for the coverage of banks in the ASEAN region. He has also worked for other investment banks, including J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers and Nomura, where he covered banks and other financial institutions in India, Southeast Asia and emerging Europe.
Srikanth holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, majoring in Finance and Economics.
David Yin is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer with the Financial Institutions Group at Moody’s Investors Service Hong Kong Limited. David is covering a portfolio of banks and non-bank financial institutions in China.
Before joining Moody’s, David worked as equity research analyst for Standard Chartered Bank, covering Chinese banks and securities companies. Earlier, he had covered Chinese financial institutions in Bank of China International Securities (China). He had also worked in the ECM department of Goldman Sachs Gao Hua Securities.
David holds a MSc in management and a BA in Economics from Peking University.
Amit Pandey joined Moody’s APAC FIG in Singapore in 2023. He covers a rating portfolio of banks in Asia-Pacific, in particular the South and Southeast Asian region.
Previously, Amit was with S&P Global Ratings for over 10 years in Singapore covering a portfolio of ASEAN and South Asian financial institutions. Prior to that, he served in the debt capital market team of HSBC India and the credit department of Axis Bank in Mumbai.
Amit has extensive credit experience in providing rating and capital advisory services to issuers across the Asia-Pacific region, as well as debt origination and management services of credit portfolios.
Amit has a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Harcourt Butler Technological Institute, Kanpur, and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta.
Rebecca Tan is an Vice President – Senior Analyst for the Financial Institutions Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, Rebaca is responsible for the credit ratings of financial institutions in Vietnam and Thailand.
Prior to joining Moody’s, Rebaca worked as a banking regulator at the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
Rebaca holds a Bachelor in Accountancy (Honours) from Nanyang Technological University.