ASIFMA Annual Conference 2025
17 February 2025, Hong Kong
Michael Syn
Executive Vice President and Head of Derivatives
Singapore Exchange (SGX)
Mr Michael Syn is Head of Derivatives at SGX.
Mr Syn has management responsibility for SGX’s award-winning derivatives trading and clearing business, offering a full suite of derivatives products across Asian equity indices, commodities and foreign exchange. He oversees Energy Market Company (EMC), a wholly owned subsidiary of SGX which operates Singapore’s wholesale electricity market, as well as the Baltic Exchange based in London.
Mr Syn joined SGX on 1 March 2011 with a background in investment banking and investment management, having worked in both London and Singapore. Prior to SGX, he was Chief Operating Officer of DBS Asset Management, a subsidiary of DBS Bank.
Mr Syn serves on the boards of EMC and the Baltic Exchange. He also serves on the advisory board of The Centre for Asset Management Research & Investments (CAMRI) at the National University of Singapore, and the council of the Economic Society of Singapore.
Mr Syn graduated with MA and PhD degrees from Gonville & Caius College in Cambridge University and attended the Harvard Advanced Management Program (AMP).
