Speakers

Colin Chen is the managing director and global head of structured debt solutions at DBS Bank. He has more than 25 years of investment banking and structured capital markets experience and is responsible for building and expanding DBS’ push to provide its clients structured fund-raising solutions. He was previously the regional head of securitization and financial engineering at The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ., Ltd where he successfully expanded the firm’s presence in non-Japan Asia. He started his career at the Union Bank of Switzerland in 1995 and was involved in establishing and building out the Asian asset backed finance business for Asia and has held similar senior positions at CIBC World Markets and Bank of America. Colin has worked in the public, private and asset backed CP markets and has transaction experience in auto receivables, mortgages, credit cards, consumer loans, trade receivables, leases and collateralised loan and bond obligations. He is currently serving as the Association of Banks in Singapore’s chairman of the standing committee on covered bonds and elected as the European Covered Bond Council’s chairman of the global issues working group. Colin holds a bachelors degree in banking and finance from the University of Canberra and is a Fellow of the Financial Services Institute of Australia. He was also conferred the award of Fellow of the Institute of Banking and Finance in Singapore in 2017.