Contributors
Nicole Bodack
Nicole Bodack is a management and technology consulting executive with 18 years of experience working with leading financial services institutions across the globe. Bodack is a Banking Lead, APAC in Accenture. She shaped and led numerous large-scale and complex transformation programmes and provides pragmatic advisory services across Corporate & Investment Banking, Wealth Management, and Asset Management firms.
Nicole Zhou
Nicole Zhou is a Senior Partner from McKinsey, who leads McKinsey’s work on banking and wealth-and-asset management in Greater China. She is also a leader of McKinsey’s work on transformative capability building and growth transformations in retail banking across Asia.
Nikhil Palli
Nikhil Palli is a Partner, Palli Law Firm. Palli Law Firm is a member of IR Global, a multi-disciplinary professional services network that provides advice to companies and individuals across 155+ jurisdictions.
Nithya Sridharan
Nithya Sridharan holds an MSc in Financial Engineering from Imperial College London and has a passion for in-depth financial journalism and developmental economics. Her writings have been published extensively and received several accolades.
Olivier Carcy and Brenda Lau
Olivier Carcy is the Global Head of Asset Management at Indosuez Wealth Management. He began his career in Paris with Paribas (now BNP Paribas) before moving to Rothschild. He joined the Crédit Agricole Group in 1997, where he worked in structured asset financing, a role that took him from Paris to Singapore, then to Jakarta. He relocated to Geneva in 2000, where he set up a dedicated private equity asset management platform, making Indosuez one of the first private banks to incorporate this specific asset class into wealth management. Until 2019, he was heading the private equity business line across all entities of the Group Indosuez.
Brenda Lau is the Head of Private Equity, Asia, at Indosuez Wealth Management.
Olivier Grimonpont
Olivier Grimonpont is the General Manager and Regional Head - Asia-Pacific at Euroclear Bank. He has extensive financial experiences, having successfully taken positions as mid-office treasury manager, fixed income trader, COO of an investment bank's branch in Russia, product manager and currently exercising a general managment role for the APAC region.
Pan Zaixian
Mr. Pan Zaixian is currently the General Manager of Kerry Consulting. He also became an Associate Director (Financial Services & Legal Division) at Robert Walters.
Pang Lee and William K. Pao
Pang Lee is Partner at Cooley who specialises in partnership, corporate and securities law matters related to the organisation and investment in private funds and strategic investments in the tech industry. He regularly advises private fund managers and institutional investors on United States and Hong Kong regulatory, corporate governance, and risk-related matters.
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William K. Pao is a Partner at Cooley who is a trusted adviser and creative strategist who excels at high-exposure commercial, consumer, and securities litigation. He works closely with emerging technology companies, spanning global markets, including advising cryptocurrency and blockchain pioneers on securities, regulatory, and litigation issues.
Pascal Gautheron
Pascal Gautheron is the Managing Director for Accenture’s Banking Practice in Asia Pacific.
Pascal Gautheron, Jordan Griffiths and Christopher Loh
Pascal Gautheron is the Managing Director for Accenture’s Banking Practice in Asia Pacific.
Christopher Loh is the Director for Accenture’s Risk Management Practice in Southeast Asia.
Jordan Griffiths is a Banking Senior Executive in Australia.
Commentary
Fighting fraud in the digital banking age
Asian banking’s next frontier: Beyond growth, embracing precision
Rethinking cybersecurity: How APAC banks can safeguard against AI-powered threats
Why Singapore’s fast payments need faster protections