9:30am GMT+08
Money20/20 Welcome
Speakers
President, Money20/20
Tracey Davies is the President and Managing Director of Money20/20, the world’s leading FinTech and payments summit. She is in charge of driving the event’s global expansion and developing growth strategies for the business. Run by Ascenital PLC (formerly known as Top Right Group...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 9:30am - 9:40am GMT+08
The Matrix
9:40am GMT+08
Digital Assets and the *new* Free Banking Era
Moderators
FinTech & Crypto Leader, Asia, PwC
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & Crypto Leader for Asia, the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri leads PwC’s crypto efforts and advises...
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Co-Founder & CTO, Stellar
Jed McCaleb is the co-founder of Stellar.org, a universal financial network that aims to increase economic participation for all individuals. He believes in consciously leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. He created eDonkey2000, one of the...
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Head of Blockchain & Digital Currencies, IBM
Jesse Lund leads Blockchain and Digital Currencies market development for IBM. Within his role, Jesse is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and accelerating the commercialization of industry solutions to transform the landscape of global commerce.Jesse and his team work closely...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 9:40am - 10:00am GMT+08
The Matrix
10:00am GMT+08
The Existential Risk of Future Technologies
Moderators
MD, TRPC Pte Ltd; Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)
May-Ann is the Managing Director of research consultancy TRPC Pte Ltd, and is concurrently the Executive Director of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). She has extensive experience in public policy, technology policy development, and government relations communications across...
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Founding Engineer of Skype, Co-Founder Future of Life Institute & Philanthropist, ASI
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (cser.org), Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org), and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations. Jaan is on the...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 10:00am - 10:20am GMT+08
The Matrix
10:20am GMT+08
BigPay - Flying into FinTech
Speakers
Founder & CEO AirAsia, Chairman, BigPay
One of Asia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding AirAsia, a pioneering low-cost airline in the region. Fernandes bought the ailing, debt-ridden airline for a token RM1, turning it around within two years and growing it from a domestic Malaysian...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 10:20am - 10:40am GMT+08
The Matrix
11:00am GMT+08
Digital identity in Asia
Speakers
Director of Innovation, Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money; was named...
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11:00am GMT+08
Blockchain deep dive
Speakers
Research Director, IDC
James Wester is Research Director, Worldwide Blockchain Strategies, at IDC. His cross-industry practice covers emerging distributed ledger and blockchain technologies. Mr. Wester’s core research examines the technologies, architectures and concepts behind blockchain and how they...
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11:00am GMT+08
The digital fund industry goes mainstream
Speakers
CEO & Founder, Nexchange
Juwan Lee is an entrepreneur, VC, blockchain and fintech influencer, and investment professional with three decades of investment industry experience where he managed portfolios and organizations on behalf of multi-billion dollar hedge funds, proprietary trading desks, asset management...
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11:00am GMT+08
The changing payments landscape
Speakers
CEO & Founder, MyMy
Joe McGuire is the Founder and CEO of emerging Malaysian Fintech MyMy. This is Joe's second fintech after a senior leadership role at Airwallex, a Sequoia and Tencent backed business who recently raised a B round of US$80 million. A recognised leader with 10 years of experience in...
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11:00am GMT+08
In conversation with Jed McCaleb and Jesse Lund
Moderators
FinTech & Crypto Leader, Asia, PwC
Henri Arslanian is the PwC FinTech & Crypto Leader for Asia, the Chairman of the FinTech Association of Hong Kong and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Hong Kong where he teaches the first FinTech university course in Asia.Henri leads PwC’s crypto efforts and advises...
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Speakers
Co-Founder & CTO, Stellar
Jed McCaleb is the co-founder of Stellar.org, a universal financial network that aims to increase economic participation for all individuals. He believes in consciously leveraging technology to reduce inefficiency and improve the human condition. He created eDonkey2000, one of the...
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Head of Blockchain & Digital Currencies, IBM
Jesse Lund leads Blockchain and Digital Currencies market development for IBM. Within his role, Jesse is responsible for identifying, prioritizing, and accelerating the commercialization of industry solutions to transform the landscape of global commerce.Jesse and his team work closely...
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11:05am GMT+08
APIX - Speed dating platform for banks and FinTechs
Speakers
Advisory Manager, Financial Institutions Group, International Finance Corporation
Rachel Freeman has led IFC’s financial institution advisory in Asia Pacific including climate finance, bank-fintech partnerships, supply chain finance, credit scoring, gender finance and agrifinance since 2002. Her region spans China, Indonesia, the Mekong, Pacific Islands, South...
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11:05am GMT+08
The rise and fall of ICOs - what's next?
Speakers
Adjunct Professor, HEG Fribourg
Patrick Schueffel is adjunct professor at Fribourg’s School of Management in Switzerland and the school’s Liaison Officer in Singapore. His research focus is on Banking, Finance and Entrepreneurship. Before his move to Singapore Patrick Schueffel worked for many years in Banking...
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11:05am GMT+08
Does the world really need high throughput private and public blockchains?
Moderators
Co-Founder, Primitive Ventures
Dovey is Founding Partner of Primitive Ventures, a full-stack crypto assets investment holding company with global presence in San Francisco, Boston, and Singapore. Prior to that, she was Managing Director of DHVC (Danhua Capital), where she led investments into Limebike, MoneyLion...
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Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder, Zilliqa
Max Kantelia is a serial entrepreneur with over 25 years’ experience of building technology product and services companies in Europe, the US and Asia for the financial services industry. He was selected by EY as one of Asia’s Top 100 FinTech contributors in 2016.Based in Singapore...
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Co-Founder, NEM Foundation
Jeff McDonald is the Co-founder of the NEM Foundation and has been working as a Core Team member on the NEM blockchain project since 2014. He worked from 2008 until 2017 as an assistant professor at Keimyung University in South Korea teaching communications classes. Before that he...
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SVP of Product, Ripple
Asheesh is the SVP of Product at Ripple, which he first joined in 2013 to lead the development of their product suite. Asheesh is an industry expert on blockchain and is a frequent contributor, speaker, and advisor on blockchain and cryptocurrency. Asheesh started his career as an...
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11:15am GMT+08
Around the payments world in 30 minutes
Speakers
CEO, PPRO Financial Ltd
Simon Black is a seasoned business executive with over 25 years international experience. He is highly regarded within payments, leading two of the industry’s success stories over the last 10 years.Simon joined PPRO Group as CEO in March 2015. This followed a decade with Sage Group...
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11:20am GMT+08
Security vs utility: creating a tokenised vision of the future
Speakers
CEO & Co-Founder, CoinPip
Anson Zeall is a seasoned blockchain and fintech entrepreneur. He is the Co-founder/CEO of CoinPip, a blockchain-based funds settlement service for businesses and Co-founder/COO of Infocorp Technologies, a blockchain-based last mile financial inclusion solution provider. Anson is...
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11:20am GMT+08
The Asia Stack: opportunities and challenges
Moderators
Managing Partner, EMVC
Melissa Frakman is founder & managing partner of Emphasis Ventures (EMVC), a venture capital fund investing in early-stage “leapfrog” fintech in India and other high-growth markets. She brings 15 years of experience participating in India’s digital revolution to bridge worlds...
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Chief FinTech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Sopnendu Mohanty is responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Mohanty has spent over 20 years in various leadership roles globally in technology, finance and innovation. He has co-authored several patented...
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11:30am GMT+08
In conversation with Tony Fernandes and BigPay
Moderators
Account Manager, Money20/20 Asia
Biography coming soon.
Speakers
Co-Founder & Group CEO, BigPay
Christopher is the Group CEO and Co-Founder of BigPay. Christopher is originally from London where he worked in investment banking, tech VC, with a strong track record of both investing in, and setting up, several successful fintech and data analytics companies. He holds an undergraduate...
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Founder & CEO AirAsia, Chairman, BigPay
One of Asia's most recognisable entrepreneurs, Tony Fernandes is best known for co-founding AirAsia, a pioneering low-cost airline in the region. Fernandes bought the ailing, debt-ridden airline for a token RM1, turning it around within two years and growing it from a domestic Malaysian...
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11:35am GMT+08
11:35am GMT+08
Blockchain technology: an immutable source of data?
Moderators
COO, Beyond Blocks
Gabriel Yang is the Chief Operations Officer of Beyond Blocks, the force behind the Beyond Blocks Summit in Bangkok, Tokyo and Seoul. Gabriel has built Echelon, the APEC Summit, and other major technology and conference brands in his ten years in the business. Gabriel is a coffee...
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Chairman, Factom; Managing Director, YGC
David Johnston is a serial tech entrepreneur and early contributor to the blockchain ecosystem since 2012. In May of 2013 he co-founded the first angel investment group in crypto, BitAngels, and in August of that year served as a Foundation board member to the first ever token sale...
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11:35am GMT+08
11:40am GMT+08
Who owns an identity
Moderators
Director of Innovation, Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money; was named...
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Entrepreneur & Volunteer , iSpirt Foundation
Nikhil is a full time fellow with iSPIRT Foundation, a non for profit think thank and has been focussed on building an ecosystem for the Unified Payments Interface. Recently, as a volunteer with NPCI, he led the product development of BHIM Payments App launched by PM Modi. Nikhil...
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11:45am GMT+08
What's next for QR codes? The winners, losers and commercial roadmap
Moderators
Product Manager, Payplaza
Xiaodong Guo is an Engagement Manager at UL’s Transaction Security division. He is responsible for knowledge management within the smart card and mobile payment domain, and is a certified GlobalPlatform trainer for card technologies training. In various projects globally, he has...
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President & Co-founder, YeePay
Chen Yu has been a leading figure in the internet, e-commerce and software fields for more than 20 years.Before creating YeePay, a widely used internet payment platform in China, Yu served as director and product marketing manager for Oracle, the software giant based in the US. He...
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Head, Digital Payments, OCBC
Milind currently heads up Digital Payments for OCBC, where he is responsible for scaling the Payments business across the region. He has 18+ years in the payments across leading fintech organizations like Chase, PayPal, Visa and Ezetap, a start-up focused on building mPOS vertical...
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Co-founder, UnPAY
As the co-founder of UnPAY, Jenny Zhao drives strategic initiatives of the company, cutting across core functions like human resource management, finance and operations.Prior to this, she spent 13 years in renowned multinational companies including IBM, Nokia, Microsoft and Baidu...
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12:00pm GMT+08
What role will biometrics play in identity?
Moderators
Director of Innovation, Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money; was named...
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APAC Customer Success Manager, ForgeRock
Linden is the APAC Customer Success Manager for ForgeRock, a leading, global digital identity management software company. Her goal is to ensure that her regional banking customers are successful at building digital services that are both fit for purpose and future-facing. This requires...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Touché
Sahba Saint-Claire is a banking industry veteran with 27 years experience. He has held senior executive positions at JP Morgan, DBS and Standard Chartered.At Standard Chartered, he was the global COO for Origination and Client Coverage of the Wholesale Bank; Global COO for Financial...
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12:00pm GMT+08
Is blockchain delivering on its promise? Live usecases, not just a whitepaper
Moderators
Managing Director, Promontory, an IBM Company
Alex joined Promontory in 2006 and works with banks, regulators and corporations to strengthen risk management and anti-money laundering and sanctions compliance programs. With a background in quantitative risk measurement and information management, Alex specialises in the effective...
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Chief Officer, Global Business and Finance, STASIS
Vyacheslav is Chief Officer of Global Business and Finance at STASIS, a tokenization platform designed to bridge the gap between traditional finance and the digital asset market. STASIS' pilot project, a euro-pegged stablecoin, is a top-100 cryptocurrency with a market cap of over...
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Chief Marketing Officer, Asia, SingularDTV
Jack Cheng is the Asia Chief Marketing Officer of SingularDTV, a global blockchain entertainment platform empowering artists and creators with decentralized tools to manage creativity projects from development to distribution.Jack is also a Co-author with TsingHua University Research...
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CEO, PumaPay
Yoav Dror is the CEO of PumaPay, one of the biggest ICOs in 2018, which raised over $117 Million. With an MBA and over 20 years of experience in heading online high-volume and high-transaction companies, Yoav is now leading the team who develops PumaPay’s Blockchain-based PullPayment...
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CEO, Bluzelle
Pavel is the Co-Founder & CEO of Bluzelle. He has over 15 years’ experience in operational management, digital technology and finance. An NCAA honor roll student-athlete from UCLA, Pavel also was the co-founder of Storypanda, a digital book platform that published critically acclaimed...
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12:15pm GMT+08
Are payments in Asia headed for a quantum leap?
Speakers
Chief Revenue Officer, Marqeta
Omri serves as Marqeta’s chief revenue officer and is accountable for the company’s growth and financial performance. After joining Marqeta’s early team, he helped pioneer the organization’s customer acquisition and growth strategies which, along with Marqeta’s award-winning...
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1:30pm GMT+08
Tencent's FinTech strategy & expansion overseas
Speakers
Senior Director, Tencent
Wendy Sun is the Sr. Director of Tencent Fin-Tech Group. She leads the strategy partnership development, key account management in overseas payment markets. She and her team are devoting to bringing Tencent’s FinTech experience and solution to partners worldwide. Wendy also supports...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 1:30pm - 1:50pm GMT+08
The Matrix
1:50pm GMT+08
The rise & rise of ASEAN's digital economy
Moderators
Partner; Asia-Pacific FinTech Leader, EY
James Lloyd is a partner in EY's Corporate Finance Strategy (CFS) team, and leads the firm’s dedicated financial technology capability across Asia-Pacific – focused on early-stage, growth-stage, and non-traditional financial services. He is also APAC leader of the firm’s payments...
