Pius Chong is Managing Director and Head of Transaction Management, Global Banking for Asia-Pacific. He leads an award winning team that manages the transaction management aspects of capital financing transactions, including international and domestic equity and debt capital markets, financings and mergers and acquisition execution that HSBC arranges in the region.

Pius has been involved in the execution of some of the region’s most high profile, groundbreaking and award winning transactions in various currencies and formats (including conventional and Islamic) for investment grade and sub-investment grade entities, including sovereigns, quasi sovereigns, multilateral institutions, financial institutions and corporates.  Under his leadership, his team was named Team of the Year for Debt and Equity Linked by International Financial Legal Review, Asia (“IFLR”) for six consecutive years, 2011-2016. IFLR presented Pius with its outstanding achievement award in 2011.

Pius co-chairs the credit markets committee of the Asia Securities Industry & Financial Markets Association (ASIFMA) and is co-convenor of the Asia Pacific Structured Finance Association (APSA). He chairs the documentation committee of the Asia Pacific Loan Markets Association (APLMA).  He is the convenor of the working group on the development of Islamic Finance in Hong Kong for the Treasury Market Association (TMA). Pius has served as chairman of the debt capital markets committee of the Singapore Investment Banking Association (SIBA).