Wing Chew is a Senior Director with the CME Group since 2012. Based in Singapore, he heads the International Research and Product Development department in the Asia Pacific. His role is to provide local intelligence on the regional market landscape, and to drive the development of new products targeted at the region. His responsibilities include the publication of research reports, analysis of the competitive and regulatory conditions, and the identification of revenue opportunities in the region. His scope of coverage spans the whole of CME Group’s product suite, including foreign exchange, interest rates, equity indices, energy, commodities and metals.

Prior to joining the CME Group, Wing Chew spent four years as the Asia Pacific Head of Business Development and Research with ICAP, the largest inter-dealer broker in the world. His role at ICAP Electronic Broking was similar to that at CME Group, and his coverage included the foreign exchange and fixed income over-the-counter products.

Before he joined the institutional trading business, Wing Chew spent ten years, first in the credit risk department of a global corporate bank, and then in a financial information firm targeting banks. At Citibank, he led and trained credit risk teams in the analysis of large local corporates, multi-national corporates, small & medium enterprises and financial institutions. He later joined Reuters as the Asia ex-Japan business manager of buy-side products, where he marketed to, and trained, bank analysts and fund managers in the use of information products to enhance their financial and credit analyses.

Prior to his buy-side career, Wing Chew was a sell-side research analyst, with Jardine Fleming Securities and Crosby Securities, from 1994 to 1998. He was responsible for the coverage of the shipping & offshore marine sectors, air & land transport sectors, the consumer sector, and the small caps sector. Jardine Fleming was consistently among the top 3 research houses in Asia, while Crosby was a top research house for macroeconomics and specialist research.

Wing Chew brings with him twenty years of financial industry experience, spanning the sell side, buy side, banking, OTC trading and exchange trading industries. He graduated with a Masters of Arts from the University of Oxford, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of London, where he took First Class Honours. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1997.