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Co-Founder, Grab
Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform. She oversees critical pillars of Grab’s operations, focused on business strategy and growth, driver transformation, customer experience and people operatio...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 1:50pm - 2:05pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:05pm GMT+08
Grab Financial Group: From super app to super wallet
Speakers
Senior Managing Director, Grab Financial Group
Reuben Lai is the Senior Managing Director, Grab Financial Group. In this role he manages Grab's payments and financial services business in Southeast Asia and helps drive financial inclusion for the region's middle economy. Reuben's responsibilities include overseeing the Grab Financial...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 2:05pm - 2:20pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:20pm GMT+08
Fintech: Bringing the world's largest island nation closer
Speakers
CEO, OVO
Jason Thompson is currently the CEO at OVO, Indonesia’s fastest-growing payments platform. He is responsible to oversee the business expansion, strategic partnerships and product development at OVO, and lead OVO to become the #1 payments platform in Indonesia.Prior to joining OVO...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 2:20pm - 2:35pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:35pm GMT+08
Bringing InsurTech to ASEAN’s underinsured
Moderators
Partner; Asia-Pacific FinTech Leader, EY
James Lloyd is a partner in EY's Corporate Finance Strategy (CFS) team, and leads the firm’s dedicated financial technology capability across Asia-Pacific – focused on early-stage, growth-stage, and non-traditional financial services. He is also APAC leader of the firm’s payments...
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President, ZhongAn International
Mr. Wayne Xu joined ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance as Chief Operating Officer in January of 2014, and took office as President of ZhongAn Technologies International Group in December 2017 after its establishment.Mr. Xu brings in-depth expertise in strategy and operations and strives...
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Co-Founder, Grab
Tan Hooi Ling is the Co-Founder of Grab, Southeast Asia’s leading on-demand transportation and mobile payments platform. She oversees critical pillars of Grab’s operations, focused on business strategy and growth, driver transformation, customer experience and people operatio...
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Tuesday March 19, 2019 2:35pm - 3:00pm GMT+08
The Matrix
3:20pm GMT+08
Social Commerce: Why should you take notice?
Speakers
Deputy Chairman, Worldpay
Worldpay is the largest and pre-eminent payments company in Europe and is one of the largest players globally.Ron Kalifa was appointed Deputy Chairman of Worldpay in April 2013. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer for over 10 years, building and leading Worldpay into the...
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3:30pm GMT+08
Understanding the platform ecology model
Speakers
Director, Kapronasia
Zennon Kapron is a Director at Kapronasia, a Shanghai-based financial industry market research firm focused on helping fintech companies and financial institutions understand the opportunities in China and Asia's financial services markets including banking, payments and capital markets...
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3:30pm GMT+08
Regulatory approaches to bits & blocks, coins & ledgers
Speakers
Head of Partnerships, Nikkei
Nikola is running partnerships for the Nikkei innovation team in Tokyo which includes anything from setting up new offices, managing the investment portfolio, running tech & innovation projects and major tech events. He was born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland...
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3:30pm GMT+08
3:35pm GMT+08
The platform ecology trifecta
Speakers
Oversea Business Group CEO, Sunline
Matthew Chen is CEO of Sunline’s Oversea Business Group, overlooking all oversea subsidiaries. Matthew first joined Sunline in 2015 as the CEO of Sunline’s subsidiary - Sunline Financial Systems & Services (Qianhai) and successfully spearheaded the division to greater heights...
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3:35pm GMT+08
Crypto Compliance: a case study on Singapore's regulatory approach
Speakers
CEO & Co-Founder, Liquid
Mike Kayamori is QUOINE's Co-Founder CEO, following a career spanning 20 years where he held senior roles at Softbank Group Corporation, Globespan Capital Partners, and Mitsubishi Corporation. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Law from University of Tokyo, before going...
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Co-Founder & CEO, Crypto.com
As CEO, Kris is responsible for developing the long-term strategy and leading the development of Crypto.com which was founded in 2016 to accelerate the world’s transition to cryptocurrency. Key products include: Crypto.com Wallet & Card app, the best place to buy, sell, and pay...
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3:40pm GMT+08
Can an incumbent innovate from within?
Moderators
Chairman & Mentor, Senyse Technologies
Vikram Sud is an angel investor & mentors multiple FinTech startups in Asia. These include Seynse Technologies (LoanSingh), EpiMoney (FlexiLoans), NYKAA, AsiaCollect (CreditSeva), SoCash, YoloPay, KyePot, Connaizen, 91springboard, Digivation (GlobalLinker) and others. He is a Board...
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Head of Open Innovation, LumenLab/MetLife Innovation Center Pte Ltd
Akiko Taguchi is the Head of Open Innovation at LumenLab, MetLife Asia’s innovation center in Singapore. LumenLab helps build a culture of innovation at MetLife Asia and drives innovation projects with partners in healthtech and fintech. Akiko leads MetLife’s start-up matchmaking...
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Chief Development Officer, Westpac Banking Corporation
Macgregor is the Chief Development Officer at Westpac where he’s responsible for mergers and acquisitions, strategic and venture investments, strategic partnerships and ecosystems, and data commercialisation. He is the executive sponsor for the Westpac Co-Lab, the FuelD Data Accelerator...
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Managing Director, Digital Product Development, Deutsche Bank
Rick Striano is a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, where oversees Digital Product Development within the Bank’s Global Cash Management practice. Based in Frankfurt, Rick and his team are responsible for identifying transformational opportunities, and driving them through proof...
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3:40pm GMT+08
Facing failure - how founders overcome setbacks
Moderators
CEO, Fintech Galaxy
Mirna Sleiman is the founder and CEO of Fintech Galaxy, a global crowdsourcing platform that connects the fintech ecosystem. A senior executive with 15+ years of experience in government relations, business strategy, digital communications and journalism, mostly within the MENA region.Mirna...
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CEO and Founder, BCoin.sg Exchange
As the CEO and Founder of BCoin.sg Exchange, Davy is an outspoken blockchain and cryptocurrency evangelist. A motivated leader and serial entrepreneur, Davy has a proven management track record and brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise in corporate financial strategies and management.Having...
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CEO, First Circle
Patrick is the Co-Founder and CEO of First Circle where he leads strategy, corporate development, and the performance and staffing of executive team.Previously Patrick was the Vice President of the Compare Asia Group where he built the emerging markets business across the Philippines...
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General Manager - India, Branch International
Based in Mumbai, Charishma leads Branch’s India operation, and was the key leader responsible for leading Branch's expansion into India. She holds vast knowledge and experience in navigating dynamic, ever-changing regulatory environments to allow companies to scale at speed. Prior...
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3:45pm GMT+08
AI implementation in financial services
Speakers
Editorial Director, The Economist Intelligence Unit
Charles is currently director of thought leadership research for Asia, where he covers a territory spanning from Australia to India. His team works with many Western multinationals from the Fortune 500 but increasingly with Asian multinationals, governments, SMEs and high-growth technology...
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3:50pm GMT+08
WorldFirst: Improving the experience of international trade for businesses around the world
Moderators
Principal, A.T. Kearney
Anshu Nahar is a Principal with A.T. Kearney. He considers himself a student of technology and is passionate about what technology can do for businesses, individuals, and society at large.His love with financial technology started when he got an opportunity to launch the first payment...
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CEO & Co-Founder, WorldFirst
Jonathan Quin is CEO & co-founder of WorldFirst, a high-growth FinTech that is making it faster, easier, safer and cheaper for businesses and individuals to move money around the world.Jonathan co-founded WorldFirst in 2004 having spent the early part of his career at Citibank and...
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3:55pm GMT+08
Case Study: Project Ubin
Moderators
Co-Founder, LongHash
Emily Parker is the co-founder of LongHash, a blockchain incubator and data journalism platform. LongHash has offices in five countries. Previously, Emily was a member of the Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she advised on Internet freedom and digital...
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Head of Technology Strategy and Innovation, Singapore Exchange
Peter is the Head of Strategy and Innovation for Technology at SGX. He is responsible for driving strategy and communications across all technology domains to ensure business alignment, as well as innovation initiatives to advance the enterprise value of technology.Peter joined SGX...
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Assistant Director FinTech & Innovation Group , Monetary Authority of Singapore
Wee Kee is an Assistant Director in the FinTech and Innovation Group (FTIG) of the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). He leads Project Ubin, an industry collaborative project which explores the use of Distributed Ledger Technology for clearing and settlement of payments and securities...
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3:55pm GMT+08
Are we using it right? Learnings from (perceived) AI applications in financial services
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Technology Lead - Natural Language Processing, Refinitiv
Salman is a Chartered Financial Analyst currently working on developing Natural Language Processing solutions in English, Chinese and Japanese at Refinitiv.He has over 15 years experience working in the Financial Services Industry in advisory roles to global banks and more recently...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Active AI
Biography coming soon
Chief Scientist, Basis Technology
Kfir Bar is the Chief Scientist at Basis Technology. He has spent many years working in a wide range of natural language processing (NLP) disciplines, including neural machine translation and named entity recognition for anti-crime/terror applications. Kfir focuses on combining linguistic...
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CEO, Moneythor
Olivier Berthier is the CEO of Moneythor, the technology company providing financial institutions with a digital banking toolkit powered by artificial intelligence (AI). He is a seasoned professional with over 20 years of experience in banking technology and entrepreneurship.Prior...
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4:05pm GMT+08
Translating WeChat's domestic success into international expansion
Speakers
Business Director, WeChat Pay International
Mia Ma was recruited by Tencent holding as business development manager since 2010.She joined WeChat Group since it has been established in 2014. It makes her to be a witness and participant of the history that WeChat Pay started from nothing to become the No.1 digital payment mothed...
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4:10pm GMT+08
The case for a stable coin
Moderators
Director of Research, R3
Antony is Director of Research for R3 in Singapore. In this role, he produces reports and runs seminars on the evolving concepts, technologies and vendors in the distributed ledger landscape for R3 members, policymakers, and the wider Singapore and APAC community. He has been working...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Wirex
Pavel Matveev is the CEO and co-founder of Wirex Ltd. Pavel leverages 15 years of experience in software development and IT management in his previous work at Barclays Capital, Morgan Stanley, BNP Paribas and Credit Suisse.He is a firm advocate for mass adoption of cryptocurrencies...
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Partner, GBIC / Block72
Sinhae is Partner at GBIC — a blockchain and cryptocurrency fund, and Block72 — a comprehensive blockchain consulting firm based in US, China, and Korea. Prior to joining GBIC, she has been deeply involved in the FinTech/blockchain industry in Silicon Valley. She led business...
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Partner, Fenbushi Capital
Remington Ong is a partner at Fenbushi Capital, one of the earliest and most active blockchain-focused venture capital firms, where he has managed investments into over 40 leading startups around the world leveraging blockchain technology to disrupt a wide range of industries. He...
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4:20pm GMT+08
From growing scale to raising funding: What's next for the rising stars?
Moderators
Co-founder & CEO, Mesh
Oded Zehavi is the co-founder and CEO of Mesh Payments.Oded started Mesh as he was inspired to address the challenges entrepreneurs face in emerging markets when it comes to borderless payments. As such, for the past decade he has invested in driving growth in emerging markets for...
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CEO & President, Mynt
Anthony is currently the President and CEO of Mynt in the Philippines. He joined Mynt as COO in 2015 as part of the founding leadership team, and was directly responsible for the financial services vertical. Prior to Mynt, Anthony was with Citibank’s Global Consumer Group for...
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MD & COO, PayMaya Group
Prior to starting PayMaya (the digital financial services unit of the PLDT Group), Paolo was Managing Director responsible for FinTech at Rocket Internet AG. He helped grow Rocket's influence in the alternative lending and mobile payments verticals, covering fundraising, idea generation...
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Founder & Chairman , TNG FinTech Group
Alex Kong is the Founder and Chairman of TNG FinTech Group, one of the largest FinTech groups in Asia.Alex is a serial entrepreneur with extensive experience in technology and business solutions. He has a long and successful track record of enterprise software development for some...
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4:20pm GMT+08
Comparing CVCs: investment thesis and innovation benchmarks
Moderators
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Richard heads Freshfields’ IP/ Commercial practice group, leads the Fintech/ Digital team and the TMT sector group in Asia.Richard advises clients in complex technology and brands-heavy transactional and commercial projects (including digital transformations) across Asia, and IP...
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Managing Director, PT. Central Capital Ventura
Armand is an experienced business technology professional. Throughout his career, he has been exposed to deep technical knowledge of various industries, especially financial industry. He has a deep understanding on regulated and de-regulated market, and has a passion to establish...
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Managing Partner, Rabo Frontier Ventures
Harrie Vollaard is head of Rabo Frontier Ventures. Harrie has a tremendous background in innovation at Rabobank as he spurred innovation in his role as Innovation Manager and later as Head of Innovation. He co-founded WeHelpen which is a marketplace for informal care and Fundipal...
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Executive Managing Director, SBI FinTech Solutions Co., Ltd.
He is 18-years experienced pioneer in finance business and payment industry area, in charge of new project, management and development in Japan and overseas Fintech business in the group. Besides, he is in representative global investment,joint-venture, international transferring...
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Managing Director, Corporate Venture Capital, Digital Ventures
Paul Ark spent the first half of his career as an investment banker, working on IPOs, acquisitions, and private equity deals for global banks Deutsche Bank and Citigroup in Asia and New York, as well as boutique advisories Tonson Capital and Blackwood Ventures in Southeast Asia. He...
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4:20pm GMT+08
Reverse Pitch: Why you (fintech) should take my money (VC)!
Moderators
Co-Founder & CEO, ZestMoney
Lizzie is Co-Founder & CEO of ZestMoney, the digital consumer lending company that is revolutionising the way Indian consumers transact online. Lizzie moved to India in 2011 to spearhead the India operations for UK based digital lender Wonga.com, which was later put on hold. In 2013...
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CEO & Co-Founder of Xen, Co-Founder of Oriente, Xen
Katrina Cokeng is the Co-Founder and CEO of Xen, the first-of-its-kind digital securitization platform providing a one-stop solution for access and liquidity in alternative investments (hedge funds, private equity funds, real estate funds etc.). It is the first licensed security token...
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Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Theodora (Theo) Lau is an innovator and technologist, whose work seeks to spark innovation to improve consumer financial well-being and health. She focuses on developing and growing an ecosystem of financial institutions, corporates, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to better...
