Asian Bankers Association

Bringing together over 70 leading Asian & financial institutions in 25 countries for more than 38 years of partnership

Promoting the interests of bankers in the region Benefits at a glance

ABA membership provides invaluable benefits such as: ACCESS TO MONETARY AUTHORITIES Through regular dialogues with financial regulators, ministers, central and policy makers from Asian countries and beyond.

NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES Through meetings and partnerships with national bankers associations, regional financial institutions and other financial forums.

INFORMATION EXCHANGE Through training programs, webinars, newsletters, and social media sites.

EXPOSURE TO POLICY DEVELOPMENTS Through annual conferences held in Asian capitals across the region and policy advocacy programs promoted among alliance partners and professional networks.

Ingrid van Wees VP Finance & Risk , ADB

Peter Favila Nghiem Xuan Thanh Member of Monetary Board Chairman Vietcombank Neal Cross Chief Innovation Officer DBS Bank

Uday Kotak Satoshi Nakagawa Managing Director Chairman Kotak Mahindra Bank ACRAA

Through its networking with regulators, partnership with national bankers associations, alliance with regional institutions, policy advocacy, publications and conferences, ABA strengthens bank members’ ability to provide the best , discover new banking opportunities, and enhance economic growth across the Asia Pacific region. 2 Message from the Chairman

Since 1981, the Asian Bankers Association (ABA) has been the premier platform for Asian banks to network with each other, share information and know-how, promote cooperation, and advocate bankers’ interest nationally and internationally.

ABA groups over 70 of the largest leading commercial banks and financial institutions in Asia Pacific with the objectives of:

• Exploring banking opportunities in Asia Pacific • Enhancing the role of bankers in the economic development of the Asia Pacific region.

We achieve these goals by organizing annual conferences, conducting dialogues with regulators, establishing alliances with strategic partners, advocating banking policies, publishing newsletters and journals, and conducting training programs.

We invite you to join us and take an active role in our effort of promoting regional cooperation among bankers and enhancing the financial and economic development of the region.

Jonathan Alles ABA Chairman

Over 70 leading Asian banks & financial institutions 25 countries 36 years of partnership Jonathan Alles Managing Director & CEO Hatton National Bank 3 Annual Conference

2018 Maldives The two-day annual ABA General Meeting and Conference held in major Asian capitals since 1981 gathers bank chairmen, presidents, CEOs, C-level executives with heads of state, central bankers, finance ministers, bank regulators, other government officials and prominent banking experts.

During the conference and meetings, relevant banking and regulatory issues are discussed, opportunities are explored, policy positions are advocated, friendships are made and deals are conceived.

The conference themes and topics are focused on Ahmed Naseer, Maldives Monetary Authority relevant and timely banking issues such as fintech, cybersecurity, digital banking, regional regulations, risk compliance, and sustainable banking, among others.

Chuchi G. Fonacier, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Deputy Peter Favila, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Member of Governor and Financial Supervision Sector Head Monetary Board; Michael Lor, EFMA Sr. Advisor; Dr. Ma Jun, Green Finance Committee Chairman; Dr. Niven Huang, KPMG Sustainability General Manager; and Anna Batenkova, WWF Sustainable Manager

Oliver Hoffmann, Erste Group Bank AG Head of Asia Managing Director; Mohamed Shareef, Bank of Maldives Deputy CEO; Satoshi Nakagawa, Credit Rating Agency Ltd. Special Advisor to the President for Global Strategy & ACRAA Chairman; Chandula Abeywickrema, Lanka Impact Investing Network Chairman; Vicente T. De Villa III, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas Financial Technology Sub-sector Officer in Charge; Shirish Pathak, 4 Fintelekt Advisory Services Pvt. Ltd. Managing Director; and Unenbat Jigjid, Mongolian Bankers Association Executive Director & Secretary General 2017 Mumbai

