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MiChAEL KiNG
Global Client Director for HSBC, SWIFT
Michael King is SWIFT’s Global Client Director for HSBC. In this role, he is responsible for representing
HSBC’s interests into SWIFT and SWIFT’s interests into HSBC. Prior to this he was Regional Director for
UK and Ireland. He has also held the positions of Director e-commerce, Regional Director for SWIFT’s
North America business operations based in New York and Regional Director for the Asia Pacific
business operations based in Singapore and Hong Kong. Mr King has more than 30 years of experience
in the international finance arena. Before joining SWIFT, he held various roles with a global bank and
previously had his own company.
JohN KoNDoS
Asia Pacific Leader, Financial Services Transfer Pricing, KPMG
John Kondos leads the regional Financial Services Transfer Pricing team specialising in transfer pricing
documentation, planning, controversy, audit resolution, including competent authority matters.
Having lived and worked in Asia for over 12 years, Mr Kondos has extensive experience specialising
in banking and capital markets, asset management, insurance, treasury and intra-group service
transactions. His solid understanding of the transfer pricing environment across Asia is supplemented
by a detailed knowledge of the financial services industry, its products and operating models. He is
a frequent speaker at seminars and professional organisations and has published articles on financial
services transfer pricing.
SAM FELix PrADEEP KuMAr
Senior Consultant, Financal Services and Insurance Practice, Infosys Limited
Sam Felix Pradeep Kumar is a Senior Consultant at Infosys. He has more than seven years of experience
in various roles in the areas of corporate banking, project financing and mortgage banking. He holds
a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and an MBA in Systems/Marketing from the Thiagarajar
School of Management, India.
CAroLiNE LACoCquE
Head of Client Integration Consulting, Global Transaction Banking, HSBC, Hong Kong
Based in Hong Kong, Caroline Lacocque’s role is to develop HSBC’s global leadership position in the
corporate connectivity field, with a particular focus on SWIFT-based solutions, providing strategic advice
for key emerging multinational clients in Asia on their integration projects. Before joining HSBC, she was
Head of Corporates at SWIFT and responsible for successfully rolling out the corporate offering in Asia
Pacific. Prior to that, she was based in New York with the Treasury and Cash Management Division of
SunGard, where she was responsible for introducing new cash and treasury solutions to Fortune 2000
customers. Ms Lacocque holds a Master’s degree in International Law from the University of Brussels,
Belgium.
BECKY LAi
Partner, International Tax Services – Greater China Leader, Ernst & Young, Hong Kong
Becky Lai began her China tax career in 1985 in Beijing, and has also practised tax advisory in Canada
and Hong Kong. She is in charge of Global Tax Policy and Controversy Practice – Greater China, and is
also a member of the Ernst & Young study group on the drafting of the regulations on the convergence of
the new value-added tax and business tax in China (to be introduced by 2013). She is a council member
of the Taxation Institute in Hong Kong and a member of the Hong Kong Institute of Certified Accountants,
the Certified General Accountants of Canada and the American Institute of Certified Accountants.
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