LexisNexisยฎ UNDER 40 2024
Chao Tong
Vice President, CFO, General Counsel
Zhejiang Orient Financial Holdings Group Co., Ltd.
Attorney Tong is a compliance expert in the field of financial services. He leads the legal and compliance team to provide innovative and efficient legal and compliance solutions for financial businesses such as trust, insurance, futures, financial leasing, private fund management and wealth management, and has won the title of 2023 ALB China Top 15 In-house Teams.
In the past year, as the Chief Compliance Officer, Attorney Tong has established a compliance management system in a provincial state-owned listed financial holding group. He led the legal and compliance team to continuously prompt compliance risks and provide high-quality solutions, managing in balancing the complex regulatory obligations (including state-owned assets supervision, listed compliance supervision, and the supervision of various financial and quasi-financial businesses) and the group's business goals, thus laying an important foundation for the real implementation of the systematic top-level compliance design.
Attorney Tong continues to deepen practical and innovative legal compliance, such as Innovatively optimizing the ""three lists"", sorting out more than 200 compliance risks and carried out standardized classification and rating, and establishing a “3+N+X” compliance guidance system. In addition, he always adheres to the concepts of openness, innovation, and growth in work, giving back his rich professional experience (including big law firms and globally renowned technology companies) and an integrated professional background (attorney qualification of China and New York State, CPA) to the public. He wrote legal insights for LexisNexis 2023 Annual Observation Report, accepted an exclusive interview for ALB enterprise compliance series, and presented his experience multiple times at large-scale law forums and compliance management seminars. In the future, he will continue to explore applying the standardized management experience of technology companies to the legal and compliance management of financial holding groups, thereby enriching the standardized management toolbox.