Viral Acharya, Reserve Bank of Deputy Governor Uday Kotak, Kotak Mahindra Bank Managing Director; Rajnish Kumar, SBI Chairman; and Daniel Wu, CTBC Financial Holding President

2016 Halong Bay

Daniel Wu, CTBC Financial Holding President; Le Thomas Debelic, Commerzbank; Andrew Healy, Bank Minh Hung, State Bank of Governor; and of Maldives; Nghiem Xuan Thanh, Vietcombank, Dr. Nghiem Xuan Thanh, Vietcombank Chairman Mostafa Beheshti Rouy, Bank Pasargad; Pema Nadik, Bank of Bhutan; and Pham Thanh Ha, Vietcombank 2015

Richard Koo, Nomura Research Institute Chief Economist Chin-Long Yang, ’s Deputy Governor; Daniel Wu, CTBC Financial Holding President; and Mochtar Riady, Lippo Group Chairman 5 Dialogues with regulators

Bank members and ABA officers regularly call on government officials, heads of state, central bank governors, and other regulatory authorities to exchange views about the economy and financial situation in the host country.

ABA’s visits establish channels of communication with government officials to support ABA programs and policies benefiting ABA members.

ABA Delegation meets with Minister of Finance ABA Delegation calls on Deputy Governor B. P. Kanungo and Treasury Mr. Ahmed Munawar of Maldives, Male 2018 of the Reserve , Mumbai 2017

ABA Delegation visits Deputy Governor Nguyen Thi Hong of State Bank of Vietnam, Hanoi 2016

ABA Delegation meets with Deputy Governor Chin-Long Yang of Taiwan’s Central Bank, Taipei 2015 6 Partnerships

ABA strengthens its relationship with bankers' associations of Asia-Pacific by exchanging information and publications, and participating in each other’s training programs and research projects. ABA also integrates recommendations from other bankers associations into its policy advocacy work.

ABA has signed MOUs with bankers associations of Japan, Mongolia, The Philippines, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Ernest Lin, ABA Secretary-Treasurer meets Unenbat Jigjid, Mongolian Bankers Ernest Lin, ABA Secretary-Treasurer meets Dr. Ekrem Keskin, Association Executive Director & Secretary General, Ulaanbaatar 2018 Banks Association of Turkey Secretary General, Istanbul 2018

Amb. Victor Tseng, ABA Secretary-Treasurer, signs MOU with V. G. Daniel Wu, ABA Chairman, signs MOU with Shin Takagi, Kannan, Indian Banks’ Association Chief Executive, Mumbai 2017 Japanese Bankers Association Vice Chairman, Tokyo 2016

7 Global alliances

ABA collaborates with other important regional organizations such as the APEC Business Advisory Council, the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council, the Asian Development Bank, the World Bank, and the Bank for International Settlements to promote banking policies.

ABA also cooperates with other banking and financial organizations such as the ASEAN Bankers Association, the Association of Development Financing Institutions of Asia and the Pacific (ADFIAP), and the Association of Credit Rating Agencies in Asia (ACRAA), among others.

Takehiko Nakao, ADB President speaks at ACRAA & ABA “Bank Rating & Analysis Workshop,” Taipei 2018 the 51st ADB Annual Meeting, Manila 2018

Takehiko Nakao, ADB President at the 51st ADB Meeting, Manila 2018

20th ASEAN Bankers Association Conference, Cebu 2014 ADFIAP & ABA “International Study Tour on MSME Development Programs and Policies of Taiwan,” Taipei 2017

8 Policy Advocacy

The ABA Policy Advocacy Committee, composed of banking and finance experts, identifies critical policy issues for discussion, formulates policy position papers and disseminates the results to national and international governments and organizations to contribute to policy making and regulatory implementation.

