Keith Noyes

Keith Noyes is currently an Independent Non-executive Director, at OTC Clearing Corporation, a subsidiary of HKEx. He was the Chief Risk and Compliance Officer for Covario AG, a digital asset prime brokerage from April 2020 through December 2022, where he developed in-house procedures for onboarding crypto asset trading clients that were compliant with VQF AML best practices. He trained in Chainalysis blockchain forensics. He was chosen to be one of seven representatives on the Unsecured Creditors Committee for the Celsius Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Prior to this, Keith was the Regional Director, Asia Pacific, International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) for 12 years from Oct 2007 to May 2019, where he was directly responsible for ISDA’s regulatory outreach efforts across the APAC region.  Keith was the point person in the region on IBOR transition, margin reform and netting advocacy and participated in numerous industry committees, including The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission Product Advisory Committee, HKEx OTC Clear Product Advisory Committee, the AFMA Benchmark Committee and was a content reviewer for Hong Kong Securities Institute courses.  Keith moved to Hong Kong in 1992 to set up Merrill Lynch’s equity derivatives trading desk and has vast experience in derivatives trading and structuring as well as two years’ experience running the day-to-day operations of a securities dealer (Taiwan Securities from 1999-2001).

Keith is a regular public speaker and lecturer, including conference speaking in Mandarin Chinese on derivatives issues. Keith has an MBA in Finance from the Anderson Graduate School of Management, UCLA and a BA from Dartmouth College in Economics and Chinese and spent a year at Beijing University from 1986-1987 studying Chinese economic reform in Mandarin.