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Co-Founder, Funding Societies | Modalku
Kelvin Teo is the co-founder of Funding Societies | Modalku, the largest SME digital financing platform in Southeast Asia, licensed and operating in Singapore, Indonesia, and Malaysia. It gives loans to small-medium businesses for growth, crowdfunded by individual and institutional...
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Operating Adviser, Monk's Hill Ventures
Christopher is an operating adviser with Monk’s Hill Ventures, a Series A focused venture capital firm, a member of the selection committee for the German Accelerator in South East Asia as well as a mentor at Chinaccelerator in Shanghai and the MOX accelerator in Taipei. He independently...
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Principal, Dymon Asia Capital Ventures
Jennifer started her career in Morgan Stanley’s investment banking division in New York, covering financial sponsors and consumer / retail companies. She returned to Singapore in 2011, when she joined TPG Capital, evaluating investment opportunities in Southeast Asia. Jen also spent...
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Managing Partner, Jungle Ventures
Mr. Gowdey is currently a Managing Partner at Jungle Ventures, a Singapore based venture capital firm focused on internet and technology investments in South Asia. Prior to Jungle, David spent 3.5 years at TPG Capital where he led internet investments outside of the US within the...
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4:25pm GMT+08
Algorithms in action: How to turn a bank into a tech company
Speakers
Head of Core Cash Management for Asia Pacific & Citi Innovation Lab Singapore, Citi
Morgan is the head of Core Cash Management for Asia within Citi's Institutional business based in Hong Kong. In this role, she is responsible for Payments and Receivables, Channels and Enterprise Services, and Commercial Cards across the region. She also manages the Citi Innovation...
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Head of APAC, Feedzai
A veteran in both the finance and technology industries, Richard is helping to lead Feedzai's global scaling. Before joining Feedzai, Richard held Vice President roles at both Experian and Accertify, during which time he built global sales teams and helped lead regional expansion...
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4:40pm GMT+08
An inside view into creating a chatbot
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Global Head, Distribution Transformation, Voice & Virtual, Standard Chartered
Stuart Beaumont is the Global Head, Voice and Virtual and Distribution Transformation, Retail Banking, for Standard Chartered Bank. Based in Singapore, Stuart is responsible for transforming service delivery and improving service standards in the bank’s Client Contact Centres. He...
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Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder, Kasisto
Dror is Chief Product Officer & Co-Founder at Kasisto, creators of KAI Banking, the leading conversational AI platform for the finance industry. Kasisto counts DBS Bank, JP Morgan, Mastercard, Standard Chartered, TD Bank, and Wells Fargo among its customers as well as other leading...
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4:50pm GMT+08
What is the role of the regulator when AI makes decisions and blockchain tracks data?
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FinTech Investment Lead, Latin America, International Finance Corporation
Kai Schmitz is Investment Lead for the Global FinTech Investment Group of IFC, the largest Fintech investor in emerging markets. He is responsible for equity and debt investments in emerging market Fintech companies, with focus on Payments and Online Lenders. In Latin America, he...
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Director , Certainty Compliance Pty Ltd
Michelle East is CEO and Founder of Certainty Compliance. Our clients are transforming financial services and energy. Certainty Compliance helps start-ups, scale-ups and established players entering the Australian market resolve regulatory issues, design better products, and get licensed...
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Chief FinTech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Sopnendu Mohanty is responsible for creating development strategies, public infrastructure and regulatory policies around technology innovation. Mohanty has spent over 20 years in various leadership roles globally in technology, finance and innovation. He has co-authored several patented...
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Chief Innovation Officer, SmartStream Technologies
Andreas Burner, CIO of SmartStream Technologies; has been with SmartStream since 1997 and has over 20 years of experience in building financial service solutions for international top banks. He is the head of the SmartStream Innovation Lab with a mission to establish a culture of...
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CTO, IBM
Stanley is CTO for IBM's Blockchain in Financial Services business unit. He leads projects that involve both financial and technical aspects of the emerging token economy and the use of digital assets. Across a career of 15 years, he hasalso been Head of Asia for R3’s Services...
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4:55pm GMT+08
What’s next for mobile payments in Asia for 2019?
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Partner, Bain & Company
Thomas Olsen is a partner in Bain & Company's Singapore office. He leads Bain's Strategy and Corporate Finance practices in Asia Pacific and coordinates the Corporate and Transaction Banking and Capital Markets sectors in the firm's Financial Services practice.He has more than 20...
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President of International Business Group, Ant Financial
Douglas joined Ant Financial in June 2016 to spearhead Ant Financial’s globalization strategy, as well as Alipay’s international business development, operations and marketing activities. Prior to joining Ant Financial, Douglas was senior partner of Goldman, Sachs & Co., with...
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5:00pm GMT+08
CFTE workshop: How would YOU innovate in a bank?
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Advisory Board Member, CFTE
Biography coming soon.
CEO, The Disruptive Group
Huy Nguyen Trieu is the CEO of the Disruptive Group, a business builder and advisory firm in innovation and finance. He is also the co-founder of the Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship, and a founding partner of the Asian Supercharger.He has navigated between startups...
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5:00pm GMT+08
Is there an inherent conflict between centralized AI and decentralized blockchains?
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MD, TRPC Pte Ltd; Executive Director, Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA)
May-Ann is the Managing Director of research consultancy TRPC Pte Ltd, and is concurrently the Executive Director of the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). She has extensive experience in public policy, technology policy development, and government relations communications across...
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Founder & CEO, TAIGER
Dr. Sinuhé Arroyo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAIGER, a global Artificial Intelligence company headquartered in Singapore with offices in five other countries across Europe, America and Asia-Pacific.He is a Committee Member in the Info-Communications Media Development...
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Founding Engineer of Skype, Co-Founder Future of Life Institute & Philanthropist, ASI
Jaan Tallinn is a founding engineer of Skype and Kazaa. He is a co-founder of the Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (cser.org), Future of Life Institute (futureoflife.org), and philanthropically supports other existential risk research organisations. Jaan is on the...
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CEO and Co-founder, MoAir Cloud
Bio coming soon
5:00pm GMT+08
Women in Fintech meetup
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Editor-in-Chief, Entrepreneur.com APAC | Franchise India Media
Ritu Marya is the Editor- in- Chief for Entrepreneur India-Asia-Pacific and Franchise India Media, a group company of Franchise India Holdings Limited. She leads the editorial desk which comprises business magazines including Entrepreneur, The Franchising World and Retailer together...
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Head of Growth, Global and Strategic Partnerships, Ant Financial
Carol Grunberg has worked extensively across payments and technology in the U.S., India and China, and currently serves as the Head of Growth, Global and Strategic Partnerships at Ant Financial. She oversees business development and operations for the global account partners of Ant...
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General Counsel & Head of Government Affairs, Lazada Group
Bio coming soon
Chief Customer Officer, JUMO
Buhle Goslar is the Chief Customer Officer at JUMO, a technology platform connecting millions of un(der)served people and businesses to progressive financial choices on their mobile phones in Africa and Asia. She has held senior leadership roles in product management, customer strategy...
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Executive Vice President - FinTech Hive, DIFC
Raja Al Mazrouei is the Executive Vice President of FinTech Hive at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). In this capacity, she oversees the innovation initiative that brings together key stakeholders from Financial Institutions, Government entities, Technology Partners...
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Chairlady of Global Advisory Committee, QRC Group
Jane is an BA graduate of Shanghai Jiaotong University and received MS in Economics from City University of New York.As an expert in International Business Cooperation and Solution, she spent over ten years working in United States, Central Europe and Asia Pacific Region from which...
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5:15pm GMT+08
Still dominant, how do card schemes self-disrupt?
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Co-Founder & CEO, Shift Payments
In 2005, Meg joined Promontory Financial Group and specialized in risk and compliance reporting and anti-money laundering programs. In 2010, Meg and her co-founder, Greg Kidd, started investing in early stage companies. The fund has invested in over 100 companies, many of which are...
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COO, NETS
As COO, Ms Ang is responsible for NETS’ day-to-day operations, implementing the company’s strategic direction and driving the growth of its debit and internet payments businesses.In her tenure with NETS, she has held various senior management positions including Managing Director...
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Executive Vice-President, Digital and Emerging Partnerships and New Payment Flows, Asia-Pacific, Mastercard
Rama Sridhar is the Executive Vice President, Digital and Emerging Partnerships, Asia Pacific, Mastercard, where she oversees the driving of market momentum of Mastercard’s products and services with a focus on partners who are driven to innovating and enabling seamless, convenient...
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Vice President, Global Acceptance - APAC, Discover
Jonathon Gould serves as Regional Managing Director and Head of Global Acceptance, Asia Pacific for Discover Financial Services. In this role, Mr. Gould is responsible for leading the business development and relationship management team to build acquiring capabilities for Discover...
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9:30am GMT+08
Wake up with the CEOs
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Director of Innovation, Consult Hyperion
David G.W Birch is Director of Innovation at Consult Hyperion, the secure electronic transactions consultancy, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey Business School. He is an internationally-recognised thought leader in digital identity and digital money; was named...
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SVP, International Markets, PayPal
As PayPal’s Senior Vice President of Asia Pacific, Rohan Mahadevan provides strategic direction for one of the company’s fastest-growing regions covering many of the largest commerce markets in the world, including Australia, Greater China, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. Currently...
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CEO, PayU
Laurent was appointed CEO, PayU in January 2016 and is a member of the Naspers Executive Team. He is responsible for developing our global fintech proposition, including all payments and credit operations across 18 high-growth markets as well as all strategic fintech investments...
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CEO, GO-PAY
Aldi joined GO-JEK with a vision to accelerate the adoption of financial services for the unbanked and underbanked, particularly in rural areas where financial services are yet widely available. He is the founder of MAPAN, an Indonesian lending network recently acquired by GO-JEK...
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Deputy Chairman, Worldpay
Worldpay is the largest and pre-eminent payments company in Europe and is one of the largest players globally.Ron Kalifa was appointed Deputy Chairman of Worldpay in April 2013. Previously, he was Chief Executive Officer for over 10 years, building and leading Worldpay into the...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 9:30am - 10:00am GMT+08
The Matrix
10:00am GMT+08
Connecting Southeast Asia: The imperative for women’s financial inclusion
Moderators
Digital Financial Inclusion Advisor, Independent Consultant
Donny is an advisor for Digital Financial Inclusion. During his 20+ professional experience, he has worked extensively on the subject from multiple angles: from the perspective of Incumbent FI, FinTechs, Development Institutions focusing on regulatory capacity building, as well as...
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CEO & President, Women's World Banking
Mary Ellen Iskenderian is President and CEO of Women’s World Banking, the global nonprofit devoted to giving more low-income women access to the financial tools and resources they require to achieve security and prosperity. Ms. Iskenderian joined Women’s World Banking in 2006...
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Assistant Director, Gender, Foreign Policy & Asia Engagement Section, Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade
Mary James is a gender equality and social inclusion specialist with over 15 years experience working in gender equality and social development across the Australian aid program in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Mary currently leads on women's economic empowerment, including financial...
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Chief Executive Officer, Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialised Bank
Jojo is Chief Executive Officer of Wing (Cambodia), a pioneering and leading Mobile Banking and Finance Institution that has the biggest mobile financial services footprint in Cambodia. Wing allows for the use of innovation and technology to give Cambodians, particularly the unbanked...
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Managing Director & Chief Economist, DBS Group
Taimur Baig heads economics as well as macro strategy for interest rate, credit, currency, and equities at DBS Group Research. Prior to joining DBS, Taimur was a Principal Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Earlier he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 10:00am - 10:30am GMT+08
The Matrix
10:55am GMT+08
More players at the table. The tech giants are coming
Speakers
Lead Analyst, Financial Services, CB Insights
Matthew Wong is lead analyst at CB Insights, where he manages all financial services technology research coverage. Matthew's published industry research and analysis have been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, Bloomberg, CNBC and Reuters...
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11:00am GMT+08
Building open platforms
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Partner - Digital, Technology, Analytics. APAC, Oliver Wyman
Darren Thayre is a Partner in the Digital, Technology and Analytics (DTA) practice for Asia Pacific. Darren's focus is on Financial Services and adjacent areas to FS.Prior to working at Oliver Wyman Darren led a consulting team across Asia Pacific for Amazon Web Services, his focus...
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11:00am GMT+08
Against the tide: From Silicon Valley to the City
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Fintech Strategy
Drew is a serial entrepreneur turned banker, a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He joined Standard Chartered as Director of Fintech Strategy and Engagement in 2016. He was then the Head of Platform for the Standard Chartered Virtual Bank in Hong Kong until February 2019. Before joining...
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Global Head of Digital Strategy, Barclays
Megan serves as the Global Head of Digital Strategy at Barclays. She moved to the UK from San Francisco in 2016 on an Exceptional Talent visa for her work in FinTech to help start Starling Bank, where she served as Chief Platform Officer. Starling raised $70 million in their first...
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11:00am GMT+08
What technologies will underpin the next generation of fintech unicorns?
Speakers
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures
Wei is a Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures, the largest FinTech focused venture fund in Asia. Arbor aims to shape the way the world transacts by investing in early stage companies that enable frictionless transactions across financial services and digital commerce...
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CEO, Crunchbase
Jager McConnell is the CEO of Crunchbase, the leading platform used by millions of entrepreneurs and investors looking to discover innovative companies and the people behind them. Jager joined Crunchbase as it became a venture-backed startup in enterprise data. Prior to joining Crunchbase...
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11:00am GMT+08
Money20/20 Startup Pitch: Part 1
Moderators
Serial Entrepreneur and Early Stage Investor
Serial entrepreneur and early stage investor with over 25 years of marketing and business development experience in Europe, North America and Asia. Moaffak has invested in over 60 early stage technology companies. Prior to this, Moaffak was co-founder of Trema (today: ION Trading...
