Five key issues to watch

Who will be the first president of the bank?

One prominent contender is Jin Liqun, the head of the Multilateral Interim Secretariat of the AIIB.

Jin, born in 1949, has an impressive resume. After graduation from Beijing Foreign Studies University with a major in English, he joined the Ministry of Finance. In the 1980s he was dispatched to the World Bank Group as an alternative executive director for China. He then became the vice-minister of finance. He was appointed as vice-president of the Asian Development Bank in 2003.