Asian Banking & Finance and Insurance Asia Forum - Manila - October 1, 2024

Patricia Buenaventura Nichol is member of our global Financial Services practice. 

Patricia has more than 20 years of experience — including more than 15 years with Bain — advising corporate clients on topics including digitization, innovation, corporate and business unit strategy, and operating model.   

She has experience working on: 

Full potential strategy for large, multi-country and single-market international banks in APAC, Americas and EMEA; 

Full potential transformation for a major Philippine bank and a Philippine pharmaceutical company; 

Corporate due diligence and portfolio strategy for major private equity funds looking to invest in technology and consumer goods companies; 

Equity and debt fundraising for various Fortune 500 companies in energy, technology, industrial sectors, telcos (including Philippine telcos), and financial services companies. 

Patricia is also a core member of our banking innovation team, covering cybersecurity, open banking, agility, and disruptive trends impacting the financial services industry. 

She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School, and a B.A. from Williams College. 

Fridolin runs XiXun Asia, a boutique management consulting firm in Singapore. He delivered large scale front to back business and IT platform changes as a Program Director and Operating Model Designer. He has more than 35 years’ banking experience in Europe and Asia in both the run and change the bank dimensions. He has successfully led or advised teams on more than 10 core banking transformation projects including Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, Maybank and Deutsche Bank PWM. He designed the IT Blueprint for an online fashion retailer, advised a German telco on their digital transformation journey and project lead Crealogix’ suite of products to Bangkok Bank. Most recently he assessed the target operating model and competitive advantage proposition of a Malaysian tier 1 bank’s wealth management to design their digital blueprint and roadmap. 

Jun was appointed country manager in January 2023. Building on ING’s track record in the Philippines, Jun is responsible for continuing the business momentum by executing the pillars of its Asia Pacific strategy to leverage ING’s global network, deepen client relationships and strengthen its position as the ‘go-to bank’ for sustainable finance. As country manager, he also has overall responsibility for the operations of the Manila Branch. A banking veteran with 30 years of experience, Jun worked at Citibank Philippines from 1993 to 1995. He joined ING’s project finance team in 1996 and was with ING for 10 years. He was the director of Loan Syndications Asia at ING before moving to Merrill Lynch in 2006. Jun worked at Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) as regional head of Structured Finance Syndications, Export & Agency Finance and Aviation Finance in 2010. He was appointed regional head of Loans Distribution Asia and head of Structured Credit Distribution of SMBC in 2016. Jun joined ING from SMBC as head of Wholesale Banking, Philippines in May 2022.

Having 33 years of solid professional experience in IT, and have worked over 23 years outside of the Philippines in the capacity of CIO, CTO, CISO regionally and globally, he have been recognized by Global CIO Forum as World CIO Legend Awardee in 2023, he have been recognized also by PhilSec Tradepass as Digital Leader of the Year 2024, and currently FWD Life Insurance Inc Chief Information and Transformation Officer, leading FWD Life Insurance in its digital transformation journey.

Carlo Bass Nazareno is the Head of Cash Management Services in the Transaction Baking Group of BDO Unibank, based in Manila. Before coming back to Manila in 2020, Carlo spent 16 years in London, holding various roles in Citi, JP Morgan, Bank of America Merril Lynch and HSBC, specializing in Cash Management, Treasury Services and Compliance. His last role was in the Global Corporate Operations Office of HSBC’s Global Liquidity and Cash Management team managing and leading the global digital and investment programs of the bank. He has a Master’s Degree in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management and an undergraduate degree in Management Engineering from the Ateneo de Manila University.