From Compliance to Confidence: Navigating HKMA/SFC Derivatives Reporting

Benoît Gourisse has worked for ISDA for 15 years. He served as Senior director, European Public Policy, then Deputy Head, European Public Policy and was appointed Head of Asia Pacific in April 2021.

He headed European ISDA work streams on MiFID 2/ MiFIR framework, Commodities, Non-cleared margin rules, Recovery and resolution framework for CCPs, CCP supervision, Market Abuse and was the ISDA primary contact to the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO). He now heads ISDA public policy workstreams in Asia Pacific, covering the whole region except Japan.

Prior to ISDA, Mr. Gourisse spent five years at the French Banking Federation in Paris, where he was deputy director of Corporate and Investment bank activities. In this role he advised the executive management of French banks in every issue relating to financial markets, corporate services, custodian activities, asset management and distribution of financial instruments to retail investors. He also worked for the French Savings banks as Head of Legal Department, and for Société Générale as compliance officer.

Mr. Gourisse has a Masters Degree in Tax and Business Law from Paris XI University.

Lemuel Reyes (for most people he is known by his nickname, Josh) is an Associate Director at HSBC’s Markets and Securities Services – Market Operations, Regulatory Response and Oversight. 
 
He’s been in the financial industry for 20+ years where 10+ years of that is on regulatory reporting particularly on ASP over-the-counter derivatives. He has been involved in the implementation of various ASP rewrites i.e.  Japan,  Australia and Singapore and now working on the Hong Kong rewrite. Josh was also involved in the implementation of the HKMA Risk Mitigation Standards and HKMA Granular Data Reporting.
 
Josh is from the Philippines and has moved to Hong Kong in 2011.

Abhishek is currently working as AVP Mid Office with State Bank of India, Hong Kong branch. In a career spanning over 11 years, he has worked previously worked as a dealer in interest rate markets and in Treasury marketing unit of SBI as well as in retail operations.

Vicky Cheng is Head of Government and Regulatory Affairs Asia Pacific, overseeing government relations and regulatory developments impacting Bloomberg and its clients in the region.

Before joining Bloomberg, Vicky worked in both the public and private sectors. Her focus has been policy and regulatory development, advising senior management on related requirements and implementations. Vicky drove advocacy and public affairs programs for various organizations including global corporates and financial institutions. During her time with an international law firm, Vicky led business development and thought leadership strategies for the Financial Services Regulatory and Dispute Resolution practices. She began her career with a Government providing policy analysis and communications.

Krithika Gupta is a Product Manager at Bloomberg, where she has spent nearly 12 years gaining experience spanning financial data management and regulatory reporting. She previously spearheaded Bloomberg’s integration with the Anna DSB for UPI and managed regulatory data for MiFID. She is currently part of the Regulatory Reporting Services team within the G20 group, most recently delivering the Hong Kong regulatory reporting rewrite.

Yuko Madono is the APAC Regulatory Reporting Services Specialist at Bloomberg.  Yuko has extensive experience collaborating with a diverse range of clients including both Investment Management and Global Markets and Banking communities, central banks, exchanges and regulators.  Yuko started her career in Bloomberg over 10 years ago as a relationship manager in Japan prior to relocating to Singapore. Yuko holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Studies at the University of San Francisco.

Heena Parekh, MAICD is the Head of Compliance and Regulatory Reporting for Asia Pacific at Bloomberg.

Ms. Parekh joined Bloomberg in 2003 and has held several positions within the company and across geographies including in Asia Pacific, EMEA and South Africa. Prior to her current position Ms. Parekh was the Managing Director for Bloomberg Australia with more than 19 years of experience working with financial institutions, corporations, industry associations, government agencies and regulators, Ms. Parekh has acquired intimate knowledge of various asset classes and workflows including equities, fixed income, foreign exchange and commodities.

Ms. Parekh holds a Bachelor of Arts with honors in International Business from University of Westminster, London and a Bachelor’s degree in Corporate Finance and International Business from Hogeschool Inholland, Rotterdam.