New Silk Road: Expanding Horizons
Speakers
Ambassador Zheng Zeguang
Ambassador of People’s Republic of China to the United Kingdom
Bing Li
Head of Asia Pacific
Bloomberg
Bing Li oversees Bloomberg’s financial information and enterprise business across the Asia Pacific region. Based in Hong Kong, he is responsible for the firm’s business and product strategy, including the Bloomberg Terminal, the world’s most trusted source of financial data, news and analytics for global investors, leading financial institutions and corporations. Mr. Li has decades of experience in global bond markets and is a frequent commentator on investing in Greater China’s financial markets. Mr. Li was previously Head of Greater China at Bloomberg, leading the team to provide customers with best-in-class data, analytics, trading tools and market connectivity. He has also driven a number of strategic partnerships with key regulators and leading financial institutions to advance the region’s financial market development. Under Mr. Li’s leadership, the Greater China region has been the fastest growing market for the company. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Mr. Li was head of Fixed Income at Bank of China (Hong Kong), responsible for sales, trading and research. Mr. Li joined the bank from Tandem Global Partners, a New York based Fixed Income asset manager, where he was a partner and portfolio manager covering the Asia Pacific region. Before Tandem, Mr. Li served as Vice President at Deutsche Bank in Hong Kong and was a core team member of the Equity Derivatives department. Mr. Li worked for HSBC and then JP Morgan in the early years of his career, where he traded bonds and fixed income derivatives.
Rui Jiang
Deputy General Manager
RMB Department China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS)
Ms.JIANG Rui started her career with China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS), also known as the National Interbank Funding Center, in 2007. In recent years, she has been deeply involved in forming the trading mechanisms for the opening-up of the interbank bond market. Currently, Ms.JIANG Rui is the deputy general manager of CFETS RMB Department and in charge of product innovation, market monitoring and market services.
Jing Annie Zhu
General Manager of Global Market
Bank of China (Hong Kong)
Ms Jing Zhu is in charge of RMB related business in Global Markets. Ms Zhu has many years of trading experience in various markets with special expertise in RMB market. Before joining BOCHK, Ms Zhu worked in China CITIC Bank International as Deputy Head of Global Markets and Head of Trading, Citibank Hong Kong as head of FX Trading and BOCHK as head of RMB Trading. Ms Zhu holds Dual Master Degrees in Finance and Law from University of Sydney.
Norbert Ling
ESG Credit Portfolio Manager
Invesco
Norbert is an ESG credit portfolio manager in Invesco Fixed Income Asia Pacific. He is responsible for developing and managing the ESG strategy and portfolios in the region. He is the co-manager of the Invesco Sustainable China Bond Fund Prior to joining Invesco, Norbert was the lead ESG portfolio manager for BlackRock European Fixed Income Team and portfolio manager for BlackRock’s ESG Euro Corporate Bond. In addition, Norbert was the European Lead of the Global Fixed Income ESG Implementation Committee at BlackRock, responsible for driving ESG integration. He began his career at BNP Paribas as a credit analyst. Norbert earned a BSc in Economics from London School of Economics and Political Science in 2010. He is a CFA Charter holder.
Patrick Wu
Head of Macro and Co-Head of Trading, Asia-Pacific and the Middle-East
Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
Patrick Wu is Head of Macro and Co-Head of Trading, Asia-Pacific and the Middle-East for Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, based in Hong Kong. Patrick manages the Bank’s FX, FX option, bond and interest rate derivatives trading franchise across the two regions, with a focus on bridging the emerging markets with the global financial markets. Patrick is the pioneer in the offshore CIBM and CNH businesses. He started to trade offshore RMB bond back in 2008 and was heavily involved in the very first Dim Sum bond deal and first CNH derivatives in the offshore market. He’s a member of both the HKMA-TMA market development committee and market practice committee. He also serves as Vice-Chairman of China Capital Markets Committee in ASIFMA. Before joining Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank, Patrick was Head of North Asia Trading for Australia and New Zealand Banking Group. He was also Head of Trading for JP Morgan in China and Head of Credit Trading for The Standard Chartered Bank in North East Asia.