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Vice President, Motive Partners
Doris began her career at Morgan Stanley where she held multiple roles within Capital Markets over a span of six years. While at Morgan Stanley, she was responsible for driving strategic initiatives across Legal & Compliance in New York and leading clients' revenue and profitability...
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Managing Director, ASEAN, Rainmaking Innovation
Samuel Hall is Managing Director, ASEAN @ Rainmaking Innovation. He works with market-leading corporates & MNCs on growth and renewal through two key areas of focus: de-risked collaboration with mature startups, and the application of emerging business model and technology trends...
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Venture Partner, B Capital Group
Dave Ng is a Principal at B Capital Group, a global venture capital fund with offices in San Francisco, New York, Los Angeles and Singapore. Dave invests in fintech, consumer, enterprise and digital health, and leads the fund’s investments in Southeast Asia and US. Some of his recent...
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Co-head & Managing Director, Principal Strategic Investments (APAC) Goldman Sachs, Goldman Sachs’ Principal Strategic Investment Group
Mancy is a managing director Min the Principal Strategic Investments (PSI) team in Asia Pacific, a strategy and investing team that manages a global portfolio of strategic investments in financial technology, market structure and enterprise software. She is also a lead investor for...
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Co-founder & CEO, Open
Anish is a Fintech professional with 15 years of experience in payments, consumer mobile & internet space. He was previously part of the senior leadership of PayU & Citrus Payments. Prior to this, Anish was the founder of payment startup- Zwitch, India’s first contactless mobile...
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Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Dana Cita | Bukas.ph
Naga is the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Dana Cita | Bukas.ph. Before founding Dana Cita, Naga worked as a fixed income trader at Morgan Stanley in London and in the Hedge Fund Strategies Group at Goldman Sachs. Naga holds an MBA from The Wharton School, an MA in International Studies from...
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CEO, hoolah
Stuart is the CEO and Co Founder of hoolah – A Singapore headquarted Fintech business. As CEO his role is focused at leading the strategy and growth of hoolah across Asia – a company focused at building closer relationships between retailers and consumers by driving responsible...
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Founder & CEO, Whrrl
Ashish is founder of Whrrl, a Blockchain driven financial inclusion lending platform for farmers. Whrrl uses an innovative financial product called "Warehouse Receipt Loan" for enhancing the income of farmers and simultaneously reducing the risk of banks.Before pivoting to Whrrl...
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Founder & CEO, Bento - Investing Simplified
Chandrima Das is the CEO & Founder of Bento, Asia's first B2C & B2B2C human led robo- advisor. She has over 20 years experience in asset management and private banking industry. Bento was conceived to bring an institutional portfolio based investment process to the wealth management...
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Founder & CEO, InDebted
Josh is a serial entrepreneur with a passion for technology and data. He has been working at the intersection between finance and tech for the past five years, with extensive experience in the financial management of businesses small and large.He co-founded a technology training company...
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CEO, Limitless
Sara Koslinska is the CEO of Limitless, a fintech startup providing a microinvestment app to financial institutions. She’s one of the Forbes 30 under 30.Previously, she worked for startups including Rocket Internet's Foodpanda in Singapore and an Israeli online platform and was...
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11:10am GMT+08
Building the platform application layer
Speakers
Co-Founder & President, Airwallex
Lucy is a co-founder and the President of Airwallex. Previously an investment consultant at the China International Capital Corp, China's first joint venture investment bank, she is responsible for overseeing the ongoing business operations within Airwallex. Lucy was named one of...
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11:15am GMT+08
Global open banking review
Speakers
Chairman, FDATA
Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association www.fdata.org.uk, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013. Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking...
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11:20am GMT+08
Exploring new data sources
Moderators
Co-Founder & MD, Reinventure Group
As both a serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Danny Gilligan is at the forefront of driving disruptive innovation in Australia’s financial services sector. Through Reinventure Group, co-founded with Simon Cant in 2013, he is pioneering a new model of corporateventure capital...
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Director of Engineering, Flipkart India Pvt Ltd
Srinivas Chamarthy is the Director of Engineering, Pricing & Promotions at Flipkart. In this role, he leads the Pricing and Promotions platforms at Flipkart that price for all products in the catalogue. He is also responsible for building a pricing insights and recommendations data-driven...
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CEO and Founder, Rockmetric
Nimesh is the CEO and Founder of Rockmetric. Nimesh is building one of the fastest growing Enterprise AI start-ups in India. Nimesh works with senior leaders from some of the largest banks and financial services institutions to transform how they monitor business using Data and AI.Rockmetric...
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CEO, Datavisor
Yinglian Xie is the CEO and co-founder of DataVisor, the leading AI and big data analytics company that protects consumer-facing enterprises from a variety of fraud, abuse, and money laundering activities. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University...
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11:20am GMT+08
When to pivot in the intense payment race
Moderators
COO, Payments & Cards Network
Rogier, the COO of Payments & Cards Network, has been with the company for the last 6 years taking responsibility for building this headhunting agency from an organisational point of view. Headquartered in Amsterdam and also with offices in Atlanta and Singapore, they cover the most...
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Founder & CEO, MobiKwik
Bipin Preet Singh is the Founder and CEO of MobiKwik, India’s leading digital financial services platform. He founded MobiKwik with the vision to transform the digital payments landscape in the country, which was almost non-existent when the company started operations in 2009. Today...
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CEO, Silot.ai
Andy is the founder and CEO of Silot, a Singapore based Fintech Company that empower financial institutions for next-generation efficiency & capability by connecting data and functionalities silos, with the immersion of AI and BlockChain.Silot pioneers the development of streamlined...
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EMQ, Co-Founder & CEO
Max Liu is Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of EMQ. A veteran of the financial services industry, Max’s career spans more than 20 years across Asia and the United States. Across Asia, Max has seen how conventional banking excluded large segments of society, particularly low-income...
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11:25am GMT+08
11:25am GMT+08
Open banking initiatives: what's actually worked and what's next?
Moderators
Founder & CEO, MoneyPlace
Stuart Stoyan is founder and CEO of consumer lender MoneyPlace. Founded in 2015, MoneyPlace is one of Australia’s fastest growing personal loan providers, using risk-based pricing to offer consumers the best rate possible.Stuart has helped shape national fintech and innovation...
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Speakers
Payments Expert
Nilixa is an experienced regulatory and payments expert who has worked with industry, regulators, central banks, the World Bank and legislators to drive changes in the payments ecosystem for a payments landscape that is secure, transparent and inclusive. Nilixa is a well know public...
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Chief Product and Technology Officer, Finastra
As the Chief Product and Technology Officer, Eli is responsible for Finastra's Product and Technology organizations. His main areas of accountability include Product, Solution and Platform Strategy, Product Portfolio Management, Product Management, Innovation, Customer Centric Design...
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Executive Director, Head of Open Banking & API Strategy, Treasury Services, J.P. Morgan
Sairam is a product and technology executive strongly rooted in innovation and a dynamic growth culture. Sairam started his career in a Fintech start-up and played a key role in taking the idea to building a successful product around it through its eventual acquisition. Sairam has...
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Chairman, FDATA
Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association www.fdata.org.uk, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013. Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking...
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11:40am GMT+08
Building a constellation of super apps
Speakers
CEO, GO-PAY
Aldi joined GO-JEK with a vision to accelerate the adoption of financial services for the unbanked and underbanked, particularly in rural areas where financial services are yet widely available. He is the founder of MAPAN, an Indonesian lending network recently acquired by GO-JEK...
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11:50am GMT+08
What data does a bank need? A spotlight on digital transformation
Speakers
Chief Data & Transformation Officer, DBS Bank
Paul Cobban is Chief Data and Transformation Officer for DBS. Based in Singapore, his portfolio involves strengthening the bank’s data-driven agenda by laying down a strong digital foundation and driving a future ready mindset at DBS.In addition, he spearheads the bank’s improvement...
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11:50am GMT+08
The top moments from The Payments Race!
Speakers
Editor in Chief, Fintech Finance
I head production and editorial for "Fintech Finance" Video Channel and Magazine, as well as host the episodes, which means I get to interview some of the best and brightest representatives across the financial services landscape and attend some damm cool events!
11:55am GMT+08
11:55am GMT+08
Conquering the compliance monster: today and tomorrow
Moderators
Head of Fintech & Regtech, Rainmaking Innovation; Founder, FemTechGlobal
Ghela is a self-proclaimed Fintech fanatic, and Founder of FemTechGlobal™, a network dedicated to challenging the status quo, and improving the inclusiveness and diversity in Financial Services. FemTechGlobal™also sponsors the annual Women In Tech, Banking Technology Award.Frequent...
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Speakers
Partner, Index Ventures
Jan joined Index in 2010 and focuses on financial and information/data services across all stages. His investments include Adyen, Alan, Capitolis, Collibra, Robinhood, SafetyCulture, Silverfin and TransferWise.Prior to joining Index, Jan worked at General Atlantic in London. He started...
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Payments Expert
Nilixa is an experienced regulatory and payments expert who has worked with industry, regulators, central banks, the World Bank and legislators to drive changes in the payments ecosystem for a payments landscape that is secure, transparent and inclusive. Nilixa is a well know public...
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Chief Operating Officer & Chief Compliance Officer, TrueLayer
Shefali Roy is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer of TrueLayer. She is the former Chief Compliance Officer (Europe) and MLRO for Stripe. TrueLayer builds technology that allows third party applications to have access to their users financial data and initiate...
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12:00pm GMT+08
More than a sum of its parts: an industry chat with Stripe, Carousell and Visa on partnerships in a tech-driven world
Moderators
Advisory Board Chair, Emerging Payments Association of Asia
Danielle Szetho is Chair of the Advisory Board for the Emerging Payments Association of Asia, and was previously a member of the ASIC Digital Finance Advisory Committee and the Australian Federal Treasurer’s FinTech Advisory Group. Formerly the inaugural CEO of FinTech Australia...
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Head of Products, Southeast Asia, Visa Worldwide Pte Ltd
Adeline is the Head of Product for Visa Southeast Asia, based out of Singapore.In this role, Adeline leads a team across all Southeast Asia markets in the development of the product strategy across this fast-growing region and works closely with issuers, fintech partners and key stakeholders...
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Senior Vice President, Business, Carousell
JJ Chai is Senior Vice-President, Business at Carousell, and leads the Business division of Carousell. He is responsible for Carousell’s overall business growth, strategy and internationalization in regional markets. Before joining Carousell, JJ was the SE-Asia Managing Director...
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Head, Southeast Asia & Hong Kong, Stripe
Piruze is the Head of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong at Stripe. Prior to Stripe, Piruze ran a health-tech startup and was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Co. advising leading technology and telecoms companies across Southeast Asia, Turkey and US. Earlier in her career, Piruze worked...
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12:10pm GMT+08
12:10pm GMT+08
The incumbents' response
Moderators
CEO, Paris Fintech Forum
Laurent is a French entrepreneur, recognized for its digital/mobile payments-banking & Fintech expertise, with a focus on strategy, business development, & innovation.He founded in 2015 the Paris Fintech Forum which is now the main and most exclusive international event on digital...
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COO, Institutional Banking, ANZ Banking Group
Sreeram Iyer is the Chief Operating Officer for ANZ Bank’s Institutional Banking business.Sreeram is a TEDx speaker and is active in LinkedIn on topics relating to Banking, Fintech, and Automation. He is a PolyFinTech100 mentor and passionate about Financial Literacy for the underprivileged...
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MD & Head of Group Channels & Digitalisaiton, United Overseas Bank Limited
As part of the senior leadership team under UOB Group CEO, Janet spearheads digitalization initiatives to build customer engagement and connectivity across all delivery channels to meet UOB Group’s vision to be a premier regional bank in Asia Pacific. Working with Business and Technology...
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SVP, Digital & Innovation, OCBC Bank
Pranav spearheads the FinTech and innovation efforts for the OCBC group and oversees the digital business and transformation for the group's consumer franchise. He is responsible for the overall formulation and execution of the digital and innovation strategy and driving business...
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Chief Innovation Officer, Barclays
John Stecher is the Chief Innovation Officer of Barclays, based in New York. He is a member of the Barclays Technology Management Committee. John is accountable for developing new strategies, business opportunities, and product capabilities across all lines of business for Barclays...
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12:10pm GMT+08
Ask me anything about AI
Speakers
Founder & CEO, TAIGER
Dr. Sinuhé Arroyo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TAIGER, a global Artificial Intelligence company headquartered in Singapore with offices in five other countries across Europe, America and Asia-Pacific.He is a Committee Member in the Info-Communications Media Development...
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CEO, MioTech
Jianyu (Jason) Tu, Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, Co-Founder and CEO of MioTech. Jason’s career spans across banking and tech startups around the globe. He kicked off his career at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong, and has since then worked at a number of startups such as WeLab...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Active AI
Biography coming soon
12:45pm GMT+08
Standard Chartered Lunch & Learn - The impact of technology on human behaviour: Implications for FinTech and financial services industries
Moderators
Head of FinTech Client Advisory, Standard Chartered Bank
René Michau Head the Fintech Client Advisory Team to build a new business at Standard Chartered focused on meeting the needs of Fintech companies as clients and helping them to connect their business across the emerging markets in particular in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.With...
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Speakers
Expert in Forensic Cyberpsychology
Dr Mary Aiken is the world’s leading expert in Cyberpsychology – the study of the impact of technology on human behaviour. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor at University College Dublin and the Academic Advisor (Psychology) to the European Cyber Crime Centre (EC3) at Europol...
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1:30pm GMT+08
Balancing risk & innovation: the regulatory perspective
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Head of Market Development, Asia Pacific, Refinitiv
Julia specialises in Risk and Regulatory Technology solutions with a emphasis on digital transformation using emerging technology. Prior to this she worked extensively in the financial markets focusing on OTC Derivative automation, Prime Brokerage and Post Trade Transparency with...
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Head, Inclusive Finance Advocacy Staff, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Ms. Roman Tayag, is involved in the overall financial inclusion work of the central bank particularly in the areas of policy and regulation, capacity building, advocacy, and relationship building. She also oversees the bank’s principal consumer protection unit that ensures the protection...
