22 October 2026
Exile: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Women in Export Finance, Presented with HSBC

Celine Trinh
Director, Export Finance,
HSBC
Esther Tsang
Director Global Structured Syndicate,
HSBC
Chi-Ling Looi
Chief Executive Officer,
Plenary Asia Pte. Ltsd.

An inclusive forum bringing together influential leaders and rising talents in export, project, and infrastructure finance to drive industry innovation, foster mentorship, and promote diversity, brought to you by our partners at WEXIF and HSBC

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Exile: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Opening Remarks

Katharine Morton
Head of Export, Project and Development Finance,
TXF
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DFI Leader Keynotes

Pramod Vijayaskandar
Lead Investment Officer & Head of Syndications,
Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
Jackie Surtani
Regional Director, Singapore Office,
Asian Development Bank (ADB)
Zishan Iqbal
Regional Business Head ASIA,
ICIEC - The Islamic Corporation for the Insurance of Investment and Export Credit
Moderator
Katharine Morton
Head of Export, Project and Development Finance,
TXF
  • Examining how DFIs are mobilising private capital in 2026 Asia.
  • Analysing DFI progress and current risk appetite in innovative and early-stage transition areas.
  • Exploring practical cooperation models between DFIs, ECAs, and institutional investors.
  • Identifying what project sponsors can do to become “DFI-ready” earlier.
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Financing Asia’s Offshore Wind Future: New Markets, Proven Models and Hard Lessons

I-An Chen
Head of Partnership Strategy & Origination,
Orsted
Frank Vanwingh
Group Deputy CEO and Group COO,
Credendo
Wu Kai
Vice president of Goldwind Group, Chairman of Goldwind International,
Goldwind
Moderator
Jung Hun Lee
Regional Head of NEA/ASEAN, Development & Agency Finance,
Standard Chartered
  • Examining closed and emerging offshore wind deals across Asia.
  • Evaluating the role of ECAs and DFIs in unlocking capacity for large offshore wind tickets.
  • Reviewing refinancing pathways post-COD and what secondary appetite wants to see.
Networking Activities

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Mapping Private Credit: regions, sectors and risk appetite

Vaibhav Totla
Managing Director, Investments,
Pentagreen Capital
Justin Ferrier
Managing Partner, Private Credit,
Navis Capital Partners
Atiya Habib
Founder,
Virtuoso Capital Group
Moderator
Max Thompson
Export Finance Editor,
Exile Group
  • Assessing where private credit is concentrating by region and sector.
  • Analysing where private credit fits best in the project finance lifecycle from development to operations.
  • Evaluating how competition and partnership models with banks, insurers and asset managers are evolving.
  • Evaluating how private credit underwrites offtake risk across PPA, CfD and merchant structures.
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Allocating Capital for Resilient Returns: Energy and Infrastructure Investment Across Asia

Jeremy Saw
General Counsel, Energy Transition, Asia,
Gresham House PLC
Namrata Singh
Investments Principal,
Clime Capital
Ajay Mullangi
Principal, Energy Infrastructure,
Actis
Eileen Ng
Director - Origination, Asia Pacific,
Plenary Group
Moderator
Gary Coates
Global Partnerships Manager,
TXF
  • Where are investors seeing the strongest risk-adjusted returns across Asian energy and infrastructure?
  • How are funds balancing core, core-plus and opportunistic strategies in today’s market?
  • Which sub-sectors are attracting the most attention from equity managers and LPs?
  • How are managers approaching brownfield, greenfield and secondaries exposure?
  • How are geopolitics, tariffs and macroeconomic volatility reshaping investment appetite?
  • What fundraising approaches are proving most effective in a more selective capital environment?
  • How are sponsors and developers positioning projects to meet investor return and resilience expectations?
Networking Activities
21 October 2026
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Opening Remarks

Katharine Morton
Head of Export, Project and Development Finance,
TXF
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Market Data Overview: Quiet Borrowers, Global Lenders

Hesham Zakai
Managing Director,
Exile Group

Asia’s borrowers posted their quietest H1 since 2024. Asia’s agencies posted their busiest half ever - outside the region.
TXF Intelligence puts ECA-backed volume to Asian borrowers at $8.3bn in H1 2026, 11.5% of the global market, against a quarter of the book in 2019. Japanese, Korean, Chinese and Australian agencies wrote $22bn of cover in the same period; only $3.5bn of it stayed in Asia. This session sets the numbers for the two days ahead: where volume went, who now lends into Asia, why the ticket mix has shifted from LNG and offshore wind to minerals, semiconductors and grids - and what that means for the rest of 2026.

Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Full Throttle: Asia's ECAs on Growth, Innovation & Global Ambition

Hideyuki Tsuchihashi
Resident Managing Officer, Regional Head for Asia and Pacific,
Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC)
Ki Seol Nam
Representative Officer,
KSURE - Korea Trade Insurance Corporation
Amanda Copping
Chief Investment Officer, Institutional,
EFA - Export Finance Australia
Chitose Yamakoshi
General Manager, Head of Infrastructure Group, the Loan Insurance Department,
NEXI - Nippon Export Investment Insurance
Lee Yoon Mee
Director General, Energy & Natural Resources Finance Department,
Export Import Bank of Korea - KEXIM
Nirmit Narendra Ved
Chief General Manager,
Exim Bank India
Moderator
Edward Hui
Managing Director, Head of Export Finance Asia,
HSBC
  • Highlighting key leadership priorities and organisational initiatives, including target growth areas across markets, sectors, geographies, and product lines.
  • Showcasing the most impactful product enhancements and process modernisation being implemented by Asia’s leading ECAs, and how evolving policy frameworks can better support exporters and borrowers.
  • Sharing forward-looking perspectives on the macro, trade and geopolitical environment, and identifying the key themes expected to drive demand for ECA-backed financing (energy transition, supply-chain resilience, infrastructure, and strategic industries).
Networking Activities

Networking Break

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International ECAs in Asia: what’s bankable, what’s tied, what’s actually available

Flavio Castri
Head of South-East Asia & Oceania,
SACE
Carsten Böhler
Head of Project Finance & Infrastructure,
SERV - Swiss Export Risk Insurance
Katarzyna Kowalska
Deputy CEO, CRO,
KUKE - Export Credit Insurance Corporation Joint Stock Company
Anne Crepin
Head of Export Credit,
SFIL
Dougal Crawford
GM, Institutional International, Southeast Asia,
EFA - Export Finance Australia
Chia Wan Liew
Regional Vice President for South & Southeast Asia,
EDC - Export Development Canada
Moderator
Paula Gil
Executive Director, Export & Agency Finance,
JP Morgan
  • Analysing where ECA appetite in Asia is strongest (countries/sectors).
  • Examining what “tied vs. untied” really allows in practice.
  • Evaluating how much capacity is genuinely deployable vs. headline.
  • Reviewing the most executable structures (guarantees, buyer credits, direct loans).
  • Investigating how ECAs are sharing risk with banks/DFIs/other ECAs.
Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Deals, Disruption & Diversification: Asia Project Finance Unpacked

Devin Chan
Deputy Executive Director,
Infrastructure Asia
Aaron Huang
Head of Project Financing – Southeast Asia,
Envision Energy International
Andrew Nelson
Principal,
Actis
Moderator
Carlos Santonja
Head of Export & Agency Finance APAC, Origination & Multilaterals,
Santander
  • Discussing recent transaction volumes and sector-specific trends across Asia’s core markets.
  • Examining innovative and emerging project finance structures and the evolution of project economics.
  • Analysing the impact of the increasing diversity of market participants beyond traditional commercial banks.
  • Assessing procurement, supply chain and contractor risks, including equipment delays, local content requirements and EPC bankability.
  • How CfDs could support offshore wind, green hydrogen, storage and other capital-intensive sectors.
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

The Borrower Lens: repricing risk, reshaping leverage

Andrew Starkey
Chief Financial Officer – Asia Pacific,
Trafigura Group Pte
Yan Bin Wu
Deputy CEO / Chief Financial Officer,
Summit Power International Pte. Ltd.
Mayank Vishnoi
Group CFO – Corporate Finance,
ChemOne
Moderator
Prem Raj Suman
Head of ECA and Blended Finance Asia,
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
  • Analysing how borrowers and lenders are re-pricing risk in 2026 - what’s changed most?
  • Evaluating how borrowers are adjusting leverage, tenor and financing mix under higher rates.
  • Examining the evolution of base case assumptions and contingency budgets.
  • Assessing how borrowers are using ECAs and DFIs.
  • Evaluating how compliance and sanctions volatility is influencing borrower funding plans.
Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Data centres: bankability, power procurement, timelines

Edmund Tan
Associate Vice President, Treasury Loans,
AirTrunk
Patrick Tan
Senior Manager,
Nokia
Tian Xiang Lim
Principal,
KKR & Co. Inc.
Gino Zhang
Co-founder/CIO,
Green Voltis
Moderator
Hesham Zakai
Managing Director,
Exile Group
  • Examining bankability shifts from capex narratives to contracted, infrastructure-like cashflows.
  • Analysing hyperscaler vs colocation contract terms (tenor, indexation, termination) and financing impact.
  • Evaluating offtake credit strength, concentration risk, and diversification thresholds for leverage.
  • Discussing power availability, interconnection timelines, curtailment exposure, and risk allocation.

