5th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue

Afore Consulting and ASIFMA held the 5th Annual EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue on 1 – 2 November 2018 in Singapore, which coincided with the Singaporean Presidency of ASEAN and the annual EU-Asia-Pacific Forum on Financial Regulation organised by the European Commission and Asia-Pacific Regional Committee of IOSCO.

This event brought together over 200 participants from Europe, Asia- Pacific and the United States to discuss and exchange views from different areas of the globe on FinTech and ICOs, third-country equivalence regimes and the supervisory approaches to conduct and prudential regulations. High on the agenda was the need to move forward after the implementation of the post-crisis FSB reforms, as well the geopolitical tensions between the US and China and their potential knock-on effects on the Asian region. The EU’s capacity to remain attractive was high on the speakers’ agenda, as well as the tensions between innovation and privacy.

We were delighted to have amongst the speakers, Chong TEE ONG, Deputy MD – Financial Supervision at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Rostin BEHNAM, Commissioner at the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), Levin HOLLE, Director General, Financial Markets Policy Department at the Federal Ministry of Finance of Berlin, Germany, Antonio CARRASCOSA, Board Member and Director of Resolution Planning and Decisions at the Single Resolution Board (SRB), Benjamin ANGEL, Director, Treasury and Financial Operations at the European Commission, G MAHALINGAM, Member of the Board (Commissioner) at the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI), Bruce GOSPER, High Commissioner at the Australian High Commission of Singapore, Neena GILL, Member of the European Parliament, Ajai KAUL, CEO and Head of Client Group, Asia Pacific ex Japan at AllianceBernstein and many other leading financial organisations.