SWIFT Business Forum China 2017 | SWIFT | 28 July 2017 | The Ritz-Carlton Beijing , Beijing, China

The Belt and Road: A new landscape for China’s financial industry

The future of trade of the world could depend heavily on what becomes of China’s expansive The Belt and Road initiative, which calls for massive investment in and development of trade routes in the region. This initiative has the potential to be perhaps the world’s largest platform for regional collaboration. Therefore, it is very ambitious, covering about 65 percent of the world’s population, contributing to one-third of the world’s GDP, and about a quarter of all the goods and services the world moves.

The Chinese financial industry has a tall order to fulfil, and the SWIFT Business Forum Beijing will bring together various market participants to discuss our collective action to help realise the full potential of OBOR.

Speed to market and payments innovation are important to support OBOR. As an example, in the correspondent banking space, the global payments innovation (gpi) initiative will deliver secure, faster, traceable & transparent cross-border payments for corporate customers and infrastructural developments. By removing friction and cost from the cross-border payments process, Chinese financial institutions will facilitate international payments along the Silk Road. The need for big data intelligence is also important in this journey, as with security, scalability and efficiency.

This Business Forum will focus on the key issues, challenges and opportunities facing our industry today. With innovation sweeping across the China payments and securities landscape, there has never been a better time to come together to share insights.

Daphne Huang - Head of China, SWIFT
Vincent Yang - Commercial Director, SWIFT China
Alain Raes - Chief Executive, Asia Pacific and EMEA, SWIFT
Thierry de Longuemar - Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
Michael Moon - Head of Payments, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Alexandre Kech - Head of Securities & FX Markets, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Philippe Dirckx - Managing Director, Head of Markets & Initiatives, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Yuning Gao - Assistant Professor, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University
Eric Yang - Director, China Markets & Initiatives, SWIFT
Zhang Xin - General Manager, China International Payment Service
Sun Shangbin - Deputy General Manager, Bank of China Head Office Clearing Department Director, Bank of China（Mauritius）Limited
Hua Peng - Deputy General Manager, Operations, Industrial and Construction Bank of China
Wang Huixia - Deputy General Manager, Sinochem Finance Co.Ltd
Geertjan van Bochove - Head of Analytics, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Joe Ng - Director, Head of Renminbi Strategy, Group Global Banking, Maybank
Zennon Kapron - Director, Kapronasia
Qin Xu - Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group
Mabel Lu - Director, Standards, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Michelle Wong - Commercial Director, North Asia, Shared Services Initiatives, Financial Crime, Business Intelligence and Payments Reference Data, SWIFT
Laurent Verstraeten - Head, Consulting & Integration Services, APAC, SWIFT
Frank Xiao - Associate Director, Management Consulting, KPMG
Anand Bindhumadhavan - Head of Services and Support, Asia Pacific, SWIFT, and Director, SWIFT India Domestic Services Pvt Ltd
Eddie Haddad - Managing Director, Asia Pacific, SWIFT

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