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Bond Connect Company Limited (BCCL), a joint venture established by China Foreign Exchange Trade System (CFETS) and Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX), is pleased to announce that Mr Wang Tong, Tony, has joined as General Manager. Since its establishment in 2017, BCCL has been promoting the two-way opening-up of China’s bond market and supporting the deeper connectivity between financial markets in Hong Kong and Mainland China.
As General Manager, Mr Wang is responsible for BCCL’s overall business development strategy and the management of its daily operations.
He succeeds Julien Martin, who has been appointed to a new role at HKEX leading the group’s emerging business development.
Mr Wang joins BCCL from Bank of China (Hong Kong) Limited, where he has been General Manager of Global Markets for the past six years, managing its treasury sales and trading, as well as banknote wholesale business, in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Prior to this, he held other senior positions at the Bank of China, having first joined the group in 1994.
Mr Wang holds an EMBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a Bachelor of Arts from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Bond Connect is a pioneering mutual market access programme, facilitating the efficient trading and settlement of bonds between Hong Kong and Mainland China, and has become a crucial channel for overseas investors to access China’s interbank bond market. CFETS is a sub-institution of the People’s Bank of China and an important financial infrastructure in China, with the strategic goal of becoming the major global trading platform and pricing centre for RMB and related products. HKEX is a leading operator of exchanges and clearing houses based in Hong Kong.