This session will be conducted under the Chatham House Rule.

Networking Activities
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Risk, guarantees & insurance: making bankable deals in volatile markets

Robert Besseling
CEO,
Pangea Risk
Alexander Klepp
Underwriting Manager Single Risk,
Credendo
Ashish Makhija
Director, Credit Sales, Global Markets,
Barclays Bank
Warren Rixon
Director, Global Credit Insurance Group,
Standard Chartered
Sun-Young Kim
Representative for the German Export Credit Agency, ASEAN and Bangladesh,
German Export Credit Agency
Tim Warren
Head of Structured Credit & Political Risk,
RedRay
Moderator
Katharine Morton
Head of Export, Project and Development Finance,
TXF
  • Analysing how political risk is allocated between ECAs, insurers, lenders, and sponsors.
  • Exploring credit risk structuring tools and when each fits best.
  • Identifying best-practice playbooks from recent Asia deals for faster close and smoother distribution.
  • Examining how CPRI is being used alongside ECA guarantees to fill coverage gaps, improve lender appetite, and support distribution in more volatile markets.
  • Assessing where private insurers can add flexibility on tenor, country risk, capacity, and syndication, particularly when ECA cover alone is not sufficient.
Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Investing in renewables: debt, equity, and developer perspectives

Marcus Teo
Investment Director,
Aquila Capital
Ravi Nichani
Co-Head Investments,
Vena Energy
Robert Doyle
Chief Financial Officer,
Sun Africa & UGT Renewables
Moderator
Jennifa Furtado
Deputy Head of Export Finance Asia Pacific,
BNP Paribas

  • Examining where lenders see the most bankable renewables opportunities by country and technology. What are the revenue bankability requirements?
  • Where are the best risk-adjusted returns from an equity perspective?
  • The project sponsor take: views on raising debt and equity, risk, procurement and delivery headwinds.
  • Discussing platform investing and asset recycling strategies.

Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

The Customer Is Always Financed: Exporters’ Take on Asia’s ECA Push

Ravi Goel
CFO,
Agrocorp International
Frank Tsai
Vice President. Senior Customer Finance Advisor, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand - Treasury,
Hitachi Energy
Andreas Back
Senior Manager, Financial Services,
Wärtsilä Financial Services
Arpan Shah
Corporate Finance,
Adani
Moderator
MK Lee
Head of Export Finance, Asia,
ANZ (Australia and New Zealand Banking Group)
  • Where do exporters see the biggest opportunities across Asia, and which markets are proving most attractive for new business?
  • Are increased ECA flexibility, untied products, shopping lines and broader national interest mandates making a practical difference for exporters?
  • What are the biggest barriers to turning Asian opportunities into bankable transactions, from FX and local regulation to offtake, tenor and project risk?
  • How are geopolitical shifts, supply chain security concerns and industrial policy changing exporter strategy across the region?
  • What should ECAs, banks and governments do differently to make export finance faster, more accessible and more useful for exporters in Asia?
Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

The Return of Scale: Gas, LNG and LPG mega-project finance

Hongrui Mo
Chief Financial Officer - Asia,
MET Group
KENSUKE NISHIKI
SENIOR MANAGER,
JGC Corporation
Tanzeem Chowdhury
CEO,
Omera Petroleum
Moderator
Max Thompson
Export Finance Editor,
Exile Group
  • Analysing lender appetite for LNG and gas-to-power PF in Asia.
  • Examining which LNG-to-power structures are most bankable today.
  • Evaluating realistic scale for PF: size, tenor, and syndication depth.
  • Discussing revenue bankability: PPA terms, dispatch, indexation.
  • Identifying refinancing and market-access risk at/after COD.
Networking Activities
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Philippines project finance outlook: PPPs, energy transition and infrastructure finance