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Director General, National Bank of Cambodia
Ms. Chea is an Assistant Governor at the National Bank of Cambodia. Capitalizing on her position, she has been championing women’s economic empowerment. She has been involved with the UNCDF Shift Program, and served as an AFI Committee Member on Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 1:30pm - 1:50pm GMT+08
The Matrix
1:50pm GMT+08
Collaborative disruption: building a new ecosystem for globalization
Speakers
Chief Business Officer, Stripe
Billy Alvarado is chief business officer at Stripe, a technology company that builds economic infrastructure for the internet. Billy is responsible for managing Stripe’s international expansion, business development, cross-industry initiatives, and strategic partnerships.Prior to...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 1:50pm - 2:10pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:10pm GMT+08
The tech giants from China, scaling internationally
Moderators
Director, Kapronasia
Zennon Kapron is a Director at Kapronasia, a Shanghai-based financial industry market research firm focused on helping fintech companies and financial institutions understand the opportunities in China and Asia's financial services markets including banking, payments and capital markets...
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Oversea Business Group CEO, Sunline
Matthew Chen is CEO of Sunline’s Oversea Business Group, overlooking all oversea subsidiaries. Matthew first joined Sunline in 2015 as the CEO of Sunline’s subsidiary - Sunline Financial Systems & Services (Qianhai) and successfully spearheaded the division to greater heights...
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President, ZhongAn International
Mr. Wayne Xu joined ZhongAn Online P&C Insurance as Chief Operating Officer in January of 2014, and took office as President of ZhongAn Technologies International Group in December 2017 after its establishment.Mr. Xu brings in-depth expertise in strategy and operations and strives...
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Group Chief Innovation Officer, Chairman & CEO, Ping An Global Voyager Fund
Jonathan Larsen is now Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 2:10pm - 2:40pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:40pm GMT+08
Thinking (and acting) win-win: strategic investments and their benefit for banks and their clients
Moderators
Co-Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Bradley Leimer is Co-Founder of Unconventional Ventures, which connects founders to funders, provides mentorship to entrepreneurs, advisory to corporates, and broadens opportunities for diversity within the ecosystem. Their belief is that anyone with great ideas should have a chance...
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Group Managing Director and Group Chief Operating Officer, HSBC Holdings Plc
Andy Maguire is HSBC’s Group Chief Operating Officer leading operations, technology and corporate services for the bank. Andy also leads HSBC’s chief operating officers who are responsible for the effectiveness and efficiency of the bank’s operations.Andy began his career with...
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Wednesday March 20, 2019 2:40pm - 3:00pm GMT+08
The Matrix
3:30pm GMT+08
Financial Cloud Deep Dive
Speakers
CEO & Founder, Valocity Global
Carmen Vicelich is not your typical anything - a powerhouse entrepreneur who has built two multi-million dollar international technology and data businesses in just a few short years.Carmen's energy and ability to make the complex simple has earned her numerous awards, both personally...
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3:30pm GMT+08
The evolution of the challenger bank model
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Global Head of Banks Research, Citi
Ronit Ghose is Global Sector Head for Banks in Citi Research. He is the lead author of Citi's GPS FinTech report series - the 2016 edition has had c250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi and we believe the most read FinTech report ever published. Since...
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3:30pm GMT+08
The Curious Case of: the existential bundling crisis
Moderators
Head of Fintech & Regtech, Rainmaking Innovation; Founder, FemTechGlobal
Ghela is a self-proclaimed Fintech fanatic, and Founder of FemTechGlobal™, a network dedicated to challenging the status quo, and improving the inclusiveness and diversity in Financial Services. FemTechGlobal™also sponsors the annual Women In Tech, Banking Technology Award.Frequent...
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Speakers
Chairman, FDATA
Gavin Littlejohn serves as Chairman of the Financial Data and Technology Association www.fdata.org.uk, the Global Open Banking Trade Association, where he successfully led the campaign to have account aggregation added to PSD2 in 2013. Through FDATA he is a leader of the Open Banking...
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Co-Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Bradley Leimer is Co-Founder of Unconventional Ventures, which connects founders to funders, provides mentorship to entrepreneurs, advisory to corporates, and broadens opportunities for diversity within the ecosystem. Their belief is that anyone with great ideas should have a chance...
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Fintech Strategy
Drew is a serial entrepreneur turned banker, a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He joined Standard Chartered as Director of Fintech Strategy and Engagement in 2016. He was then the Head of Platform for the Standard Chartered Virtual Bank in Hong Kong until February 2019. Before joining...
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Co-Founder & CEO, Shift Payments
In 2005, Meg joined Promontory Financial Group and specialized in risk and compliance reporting and anti-money laundering programs. In 2010, Meg and her co-founder, Greg Kidd, started investing in early stage companies. The fund has invested in over 100 companies, many of which are...
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3:30pm GMT+08
Money20/20 Startup Pitch: Part 2
Moderators
Partner, Anthemis Group
Samantha Ghiotti is a Digital Finance executive, venture investor and entrepreneur who spent 20 years founding, growing, transforming and exiting businesses, leading people and organisations through change.She is currently a Partner at Anthemis group, the leading fintech venture investor...
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Partner, Global Head of Capital, Antler
Andrea Hajdu-Howe is a Partner within Antler’s global team. She is responsible for driving the global strategy and execution behind securing capital for Antler and it’s portfolio companies. With an illustrious international career spanning 17 years, Andrea has worked extensively...
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Managing Director, ASEAN, Rainmaking Innovation
Samuel Hall is Managing Director, ASEAN @ Rainmaking Innovation. He works with market-leading corporates & MNCs on growth and renewal through two key areas of focus: de-risked collaboration with mature startups, and the application of emerging business model and technology trends...
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Partner, Amadeus Capital Partners
Bhavani joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2015. Bhavani brings investment experience in India and the US to Amadeus’s emerging market team. Based in Bangalore, Bhavani focuses on investments in India and South East Asia and focuses on marketplaces, fin tech and their intersection...
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Partner, Patamar Capital
Shuyin is a Partner at Patamar Capital, a venture capital firm that targets risk commensurate returns for its investors while also seeking to unlock better economic opportunities for Asia's low income communities. Patamar Capital supports visionary entrepreneurs who are building high-growth...
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Speakers
IR & Board Adviser, Humans.net
Joel is a Founding member of Generic Robotics. He performs strategic & investment advisor roles at 3D Sparrow and HiUp App and is a venture capitalist. He was formerly an investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Adam Street. Joel holds a BSc in Finance and Business Economics from Kelley...
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Co-Founder, MyCash Online
Mehedi Hasan is the Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of MyCash Online, a multi-award-winning FinTech start-up that empowers unbanked migrants across Asia. MyCash Online is working as a link between unbanked migrants and their home country and fixing their communication, trust...
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Founder & CEO, MintZip
Bharat Ravuri is 25-year experienced professional in Financial Services, having held senior roles at Citibank, Fidelity Investments, Shinsei Bank, IHS Markit across US, UK, Japan and India.Bharat launched his FinTech Startup - MintZip - a financial companion (driven by Conversational...
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CTO, TRACETO.IO PTE LTD
Dias, is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) responsible for the overall technology strategy for traceto.io. He is a crypto evangelist and a privacy advocate; a strong believer that the KYC and Identity space is broken and needs to be fixed. He will be speaking on the role of crypto...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Smart Valor AG
Olga Feldmeier is CEO of SMART VALOR, a Swiss-based blockchain start-up building a decentralized marketplace for tokenized alternative investments. Olga has an extensive experience working in the banking and financial industry for global players such as Barclays Capital, UBS Wealth...
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CEO & Founder, JRNY Limited
Mike is the CEO and Co-Founder of JRNY, an AI company that streamlines the customer journey with artificially intelligent digital assistants. As the CEO, he leads a team of people who are revolutionising the financial advise industry through technology.Through his career, Mike has...
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COO & CFO, Logos Network
Doug joined Logos Network at its inception and is its COO and CFO - focused on building the operating and growth aspects of the Company. Logos Network is a high-performance, hyper-scalable decentralized network enabling the payments of the future, today. In combination, our speed...
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3:35pm GMT+08
3:40pm GMT+08
An overview of consumer lending in Asia
Moderators
Global Emerging Markets & ASEAN Fintech Leader, EY
Varun Mittal is the ASEAN Fintech Lead at EY covering emerging technology and business models in financial services across ASEAN. Previously Varun was the first marketing and sales employee at helloPay (acquired by ANT Financial, Alibaba Group), led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and...
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3:40pm GMT+08
The roadmap to scale a digibank
Moderators
Partner; Asia-Pacific FinTech Leader, EY
James Lloyd is a partner in EY's Corporate Finance Strategy (CFS) team, and leads the firm’s dedicated financial technology capability across Asia-Pacific – focused on early-stage, growth-stage, and non-traditional financial services. He is also APAC leader of the firm’s payments...
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Speakers
Co-Founder & CEO, Tandem Bank
Ricky Knox is a serial entrepreneur and investor. He has built five technology disruptors in fintech and telecoms, each of which also does a bit of good for the world. Ricky is currently building the customer champion digital bank of the future, but has previously disrupted remittances...
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3:45pm GMT+08
Macro economic & regulatory trends across ASEAN
Speakers
Managing Director & Chief Economist, DBS Group
Taimur Baig heads economics as well as macro strategy for interest rate, credit, currency, and equities at DBS Group Research. Prior to joining DBS, Taimur was a Principal Economist at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Earlier he spent nine years at Deutsche Bank’s Singapore...
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3:50pm GMT+08
4:00pm GMT+08
FinTech challengers
Moderators
Partner, SpeedInvest
Building on 20 years of professional experience in international payments and banking technology, Stefan has an eye for potential. In his specialist discipline of FinTech investments across EMEA, Stefan is eager to support founders on business and product strategies, business development...
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Speakers
CEO, Voltbank
Steve has a wealth of industry experience gained in senior leadership roles at financial services organisations in Australia and Europe. He was the CEO of Mortgages at Barclays (UK) before co-founding Volt Bank - Australia's first digital retail start-up bank. Steve has built a reputation...
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Co-founder & CEO, Open
Anish is a Fintech professional with 15 years of experience in payments, consumer mobile & internet space. He was previously part of the senior leadership of PayU & Citrus Payments. Prior to this, Anish was the founder of payment startup- Zwitch, India’s first contactless mobile...
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Head of APAC Expansion, TransferWise
Venkatesh is Head of APAC Expansion at TransferWise. He is responsible for international expansion and strategic projects. Prior to joining TransferWise, Venkatesh was with the Office of Tony Blair, where he advised governments on topics such as economic reform and electronic payments...
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General Manager, APAC, Revolut
Jakub Zakrzewski is a General Manager at Revolut, currently responsible for launching its operations across Asian markets.Before Revolut, Jakub was Head of Growth at Easyship, a 500 Startups VC portfolio company that won Hong Kong’s Technology Company of the Year Award in 2017...
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4:05pm GMT+08
Case study: HSBC and Google Cloud
Moderators
Founder, Unconventional Ventures
Theodora (Theo) Lau is an innovator and technologist, whose work seeks to spark innovation to improve consumer financial well-being and health. She focuses on developing and growing an ecosystem of financial institutions, corporates, entrepreneurs, and venture capitalists to better...
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Head of Financial Services, Google Cloud Platform UK & Ireland, Google
Adrian’s manages the Banking & Insurance team for Google Cloud and has 20 years experience working in the Financial Services Industry.The consistent theme throughout Adrian’s career has been Transformation from implementing Government Initiatives to ERP and financial systems.Prior...
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Regional Head of Innovation, HSBC
Jennifer Doherty is Asia Head of Innovation for HSBC’s Global Liquidity and Cash Management (GLCM) business. In this role, she is focused on identifying opportunities for HSBC to leverage technology from the Fintech community and deliver value to HSBC’s corporate clients.A seasoned...
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4:05pm GMT+08
Balancing risk and reach
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Chief of Finance Sector Group, Asian Development Bank
Ms. Schou-Zibell provides technical leadership on financial sector issues, including developing and maintaining sector policies, strategies, operational plans, and directional papers. She is particularly focused on expanding access to finance, and spearheading innovative projects...
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Speakers
Founder and Chair Emeritus, CARD MRI
Dr. Jaime Aristotle B. Alip is the Founder of the Center for Agriculture and Rural Development Mutually Reinforcing Institutions (CARD MRI), the 2008 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Public Service. Dr. Alip is now the Chairman Emeritus of CARD NGO and continues to chair the board of the...
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Head, Inclusive Finance Advocacy Staff, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
Ms. Roman Tayag, is involved in the overall financial inclusion work of the central bank particularly in the areas of policy and regulation, capacity building, advocacy, and relationship building. She also oversees the bank’s principal consumer protection unit that ensures the protection...
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Chief Executive Officer, Wing (Cambodia) Limited Specialised Bank
Jojo is Chief Executive Officer of Wing (Cambodia), a pioneering and leading Mobile Banking and Finance Institution that has the biggest mobile financial services footprint in Cambodia. Wing allows for the use of innovation and technology to give Cambodians, particularly the unbanked...
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Director General, National Bank of Cambodia
Ms. Chea is an Assistant Governor at the National Bank of Cambodia. Capitalizing on her position, she has been championing women’s economic empowerment. She has been involved with the UNCDF Shift Program, and served as an AFI Committee Member on Gender and Women’s Financial Inclusion...
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4:20pm GMT+08
Addressing fraud in 2019
Moderators
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures
Melissa is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Prior to founding Arbor Ventures, Melissa was Managing Director and Head of VantagePoint Asia, a $4.5 billion venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. As a thought...
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CEO & Co Founder, Forter
Michael is the co-founder and CEO of leading e-commerce fraud prevention company, Forter. Michael began his career in Israeli military intelligence where he was trained in cybersecurity techniques and the prevention of fraudulent or criminal cyber activities. He played a key part...
