Board Member Profiles
Financial Market Member Board Members:
Belinda Newman (Chair)Head of Balance Sheet Management
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Chris Henderson (Deputy Chair)
Head of Global Markets Distribution
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Andrew Allan
Head of Markets New Zealand
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Jun BantaHead of NZ Balance Sheet ManagementHSBC New ZealandJun is Head of Balance Sheet Management for HSBC New Zealand looking after the bank's structural interest rate risk, funding, and liquidity. He first joined HSBC in 1996 as an Executive Trainee attending its one-year management development course in the UK and had various retail and commercial banking postings at its Manila office, before moving to the Treasury and Global Markets team in 2004 as a money market trader. In 2008 he assumed the position of Head of Balance Sheet Management for HSBC Philippines, whilst from 2012 concurrently served as Treasurer of HSBC Savings Bank Philippines, Inc., a subsidiary entity. He also had brief stints in the dealing rooms of HSBC Pakistan and HSBC Nassau. In 2013, Jun became Head of Trust for HSBC Philippines responsible for its retail, corporate, and institutional trust and fiduciary businesses. Prior to his move to Aotearoa in 2017, he last served as acting Treasurer of HSBC's subsidiary entity in Manila. Jun holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines, where he majored in Management Engineering. He graduated with Distinction from the One-Year Trust Operations and Investment Management course of the Trust Institute Foundation of the Philippines (TIFP). |
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Philippa Fourbet
GM, Markets
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Chris Leuschke
Head of Financial Markets
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Mark ButcherMark was appointed Chief Executive of the New Zealand Local Government Funding Agency (LGFA) in 2014 and his prior role was Treasurer at Auckland Council. Formerly he held senior trading and sales roles across derivative, interest rate and debt products with domestic banks and in the institutional wealth management sector as Chief Investment Officer at Perpetual Capital and General Manager of Alliance Bernstein New Zealand. Mark currently holds several investment governance roles including Chair of New Plymouth Perpetual Investment Fund, Chair of Waikato-Tainui Group Investment Committee and a member of the Nominating Committee for appointments to the board of New Zealand Superannuation Fund Guardians. He was a former director and establishment board member of LGFA. Mark holds a B Comm, is a CFA charter holder, INFINZ fellow and a Chartered member of the Institute of Directors. |
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Phil NewportPhil is Head of Fixed Interest in ACC’s investment team. In this role Phil has overall responsible for management of ACC’s fixed interest, cash and currency investments and he has held this position for over 23 years. Prior to this Phil worked as a fixed income analyst at Prudential Portfolio Managers in New Zealand before being promoted to the Head of NZ Fixed Interest based in Australia. Phil has had a long association with the NZFMA, regularly attending the NZFMA’s Credit Markets Committee, as a member of the NZFMA’s Benchmark Oversight Committee, prior its disestablishment (due to the establishment of NZFBF as independent benchmark administrator) and working groups that devised risk free rates. |
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Alastair WhiteAlastair is the General Manager Capital Markets at Spark New Zealand with responsibility for the Treasury, Insurance and Capital Management Functions. Alastair has over 10 years' experience within corporate treasury functions in both the UK and New Zealand including Spark, Mighty River Power, British Telecom and Unisys. As well as 13 years with Westpac New Zealand where he was a Director within the debt capital markets debt securities and large corporate institutional relationships teams. Alastair is also a member of the NZFMA’s Debt Capital Markets Working Group. |
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Board Observers: |
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Vanessa RaynerHead of Financial Markets
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Kim MartinHead of NZ Debt Management
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Ex Officio: |
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Sarah VredeChief Executive
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