CDFW · International Financial Centre Development Conference | International Financial Centre and Cross-Border Innovation Investment Roundtable

Publish： 2024-03-21

International Financial Centre Development Conference was recently co-hosted in Hong Kong and Chengdu. The conference was conducted in collaboration with the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance and the Federation of IFC&IIC.

More than 50 experts and scholars from governments, regulators, enterprises, and associations from the Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong, Europe and the Middle East focused on the themes of global financial services and cross-border innovation investment, Hong Kong’s capital market and the Western financial centre construction, and Hong Kong-Chengdu financial cooperation, and discussed how global financial centres empower the development of innovative economies and deepen financial integration.

The conference delved into the institutions, legislations, talents, and innovations in international cooperation required for the long-term development of Hong Kong and Western Financial Centre, as well as exchanging analyses of markets in Europe, the Middle East, and Central Asia.

Speakers（Partial）

SHENG Liantao

Adviser to the Chief Executive of Hong Kong, former Chairman of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong

BA Shusong

Managing Director and Chief China Economist, Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited and Chief Economist for China

XIAO Geng

Professor of Practice, Director of Institute of Policy and Practice, SFI, and Chairman of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance

SONG Min

President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance, and Professor of Finance, Director, Central China Development Research Institute, Wuhan University

LIANG Qizhou

Director General of Chengdu Municipal Local Financial Regulation Bureau

GUO Guoquan

Honorary Senior Research Fellow, School of Economics and Finance, The University of Hong Kong, Former Government Economist of the Hong Kong SAR Government and Former Regional Chief Economist of Standard Chartered Bank for East Asia

MAO Zhenhua

Chief Economist of China Chengxin International and Member of the Chief Executive's Policy Expert Group, Hong Kong

ZHANG Jiamin

Managing Director of Hong Kong Development (China) Corporation and Member of the Chief Executive's Policy Expert Group, Hong Kong

LIU Ligang

Executive Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of International Finance and former Chief Economist of Citibank Private Bank

LIU Mingdi

Chief Asia and China Equity Strategist, JPMorgan Chase

HU Yifan

Investment Director and Head of Macroeconomics, UBS Wealth Management Asia Pacific

JI Mo

Council Member of the Hong Kong Institute of International Finance, Former Chief Economist, Greater China, AllianceBernstein Holding L.P.

XIONG Liting

Chief Executive Officer of GF Holdings (Hong Kong) Limited, Member of the Sixth Election Committee of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

ZHAO Wenli

Council Member and Vice President of the Hong Kong Institute of International Finance, Chief Strategist of CCB International

DONG Yiyue

Director and Head of Policy Research, Hong Kong Monetary Authority

WU Gaolin

Chairman, Hong Kong Intellectual Property Exchange and Executive Vice Chairman, U.S.-China Business Association

LI Chen

Associate Professor, Centre for China Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Honorary Fellow, Lau Chor Tak Institute of Global Economics and Finance

Calvin Chenggang FU

Chairman of the China Innovation Finance Institute | Chengdu