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4:25pm GMT+08
When to move to the cloud? Business cases and implementation hurdles
Moderators
Advisory Board Member, CFTE
Biography coming soon.
Speakers
Head of Financial Services Partnerships, APAC, Amazon Web Services
Nilanshuk Haldar leads Financial Services partnerships in APAC for Amazon Web Services. In this role, he helps independent software vendors (ISVs), fintechs and consulting firms grow and scale their business with banks, insurers, asset managers and other financial institutions across...
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Founder & Group Chairman, Avaloq
Francisco Fernandez (born 1962) is an entrepreneur who has committed himself to IT solutions in the finance sector. He holds a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich where he also attended post degree studies in business...
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Executive Vice President of Division Digital Center Of Excellence, PT Bank Rakyat Indonesia, Tbk
Digital enabler for one of the biggest bank in ASEAN region, former Regional Program Manager at Silicon Valley's hadrcore DNO specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the computer software and telco industry. Skilled in Analytics, Design Thinking, Big Data, and Digital...
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4:30pm GMT+08
Comms masterclass: Getting your messaging right
Speakers
CO-Founder & Managing Director, Klareco Communications
Mark Worthington is Co-founder of Klareco Communications. As a former BBC correspondent with over a decade as a journalist in Asia and Europe, Mark is a career media and communications expert with extensive experience in strategic corporate communications, crisis management and media...
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4:35pm GMT+08
What does financial inclusion mean in 2019?
Moderators
Partner, Egon Zehnder
Axelle Sznajer, based in London, leads Egon Zehnder's activities around tech-enabled services and FinTech in Europe. She works with publicly traded and privately owned companies, helping them to meet talent management needs related to technology, digital transformation, and innovation...
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Speakers
Head of Global Financial Solutions, APAC, First Data
Suresh is VP, Head of Global Financial Solutions (GFS) at First Data, with responsibility for the growth and expansion of First Data’s GFS business across the APAC region. Based in Singapore, Suresh is an experienced professional in the payments and fintech industry. He has spent...
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Chief Executive Officer, Experian
Ben Elliott is Chief Executive Officer for Experian Asia Pacific, the world’s leading global information services company. Experian helps organisations and consumers manage the risk and reward of commercial and financial decisions through its information and analytical services.Since...
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Founder & CEO, Juvo
Steve founded Juvo with the mission to establish financial identities for the billions of people worldwide who are creditworthy yet financially excluded. Working with mobile operators, Juvo provides ongoing personalized access to otherwise unattainable financial services. Since coming...
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4:40pm GMT+08
Fintech Night Live
Moderators
Head of Sales, APAC, Money20/20 Asia
Biography coming soon.
Vice President, Global Communications, ACI Worldwide
Dan Ring leads global communications efforts for ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company. Previously, Dan led global communications for Sophos, a leader in network and endpoint security. Prior to Sophos, Dan drove communications efforts for IBM's Enterprise Marketing Management...
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Speakers
CEO, Voltbank
Steve has a wealth of industry experience gained in senior leadership roles at financial services organisations in Australia and Europe. He was the CEO of Mortgages at Barclays (UK) before co-founding Volt Bank - Australia's first digital retail start-up bank. Steve has built a reputation...
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Head of FinTech Client Advisory, Standard Chartered Bank
René Michau Head the Fintech Client Advisory Team to build a new business at Standard Chartered focused on meeting the needs of Fintech companies as clients and helping them to connect their business across the emerging markets in particular in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.With...
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4:40pm GMT+08
Seven things you should know before you step into my office
Moderators
COO, Beyond Blocks
Gabriel Yang is the Chief Operations Officer of Beyond Blocks, the force behind the Beyond Blocks Summit in Bangkok, Tokyo and Seoul. Gabriel has built Echelon, the APEC Summit, and other major technology and conference brands in his ten years in the business. Gabriel is a coffee...
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Speakers
Co-Founder & Partner, Crestone VC
Inanc Balci is the Co-Founder and Partner of Crestone Venture Capital, a growth-stage Emerging Markets Fintech fund covering LatAm and SEA focusing on payments, credit intermediaries and open banking verticals.Balci began his career at an investment bank in London where he worked...
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Managing Partner, CoCoon Ignite Ventures
Roland is Managing Partner of CoCoon Ignite Ventures, L.P., an early stage venture fund focusing on investments in technologies. At CoCoon Ignite Ventures, Roland has led investments in companies including Cafe X, Soundbrenner and GoBee Bike. Roland graduated from the New York University...
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4:40pm GMT+08
Platform challengers
Moderators
Partner; Asia-Pacific FinTech Leader, EY
James Lloyd is a partner in EY's Corporate Finance Strategy (CFS) team, and leads the firm’s dedicated financial technology capability across Asia-Pacific – focused on early-stage, growth-stage, and non-traditional financial services. He is also APAC leader of the firm’s payments...
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Speakers
Business Director, WeChat Pay International
Mia Ma was recruited by Tencent holding as business development manager since 2010.She joined WeChat Group since it has been established in 2014. It makes her to be a witness and participant of the history that WeChat Pay started from nothing to become the No.1 digital payment mothed...
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CSO, Kakaopay Corp
Allen Wonkeun Shin is a CSO in Kakaopay Corp. and he is in charge or mid-to-long-term corporate strategy, investment, partnership/alliance, and other strategic problem solvings related to current businesses. He recently led several strategic M&A deals also.Before joining Kakaopay...
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Co-Founder & Group CEO, BigPay
Christopher is the Group CEO and Co-Founder of BigPay. Christopher is originally from London where he worked in investment banking, tech VC, with a strong track record of both investing in, and setting up, several successful fintech and data analytics companies. He holds an undergraduate...
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5:00pm GMT+08
Ask me anything about cybersecurity
Speakers
Co-Founder & CTO, EverCompliant
Noam Rabinovich is the CTO and Founder of EverCompliant. Noam has a diverse technology background and extensive experience with big data systems, architecture design and optimization. Prior to joining EverCompliant, Noam led several innovation projects with a focus on algorithm trading...
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Researcher, PwC Japan
Dr. Yin Minn Pa Pa is originally from Myanmar and currently working as a security researcher at PwC Cyber Services, PwC Japan. Before she came to Japan, she worked as an IT engineer for the government of Myanmar. She earned her doctorate of engineering from Yokohama National University...
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Senior Product Officer, Featurespace
Sean is Featurespace's Senior Product Officer. His role is to use his industry expertise and knowledge to ensure that Featurespace’s ARIC platform development matches the Finance sector’s needs and expectations. Sean’s been in the Financial Fraud industry for over ten years...
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5:05pm GMT+08
An open platform in the cloud: the development roadmap
Moderators
CEO & Co-Founder, Brankas
Todd Schweitzer is co-founder and CEO at Brankas, an open banking and payments platform. Todd has held senior roles at private equity firm Seawood Resources and management consultancy Booz and Company, spanning technology, public sector, and financial services. He holds a dual Bachelor's...
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Speakers
Field CIO, Systems Advisory Group, Pivotal
Jesse Bean is a talented executive with over 20 years of experience in Financial Services and technology. He brings a wealth of expertise with particular strengths in areas such as strategy, innovation and driving change at an enterprise level.Currently, Jesse operates as a Field...
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5:05pm GMT+08
Building accountability & credibility in lending
Moderators
Global Emerging Markets & ASEAN Fintech Leader, EY
Varun Mittal is the ASEAN Fintech Lead at EY covering emerging technology and business models in financial services across ASEAN. Previously Varun was the first marketing and sales employee at helloPay (acquired by ANT Financial, Alibaba Group), led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and...
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Speakers
Founder & Executive Chairman, Paidy
Russell is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Paidy. He has been a fintech-focused entrepreneur in Asia for ten years. At the start of his career, Russell spent 7 years in financial markets, first as a member of the Merrill Lynch Global Equity Derivatives Strategy Group in Hong...
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CFO, COO & Co-Founder, ZestMoney
Priya Sharma is the CFO and COO of ZestMoney, which is the largest and the fastest growing consumer lending fintech company in India. Priya’s understanding of the fintech industry has played a crucial role in shaping ZestMoney as the first completely automated consumer digital lending...
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5:10pm GMT+08
Is it even possible to build an incumbent challenger bank?
Moderators
Global Head of Banks Research, Citi
Ronit Ghose is Global Sector Head for Banks in Citi Research. He is the lead author of Citi's GPS FinTech report series - the 2016 edition has had c250,000 downloads making it the most read report ever published by Citi and we believe the most read FinTech report ever published. Since...
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Speakers
Fintech Strategy
Drew is a serial entrepreneur turned banker, a sheep in wolf’s clothing. He joined Standard Chartered as Director of Fintech Strategy and Engagement in 2016. He was then the Head of Platform for the Standard Chartered Virtual Bank in Hong Kong until February 2019. Before joining...
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Global Head of Digital Strategy, Barclays
Megan serves as the Global Head of Digital Strategy at Barclays. She moved to the UK from San Francisco in 2016 on an Exceptional Talent visa for her work in FinTech to help start Starling Bank, where she served as Chief Platform Officer. Starling raised $70 million in their first...
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5:20pm GMT+08
9:30am GMT+08
Tech giants replacing legacy infrastructure: the super app model for banks
Moderators
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures
Melissa is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Prior to founding Arbor Ventures, Melissa was Managing Director and Head of VantagePoint Asia, a $4.5 billion venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. As a thought...
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Speakers
CTO, OneConnect
Eugene is currently the Deputy General Manager, CTO and COO of OneConnect Smart Technology Co.,LTD(Shenzhen).Prior to his move to OneConnect, Eugene was part of the Executive Committee at OneConnect's parent company, Ping An Group. He joined Ping An Group in 2015 as the Deputy General...
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Overseas CEO, Hundsun
CEO, Hundsun Technologies Global Angela overseas the global expansion initiatives for Hundsun Technologies (
600570.SH), linking China-based expertise with players in the other Asian markets to form a technology-enabled ecosystem. Angela has over 20 years of start-up enterprise experience in the financial information and trading industry, building companies from start to scale. Prior to this role...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 9:30am - 9:55am GMT+08
The Matrix
9:55am GMT+08
Investment thesis from a VC legend
Moderators
CEO & Founder, Guppy
Sanjib Kalita is Co-Founder and CEO of Guppy, the next generation credit bureau built on blockchain technology. Guppy’s groundbreaking platform, powered by cryptographic tokens, delivers transparency, control and revenues to banks, account providers and consumers in a radical, new...
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Speakers
Managing Partner, GGV CAPITAL
Jenny Lee joined GGV Capital in 2005 as a managing partner and was instrumental in setting up the GGV presence in China.Jenny’s previous operation and finance work experience including Singapore Technologies Aerospace, Morgan Stanley and JAFCO Asia. Jenny graduated from Cornell...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 9:55am - 10:15am GMT+08
The Matrix
10:15am GMT+08
Money20/20 Startup Pitch Finals
Moderators
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Arbor Ventures
Melissa is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Arbor Ventures. Prior to founding Arbor Ventures, Melissa was Managing Director and Head of VantagePoint Asia, a $4.5 billion venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley with offices in Beijing, Shanghai and Hong Kong. As a thought...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 10:15am - 10:30am GMT+08
The Matrix
11:00am GMT+08
An overview of real-time payments initiatives
Speakers
Product Manager, Payplaza
Xiaodong Guo is an Engagement Manager at UL’s Transaction Security division. He is responsible for knowledge management within the smart card and mobile payment domain, and is a certified GlobalPlatform trainer for card technologies training. In various projects globally, he has...
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11:00am GMT+08
Growth strategies and raising capital
Speakers
Founder & CEO, The Digital Fifth
Sameer is a digital strategist focusing on removing friction across Banks, NBFCs, Fintechs and Software providers. He works with Financial Institutions for establishing their digital strategy in alignment with business strategy. He runs Indiaʼs First Fintech Masterclass as well as...
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11:00am GMT+08
Framing the retail landscape
Speakers
Head of Digital Consumer , Euromonitor International
As Head of Digital Consumer at Euromonitor International, Michelle Evans oversees the firm’s research on the digital consumer, providing actionable insights and in-depth analyses into how technological advances are reshaping the way consumers browse and buy goods and services globally.She...
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11:00am GMT+08
11:00am GMT+08
Founders Stories: Coping with Compliance
Moderators
Head of Partnerships, Nikkei
Nikola is running partnerships for the Nikkei innovation team in Tokyo which includes anything from setting up new offices, managing the investment portfolio, running tech & innovation projects and major tech events. He was born and raised in Croatia, studied in Italy, Switzerland...
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Speakers
Co-Founder & COO, Xen
Manish Sansi is the Co-Founder and COO of Xen, a blockchain-enabled technology platform that tokenizes alternative investments to provide greater liquidity and access for investors.Manish has over 17 years of experience in the hedge fund space, developing financial models and building...
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CEO, PagBrasil
Ralf Germer is the co-founder and CEO of PagBrasil. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of international track record in sales and marketing in the tech industry.He was Vice President of Product Marketing Europe at Actebis and later founded Carpo, 4M and co-founded...
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Head of Financial Crime, ComplyAdvantage
Livia is Head of Financial Crime and Regulatory Intelligence at ComplyAdvantage, working with the Strategy, Commercial, and Product teams. In this role she meets with clients and regulators to understand their focus and their needs to ensure ComplyAdvantage remains responsive to the...
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CEO & Founder, PeopleFund
Joey Kim is the Founder and CEO of PeopleFund, Korea's fastest growing marketplace lender that is creating better alternative investment opportunities for everyone. The tech-driven platform connects borrowers and investors to deliver loans and a full spectrum of investment products...
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11:05am GMT+08
Opening up payments: PayPal’s take on ecosystem
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Managing Director, Head of eCommerce Solutions, Treasury Services, J.P. Morgan
With 20 years of banking experience, Ron is an innovator in the payments space with a proven track record of creating valuable lines of business and revenue opportunities for both banks and merchants. With a particular focus on online and mobile technology, he is a specialist in Cross-Border...
