Hong Kong Mortgage Corp names Colin Pou as new CEO

Pou, who is an executive director at HKMA, will be seconded to HKMC.

The Hong Kong Mortgage Corporation (HKMC) has named Colin Pou Hak Wan as its new chief executive officer, effective 26 December.

Pou succeeds Raymond LC Li, who is retiring from the HKMC.

Pou is currently the executive director of the financial infrastructure department at the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA). He will be seconded from the HKMA to take up the CEO position, Hong Kong’s central bank said in a statement posted on its website.

From November 2015 to October 2018, Pou was seconded to HKMC as senior vice president (operations) and CEO of the HKMC Insurance Limited, a subsidiary of HKMC.

Pou first joined HKMA in 1995 as an assistant manager and has worked in various departments in HKMA. He was promoted in October 2018 as executive director (financial infrastructure) of the HKMA, where he was tasked with developing the financial market infrastructure and enhancing Hong Kong’s fintech ecosystem.