Lisa O’Connor

Managing Director, Securities, Treasury & Standards, Asia Pacific,
SWIFT

Based in Hong Kong, Lisa is the Managing Director for Securities, Treasury and Standards for Asia Pacific at SWIFT. She is in charge of a team that spends half of their time advising FMIs on ISO standards and the remaining on market practice groups for the community. Prior to SWIFT, Lisa was at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong where she was the Head of Securities Service in Hong Kong and Head of Securities Service and Corporate Agency & Trust. In this role, she was the most recent participant in the HK market to launch Third Party Clearing. At Standard Chartered Bank, Lisa also held a role in Client Coverage in RMB Solutions where she worked with Financial Institutions on China Access products.

Lisa holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Syracuse University and an MBA for Financial Professionals from Manchester Business School.