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Twenty years after the crisis

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The Asian financial crisis paved the way for a more resilient Asia. For years, the region has been the world’s economic growth engine on the back of China’s burgeoning economy and steady growth in India and Southeast Asia. Asia is also on its way to becoming a global wealth centre with an expanding high-net-worth individual (HNWI) segment and the emergence of its middle class. Its bond markets are now among the world’s largest.

In the bond space, China is a force to be reckoned with. The second-largest in Asia and third-largest globally, China’s bond market is expected attract more foreign investment following the launch of the Hong Kong-China Bond Connect. The revival of the panda bond market, on the other hand, provides access for issuers to tap Chinese investors.

Infrastructure is a priority across Asia and the capital markets are helping build it. Moreover, China’s Belt and Road initiative is helping to improve infrastructure as it strengthens regional connectivity.

Reinforcing its role as one of Asia’s bond centres is Singapore with its investment schemes aimed at boosting market participation. The Asean remains an attractive investment destination for international investors while frontier markets such as Sri Lanka remain on investors’ radars.

Climate change is also high on the agenda. The green bond market is booming in Asia, driving renewable energy and infrastructure projects. Moreover, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are now being actively adopted by investors in the region.

The Asian Bond Markets Summit is the definitive fixed income event in Asia that draws the largest participation of issuers and institutional investors. Organized in association with the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the summit is part of the ADB’s Asian Bond Markets Initiative that aims to deepen the development of Asian bond markets.

Venue
Conrad Centennial Singapore Hotel
Conrad Centennial Singapore Hotel
 
Two Temasek Boulevard
Singapore
Date: 16 November 2017
Keynote Speakers
Noritaka Akamatsu
Noritaka Akamatsu
Senior Advisor of Sustainable Development & Climate Change Department
Asian Development Bank
Paroche Hutachareon
Paroche Hutachareon
director of risk management group, public debt management office
Ministry of Finance Thailand
Loto Srinaita Ginting
Loto Srinaita Ginting
director of government debt securities
Ministry of Finance Indonesia
Rithikone Phoummasack
Rithikone Phoummasack
former deputy director general of external finance and public debt management department
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Timothy Histed
Chung Chee Leong
chief executive officer
Cagamas
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng
group executive & head of treasury and markets
DBS Bank