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VP, Global Professional Services, PayPal
Jenny Cheng leads PayPal’s Global Professional Services team, which focuses on end to end customer-centric technical solutions – from design to integration to technical servicing. As part of PayPal’s Customer Experience & Technology organization, Jenny’s focus is to utilize...
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11:05am GMT+08
How is tech building bridges to new consumers?
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Chief Executive Officer, Oradian
Antonio Separovic is a financial inclusion and financial technology expert with over 20 years of experience, including ten years in the microfinance sector. Antonio has implemented cloud banking systems across 15 countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa as the Global Marketing...
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Chief Executive Officer, BankBazaar International
Vipin Kalra is the Chief Executive Officer of BankBazaar International. He has over 25 years of extensive experience in general management, sales and marketing in global payments, transactional business, digital and online retail sector, and emerging technology areas.In his most...
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CEO, RAM Credit Information Sdn Bhd
Dawn Lai is the CEO of RAM Credit Information Sdn Bhd (RAMCI), a leading licensed Credit Reporting Agency in Malaysia, serving a broad segment of Malaysia’s business community, from leading international and local Brands to financial institutions and SMEs.Dawn has over 17 years...
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11:05am GMT+08
Real-time payments workshop
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Founding Partner, KoreFusion Advisory
Jan is a founding partner of KoreFusion, an international strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm focused on FinTech, financial services and payments. His main interest is in helping payment systems evolve and using them to unlock efficiencies and social development. Jan’s career...
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Group Head & Senior Vice President, Domestic and Real-time Payment Systems, Asia Pacific, Mastercard
As Group Head & Senior Vice President of Domestic and Real-time Payment Systems, Gautam is responsible to expand Mastercard's partnerships with domestic switches/schemes; and commercialize Mastercard’s real-time payments assets and build a real-time payments business in Asia Pacific...
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Head of Treasury and Trade Solutions - Singapore & ASEAN, Citi
Debopama is the Head of Citi’s Treasury and Trade Solutions (TTS) business in Singapore and ASEAN, since February 2018. She oversees the Singapore TTS business which provides integrated cash management and trade finance services to multinational corporations, financial institutions...
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11:05am GMT+08
Fintech Deep Dive part 1: Sustainable scale vs unit economics
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Co-Founder, tryb Group
Markus Gnirck is Co-founder of tryb Group, a leading ASEAN Fintech investor that provides growth capital to entrepreneurs that are transforming the ASEAN financial industry ecosystems. Additionally, Markus is the founding committee member of the Singapore FinTech Association, co-author...
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Chief Financial Officer, LendInvest
Angelie is CFO of LendInvest, the UK’s leading online marketplace platform for property finance and investing. Angelie is a chartered accountant and chartered tax adviser and has extensive experience in roles across both large global listed businesses and more recently, fast growth...
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Chief Commercial Officer, WorldRemit
Tamer heads up WorldRemit’s commercial and business development teams, and is responsible for driving global growth and strategic alliance activity.A seasoned global business development executive, Tamer has more than 20 years of experience delivering accelerated growth and increased...
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Founder, Cube Wealth
Cube is Satyen's 5th company.He was previously the founder/owner of Citrus Payments, which was acquired by Naspers in 2016. He has started 3 other companies in Silicon Valley and worked with leading companies like Apple and frog design.Cube's mission is to change the world of investing...
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11:20am GMT+08
Bridging the real world with the online retail world across borders
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Research Director, 451 Research
Jordan McKee is a Research Director for Customer Experience & Commerce, and also leads 451 Research’s coverage of the payments ecosystem. He focuses on digital transformation across the commerce value chain, with an emphasis on the major trends impacting payment networks, issuing...
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CEO & Co-Founder , Fortumo
Martin has been managing Fortumo’s business development and growth activities from launch to today, where the company works with over 170,000 merchants and 350 mobile operators in more than 100 countries. He makes sure Fortumo’s strategy is focused on helping its partners acquire...
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Vice President Global Payments, Booking.com
As Vice President of Global Payments at Booking.com, Daniel Marovitz is responsible for the company’s payments products worldwide, facilitating seamless access to the Booking.com marketplace for both customers and partners. As one of the largest global e-commerce companies with...
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Chief Technology Officer, YapStone
Sanjay Saraf leads YapStone’s technology organization and is responsible for Product Engineering, Infrastructure and Operations, Information Security, R&D, and Product Innovation. In his role, Sanjay is focused on all YapStone product platforms, including global pay-in and pay-out...
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11:25am GMT+08
Financial inclusion: What’s working and what are the lessons to learn?
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Director, Kapronasia
Zennon Kapron is a Director at Kapronasia, a Shanghai-based financial industry market research firm focused on helping fintech companies and financial institutions understand the opportunities in China and Asia's financial services markets including banking, payments and capital markets...
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Global Head of Credit, PayU
Sid is the Head of Credit at leading financial services provider, PayU. He is responsible for leading PayU's global credit strategy which is built on three pillars: in-house developments, partnerships and acquisitions and investments. Through this approach, Sid leads PayU in developing...
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Vice President, Business, International, Singtel
As Vice President for Business in the International Group of Singtel, Sze Meng lead the team to develop and implement new engines of growth that will help accelerate the Singtel Group's initiatives in the mobile financials, digital entertainment and SME businesses.Sze Meng joins Singtel...
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Executive Vice President - FinTech Hive, DIFC
Raja Al Mazrouei is the Executive Vice President of FinTech Hive at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC). In this capacity, she oversees the innovation initiative that brings together key stakeholders from Financial Institutions, Government entities, Technology Partners...
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11:35am GMT+08
Comparing instant payments clearing systems for retail transactions around the world: lessons learned
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Director, Edgar, Dunn & Company
Samee is based in the London office. He has advised some of the largest financial services organisations in Europe and North America on competitive strategy, operations and technology. His expertise covers banking, digital commerce, payments including mobile payments, and new technologies...
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EVP Market Development of New Payment Platforms, Mastercard
Liz Oakes is Executive Vice President, Market Development of New Payment Platforms at Mastercard. She works with governments, central banks, regulators, schemes, retail and commercial banks on the strategic development of real-time payments programs across the globe, in collaboration...
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Managing Director, Payments, Trade & Communications, Asia Pacific, SWIFT
Michael Moon joined SWIFT’s Singapore office in 2012 and leads its payments, trade and communications functions in Asia Pacific. In this role, he partners with the payments and banking industry to deliver next-generation payment and settlement solutions. Michael manages SWIFT’s...
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Vice President, Global Business Development, Discover
Annie Zhang is the Managing Director of Asia Pacific Region for Diners Club International and Global Business Development of Payment Services. Her responsibilities include: managing existing and developing new franchises relationships to support growth of Diners Club card issuance...
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11:35am GMT+08
Fintech Deep Dive part 2: Localisation
Moderators
Founder & CEO, FINNOVASIA
Anthony founded FINNOVASIA in 2015 and Hong Kong FinTech Club in 2017 to meet the growing demand in financial technology knowledge from the industry.FINNOVASIA is the officially appointed organiser of the Hong Kong FinTech Week, the leading industry event with over 8,000 attendees...
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CEO & Founder, PolicyPal
Val Ji-hsuan Yap is the Founder and CEO of PAL Network and PolicyPal Singapore. Before founding PolicyPal, Val Yap worked as the Assistant Vice President at OCBC Bank in Singapore, where she headed a wide range of digital initiatives and campaigns,working closely with wealth and marketing...
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Co-Founder and Group CEO, CROWDO
Leo is the Co-Founder and Group CEO of Crowdo. He is recognized as a top leader within the Asia Pacific fintech industry having been named as a top fintech influencer and leader by Visa, EY, Next Money, Lattice80, and Fintechnews.sg. Leo is a highly sought after industry opinion leader...
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Founder and CEO, MatchMove Pay
Mr Shailesh Naik is Founder and CEO of MatchMove Pay (www.matchmove.com), one of the world’s fastest growing and most disruptive fintech companies in digital payments and next-generation banking.MatchMove’s proprietary Banking Wallet OSTM enables 'Banking-as-a-Service' with Spend...
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11:40am GMT+08
Feedback loops, how to build a customer-centric product
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Director, Zone Startups India
Ajay is a startup executive with strong skill sets in business development, partnerships and operations; built over 15 years, across East Africa, Canada and India. Since 2014, Ajay has been in a pan-India leadership role, growing Zone Startups' India operations to be a leading name...
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CEO & Co-Founder, InstaReM
Based in Singapore, Prajit is responsible for expanding the business into new markets and overseeing business operations across the global offices in cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Lithuania, Melbourne and Gold Coast. He is also in charge of driving innovation...
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Co-Founder & CEO, ZestMoney
Lizzie is Co-Founder & CEO of ZestMoney, the digital consumer lending company that is revolutionising the way Indian consumers transact online. Lizzie moved to India in 2011 to spearhead the India operations for UK based digital lender Wonga.com, which was later put on hold. In 2013...
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Chief Product Officer - Mapan, GO-JEK
Adam is a seasoned creator of digital consumer products. Adam's previous role was in HSBC where he convinced a global bank to leverage friendships to create and win in the mobile payments space. The award winning 'PayMe from HSBC' gained over 1m users in its first 18 months and has...
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Entrepreneurship: Partnerships Acquisitions & Internationalisation
- about At Zone Startups, Ajay oversees the flagship India accelerator operations as well as leads new initiatives, including corporate innovation programs and thematic accelerators under the Zone Startups brand.<br><br>Over the past 3 years, Ajay has successfully led setting up accelerators with Barclays and Axis Bank; as well as, corporate innovation programs with Visa, Thomson Reuters, HDFC Bank, ICICI Lombard, EY and Australia Institute of Sports.<br>Prior to Zone Startups India, Ajay was the Director – India Operations for SkillsDox Inc., a Canadian ed-tech company; wherein he helped the company set up in India and establish its initial partnerships, as well as raise INR 150 Cr.<br><br>In an earlier role, Ajay worked for the Government of Ontario, Canada for 5-years, where he was responsible for bilateral trade and investment relations between Ontario and India.<br>Ajay began his career working in Tanzania (East Africa) for 4 years, where he was involved in World Bank and African Development Bank projects. During this term, he assumed the role of an “intrapreneur”, and built a social enterprise in the agri-inputs value chain, wherein he built revenues in excess of $1Mn within the first 1.5 yrs.<br><br>Ajay is an MBA in Marketing & Finance and a B.Com in Financial Management from Mumbai University has 13 years of cross-functional work experience with startups, international business and Governments, across North America, East Africa & South Asia.
11:55am GMT+08
The commercial proposition driving cross-border commerce
Moderators
Global Payments Lead, Levvel
Scott Harkey leads the Payment Practice at Levvel, a consulting firm based in Charlotte, NC. In this role, he advises a number of US, UK, Australian, and Canadian banks, digital wallets, merchants, acquirers and startups on their digital payment strategy, payments architecture, custom...
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Vice President, Cross-Border Markets and International Business Development, PayPal Pte Ltd
Soma Ramasamy is a 20-year veteran with expansive experience in Sales, Business and Strategy Development in the Telecommunications and Technology sectors. Currently, holding the portfolio of Vice President for Cross-Border Markets and International Business Development in PayPal...
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Vice President, Digital Partnerships & Venture, Asia Pacific, Visa Worldwide Pte Limited
Hamish is currently Vice President, Digital Partnerships and Ventures - Visa AP, where he is responsible for driving the enablement and growth of Visa’s new network capabilities through key partnerships and programs.Prior to joining Visa Inc., Hamish was Vice President, APAC Merchant...
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Head of eCommerce, APAC, First Data
Prasanna is the head of eCommerce for the APAC region at First Data. He is instrumental in driving the eCommerce business and responsible for the growth of market share for the First Data APAC payment processing business across the partner ecosystem, banks and financial institutions...
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12:05pm GMT+08
Unmasking the invisible fraud
Speakers
CEO, AU10TIX
Ron Atzmon is MD of AU10TIX Limited, pioneers of multi-channel ID Authentication.Ron has led the company to the position of technology leader and provider of choice of the world’s major players such Visa, PayPal, Google Airbnb, Nordea Bank.Under Ron’s leadership AU10TIX introduced...
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12:05pm GMT+08
Driving commercial value through regulatory opportunities
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Entrepreneur & Fintech Advisor, Karmshala
Entrepreneur | FinTech Asia 200 | Mentor Startupbootcamp | Dad on Duty... He is a Business leader with over a decade of global experience across Fintech, Digital Payments and Mobile technologies.Instrumental in the scale of ItzCash (India's digital cash) and eventually its M&A to...
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CEO & Founder, Origami Inc.
Born in Toronto in 1985, Yoshiki spent his childhood in Toronto and New York until moving to Japan at the age of 10. For post-secondary education, Yoshiki studied at the University of Sydney and later graduated from Waseda University.Upon graduation, Yoshiki first began his work in...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Razorpay
Harshil started Razorpay after discovering the dismal state of online payments in India. He graduated from IIT Roorkee in 2013 and started working at Schlumberger. With an idea to change the way online payments functioned in India, Harshil quit his full-time job and founded Razorpay...
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12:05pm GMT+08
Fintech Deep Dive part 3: Raising capital
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Founding Managing Partner, Insignia Ventures Partners
Tan Yinglan founded Insignia Venture Partners in 2017, an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia and has partnered with regional champions like Carro, Payfazz, Cohive, Janio and Logivan amongst others. Prior to founding Insignia Venture Partners, Yinglan was...
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CEO & Founder, PeopleFund
Joey Kim is the Founder and CEO of PeopleFund, Korea's fastest growing marketplace lender that is creating better alternative investment opportunities for everyone. The tech-driven platform connects borrowers and investors to deliver loans and a full spectrum of investment products...
