Florian Schmidt is Managing Director and Head of Debt Capital Markets, Asia, with ING Wholesale Banking, based in Singapore. He has been professionally involved in Asia’s debt capital markets for 15 years. During that period he has originated and executed a large number of bond issues across Asia, including high grade, high yield, public, private, G3 and local currency offerings, some of which have been recognized with awards. Notable within the emerging markets and high yield context were, amongt others, a US$125m floating rate note for Bank Mandiri in 2001, representing the return of post?Crisis Indonesia to the international debt capital markets; a US$150m Euro MTN Programme plus takedown for the Trade & Development Bank of Mongolia in 2007, the first ever from that country; and a complex US$250million senior notes issue for Indika Inti Energi in 2007, which was named Best High Yield Bond 2007 by FinanceAsia.
Florian is the author of Asia’s Credit Markets?From High?Yield to High?Grade, a reference work published by Wiley & Sons (Asia) in 2004. He holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Munster, Germany.
Adam Harper is a Vice President in ING’s Asian Debt Capital Markets team, based in Hong Kong. Before joining ING in November 2006, he was the Asia Editor of EuroWeek, covering the Asian high yield, high grade and local currency markets as well as having editorial responsibility for other capital markets coverage. At EuroWeek, he oversaw the publication of Asia’s High Yield Bond Markets: Financing Asia’s Growing Economies, a handbook on high yield in the region, and developed the newspaper’s Asian capital markets coverage through the creation of EuroWeek Asia, a dedicated Asian publication within the EuroWeek global edition. He has been a regular moderator of debt capital markets discussions at Euromoney conferences across Asia and elsewhere. Adam graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2001 with an honors degree in English.