With an expanding role, cutting-edge technology at their fingertips and the growing confidence of their organisations, Asia’s GCs are more powerful than ever before. Haky Moon tracks how their role has evolved

Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, has hired Simpson Thacher & Bartlett partner Chen Leiming, its long term external legal counsel, as its global general counsel and senior vice-president

He Songqi, general manager of the Lufax’s Legal and Compliance Department, talks about the company’s history, the impact of scandals related to peer-to-peer (P2P) finance as well as the future of the industry in an interview with Li Shangjing.