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Singapore FinTech Festival 2021
HSBC is proud to be a Gold Sponsor at this year’s Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) from 8 to 12 November 2021.
Centered around ‘Web 3.0 in financial services’, the Festival saw fintech leaders across the globe gather to share knowledge on "what's next" in the financial services and digital economy.
HSBC senior leaders Nuno Matos, Chief Executive, Wealth and Personal Banking and Zoë Knight, Group Head, HSBC Centre of Sustainable Finance delivered thought provoking insights at the SFF main stages; while at the HSBC e-booth, HSBC subject-matter experts alongside industry leaders came together in a series of panel discussions and fireside chats to delve into the potential of Web 3.0 and how it is transforming the financial landscape.
Innovative solutions were also showcased by HSBC specialists as part of the Lab Crawls – a fringe programme focused on developing the next generation of digital and mobile transaction banking tools.
To catch a replay of the sessions, click on the links below.
Day 1 - Designing financial services on Web 3.0
Day 2 - Building financial services on Web 3.0
Day 3 - Sustainable financial services on Web 3.0
Day 4 & 5 - HSBC Lab Crawl Sessions
- International business for SMEs made simple and secure (Global Wallet)
- Navigating around HSBC Digital Accounts Receivables Tool (DART)
- Making Banking Invisible with FX & Payments Ecosystem (Transactional FX)
- Guide to Liquidity Management Dashboard and Cash Flow Forecasting
- HSBC Digital Wealth Enhancements
- Faster and Simpler International Payments with HSBC Global Money Transfers
- Tokenisation: Propelling innovation at the speed of light
Day 1 - Designing financial services on Web 3.0
Session 1 - Asia Wealth: How HSBC is building the next generation of Wealth Management tools
This session discusses the relevance of the recently inked agreement between HSBC and Saxo, and how Saxo's expertise in digital wealth management supports the HSBC International Wealth Hub (IWH) and its values of international connectivity and digital wealth management. This agreement is expected to open up the next chapter in optimising client journies to deliver superior wealth management experience.
- Ivan Chang, Regional Head of Wholesale Solutions, APAC, Saxo Markets
- Craig Worobec, Global Head of Brokerage and Platforms, HSBC
- (Moderator) Louise Lim, Senior Vice President, Team Head, Treasury Products, Wealth Products & Journey, HSBC Singapore
Session 2 - In Conversation with Carro
In this chat with the CFO of Carro, one of Southeast Asia’s fastest growing tech firms, Mr Ernest Chew shares why ASEAN is their priority market, the company's vision to be the next decacorn and how the pandemic has further shaped the company's digital strategy.
- Ernest Chew, CFO, Carro
- (Moderator) Christina Lee, Senior Vice President, Regional Sales, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Session 3 - Acceleration of Trade Digitalisation and the Convergence of Banking and Fintech
This fireside chat discusses the latest developments in embedded finance, the possibilities for banks through the right venue partners and how trade financing is converging with Fintechs.
- Saket Sarda, Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific, C2FO
- Alan Beattie, President, Asia-Pacific, Trade Ledger
- Andrew Dennison, COO, Serai
- (Moderator) Iain Morrison, Head of Global Trade Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Session 4 - The Road to Digital – Now and Next
This session highlights the different lens and approaches towards business digitisation– covering views and initiatives by corporates, banks, consultants and payment service providers in this journey.
- Rani Misra, Regional Treasurer, Cargill Asia-Pacific, Singapore
- William Ip, Head of Digital Commerce, Asia-Pacific, Fiserv
- Anton Ruddenklau, Partner, Head of Financial Services Advisory, Global Co-Leader of Fintech, KPMG International
- Lewis Sun, Head of Product Management and Co-Interim Head of Global Payments Solutions, Asia-Pacific, HSBC
- Daniel Laverick, Head of Digital & Data Solutions, Zuellig Pharma
- (Moderator) Winnie Yap, Head of Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Day 2 - Building financial services on Web 3.0
Session 5 - Exploring Quantum Computing in Financial Services
This session covers at a high level what Quantum Computing is and what the future holds, why HSBC is investing in this technology and what potential use cases are worth exploring in financial services.