Cyris Ann A. Ng-Santiago
Director III, Capacity Building and Knowledge Management Service,
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP CENTER
Saurabh Sipani
Head of Investments,
Hexa Renewables Asia
Eric Ma
President,
Upower Energy
Rajesh Hemnani
Investment Principal,
Clime Capital
Eduardo Olbes
Sector Chief Financial Officer, Renewable Energy and Waste Management,
E-INFRA
Moderator
Natalia Sergeeva
Co-Head of Global Business Origination,
UK Export Finance
  • Examining energy and renewables pipeline, development challenges, supply chain readiness.
  • Exploring bankability considerations for Philippines infrastructure financings, from government support and concession frameworks to offtake risk, peso liquidity and long-tenor debt availability.
  • Evaluating LNG-to-power momentum through an energy security lens and what financings are emerging.
  • Examining the next wave of private infrastructure investment in the Philippines, including transport, water, waste, logistics and social infrastructure, and what sponsors need from PPP frameworks, lenders and public-sector counterparties to reach financial close.
  • Assessing FX exposure, PPA structures, and credit enhancement options that unlock liquidity.
Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Financing Vietnam’s growth: ECAs, banks, and sponsors behind LNG, infrastructure and manufacturing

Vaibhav Saxena
Senior Foreign Counsel,
VILAF
Huyen Vuong Thi
Chairwoman and Chief Executive Officer,
Fast Capital Solution JSC
Vu Dan Ninh
Head of Debt Capital Market,
Vingroup JSC
Michal Ron
Chief International Relations Officer,
SACE
Moderator
Jieun Kang
Director, Structured Export Finance,
ING Bank
  • Examining what is genuinely moving under current planning/auction frameworks and where bottlenecks remain. What’s the most financeable near-term pipeline (energy infra, industrials, logistics)?
  • Is Vietnam seeing more “strategic ECA” behaviour (security/critical supply chains) versus pure commercial exports?
  • Examining the infra market beyond energy:  what do the opportunities in ports, airports, hospitals, roads are in the pipeline? 
  • What policy/regulatory shifts would unlock materially larger PF volumes?
  • Assessing ECA/DFI roles in moving projects from “promising” to “closeable.”
Exile Stage: Project & Export Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

Indonesia Deep Dive - Key projects and financing opportunities amid strong energy transition and infrastructure pipeline

Mathieu Geze
Executive Director, Asia-Pacific,
HDF
Darren Chua
General Manager - M&A & Commercial,
Asian Bulk Logistics
Sylvi Gani
Director of Financing and Investment,
PT Sarana Multi Infrastruktur (Persero)
Moderator
Gladys Choi
Head of Structured Trade and Export Finance Asia Pacific ex Japan,
Deutsche Bank
  • Deep dive into Indonesia multi-billion investment opportunities and financing requirement across strategic sectors; Discuss key project challenges, bankability consideration, and financing alternatives
  • Assess Indonesia energy transition progress, and how green hydrogen play a key role
  • Investigate opportunities and challenges around Indonesia logistic infrastructure amid Indonesia's growing export of refined metals and minerals
  • How blended finance help mobilise private capital and bridge funding gap for Indonesia sizeable financing needs across infrastructure and energy transition projects

Proximo Stage: Project Finance, Heliconia Ballroom

India: scale, domestic capital, and the export and agency finance opportunities

Sandeep Kudtarkar
Country Head, India, Bangladesh and Nepal,
UK Export Finance
Amol Mane
Representative for Export Credit Guarantees of The Federal Republic of Germany,
AHK Indo - German Chamber of Commerce
Donato Morea
Head of APAC Region,
SACE
Rishi Shimpi
Head of Project Finance,
Afcons Infrastructure Limited
Moderator
Aneesh Mahajan
Managing Director, Head – Asia Pacific, Export and Agency Finance,
Citi
  • Analysing what’s behind India’s step-change in project finance scale (deal velocity, ticket sizes, and repeatable structures).
  • Examining where export finance fits versus deep domestic capital markets and how that changes structuring.
  • Analysing grid and industrial demand growth shaping the next wave of bankable capex.
  • Evaluating opportunities for ECAs in equipment-driven transactions and large infrastructure procurement.
Networking Activities

Drinks Reception

Grab a drink and get networking at our drinks reception located in the Bayview Foyer!