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CEO, Quantum Energy Asset Management
Vic Tham is a seasoned portfolio manager who has been in risk management, investments and compliance control for more than 30 years. He currently manages several investments in his capacity as the portfolio manager for QEX Fund SP, as the CIO of Pundi X Labs Pte. Limited and, as CEO...
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CEO & Co-Founder, StashAway
Before founding StashAway, he was the Group CEO of ZALORA where he was responsible for it growing 15x and becoming the undisputed leader in the market. Michele previously founded the Italian and Pakistani operations of Rocket Internet, launching 5 companies in these 2 countries.From...
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12:10pm GMT+08
Financial alchemy: turning data to trust
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Chief Business Development Officer, Paysafe Group
Daniel Kornitzer serves as EVP and Chief Business Development Officer of Paysafe. Prior to this, upon rejoining the Group in 2014, Daniel served as Paysafe’s Chief Product Officer. In his 20+ years in technology management, he has pioneered ground-breaking initiatives, from the...
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12:10pm GMT+08
Catch the spy
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Partner, AngelList India
Utsav is responsible for bringing AngelList to India. AngelList is the world’s largest startup platform to fundraise, recruit and launch - with over US $950m delivered to over 2000 startups. He holds degrees in Information Systems Management, Innovation & Finance from Singapore...
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General Partner, SOSV
William is a General Partner at SOSV, a US$400m venture capital fund known as "the Accelerator VC” with a >30% net realized IRR, where he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator, SOSV’s global Internet accelerator and the first accelerator in China and Managing Director of...
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Managing Partner, BEENEXT
Dirk is a founding managing partner at Beenext a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology start-ups in southeast Asia including India, Japan and the USA. Prior, dirk co-founded alps ventures as an early stage investor and company builder with a focus on...
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12:25pm GMT+08
Commerce 2040: Identifying the stakeholders that will create the future store
Speakers
Head of Digital Consumer , Euromonitor International
As Head of Digital Consumer at Euromonitor International, Michelle Evans oversees the firm’s research on the digital consumer, providing actionable insights and in-depth analyses into how technological advances are reshaping the way consumers browse and buy goods and services globally.She...
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12:25pm GMT+08
Biometrics deep dive
Speakers
Head of Threat Analytics, Biocatch
Tim Dalgleish is a fraud prevention expert, with over 15 years experience in financial services and technology. He has worked with businesses in over 20 countries to implement effective fraud prevention systems and strategies. Prior to his role at BioCatch, Tim led the Asia Pacific...
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Principal Financial Crime Consultant, ACI Worldwide
Giselle Lindley is principal financial crime consultant at ACI Worldwide. Her career has spanned the public sector, banking and insurance, over a period of nearly two decades with the Australian anti money laundering regulator, Austrac and a number of financial institutions in Asia/Pacific...
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12:25pm GMT+08
Linking national real-time infrastructure together
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Global Emerging Markets & ASEAN Fintech Leader, EY
Varun Mittal is the ASEAN Fintech Lead at EY covering emerging technology and business models in financial services across ASEAN. Previously Varun was the first marketing and sales employee at helloPay (acquired by ANT Financial, Alibaba Group), led payments for Samsung in ASEAN and...
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Founding Partner, KoreFusion Advisory
Jan is a founding partner of KoreFusion, an international strategy consulting and M&A advisory firm focused on FinTech, financial services and payments. His main interest is in helping payment systems evolve and using them to unlock efficiencies and social development. Jan’s career...
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Head of Asia, Western Union Business Solutions
Svend is responsible for the Asia region at Western Union Business Solutions. Looking back on 20 years in senior leadership roles with global service industry and consumer goods companies, Svend joined Western Union in 2011. Prior to taking over the Asia region in 2017, he has successfully...
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CISO ePayments & eCollections, Ministry of Finance, UAE
Mr. Tony Joseph is a Payments Business Strategist and Technology Futurist with a passion for driving disruptive technologies that fashion business process automation. He has over 20 years of industry experience in Information Technology and Fintech that includes creation of state...
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12:30pm GMT+08
Behind the behemoth: in conversation with Jonathan Larsen
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Partner, Anthemis Group
Samantha Ghiotti is a Digital Finance executive, venture investor and entrepreneur who spent 20 years founding, growing, transforming and exiting businesses, leading people and organisations through change.She is currently a Partner at Anthemis group, the leading fintech venture investor...
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Group Chief Innovation Officer, Chairman & CEO, Ping An Global Voyager Fund
Jonathan Larsen is now Chief Innovation Officer of Ping An Group and Chairman and CEO of the Ping An Global Voyager Fund.Jonathan spent 18 years at Citigroup where he was most recently Global Head of the firm’s Retail Banking and Mortgage businesses, generating ~$12Bn in Revenues...
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12:40pm GMT+08
Fintech Deep Dive part 4: Recruiting talent and building a team
Moderators
Managing Director, APAC, LinkedIn
Olivier Legrand assumed the role of Managing Director for LinkedIn in the Asia Pacificand Japan region on January 1, 2016, and continues to lead the company’s Marketing Solutions business in the region.Olivier brings with him more than a decade of leadership, marketing and business development...
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CEO, PagBrasil
Ralf Germer is the co-founder and CEO of PagBrasil. He is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of international track record in sales and marketing in the tech industry.He was Vice President of Product Marketing Europe at Actebis and later founded Carpo, 4M and co-founded...
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CEO & Co-Founder, InstaReM
Based in Singapore, Prajit is responsible for expanding the business into new markets and overseeing business operations across the global offices in cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Lithuania, Melbourne and Gold Coast. He is also in charge of driving innovation...
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CEO, Thunes
Steve is a strategic business advisor with over 25 years experience gained in Europe, USA, and APAC. He joined Thunes (Previously TransferTo) in August 2018, to lead the business expansion and transformation of the enterprise as a pure-play FinTech organisation.For the last 2 years...
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CEO, CardUp
Nicki Ramsay is CEO and Founder of CardUp, a fast-growing credit card enablement platform for payments and cash management. An expert in the payments industry, she has built digital payments products and previously worked for American Express across both Asia Pacific and Europe. During...
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12:45pm GMT+08
Mobile-first retail: are you ready for it?
Speakers
Head of Research, Asia Pacific & MENA, Twitter
Martyn leads the Twitter research team across Asia Pacific, Middle East & North Africa; a team responsible for developing and providing market insight into all aspects of Twitter, from audience to global events. Previously, Martyn has spanned media agency, global publishers, research...
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MD, Southeast Asia and Senior Director, Business Development, Asia Pacific, Twitter
Arvinder has a dual role at Twitter as Managing Director of Southeast Asia and Senior Director of Asia Pacific Business Development. In his MD of Southeast Asia role, he is responsible for growing Twitter’s business across Southeast Asia including strategic leadership and business...
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12:45pm GMT+08
Mind the Hack
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General Manager of APAC, Symphony
Queenie Chan is the General Manager of Asia Pacific for Symphony Communication Services, a Silicon Valley based "unicorn" start-up that provides a secure and compliant collaboration platform with integrated messaging, file sharing, audio/video conferencing, screen sharing and automated...
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Associate Dean of Corporate Programs, ESSEC Business School
Professor Kevyn Yong is an Associate Professor, Management Department and Associate Dean for Corporate Programs at ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific in Singapore. In his role as Associate Dean for Corporate Program, he also leads the design and development of custom programs for...
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President, Asia Pacific, FireEye
Eric Hoh is President of FireEye for Asia Pacific. In this role, he leads an organization committed to helping the region’s organizations improve their defenses against targeted cyber attacks. He is based at the company’s regional headquarters in Singapore.Eric is a seasoned security...
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Researcher, PwC Japan
Dr. Yin Minn Pa Pa is originally from Myanmar and currently working as a security researcher at PwC Cyber Services, PwC Japan. Before she came to Japan, she worked as an IT engineer for the government of Myanmar. She earned her doctorate of engineering from Yokohama National University...
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12:50pm GMT+08
Ask me anything about crypto & blockchain
Speakers
Managing Partner, QCP Capital
Darius is co-founder and Managing Partner at QCP Capital, a digital asset trading firm headquartered in Singapore. Formerly a Macro Trader at Dymon Asia Capital, he spent years trading cross-asset derivatives with a focus on Asian FX/NDFs and model-based strategies before moving on...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Kyber Network
Loi Luu is CEO and Cofounder of Kyber Network. He completed his Ph.D. on smart contracts, security and cryptocurrency. He has been listed in Forbes, 30 Under 30 Asia 2018: Finance & Venture Capital and nominated by MIT Tech review as one of the 10 innovators under 35 APAC for his...
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CEO & Co-Founder, Liquid
Mike Kayamori is QUOINE's Co-Founder CEO, following a career spanning 20 years where he held senior roles at Softbank Group Corporation, Globespan Capital Partners, and Mitsubishi Corporation. Having graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Law from University of Tokyo, before going...
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Global Head of New Business, Luno
Vijay is Global Head of New Business at Luno and is responsible for all new products and partnerships across the business. Prior to this, he worked at Google in roles across YouTube, Chromecast, and Adwords. Vijay also spent a number of years at PwC and Ipsos, where he ran consulting...
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2:00pm GMT+08
The rise of nano-financing in Southeast Asia
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Partner, Dymon Asia Ventures
Dymon Asia Ventures is an early stage fintech-focussed fund. In his capacity as Partner, Jinesh Patel oversees the fund’s investment strategy. Prior to joining Dymon Asia Capital, Jinesh was an experienced hedge fund and private equity manager, with extensive investment banking...
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Co-Founder Oriente, Co-Founder Atomico & Co-Founder Skype, Oriente
Geoffrey Prentice is a co-Founder of Oriente, where he is responsible for global business strategy, strategic partnerships, brand, and investments. Geoffrey was previously a founding Partner at Atomico, a leading global VC firm with over US$2 billion in assets under management where...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 2:00pm - 2:20pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:20pm GMT+08
WeBank: Open banking decoded
Speakers
Vice President & Chief Information Officer , WeBank
Henry oversees the strategic planning and development of Fintech business at WeBank.Prior to WeBank, Henry has served as General Manager at Ping An Technology Co., Ltd. Prior to that, Henry had lived and worked in Silicon Valley for more than 10 years. Henry has received his Bachelor...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 2:20pm - 2:40pm GMT+08
The Matrix
2:40pm GMT+08
Building a bank from scratch
Moderators
Partner; Asia-Pacific FinTech Leader, EY
James Lloyd is a partner in EY's Corporate Finance Strategy (CFS) team, and leads the firm’s dedicated financial technology capability across Asia-Pacific – focused on early-stage, growth-stage, and non-traditional financial services. He is also APAC leader of the firm’s payments...
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CEO, Virtual Bank by Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, Standard Chartered
Deniz is an internationally recognised leader in driving digital transformations and bringing new digital banking experiences to audiences globally.As the the CEO of the Virtual Bank by Standard Chartered Bank Hong Kong, Deniz leads the team in building a smart bank to solve clients...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 2:40pm - 3:00pm GMT+08
The Matrix
3:00pm GMT+08
Enabling the next billion consumers & micro-entrepreneurs
Moderators
Managing Partner, BEENEXT
Dirk is a founding managing partner at Beenext a venture capital fund focused on investing in early-stage technology start-ups in southeast Asia including India, Japan and the USA. Prior, dirk co-founded alps ventures as an early stage investor and company builder with a focus on...
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CEO, Trusting Social
Dr. Nguyen An Nguyen is a Data Scientist, serial entrepreneur and seasoned banker. He earned his Ph.D. in Economics from Rice University (USA) in 2007. He joined Barclays Global Decision Science team in New York in 2008 where he was responsible for developing and managing various...
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President, Tokopedia
Patrick Cao is the President at Tokopedia, overseeing the CFO Office, Financial Technology businesses and global partnerships. Prior to Tokopedia, Patrick was a Partner at Formation Group where he focused on investments in growth-stage technology and consumer companies. Patrick was...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 3:00pm - 3:30pm GMT+08
The Matrix
3:30pm GMT+08
Dispelling innovation cliches
Moderators
APAC Content Director, Money20/20
With a successful track record in launching new event products in the UK, Germany, Austria, Singapore & China, Rebecca has deep knowledge of the Asia markets with a keen focus on AI, Blockchain and deep insight and relationships with key tech giants in the region.
Global Content Director - USA, Europe, Asia & China, Money20/20
As the Global Content Leader at Money20/20, Pat gets to travel the world building relationships with the leading companies and rising stars within the Tech, Financial Service and Retail sectors. Pat led the market launch of the successful Money20/20 Europe and Money20/20 Asia eve...
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Speakers
Head of FinTech Client Advisory, Standard Chartered Bank
René Michau Head the Fintech Client Advisory Team to build a new business at Standard Chartered focused on meeting the needs of Fintech companies as clients and helping them to connect their business across the emerging markets in particular in Asia, Africa and the Middle East.With...
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Vice President, Global Communications, ACI Worldwide
Dan Ring leads global communications efforts for ACI Worldwide, the Universal Payments company. Previously, Dan led global communications for Sophos, a leader in network and endpoint security. Prior to Sophos, Dan drove communications efforts for IBM's Enterprise Marketing Management...
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CEO & Co-Founder, InstaReM
Based in Singapore, Prajit is responsible for expanding the business into new markets and overseeing business operations across the global offices in cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Kuala Lumpur, Lithuania, Melbourne and Gold Coast. He is also in charge of driving innovation...
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EVP Market Development of New Payment Platforms, Mastercard
Liz Oakes is Executive Vice President, Market Development of New Payment Platforms at Mastercard. She works with governments, central banks, regulators, schemes, retail and commercial banks on the strategic development of real-time payments programs across the globe, in collaboration...
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Fintech Officer, Government of Maharashtra - India
A leader, executor, innovation evangelist: Now A Change Agent – Suniti , Fintech Officer for Government of Maharashtra ,is currently acting as the change agent for Fintech sector in India. She is working towards a firm vision to “Make Mumbai (Financial Capital of India) one of...
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Thursday March 21, 2019 3:30pm - 4:00pm GMT+08
The Matrix