Speakers / Agenda

08.00
Registration
09.00
Asset Events Speaker
Opening keynote
Andrew Ng
Andrew Ng
group executive & head of treasury and markets
DBS Bank
09.10
Asset Events Speaker
Morning keynote address
Noritaka Akamatsu
Noritaka Akamatsu
Senior Advisor of Sustainable Development & Climate Change Department
Asian Development Bank
09.20
Asset Events Panel
Panel: Twenty years after the crisis
The financial crisis that erupted in Asia in 1997 resulted in policy reforms that strengthened economies and deepened capital markets in Asia. China is now the third largest bond markets across the globe. ASEAN stands on stable ground with Singapore leading the way in bond market development. What progress have been made since the crisis? What is in store for the Asian bond markets?
  • Who are the most active issuers and investors?
  • What reforms have been implemented to strengthen market infrastructure and improve secondary market liquidity?
  • What initiatives have been launched to foster regional cooperation?
  • What is the outlook for the next 12 months?
Clifford Lee
Clifford Lee
managing director and head of fixed income
DBS
Timothy Histed
Chung Chee Leong
chief executive officer
Cagamas
Stephen Schwartz
Stephen Schwartz
head of APAC sovereigns
Fitch Ratings
Sean Henderson
Sean Henderson
deputy head of debt capital markets, Asia Pacific
HSBC
Rithikone Phoummasack
Rithikone Phoummasack
former deputy director general of external finance and public debt management department
Lao People’s Democratic Republic
Paroche Hutachareon
Paroche Hutachareon
director of risk management group, public debt management office
Ministry of Finance Thailand
Jin Zhou
Jin Zhou
head of fixed income and asset management
Orient Finance
Daniel Yu
Daniel Yu
Editor-in-Chief
The Asset
10.20
Networking and coffee
10.50
Asset Events Conversation
In focus: Asian bonds - new frontiers for a new paradigm
Asia credit bond market has had an impressive performance year-to-date, emerging unscathed from several rounds of market turbulence and geopolitical risks. From a global perspective, despite historically expensive valuations, the strong fundamentals of the region continue to attract inflows into the bond market. The emergence of China as a major source of investments and funding has brought a lasting impact on the Asian bond market landscape. In this challenging environment where global yields are structurally low and credit spreads are historically tight, which frontier markets can alpha seekers find value?
Ming Leap
Ming Leap
associate director, Asian fixed income
HSBC Global Asset Management
11.20
Asset Events Panel
Panel: Financing and investing in Belt and Road
China’s Belt and Road Initiative highlights the need for infrastructure upgrades to support trade in markets along the Silk Road. This offers financing and investment opportunities for banks and multilateral agencies. Asia’s capital market is set to benefit in terms of increased bond offering by Chinese issuers to fund investment.
  • What are the funding options available to Belt and Road-related infrastructure projects?
  • What role multilateral agencies can play to support Belt and Road-related projects particularly in countries with comparative poor credit profile?
  • What are the challenges around valuation of infrastructure investments and what’s the specific approach in valuing this type of assets?
  • How do investors approach investing in infrastructure projects?
Justin Sun
Justin Sun
executive director
China Universal Asset Management
Peter Alleston
Peter Alleston
director, private equities
IHS Markit
Timothy Histed
Timothy Histed
head – South & South East Asia
Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency
Timothy Histed
Surya Bagchi
‎global head, project & export finance, corporate finance
Standard Chartered
Chito Santiago
Chito Santiago
managing editor
The Asset
12.00
Asset Events Panel
Panel: ESG and green bonds
Global investors have been increasingly incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment portfolios. Traditionally discussed within the context of equity investments, ESG integration in fixed income is gaining ground in Asia. Green bonds are also becoming popular in Southeast Asia as the region adopting a common standard for green bond issues.
  • How can investors effectively integrate ESG into portfolio construction?
  • Will pick up in ESG investment usher a new era for fixed income investment?
  • Will green bonds become a mainstream asset class?
  • The rise of the ASEAN green bonds
Seohan Soo
Seohan Soo
executive vice president, capital markets group
AmInvestment Bank
Esther An
Esther An
chief sustainability officer
City Developments Limited
Geert Peeters
Geert Peeters
executive director & chief financial officer
CLP
Lan Qi
Lan Qi
senior project manager
Emerging Market Dialogues on Finance
James Cameron
James Cameron
co-head of infrastructure and real estate group, Asia Pacific
HSBC
Ashraf bin Arshad
Ashraf bin Arshad
financial sector specialist
World Bank
Darryl Yu
Darryl Yu
assistant editor
The Asset
13.00
Luncheon
14.30
Asset Events Panel
Panel: Indonesia – Beyond the investment grade
For the first time since the Asian financial crisis, Indonesia is back as an investment grade-rated sovereign. The full investment grade status comes on the back of the government’s effective expenditure and revenue measures to stabilize the country’s public finances. What does an investment grade rating means for the country?
  • Will this result to a lower borrowing cost and if so, will Indonesia rely more on foreign borrowing?
  • What should Indonesia do to reap the maximum benefits out of the rating upgrade?
  • Is the rating upgrade spurring more G3 bond issuances from Indonesia and attracting more first time issuers from Indonesia?
  • Is the rating upgrade attracting new investors into Indonesia and if so, which sectors are they looking at?
Thomas Rookmaaker
Thomas Rookmaaker
director and primary sovereign analyst for Indonesia
Fitch Ratings
Zaki Maulani
Zaki Maulani
associate director, investment banking
IndoPremier Sekuritas
Loto Srinaita Ginting
Loto Srinaita Ginting
director of government debt securities
Ministry of Finance Indonesia
Ezra Nazula
Ezra Nazula
chief investment officer, fixed income, Indonesia
Manulife Aset Manajemen Indonesia
Steve Kosasih
Steve Kosasih
chief financial officer
Wijaya Karya
Chito Santiago
Chito Santiago
managing editor
The Asset
15.10
Asset Events Panel
Panel: The HK-China Bond Connect
As Chinese bonds become a core component of global investment portfolios, the Bond Connect has been a welcome development for foreign investors. The scheme strengthened Hong Kong’s status as the gateway to the world’s third largest bond market. Will this pave the way for an increase in foreign ownership of Chinese bonds?
Zhao Bo
Zhao Bo
director of agent trading & consultancy, financial markets department
Agricultural Bank of China
Sean Chang
Sean Chang
head of Asian debt investment, emerging market debt team
Barings
Ng Sing Chan
Ng Sing Chan
head of APAC business origination
Fitch Ratings
Zhaoping Zhou
Zhaoping Zhou
vice president, FIC product development
Hong Kong Exchange
Arthur Lau
Arthur Lau
co-head emerging markets fixed income and head of Asia ex Japan fixed income
PineBridge Investments
Kelly McKenney
Kelly McKenney
head of distribution for Asia ex-Japan
TradeWeb
Derrick Hong
editorial analyst
The Asset
16.00
Networking and coffee
16.30
Asset Events Panel
In conversation: Promoting project bonds for infrastructure financing
Bonds are an important funding tool for infrastructure development. But the region has yet to fully realize the potential of project bonds. Project risks and credit rating issues get in the way of securing institutional investment for infrastructure projects. A scheme that covers construction risks in greenfield projects has been introduced to help generate appetite, including for local currency bonds. Will this pave the way to generate interest for project bonds in the rest of Asean, not just in Malaysia?
  • What initiatives are being launched to boost local currency financing for infrastructure?
  • How can project bonds become more attractive to foreign investors?
  • Credit enhancement and the role of ratings
Kiyoshi Nishimura
Kiyoshi Nishimura
chief executive officer
Credit Guarantee & Investment Facility
Rahim Khawaja
Rahim Khawaja
first vice president, project finance group, Asia
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation
Sarah Sargent
Sarah Sargent
managing director
Asset Benchmark Research
16.50
Asset Events Panel
Panel: Fintech and the future of Asia's bond market
Electronic bond trading platforms are as old as Asia's bond markets. Despite several false starts and saw well-backed outfits crashed and burn over the years, dragging the fixed income market into the digital age remains relentless. Startups are plenty with ambitions to achieve price discovery, efficient clearing and settlement and with the goal of foisting additional liquidity for one and all. With more underwriters behind a bond issue, can fintech disrupt the offering mechanism to allow issuers and investors to meet electronically?
  • Where are we in terms of electronic trading platforms?
  • What are investors' views and how do they use them?
  • What will it take for Asia's bond markets to cross into the digital age?
Rahul Banerjee
Rahul Banerjee
founder
Bondevalue
Duncan Klein
Duncan Klein
head of outbound product management
BondIT
EK Ong
EK Ong
CEO and co-founder
Bondlinc
Duncan Klein
Paul Durrant
managing partner
Conduit Securities
Darryl Yu
Darryl Yu
assistant editor
The Asset
17.30
Asset Events Cocktails
Closing remarks
18.00
Asset Events Cocktails
Networking and cocktails

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