Sovereign Credit Insights APAC Edition
August Spotlight: Hong Kong, Indonesia and Food security risk in Asia
- Update on Hong Kong's credit profile
- Food security risk in Asia
- Indonesia amid the turn in the credit cycle
Join Moody's analysts for an update on:
- Update on Hong Kong's credit profile
- How have remaining pandemic restrictions and a slowing China impacted the economic outlook?
- What is the outlook for reform under the new government?
Covered by Martin Petch, VP - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Group - Food security risk in Asia
- Which countries are most vulnerable to food supply and price shocks?
- What roles can governments play in ensuring food security?
Covered by Deborah Tan, AVP - Analyst, Credit Strategy and Research Group
- Indonesia amid the turn in the credit cycle
- How exposed is Indonesia’s external position, given currently supportive commodity prices and tightening global liquidity?
- What do recent plans toward deficit reduction augur for Indonesia’s fiscal strength?
Covered by Anushka Shah, VP - Senior Credit Officer, Sovereign Risk Group
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SpeakersGene Fang Associate Managing Director, Sovereign Risk Moody's Investors Service
Deborah Tan Assistant Vice President – Analyst, Credit Strategy & Research Moody's Ratings
Martin Petch Vice President - Senior Credit Officer Moody's Investors Service
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Gene Fang is an Associate Managing Director in the Sovereign and sub-sovereign Ratings Group in Asia. Based in Singapore, he manages the teams responsible for sovereign credit ratings in the Asia Pacific region and credit research on Chinese regional- and local governments.
Before joining Moody’s, Gene worked as an investment banker, covering financial institutions for J.P. Morgan and Citigroup in Hong Kong and Singapore. In this role, he managed client relationships across Asia and advised on debt, equity, and M&A transactions. Gene graduated from Columbia University in political science. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.
Deborah Tan is an Associate Vice President within Moody’s Credit Strategy and Research Group. Based in Singapore, she leads Moody’s thematic research for India, Southeast Asia and Australia with a focus on producing forward-looking macro-credit insights and outlooks. Her responsibilities also include designing scenario analysis to test the resilience of Moody’s rating methodologies and assessing the impact of these scenarios.
Prior to joining Moody’s in 2019, Deborah was a macroeconomist at BHP Billiton where she covered both India and the US and led the Group’s interest rate, FX and long-term growth projections for key markets. She has also worked at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and PWC.
Deborah holds a master’s in Economics from the University of Cambridge and a bachelor of science in Economics from University College London.
Martin Petch is a Vice President – Senior Credit Officer with Moody’s SovereignRisk Group. Based in Singapore, he covers a portfolio of sovereign credits in the Asia Pacific region – including China, Australia, Hong Kong - as well as credits in Central Asia and the Caucasus.
Martin joined Moody’s in 2017, after working as the Manager of Economic Analysis and Research with BHP Billiton covering its key commodity markets, China, Japan and India, economies in the South East Asian region, and the major advanced economies. Martin also held various positions with the Australian Commonwealth Treasury,the Commonwealth Bank and the Australian Industry Group. Martin was a graduate in Economics from the University of Western Australia