The Committee has done considerable work in areas such as (a) development of domestic credit rating agencies; (b) local currency Prudence Lin, CTBC Holding Risk Management Head chairing the ABA Policy Advocacy Committee Meeting, Maldives 2018 market development; (c) Basel II & Basel III Framework; (d) disaster preparedness (e) credit reporting systems; (f) insolvency law & informal workouts; (g) financial inclusion & microfinance; (h) corporate governance; (i) financial literacy; & (j) promoting regional convergence toward IFRS.

Oliver Hoffmann, Erste Group Bank AG, Managing Director, Head Of Asia, presenting at the ABA Policy Advocacy Committee Meeting, Mumbai 2017 ABA delegation joins Symposium organized by US Federal Reserve Bank of and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore 2017

ABA Policy Advocacy Committee Meeting, Halong Bay 2016 ABA Delegation at Basel Committee’s Task Force on Standardized Approaches deliberations, Frankfurt 2015 9 Bankers’ training

The ABA enhances the knowledge and technical skills of its members by:

• Conducting, in association with training institutes, short-term courses on specific banking topics. • Organizing short-term Visiting Program hosted by Maybank, Kuala Lumpur 2018 visiting programs under which member bank executives visit other bank members to learn advanced operations. • Endorsing, on a selective basis, conferences, seminars and other training programs. Visiting Program hosted by State Bank of India, Hyderabad 2017

Visiting Program hosted by Hatton Visiting Program hosted by Rizal Commercial Banking National Bank, Colombo 2016 Corporation (RCBC) and Rizal Microbank, Manila 2015

Publications

The ABA shares the latest information, news, research studies, Visiting Program hosted by Hatton conference reports and other activities through its websiteNational Bank, Colombo 2016 (aba.org.tw) and social media channels such as Youtube and Facebook. 12

ABA also publishes its monthly ABA Newsletter and the Report 10 on Proceedings of Annual General Meetings and Conferences 11 Jonathan Alles Mohamed Shareef Managing Director & CEO Deputy CEO & Director of Operations Hatton National Bank Bank of Maldives ABA Chairman 2018-2020 ABA Vice Chairman 2018-2020

Board of Directors - 2018-2020

Mr. Pema Namgyel Nadik Mr. Gil A. Buenaventura CEO President & CEO Bank of Bhutan Ltd. Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. (Bhutan) (Philippines) Dr. David K. P. Li Mr. Soh Kian Tiong Chairman & Chief Executive Managing Director, Head of Financial Inst. Gov’t The Bank of East Asia, Ltd. Linked Institutions, Banking Group, DBS Bank (Hong Kong) (Singapore) Mr. Shrirang Prabhakar Ketkar Dr. Shing-Shiang Ou Country Head & CEO Senior Vice President State Bank of India, HK Branch (India) (Taiwan) Mr. Mahmoud Reza Asadi Motlagh Mr. Daniel Wu EN Bank President (Iran) CTBC Financial Holding Co., Ltd. (Taiwan) Mr. Mostafa Beheshti Rouy Mr. Tsan-Chang Liao Member of Board of Directors & Chairman Executive Board Member The First Commercial Bank Bank Pasargad (Iran) (Taiwan) Mr. Takayoshi Futae Mr. Chao-Shun Chang Senior Managing Executive Officer Chairman Regional Executive For Asia Mega International Commercial Bank MUFG Bank, Ltd. (Japan) (Taiwan) Mr. Takahiko Yasuhara Mr. Chaiyarit Anuchitworawong Managing Executive Officer Senior Executive Vice President & Mizuho Bank, Ltd. Co-Head of International Banking Group (Japan) Bangkok Bank PCL (Thailand)

