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Li-May Chew

Associate Research Director, Financial Services Advisory, IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific


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  Li-May Chew is an Associate Research Director for IDC Financial Insights Asia/Pacific. She is responsible for identifying the latest trends in the Asian risk management and insurance sectors, and how these affect the strategies, business operations and technology infrastructure of related financial institutions. Herein, she covers a plethora of topics, ranging from risk management implications of Basel II, to coverage on core applications investment for insurers. Li-May also co-manages the Banking Advisory Services practice.

Having worked as a sell-side analyst in the capital market industry for several years before joining IDC Financial Insights, Li-May brings unique skills in quantitative analysis and research to the team. She regularly engages with the key decision makers from Asia's financial services institutions and the financial technology vendor community serving them, collaborating closely to deliver on customized research engagements. Among the topics Li-May has consulted on include mergers and acquisitions of banks in the region, Islamic private banking, strategic initiatives and challenges of the Asia/Pacific insurance community, vendor product portfolio positioning, direct marketing strategies for an international financial institution, and online and offline retail and institutional brokerage market.

Li-May regularly presents to senior-level banking and insurance practitioners in internal and external briefings around the region, and is quoted frequently in various publications and by the international media.

Li-May has a bachelor's degree in commerce, with a major in accounting, finance, and economics from the University of Sydney, Australia. She earned the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 2001 after passing all three levels of rigorous examinations on her first attempt. Li-May's professional affiliations include the Association for Investment Management and Research (AIMR) and the Singapore Society of Financial Analysts (SSFA).

Research Authored by Li-May Chew


Business Strategy: The Role of Risk in a Postcrisis World — Notes from the Asia/Pacific Chief Risk Officer Forum
Li-May Chew
August, 2010 - Doc # FIN224643      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report elaborates on the six principal topics garnering the airtime of 33 CROs and their deputies from 11 countries across Asia/Pacific (excluding Japan) at the exclusive, ...

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Business Strategy: Notes from the Vietnamese Banking Roundtable
Li-May Chew
August, 2010 - Doc # FIN224548      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report outlines the four core topics garnering the airtime of 12 CIOs and their deputies from Vietnam's state-owned and joint-stock banking institutions at the closed-door ...

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Business Strategy: Notes from the Singapore Insurance Roundtable
Li-May Chew
July, 2010 - Doc # FIN224172      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report delineates the strategic imperatives Singapore insurers are prioritizing on, as revealed at our Singapore Insurance Roundtable. The invitation-only event involved ni...

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Business Strategy: Enhanced Role of Analytics for the Financial Services Institution of Today
Li-May Chew
June, 2010 - Doc # FIN223523      Business Strategy
This IDC Financial Insights report discusses the role of business analytics in the financial services institutions of today. In IDC Financial Insights' annual listings on the key business and technolo...

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Worldwide Insurance IT Spending Guide: 2008–2013
David Potterton, Robert Burbach, Li-May Chew, Peter Farley, Jeanne Capachin
March, 2010 - Doc # FIN222251      Pivot Table
This IDC Financial Insights Pivot Table provides an updated forecast for worldwide insurance industry IT spending from 2009 to 2013.

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Business Strategy: Top 10 Strategic IT Initiatives for Asia/Pacific Banks in 2010 — Investing for the Comeback
Michael Araneta, Li-May Chew, Shawn Yip
January, 2010 - Doc # FIN221571      Market Overview
This IDC Financial Insights report presents the Asia/Pacific team's views on the top 10 strategic IT initiatives for the Asia/Pacific banks in 2010. The report discusses why these initiatives are cruc...

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Worldwide Financial Services 2010 Top 10 Predictions: Where to Next?
Aaron McPherson, Marc DeCastro, Dana Wiklund, David Potterton, Jeanne Capachin, Karen Massey, Sean O'Dowd, Michael Araneta, Rachel Hunt, Trevor LaFleche, Roberto Gutierrez, Mauro Peres, Robert Burbach, Peter Farley, Matthew Clay, Li-May Chew, Shawn Yip
January, 2010 - Doc # FIN221471      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC Financial Insights report presents our top 10 predictions for global financial services. As we started 2009, there seemed to be no end in sight to the issues facing financial services. As we ...

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Worldwide Risk Management 2010 Top 10 Predictions: The Road to Financial Services Recovery Runs Through Improved Risk Management
Dana Wiklund, Li-May Chew, Shawn Yip, Matthew Clay, Ricardo Villate, Robert Burbach
January, 2010 - Doc # FIN221462      Top 10 Predictions
This IDC Financial Insights report presents our top 10 risk management predictions for 2010. The objective of the report is to leverage our global perspective on how issues of risk management within f...

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Asia/Pacific Insurance 2010 Top 10 Predictions: Prescriptions for the Upturn
Li-May Chew
December, 2009 - Doc # FIN220980      Top 10 Predictions
This Financial Insights report presents our predictions on 10 key areas that will be critical strategic differentiators for the Asia/Pacific insurance industry in 2010. The document incorporates infor...

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In-Housing: Are Insurers Predisposed to Internal Applications?
Li-May Chew, David Potterton, Simona Macellari, Robert Burbach
October, 2009 - Doc # FIN220586      Perspective
Given Asian insurers' predisposition to internally design and develop their core insurance application solutions, this Financial Insights Perspective explores if carriers across the world are indeed i...

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