20 October 2026
Saraca B
Saraca B

Networking Roundtable: China Clean Energy Overseas Financing Roundtable

Aaron Huang
Head of Project Financing – Southeast Asia,
Envision Energy International
Yasmin Liu
Chair,
WhaleFall Tech
Anthony Coles
CEO,
Cetacea Circular
Devin Chan
Deputy Executive Director,
Infrastructure Asia
Mathieu Geze
Executive Director, Asia-Pacific,
HDF
Jianbao Ye
Business Development Director,
HyperStrong International
Kaho Yu
Head of Energy and Resources Research,
Verisk Maplecroft
Micko Lee
Overseas Sales Director,
HyperStrong International
Moderator
Yuki Yu
Lead China Resarch,
Energy Iceberg
Moderator
Max Thompson
Export Finance Editor,
Exile Group

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Saraca A

Networking Roundtable: Untied Lending in Asia: ECAs as Strategic Capital Providers

Tanzeem Chowdhury
CEO,
Omera Petroleum
Mayank Vishnoi
Group CFO – Corporate Finance,
ChemOne
Moderator
Willem Van Nouhuys
Head Structured Export Finance Singapore,
ING Bank

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Saraca B

Networking Roundtable: Borrowers and Exporters Roundtable

Yan Bin Wu
Deputy CEO / Chief Financial Officer,
Summit Power International Pte. Ltd.
Moderator
Didem Ozgurel
Executive Director Export Finance,
Landesbank Baden - Wurttemberg (LBBW)

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Saraca A

Networking Roundtable: ASEAN Grid: Financing Transmission and Strengthening Grid Infrastructure

Eric Ma
President,
Upower Energy
Eduardo Olbes
Sector Chief Financial Officer, Renewable Energy and Waste Management,
E-INFRA
Moderator
Frank Tsai
Vice President. Senior Customer Finance Advisor, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand - Treasury,
Hitachi Energy

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Saraca C

Invitation Only: Credit and Asset Distribution Forum

Baldev Bhinder
Managing Director,
Blackstone & Gold
Alexander Klepp
Underwriting Manager Single Risk,
Credendo
Ted Low
Head of Portfolio and Collateral Management,
Clifford Capital
Katarzyna Kowalska
Deputy CEO, CRO,
KUKE - Export Credit Insurance Corporation Joint Stock Company
Ashish Makhija
Director, Credit Sales, Global Markets,
Barclays Bank
Gregory FORTI
Head of Resource Portfolio Management - Asia Pacific,
BNP Paribas
Michal Ron
Chief International Relations Officer,
SACE
Flavio Castri
Head of South-East Asia & Oceania,
SACE
Armel Castets
Deputy director,
French Treasury
Tim Warren
Head of Structured Credit & Political Risk,
RedRay
Robert Besseling
CEO,
Pangea Risk
Darren Chua
General Manager - M&A & Commercial,
Asian Bulk Logistics
Moderator
Katharine Morton
Head of Export, Project and Development Finance,
TXF

The discussion then goes to the heart of the matter with a practical walk-through of how credit insurance is being used across the deal lifecycle in Asia, from origination and balance sheet management through to default, claims, recoveries and final payout. The focus will be on what is working, what is not, and where friction still sits between banks, brokers, insurers and reinsurers.

  • How banks in Asia are embedding credit insurance alongside syndication, distribution and SRT from origination to unlock lending headroom
  • Where CPRI is proving most useful across Asian trade, export, commodity, infrastructure and project finance portfolios
  • Whether Singapore is becoming the natural hub for regional insurance distribution, placement and portfolio management
  • If banks centralise insurance operations globally, what is the benefit of dedicated insurance distribution desks in key Asian markets such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo or Sydney?
  • Is there enough insurance and reinsurance capacity for large, complex or emerging market Asian risks, including Indonesia, Vietnam, India, the Philippines and frontier ASEAN markets?
  • What is working, and what is not, in current policy wordings, structures, pricing and placement speed for Asian bank risk?
  • How insurers are responding to longer-tenor infrastructure, energy transition, ECA-backed and sovereign-linked exposures in the region
Saraca B

Gardens By the Bay Walking Tour

Join us for our Gardens by the Bay Walking Tour to start the conference and connect with fellow delegates.

Full details and timings included in session confirmation email.

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Saraca B

Icebreaker Drinks Reception

Kick-off Asia 2026 with a drink at our Icebreaker Drinks Reception!

Location: Jypsy One Fullerton - 1 Fullerton Rd, #01-02/03, Singapore 049213

Time: 7pm - 9pm

Taxi drop-off point: 1 Fullerton Rd, Singapore 049213

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