Unprecedented Opportunities – Strategies for Winning the High-End Markets Race

Hu Pingxi Vice Director, Shanghai Headquarter PEOPLE’S BANK OF CHINA	Xu Luode President CHINA UNIONPAY	Fang Xinghai Director SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL OFFICE OF FINANCE
Philippe Damas CEO, Retail and Private Banking Asia and CEO, ING Private Banking                        ING	Cartier Lam Executive Vice President BANK OF EAST ASIA	Richard Williamson General Manager, Asia Strategy, International Financial Services COMMONWEALTH BANK
Nilo Reyes Senior Vice President, Technology and Operations DBS	Rajesh Yohannan Head of eBusiness and Direct Banking, Asia Pacific CITIBANK	Takayama Hiroshi Deputy President, China BANK OF TOKYO-MITSUBISHI UFJ Ltd
Zhang Qi Vice President INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL BANK OF CHINA	Wang Shihao Vice President BANK OF SHANGHAI	Zheng Xin Vice President, Shanghai Branch AGRICULTURAL BANK OF CHINA
Tan Weixian Vice President, Shanghai Bureau CHINA BANKING REGULATORY COMMISSION	Lian Ping General Manager, Department of Research and Development BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS	Stephen Richards Evans Head of Private Bank, North East Asia STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
Ian Ewart Head of Marketing & Communications BARCLAYS WEALTH	Charles de Boissezon Chief Executive Officer BANQUE PIGUET & CIE SA	Bruno Lee Head of Wealth Management, Asia Pacific HSBC
Alfred C.M. Mak Deputy Chief Executive, North Asia AIG PRIVATE BANK	Basker Rangachari Group Head of Strategic Alliances and Customer Loyalty STANDARD CHARTERED BANK	Kaizar Patla Vice President, Head of Cards ABU DHABI COMMERCIAL BANK

The 2008 year, a period of unprecedented opportunities for wealth managers.

The Banks will continue to implement its strategic transformation in 2008 to ensure sustainable profit growth. In addition to carry out their leading retail bank strategy, the banks are striving to ensure coordinated development of its high-end retail market – wealth management – along with accelerating the entry into the private banking arena. Buoyed by rising global wealth, extremely high rates of profitable growth are anticipated than ever before. With such exceptional growth, this is clearly a very profitable time, when strategic choices have to be made and finite resources have to be focused on serving existing clients as well as supporting highly ambitious growth plans.

How to break the new ground through wealth management? Where is growth to be found and how are new market opportunities to be seized, especially abroad? Which strategies will help in taking on the future challenges? What approach should be planned to profit wealth business by services?

Wealth Management & Private Banking Asia 2008 stands out as the only premier event in this region that provides latest case studies and presentations with market intelligence, key global trends from the world’s leading bankers.

Wealth Management & Private Banking Asia 2008 is acknowledged as the most important meeting of wealth business heads in Asia’s banking community.