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2025 Agenda

Interested in speaking at ABS Asia 2025?

Do you have unique insights, groundbreaking ideas, or industry expertise to share?

Join thought leaders and innovators on stage to shape the future of Asia’s structured finance landscape.

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Lewis Manson, Product Director

Lewis Manson, Invisso employee

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09:10
09:40
  1. Exploring macro volatility impacts, and the evolution and performance of key domestic markets around ...
10:30
    • Networking & Receptions
11:00
  1. A special presentation from the Asia-Pacific Structured Finance Association on current works and projects.
11:20
  1. Keynote fireside chat with an industry leading market figure, discovering how they view the current macroeconomic and geopolitical environment, their top trends, and things to watch in an increasingly complex and fast paced environment.
12:00
  1. Assessing market depth, collateral performance, pricing trends across capital stacks, and structural innovations including reverse mortgage RMBS and ESG-labelled deals, as Australia continues to lead the region in public securitisation activity, with record volumes in RMBS and non-bank lending, and strong domestic and offshore investor demand. Exploring credit performance outlooks, risk transfer strategies, and whether current momentum is sustainable amid macro softening and tightening global funding conditions.
12:45
    • Networking & Receptions
14:00
  1. Exploring current opportunities amid record auto, mortgage, and consumer issuance; the rising focus on Private Credit; and regulatory constraints on cross-border capital. Examining the evolving investor base, growth in pass-through certificates, credit dispersion across asset types, and emerging stress in unsecured and microfinance segments.
14:30
  1. Exploring securitisations potential in markets like Indonesia, Vietnam, the Philippines, and Malaysia. Examine emerging collateral types, regulatory hurdles, cross-currency risks, and how investors can navigate scale, transparency and yield across the ASEAN bloc.
15:00
  1. Exploring what’s driving issuance, where investor confidence is returning, and how regulatory, property sector, and geopolitical risks are reshaping the opportunity set. Examining collateral performance, deal structuring, and what global and regional investors need to navigate this evolving credit landscape.
15:30
    • Networking & Receptions
16:00
  1. Examining how CLOs are being adapted for regional issuance, the role of private credit and bank-originated collateral, and evolving investor demand across currencies and jurisdictions as BSL, Middle Market, and Hybrid Structures are imported to Asia. Exploring structuring challenges, regulatory considerations, risk retention, and what’s needed to develop a sustainable, Asia-based CLO ecosystem.
16:45
  1. Explores how private credit, securitisation, and blended finance structures are being used to fund core assets — from transport and utilities to energy and logistics; and assessing project risk allocation, refinancing trends, and regulatory frameworks across key markets, and discuss how capital markets are adapting to meet the scale, ESG alignment, and long
    duration of infrastructure finance.
17:30
    • Networking & Receptions
09:10
  1. Exploring the expansion of private credit, beyond global GP’s, to regional bank partnerships, and fintech and specialist lenders as the market broadens across borrower types, geographies, and capital structures. Discussing scalability across the APAC regions, what more is needed to unlock access as the asset-based lending opportunity expands across real estate, infrastructure, consumer, and SME sectors. Examining fund structuring innovations, institutional investor entry, and the growing intersection with securitisation.
10:00
  1. Exploring new opportunities across hyperscale data centres to fibre-optic rollouts; how lenders and arrangers are financing digital infrastructure projects across APAC, including asset-backed models, green-labelled structures, and sponsor-driven private deals. Addressing the unique risk profiles of digital assets, cross-border complexity, ESG considerations, and the emergence of a new investable asset class at the intersection of tech and credit.
10:45
    • Networking & Receptions
11:15
  1. Exploring the blurring lines between public and private credit markets and how institutional investors are allocating capital; discussing how investors are navigating today's credit landscape - pricing risk, sourcing alpha, managing liquidity, and engaging with new structures. Examining the evolution of mandates, the geographies and asset classes gaining
    momentum, and what investors need from issuers and platforms in an increasingly hybrid market.
12:00
  1. Exploring Asia’s positioning as a global hub for tokenised fixed income, and how digital assets, blockchain infrastructure, and tokenisation are reshaping issuance, settlement, and investor access in structured finance and private credit. Assessing theory vs. reality, and the impacts of digital credit and AI advancements on liquidity and transparency, legal and
    regulatory, and the interoperability challenges facing tokenised ABS and private credit products across the region.
12:30
    • Networking & Receptions
13:30
  1. Exploring the evolution of SRT as a viable capital management tool in Asia; comparisons to European and U.S. markets following regulatory approvals across Hong Kong, Singapore, and Japan; and discussing the ability to scale market confidence and deal flow. Examining funded and unfunded transaction structures, regulatory frameworks, risk retention
    interpretation, and investor appetite.
14:15
  1. Discussing how GPs can unlock portfolio value, manage liquidity, and scale capital deployment through maturing NAV Loans, Subscription lines, and Hybrid structures. Exploring evolving risk frameworks, documentation standards, and regulatory considerations shaping fund finance in Asia, including the role of Singapore’s VCC regime, cross-border
    enforceability issues, and the emergence of rated feeder structures designed to meet insurer and pension investor needs.
15:00