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This list showcases the top Hong Kong based CEO’ operating in the Banking space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jonathan Larsen
Chief Innovation Office, Ping An Group and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Global Voyager Fund of Ping An
Jonathan Larsen is Citi’s Global Head of Retail Banking, appointed in June 2012. The Global Retail Banking business unit spans 40 countries, serving 27 million clients through some 4,600 branches and a wide range of digital and partner channels. The business houses approximately $400 billion in client assets in the form of deposits and investment assets under management. In 2011, Global Retail Banking generated $11.4 billion in revenues for the firm. In parallel, Jonathan is Head of Citi’s Consumer Business in Asia Pacific. Citibank is Asia Pacific’s pre-eminent retail bank and credit card issuer with over 16 million customer accounts and more than 600 branches in Asia Pacific in 14 countries. Jonathan has been in this role since late 2009. In 2011, Citi reported revenues in its Asia Pacific Consumer Business of $8 billion, accounting for nearly 25 percent of Citi’s consumer banking revenues globally. Net income was $1.9 billion, representing over 30 percent of Citi’s Consumer Banking net income globally. Jonathan is a member of Citi’s Global Consumer Management Committee and Asia Pacific Executive Committee. Jonathan joined Citi in 1998 and has held various leadership roles across Asia Pacific. Jonathan was the Country Head and Citi Country Officer for Singapore, with oversight of the Institutional Clients Group, Consumer Banking and Global Wealth Management businesses. He assumed this role in September 2008. He was appointed in April 2005 as the Country Business Manager and CEO for Citibank Singapore Ltd. In this role, he was instrumental in transforming Citibank’s presence from five customer touch points to over 800 and repositioning Citibank as a mainstream retail bank in Singapore. From August 2007, he assumed the additional role of Head of Citi’s Consumer Business across South East Asia.
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About Ping An, Ping An Global Voyager: Ping An Insurance Company is a holding company deals with insurance, banking, and financial service.
Sam Allen
Chief Executive Officer of Hyphen Group
Before joining CompareAsiaGroup as Chief Executive Officer, Sam spent 9 years at KKR where he was a Director in KKR’s portfolio operations team and a member of the Asia Leadership Team. Sam worked with KKR’s portfolio companies across Asia, acting as an advisor and interim executive. Prior to this, Sam worked at McKinsey & Company and at AT&T Wireless. Sam holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Hyphen Group: Hyphen Group is a leading fintech company in Greater Southeast Asia.
Coen Jonker
Co-founder and CEO of TymeBank
Coen Jonker is the co-founder and CEO of Tyme. Coen Jonker was previously the Group Executive, International Financial Services (IFS), responsible for the Group’s offshore retail banking, digital banking and life insurance businesses outside Australia and New Zealand. With financial inclusion at its core, Coen leads a team focused on increasing access to, and awareness of, financial services through digital innovation for underserved consumers and small businesses. With more than 23 years’ experience in legal, financial and professional services, Coen began his career in law and became the CEO for Edward Nathan, Africa’s largest law firm, in 2000. He has also served as the Executive Committee of Nedcor Investment Bank, and as the Director of Inclusive Banking at Standard Bank in South Africa. Coen holds an MBA and two law degrees with honours. He has held multiple Board positions, including eBank Namibia, TYME, Edward Nathan and more recently Vietnam International Bank (VIB). Coen’s other contributions include his role as Advisor to the Gates Foundation on Poverty Alleviation, and a lecturer in Corporate Governance & Ethics and Emerging Markets at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. Prior to joining the Group, Coen was the co-founder and CEO of TYME (Take Your Money Everywhere) – a South African FinTech start-up which CBA acquired in 2015. Before commencing as Group Executive IFS, Coen was the Executive General Manager responsible for the digital banking strategy across IFS.
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About Commonwealth Bank of Australia, TymeBank: TymeBank is a South African fully black-owned and controlled investment company.
Simon Loong
Founder and CEO of WeLab
Simon Loong is the Founder and CEO of WeLab – Asia’s leading Fintech company – which operates Wolaidai (我来贷), one of China’s largest mobile lending platforms and WeLend, Hong Kong’s leading online lending platform. Founded in 2013, WeLab reinvents traditional financial services with its proprietary risk management technology and seamless mobile lending experiences. WeLab’s investors include Malaysian sovereign wealth fund Khazanah, Chinese provincial government fund Guangdong Technology Financial Group, CK Hutchison’s TOM Group, ING Bank, China Constuction Bank, World Bank’s IFC, and Sequoia Capital. WeLab was named in a KPMG-sponsored report as one of the top 100 fintech companies in the world – #6 in China and #33 globally. Prior to founding WeLab, Simon spent 15 years in retail banking divisions of leading international banks. Most recently, Simon served as the Head of Standard Chartered’s Unsecured Lending business in North East Asia. Prior to that, he was the Marketing Director for Citibank Taiwan and the Regional Risk Officer for Citibank Asia Pacific. Simon serves as an advisor on a number of professional organizations including Shenzhen Consumer Council, Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce. Simon has a Master of Science in Management (MSM) from Stanford University Graduate School of Business and he is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA). He was awarded “Innovation Leadership Achievement in Hong Kong” by The Asian Banker in 2017, “CEO of the Year” by Capital CEO in 2016 and Silicon Dragon’s “Entrepreneur Achievement Award” in 2014.
