“Financial institutions and their infrastructure (‘payment and settlement systems’) are to economic activity what roads are to traffic: taken for granted unless bottlenecks develop” (64th BIS annual Report, 1994).
University courses covering the financial infrastructure in China (CIPS, CCDC, China Foreign Exchange Trading System) and the Swiss Value Chain (SIX, SECOM, and CLS) ◦ published on “payment system during the financial crisis”
Coordinator of the Asian Bond Fund (ABF) initiative by EMEAP at BIS in Hong Kong ◦ in-depth knowledge of fixed income benchmarks, differences in pricing sources, and local trustee/custodian and financial market regulations in the eight ABF markets (China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Korea, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, and Thailand)
Product design, execution and promotion of EMEAP’s ABF initiative – contacts to the Asian private asset management sector in all EMEAP economies – in-depth understanding of the market structures, regulatory systems and impediments to financial intermediation
