Joe Wong has been with Moody’s Ratings since January 2005. He is currently a Vice President – Ratings with the Structured Finance Group.

Joe is a rating analyst for Asian structured finance transactions, with a focus on covered bonds. He has also been rating transactions in a wide range of other asset classes, including structured credit, asset backed securities and mortgage backed securities. Joe is the lead rating analyst for a number of landmark transactions, including the first covered bond programs established under the Singaporean and Korean covered bond laws, the first cross-border Korean commercial auto loan ABS, the first secured notes issued by major Chinese bank, the cross-border China CMBS and one of the few CPDO in Asia. He has also published regular researches on the credit trend of Asian transactions and comparisons with the global transactions to enhance market understanding of Asian transactions.

Joe received his Bachelor of Engineering degree and Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Hong Kong. He is a CFA Charterholder and a Graduate Statistician (HKSS).

Daniel is an AVP - Ratings in the Structured Finance Group. Based in Singapore, Daniel is responsible for analysing the credit quality of securitization and covered bond markets in South and South East Asia. He is also responsible for monitoring the latest legal, regulatory, and market developments of securitization in the region, authoring research and conducting outreach to the market.

Prior to joining Moody’s in 2022, Daniel was a Lead covering Asian project finance at Infrastructure Asia, where he managed relationships and undertook due diligence to originate infrastructure projects. Before that, he was a Vice President of strategy and research, covering the Asia-Oceania region at MUFG Bank for five years.

Daniel holds a Master of Science degree in Project Management (Specialisation: Project Finance) from the National University of Singapore and Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering and Bachelor of Commerce in Finance from University of New South Wales.

Yusuke Seki is an Executive Director in the Japan structured finance group, based in the Tokyo office.

He has been working for Moody’s since 2000 and has held a variety of roles and responsibilities. As an Analyst, he had a special emphasis on asset-backed securities (ABS) and collateral debt obligations(CDO).

Before working at Moody’s, he worked in the assetmanagement department of a major insurance company.

He is a Chartered Member of The Security Analysts Association of Japan as well as a Fellow of The Institute of Actuaries of Japan.

Lionel Koe is a Managing Director in Moody's Structured Finance Group based in Singapore, where he is responsible for leading the new ratings team across the region.

Before joining Moody's, Lionel was Managing Director and Head of Asset Securitisation, Asia Pacific, at ING Bank in Singapore. In this role, he led and expanded the Asset Securitisation team, overseeing the origination, structuring, and distribution of securitisation transactions across Australia, South Korea, Hong Kong, and Singapore.

Prior to ING, Lionel spent 17 years with National Australia Bank (NAB) in Melbourne and Sydney. As an Executive Director, he was responsible for structuring a broad range of securitisation transactions funded through public capital markets, private placements, and warehouse facilities. Over the course of his career, he has worked across a diverse range of asset classes, including residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and asset-backed securities (ABS), both secured and unsecured, as well as transaction structures involving foreign currency tranches, whole loan sales, portfolio acquisitions, and covered bonds.

Earlier in his career, Lionel worked at Standard & Poor's in Melbourne and completed a secondment in New York working across a range of asset classes.

Lionel holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Commerce from Flinders University.