6th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue

The 6^th EU-Asia Financial Services Dialogue took place on 10 October 2019 in Tokyo, bringing together over 150 representatives of the regulatory, supervisory and financial industry communities of the EU, Asia-Pacific and the United States.

The Dialogue, co-organised by Afore Consulting and the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA), followed the EU-APAC IOSCO regional forum and took place on the eve of the EU-Japan High-Level Dialogue on Financial Services. We were delighted to have keynotes from Toshihide ENDO, Commissioner of the Financial Services Agency of Japan, Ashley ALDER, Chair of IOSCO, Olivier GUERSENT Director-General at DG FISMA, European Commission, Steven MAIJOOR, Chair of ESMA, senior management of DG FISMA, and representatives of the EBA, ESMA and ECB.

Other speakers included Jun MIZUGUCHI, Chair of the IOSCO Asia-Pacific Regional Committee, Jean-Paul SERVAIS Vice-Chair of IOSCO and Chair of the Belgian Financial Services Market Authority, Boon Ngiap LEE, Assistant Managing Director (Capital Markets) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Rakesh VENGAYIL, Deputy CEO of APAC and CEO of Hong Kong, BNP Paribas Asset Management, Barbara NAVARRO Head of Google Cloud APAC, Government Affairs and Public at Google, Caroline Wellemans, Deputy Head of Unit, Financial Technology and Sustainable Finance at DG FISMA, European Commission and many other leading financial organisations.