Peter Stein is the Chief Executive Officer of ASIFMA. Reporting to the Board of Directors, he leads the association’s vision and strategy as it advocates on behalf of its over 160 member firms for the efficient growth and development of Asia’s capital markets.

Prior to his role at ASIFMA, Peter took over as Managing Director of the Private Wealth Management Association (PWMA) in December 2016, and was also named CEO in July 2021. Established in 2013, PWMA is an industry association whose mission is to foster the growth and development of the private wealth management industry in Hong Kong.

Previously, Peter worked for UBS AG, where he served as Head of Regulatory Advisory & Relations, Asia Pacific and before that as Head of Group Governmental Affairs for Asia Pacific. Until 2011, Peter was a senior editor, reporter and columnist in Hong Kong with The Wall Street Journal, where he worked for more than 20 years. He was the Journal’s Hong Kong Bureau Chief from 2005-2011 and before that was Managing Editor of the Journal’s Asian edition.

Peter graduated with a BA in Comparative Literature from Yale University and speaks Mandarin, Cantonese and German.

Allison Parent is the Executive Director for the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA). She oversees the development and execution of GFMA’s priorities, helping to provide a collective voice on behalf of global financial institutions to support global capital markets and broader economic growth.

Allison also serves on a number of public sector advisory roles, including as a member of the Financial Stability Board (FSB) Advisory Forum on Format for Cyber Incident Reporting, the Affiliate Members Consultative Committee of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), and the Digital Markets Subcommittee of the Global Markets Advisory Committee at the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

Prior to joining GFMA June 2017, Allison was the Head of Global Regulatory Policy at Barclays. In this role, she led on the bank’s advocacy, impact analysis and execution around post-crisis regulatory law changes, such as the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act), Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and Basel capital and liquidity reforms. Allison has regularly appeared before, and advised, finance ministers, securities authorities, central bank governors, lawmakers in Asia, US and Europe on the law and supervisory practices governing financial markets. Allison joined Barclays in its Washington DC office before moving to London.

2013 to 2015 Allison was Senior Policy Advisor and Counsel to the Bank of England. She led the Markets Directorate’s policy team on evaluating the impact of regulations on market structure and product offerings. In this role, she supported the efforts on the U.K. Fair and Effective Markets Review, the Bank of England’s response to the Capital Markets Union consultation, participated on Committee for Global Financial System working group, as well as serving as advisor on legal developments in the U.S. impacting global capital markets. Between 2005-2011 Allison served as General Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on the Budget responsible for advising on U.S. fiscal matters before Congress. During this period she was also an advisor on securities and banking matters to U.S. Senator Judd Gregg and the Republican caucus during the financial crisis, contributing to the development and passage of the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act (TARP). Allison subsequently drafted and negotiated significant provisions of the Dodd-Frank Act and was budget counsel to The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform.

Allison was raised in San Antonio, Texas and Seattle, Washington. She holds a Juris Doctorate from the South Texas College of Law and Bachelor of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas. She is licensed to practice law in the state of Texas. She has lived and worked, or studied, in Washington D.C., London, Texas, and Florence, Italy.