Hong Kong Association of New York

is proud to present a breakfast meeting

hosted by White & Case LLP

with

Mr. Mingqiang Bi

General Manager of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Ltd. (ICBC), New York Branch

A presentation on

Chinese Banks: On the Way of Internationalization

Thursday, May 10, 2012

8:00am – 9:30am

White & Case LLP

1155 Avenue of the Americas, 40th Floor

New York, NY 10036  

  Mingqiang Bi

Mingqiang Bi has worked at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited for 15 years, the last one as the General Manager of ICBC Ltd., New York Branch. He is also Chairman of ICBC Financial Services LLC since 2011. Prior to being appointed to his current positions, Mr. Bi was CEO and General Manager of ICBC Ltd.,Canadain 2010.  He received two B.S. degrees in 1995 and one M.S. in Economics in 1997 fromTsinghua UniversityChina(Beijing) and was awarded Ph.D. from People’sUniversityofChina(Beijing) in 2004 for studies in Finance.

He has been active in the areas of business development, corporate banking, credit risk management, and marketing during his employment with ICBC. He has published a range of research papers involved in the financial areas, and one of his publications “Study on Loan Pricing of Commercial Banks inChina” was published in 2004.

Seating is very limited. To register, please email rsvp.002@hkany.org with your name, title, organization and email address by Tuesday, May 8, 2012.

Cost: Free for HKANY members. $30 for non-members to be paid at the door.

To learn about HKANY membership or become a member, please click on this link: http://www.hkany.org/membership

HKANY gratefully acknowledges Mr. Francis Zou and White & Case LLP for hosting this event.