Peter Wong: A steady hand in a crisis

By Clive Horwood

May 09, 2019

As part of Euromoney's 50th anniversary coverage, we profile some of the biggest names that we interviewed for our May Asia focus.



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“If there’s one thing I have learned in my career it is how to deal with a crisis because I have lived through so many of them,” says Peter Wong, a 40-year veteran of banking in Asia and today chief executive of Asia Pacific at HSBC.

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Peter Wong,
HSBC

In the early 1980s, US Fed tightening led to rising rates and a round of defaults and delinquencies in Hong Kong.

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