Wei Quan
China Product Manager, Electronic Trading Solutions
Bloomberg
Mr. Quan is the Electronic Trading Solutions China Product Manager at Bloomberg based in New York. He is responsible for business strategy, product development, and service delivery pertaining to China markets. Additionally, he oversees day-to-day operations globally across various electronic trading solutions Bloomberg has to offer when it comes to accessing China. Mr. Quan spent the past 16 years working at Bloomberg. Most of which he spent working in Bloomberg’s Fixed Income Trading business. Prior to his current role, he was Chief Operating Officer responsible for Bloomberg Fixed Income Currency & Commodity (FICC) business. Mr. Quan graduated from Branch College in New York with a BA degree in finance.
Yiping Yang
Associate Director of International Cooperation Department
Shanghai Futures Exchange, Shanghai International Energy Exchange
Ms. Yiping Yang is Associate Director of International Cooperation Department of Shanghai Futures Exchange and Shanghai International Energy Exchange, and is responsible for international cooperation, overseas marketing and investor education of the exchange. Prior to the current role, she worked at Energy and Chemicals Department and Singapore Representative Office of the Exchange. Before joining SHFE, she served as Associate Vice President of Citi Singapore and was responsible for sales of energy and other commodities OTC derivatives. Ms. Yang obtains her Bachelor’s degree in Finance from Shanghai Jiaotong University and Master’s degree from National University of Singapore.
Enquan Wu
Executive Director
Huatai Securities FICC
Mr. Enquan Wu holds bachelor’s degree from Nanjing University in China and Master’s degree from Columbia University in the United States. After graduation, Mr. Wu joined a leading credit hedge fund in NYC, and worked in various roles for more than 10 years. Mr. Wu is currently an executive director at Huatai securities. He supervises the development of CAMS and HEADS. These are two major quantitative platforms that Huatai is building, with the goal of transforming FICC research and trading, applying more focus on systematic applications.
Fiona Lui
Chief Operating Officer, Financial Solutions
Bloomberg
Fiona Lui is the COO for Financial Solutions at Bloomberg. Based in London, her global team provides business intelligence and strategic support to the Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer. She also overseas numerous internal processes and drives transformation initiatives. Since 2010, Fiona has held several positions within the company, including Head of Sales for Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea and Head of Fixed Income Market Specialists in London covering the EMEA markets. Prior to joining Bloomberg, Fiona garnered more than ten years’ experience in the financial markets. She began her career in Debt Capital Markets Origination with Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, responsible for devising funding solutions for multinational corporations and financial institutions. She then took on the role of Derivatives Structurer at Societe Generale in London, before moving to Lloyds Banking Group as a Director with the Credit Sales department. Fiona graduated from Imperial College London with an MSc in Aeronautical Engineering.
Xinye Kang
Co-Head of Treasury
China Construction Bank London Branch
Xinye Kang is the Co-head of Treasury department of CCB London Branch, the biggest RMB clearing hub of the CCB group. Before joining CCB London in February, she worked as the Chief Manager of Interest Rate Bond Investment Division of Financial Market Department of CCB. In her career of more than 13 years with CCB Head Office, she held successive positions in various roles, including analyst, trader, deputy chief manager and the chief manager. Her main areas of expertise are bond investment and trading on China bond market.
Jinming Hu
Chief Executive Officer
Guotai Junan Securities (UK) Limited
Jinming Hu, CEO of the Guotai Junan Securities (UK) Limited. Priviously, Mr Hu served as the CEO of GF International Asset Management (UK) Limited from 2018 to 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Hu worked at China Construction Bank London Branch, where he was a Co-head of Treasury from 2012 to 2018. Mr Hu has more than 20 years of trading and investment experience in the banking and asset management industry. Mr Hu holds a master’s degree from London Business School.
Susan Yu, CFA
Executive Director, Financing & Securities Services, Financial Market
Standard Chartered
Susan joined Standard Chartered Singapore in 2012 and spent 4 years in Singapore before moving to Standard Chartered London office in 2016. She leads and drives various strategic global projects within the bank and had experience in multiple business lines across the bank including Securities Services Global Product Management, Strategic Business Planning in Client Coverage, Head of RMB product solution in Europe and currently she is Financing & Securities Services Sales in Banks & Brokers segment, with a focus in driving Asia market access on the backdrop of China capital market opening. Susan is based in London, and she represents Standard Chartered in the City of London Offshore RMB working group, and a member of PASLA China & Hong Kong working group. She studied mathematics in the university and holds an MBA degree from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She is a CFA Charter holder.