Contributors

Arin Ray

Arin Ray is an analyst within Celent's Securities & Investments group and Asian Financial Services group and is based in the firm's Bangalore office. Mr. Ray's expertise lies in financial services industry in Asia. Mr. Ray has covered topics extensively on capital markets, asset and wealth management markets, brokerages, exchange trading, market data and technology systems in capital markets. His recent consulting work has involved advising clients on market entry and growth strategies in the domains of brokerage, banking, asset management and derivative trading businesses in different Asian markets. Follow Arin Ray on Celent blog.

Arnaud De Bruyn

Arnaud De Bruyn is a marketing professor at ESSEC Business School. His research focuses on marketing analytics, direct and interactive marketing, and marketing engineering. He has been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Information Systems Research, amongst other journals. He has multiple scientific prizes for his work on viral marketing. Arnaud is Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Business Markets. He has extensive experience in the non-profit sector, where he has accompanied more than 40 non-profit organizations to help them optimize their direct marketing. He holds a PhD in Business Administration from Penn State University.

Arun Kini

Arun Kini is the APAC Managing Director of Finastra’s Payments business, where he leads the development and execution of the firm’s broad suite of integrated payment solutions to help banks modernise and future-proof their payments infrastructure.

Kini brings with him over 25 years of experience in the Financial Services and Software Industry, with strong domain expertise in transaction banking, payments and revenue management.

With a strong track record across various roles in product, pre-sales and sales across the Asia Pacific region, Kini has played pivotal roles in the uptake of payment and cash management products by global brands and clients.

Before returning to Finastra in 2022 as Regional Sales Director, Payments, APAC, Kini was with SunTec Business Solutions leading the Client Facing Group for Asia Pacific.

Ashley O'Reilly

Ashley is a Deloitte Southeast Asia Consulting Manager with more than eleven years of experience in the global financial services industry. Ashley has worked with leading financial institutions and has gained international experience working across the buy and sell sides in Asset Management, Private Banking, Prime Brokerage, Investment Banking, and Hedge Funds. Ashley specialises in business strategy, regulatory transformation, and operational excellence.

Avi Rembaum & Daniel Wiley

Avi Rembaum, Director of 3D consulting, and Daniel Wiley, senior security consultant at Check Point Software Technologies, wrote a short paper offering 4 major tips for banks to mitigate or defend against DDoS attacks.
 

Azam Ali

Azam Ali is Ex.Senior Economist at State Bank of Pakistan. He is an Economist, Management, Organizational Capacity Building & Training and Organizational
Development Consultant.

Basil Hwang and Selina Wong

Basil Hwang is the founder of Dechert’s Asia practice and the managing partner of its Hong Kong office. He is a leading “go-to” expert in the region for financial services laws and regulations. Selina Wong is a trainee in Dechert’s Hong Kong office and an avid hockey player and outdoor enthusiast.

Ben Elliott

Ben Elliott is Managing Director, Asia Pacific Decision Analytics at Experian.

Benoit Gabelle, Kari Pahlman, Kimberley Webb

Kari Pahlman is a Partner, Asia Pacific Leader on Global Transfer Pricing Services at KPMG China. 

Kimberley Webb is a Transfer Pricing Manager at KPMG.

Benoît Gabelle is currently the Manager - ITS - Transfer Pricing at Ernst & Young Société d'Avocats. Formerly, he was a Manager, Global Transfer Pricing Services at KPMG.

Bernhard Kotanko

Bernhard Kotanko is a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in Hong Kong, and one of the leaders in the Insurance Practice. Over the past 18 years Bernhard has been advising insurance clients globally across the full spectrum of strategy, operations, capital and risk management. He is co-author of various articles on the broader life insurance agenda, product innovation, customer experience and distribution as well as a regular speaker at insurance industry and company conferences.

Prior to joining McKinsey, Bernhard was a Partner at Oliver Wyman where he led the EMEA Insurance Practice and then the Asia-Pacific Region. He graduated from Harvard Business School and the Vienna School of Business Administration.