Contributors

Michael Ho and Jason Ekberg

Michael Ho is a partner in the Financial Services practice and leads the corporate transaction banking practice and digital asset platform across Asia. He is based in Oliver Wyman’s Hong Kong office. He has extensive consulting experience across Asia, focusing primarily on global transaction banking, corporate banking digitisation, and payments innovation. 

Jason is a partner and Global Lead for Digital Assets at Oliver Wyman and co-leads the Forum’s Future of Money initiative.  He advises banks, central banks, regulators, and defi natives on digital assets strategy, stablecoins, tokenisation, CBDC and next-generation financial market infrastructure. With more than 30 years across banking, treasury and strategy consulting, he has led large-scale transformations and innovation programs across all major financial centres.
 

Michael Lafferty

Michael Lafferty founded Lafferty Group in 1981 when he left the Financial Times, where he had been responsible for coverage of the banking industry. He had previously worked on the paper’s LEX team, the City Desk and been accountancy correspondent.
 

Michel Lowy

Michel Lowy is Co-founder, CEO, and Co-Global Portfolio Manager of SC Lowy, a Hong Kong–based specialist asset manager focused on non-investment grade credit. 

Born in Belgium, he began his career in Asian distressed investing after the 1997 financial crisis, working at Cargill before joining Deutsche Bank. 

In 1999, he founded and led Deutsche Bank’s Asia-Pacific distressed products group, spending a decade building its regional platform. In 2009, he co-founded SC Lowy with Soo Cheon Lee. Originally a boutique investment bank, the firm has evolved into a global asset manager overseeing more than $1.6b in assets.

Michelle Katics

Michelle Katics is a retail banking risk executive with internationally tested leadership and management skills. More recently, Ms. Katics has focused on sharing risk management and regulatory best practices with executives across the region through training and coaching. In 2010, Ms. Katics founded BankersLab™ , a company which is providing simulation-gaming based risk management training for retail bank executives.

Mike Huang

Mike Lee

Mike Lee is CEO of the ATM Industry Association.

Minh Ha Truong

Minh Ha Truong, a payments industry veteran, is the Head of Growth, APAC at Paymentology. She drives forward advanced payment products, utilising cloud-first technology and delivering market-leading experiences to consumers and businesses.  

Minh Ha advises central banks and payment schemes on local payments technology and policy alongside her role at Paymentology.

Minh-Ha Truong

Minh-Ha Truong, an industry veteran (ex-Visa, BPC), is the Head of Growth, APAC at Paymentology. She addvises central banks/payment schemes on local payments technology and policy alongside her role at Paymentology.

Mobasher Zein Kazmi

Mobasher Zein Kazmi is a research analyst covering geo-economic issues based in Shanghai, China.

Mohamed Damak