Singapore Exchange (SGX) announced today the appointment of Michael Luk as the new Head of Fixed Income Origination and Sales, effective January 1st, 2017.
Reporting to Mr. Chew Sutat, SGX Head of Equities & Fixed Income, Mr. Luk is tasked with spearheading the growth of SGX’s fixed income businesses through deeper and broader relationships with market participants.
This includes extending SGX regional leadership in bond listings and driving institutional client adoption of OTC trading in the Asian bond market via SGX’s new Bond Pro trading platform.
Sutat Chew
EVP, Singapore Exchange
Mr. Chew Sutat stated:
I am happy to have Michael join SGX. His wealth of experience will bring great value and contribute to the strengthening of SGX’s growing fixed income businesses. His knowledge of Asian fixed income capital markets will help us deliver on SGX’s strategy to offer global investors the ability to raise capital and trade all of Asia in one place and across asset classes.
Mr. Luk has more than 18 years’ experience in debt capital markets covering all fixed income debt financing products including public bonds, high yield, leveraged finance, syndicated loans, private placements and structured debt products.
Prior to SGX, Mr Luk served as the Global Head of Debt Capital Markets with ANZ Banking Group in Hong Kong and before that, the Head of Asia Pacific Debt Capital Markets at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He also spent about 9 years with Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong where he was both Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets and Head of Asia Leveraged Debt Capital Markets.
He also spent about 9 years with Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong where he was both Head of Fixed Income Capital Markets and Head of Asia Leveraged Debt Capital Markets.