Mr. Kenichi Hosomi Mr. Nghiem, Xuan Thanh Managing Executive Officer, Deputy Head Of Chairman of the Board International Banking Unit Of Sumitomo Mitsui Joint-Stock Commercial Bank for Foreign Banking Corporation Trade of Vietnam (Vietcombank) Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. (Japan) (Vietnam) Mr. Michael Foong Seong Yew Mr. Trinh Ngoc Khanh Group Chief Strategy Officer & CEO Chairman International Malayan Banking Berhad Vietnam Bank of Agriculture & (Malaysia) Rural Development (Vietnam) Mr. Chinbishrelt Ariunbold Mr Oliver Hoffmann Member of the Board of Directors Managing Director, Head Of Asia Capital Bank of Mongolia Erste Group Bank AG, Hong Kong Branch (Mongolia) (Austria) Mr. Jose Arnulfo “Wick” A. Veloso President & CEO (Philippines) 11 Venues of conferences

2019 - Manila 2001 - Tashkent Austria South Korea 2018 - Maldives 2000 - Istanbul Erste Group Bank AG, HK KEB Hana Bank The Korea Development Bank 2017 - Mumbai 1999 - Singapore Bhutan Bank of Bhutan Ltd. Sri Lanka 2016 - Halong Bay 1998 - Taipei Hatton National Bank 2015 - Taipei 1997 - Moscow Germany Mitra Innovation Pvt. Ltd. Commerzbank 2014 - Muscat 1996 - Kuala Lumpur Taiwan Hong Kong Bank of Taiwan 2013 - Ulaanbaatar 1995 - Manila Shanghai Commercial Bank Ltd. Bank SinoPac 2012 - Manila 1994 - Jakarta The Bank of East Asia, Ltd. Chang Hwa Commercial Bank, Ltd. 2011 - Colombo 1993 - Hong Kong India CTBC Bank Co., Ltd. State Bank of India, HK E. Sun Commercial Bank, Ltd. 2010 - Taipei 1992 - Seoul Hua Nan Commercial Bank, Ltd. 2009 - Manila 1991 - Kuala Lumpur Iran Land Bank of Taiwan Ayandeh Bank Mega International Commercial Bank 2008 - Bangkok 1990 - Tokyo Bank Hekmat Iranian Shanghai Commercial & Savings Bank, Ltd. Bank Pasargad 2007 - Hong Kong 1989 - Jakarta EN Bank (Bank Eghtesad Novin) Taishin International Bank 2006 - Taipei 1988 - Singapore Refah Kargaran Bank Taiwan Business Bank Saman Bank 2005 - Melbourne 1987 - Hong Kong Sina Bank The Export-Import Bank of the ROC Tamadon Investment Bank The First Commercial Bank 2004 - Hanoi 1986 - Singapore Tourism Bank Taiwan Academy of Banking & Finance 2003 - Manila 1984 - Melbourne The Bankers Association of the ROC Italy Tsar & Tsai Law Firm 2002 - Seoul 1981 - Taipei Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A., HK Thailand Japan Bangkok Bank PCL Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. MUFG Bank, Ltd. Turkey Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. Banks Association of Turkey Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. USA Join Us! Malaysia Hawaii National Bank Malayan Banking Berhad JP Morgan, HK ABA Secretariat Maldives Uzbekistan Bank of Maldives, Plc. National Bank of Uzbekistan 7F-2, #760, Section 4, Bade Road Open Joint-Stock Commercial Bank Song-shan District, Taipei 10567, Taiwan Mongolia “Microcreditbank” Capital Bank of Mongolia Phone: (886 2) 2760-1139 Vietnam Chinggis Khaan Bank Fax: (886 2) 2760-7569 Trade and Development Bank JSC Bank for Foreign Trade of Vietnam Mongolian Bankers Association (Vietcombank) Vietnam Bank for Agriculture and Rural Email: [email protected] Philippines Development (Agribank) URL: www.aba.org.tw Philippine National Bank Vietnam Export Import Commercial Rizal Commercial Banking Corp. Joint-Stock Bank (Vietnam Eximbank) Vietnam JSC Bank for and Trade Russian Federation (Vietinbank) International Bank for Economic Co-operation Deposit of Vietnam

Singapore 12 DBS Bank, Ltd. , Ltd. BPC Banking Technologies (Asia Pacific) Pte., Ltd.