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About WeLab: WeLab is a Hong Kong-based fintech company offering virtual banking and consumer financing solutions.
Alex Kong
Founder and Group CEO of TNG FinTech Group
Alex Kong is the Founder and Chairman of TNG FinTech Group, which offers the next generation financial services to the 1.2 billion unbanked population in Asia through its various e-wallet platforms under the Global E-Wallet Alliance, including TNG Wallet, PhiliPurse, INDompet, XIN Wallet and others. In Alex’s leadership, TNG Wallet has recorded rapid development in both user base and transaction volumes, with transactions exceeding USD1 billion in the first two years of launch. Alex’s vision and mission is to provide financial inclusion to the unbanked populations around the world.
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About TNG FinTech Group, TNG Wallet: TNG Fintech Group is an investment holding company focused on impact investment in companies that provides financial and digital inclusion.
Zhang Yichen
Founder, Chief Executive Officer of CITIC Capital Holdings
Graduate, MIT. Formerly with: Greenwich Capital Markets; Bank of Tokyo; Merrill Lynch. 2000, Exec. Dir., CITIC Group CITIC Pacific and Pres., CITIC Pacific Comms; 2002, founded and currently, Chairman and CEO, CITIC Capital. Member, 11th and 12th Nat’l Cttee, CPPCC. Founding Member and Vice-Chair: Beijing Private Eq. Assoc.; Tianjin Private Eq. Assoc. Exec. Cttee Member, Board of Governors, and former Chair, China Venture Capital and Private Equity Assoc. Vice-Chair, Center for China & Globalization. Board Member: Emerging Markets Private Equity Assoc.; Foundation Board, Young Global Leaders, World Economic Forum.
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About CITIC Capital Holdings: CITIC Capital Holdings is an alternative investment management and advisory company headquartered in China.
Michelle Leung
Chief Executive Officer of Xingtai Capital Management
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About Xingtai Capital Management: Xingtai Capital is an investment manager focused on listed Chinese consumer businesses.
Alex Ypsilanti
CEO and Co-Founder of Quantifeed
Former managing director for Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. 15+ years of experience in investment research with a focus on systematic investment strategies, portfolio construction, and development of tradable indices for ETFs and other products. Top ranked analyst by Institutional Investor. PhD in Quantitative Finance from Imperial College, University of London.
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About Quantifeed: Quantifeed is a provider of digital wealth management solutions to financial institutions in Asia.
Water Cheung
Senior Principal & Asia-Pacific CEO of StormHarbour Securities
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About StormHarbour Securities: StormHarbour is an independent global markets and financial advisory firm.
Joseph Chan
Founder and CEO of AsiaPay
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About AsiaPay: AsiaPay is a digital payment solution and technology vendor.
LI Bin
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer of China Success Finance
LI Bin, aged 46, is our executive director and the chief executive officer of our Group.. LI Bin joined our Group in 2006 as an assistant to the general manager of Success Guarantee and manager of the post-guarantee management department. He was promoted to general manager of Success Guarantee in 2009 and appointed as our executive director and the chief executive officer of our Group on 18 October 2013. LI Bin resigned as the chief executive officer of our Company with effect from 15 September 2014 in order to focus his time and effort on the development of the guarantee business of the Company and continued to serve as an executive director of our Company. LI Bin was appointed as the chief operating officer of our Group on 31 August 2015 and is responsible for overseeing our Group’s operations and internal management system. He was appointed as the vice chairman of Success Guarantee in 2016. He has been resigned as chief operation officer of our Group and appointed as chief executive officer of our Group with effect from 18 May 2018. Prior to joining our Group, LI Bin had worked at the Foshan branch of Bank of China from 1993 to 2005 and was responsible for sales and marketing activities in the bank and specialising in the provision of loans and credits which are relevant to the business of our Group. His last position in the bank was assistant manager of the sales department. LI Bin obtained a master of business administration degree from Jinan University in Guangdong, the PRC in June 2007.
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About China Success Finance: China Success Finance Group an investment holding and financial consultancy company.
Bian Fang
Chief Executive Officer of Bison Bank
Bian Fang has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking and commercial banking across Hong Kong, Singapore, London and Beijing. Former positions held include Chief Executive Officer of Bison Finance Group Ltd. (2018) and Member of the Management Committee at Bison Capital Financial Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. (2017-2018). Between 2013 and 2018, within the Bank of China International (BOCI) Group, Bian Fang held positions including Non-Executive Director and Responsible Officer at BOCI Asia Co., Ltd., Executive Director and Responsible Officer at BOCI Securities Ltd., Non-Executive Director at BOC International (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Non-Executive Director of BOCI Financial Products Ltd. and Non-Executive Director of BOCI Structured Products Co. Ltd. Also, between 2013 and 2018, he was former Managing Director and Head of Financial Product Division at BOCI. Current Non-Executive Director at Banco Mais, S.A. in Mozambique.
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About Bison Bank: Bison Bank is offers services in the areas of wealth management, asset management and investment banking.