- Dr. Noelle Ibrahim, Consultant, IBM Quantum Industry & Technical Services
- Colin Bell, CEO, HSBC Bank plc & HSBC Europe
- Jens Nielsen, Senior Manager, Wholesale Credit Risk Model Monitoring, HSBC
- (Moderator) Steve Suarez, Head of Innovation, Global Functions, HSBC
Session 6 - Transforming Capital Markets through building next generation Financial Market Infrastructure: Marketnode and HSBC
This session focuses on the building blocks of next-generation market infrastructure, collaboration with industry participants and the framework to scale digitalisation.
- Anshuman Asthana, Head of Post Trade, Marketnode
- Rajeev Tummala, Director, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
- (Moderator) Hashir Rahim, Senior Product Manager, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
Session 7 - Role of International Banks in developing Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDCs)
A panel discussion on CBDC adoption, trends and how interoperability will shape the future of CBDCs. This session also touches on the collaboration and roles each party will play in CBDCs.
- Willy Lim, Global Solutions and Advisory Lead – Digital Currencies and Capital Markets, R3
- Rahul Bhargava, Global Head of Payments Market Infrastructure (PMI) Strategy, SWIFT
- Zhu Kuang Lee, Managing Director, Chief Digital, Data and Innovation Officer, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
- (Moderator) Lewis Sun, Head of Product Management and Co-Interim Head of Global Payments Solutions, Asia-Pacific, HSBC
Session 8 - In Conversation with Endowus
In this chat with Endowus, the CEO shares his insights on the changing wealth-tech landscape and how the company has played a role in redefining a space traditionally dominated by big players. He further elaborates how HSBC plays a role in driving innovation and expansion in the region.
- Gregory Van, CEO, Endowus
- (Moderator) Christina Lee, Senior Vice President, Regional Sales, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Day 3 - Sustainable financial services on Web 3.0
Session 9 - Financial Institutions and Infrastructure Providers' roles in facilitating transition to Net Zero
This session explores the steps financial institutions and market infrastructure providers are taking on the path to net zero, and how technology can serve as a key enabler towards meeting sustainability goals.
- Noor Adhami, Head of Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
- Rehan Ahmed, Chief Product Officer, Marketnode
- (Moderator) Rachel Roch, Product Analyst, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
Session 10 - In Conversation with Syfe
In this chat with Syfe, the Founder and CEO shares his insights on the changing wealth-tech landscape and how the company has played a role in redefining a space traditionally dominated by big players. He further elaborates how HSBC plays a role in driving innovation and expansion in the region.
- Dhruv Arora, Founder and CEO, Syfe
- (Moderator) Christina Lee, Senior Vice President, Regional Sales, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Session 11 – Future of Banking – How HSBC partners and invests in Fintechs to create new customer value and differentiate HSBC for future growth
This session covers the priorities for the HSBC Ventures and Partnerships team, key trends in the market and the different ways in which HSBC partners with Fintechs. Attendees will be able to understand the KPIs considered for investments and partnerships, and get first-hand advice on how to approach such engagements with HSBC.
- Catherine Zhou, Global Head of Venture, Digital Innovation & Partnerships, HSBC
- Ore Adeyemi, Head of Innovation Investments, HSBC
- (Moderator) Rita Martins, Fintech Partnerships Lead, HSBC
Session 12 - Embedding Climate Risk management in Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
This session covers how financial institutions are embedding climate risk in their enterprise risk management and governance, with particular focus on ASEAN and Singapore.
- Gautam Mukharya, Chief Risk Officer, HSBC Singapore
- Leila Kamdem, Head of Climate Risk, Group Risk, HSBC
Session 13 - ESG Investing in Alternatives and Opportunities in Fintech
This session covers how responsible investing is changing investments in private assets. The speakers discuss practical approaches, industry trends and the typical challenges observed in Asia and also globally. In addition, the speakersprovide their insights on how the transition to ESG-driven investments will require new products and services that will allow new fintech companies to emerge.
- Michelle Hilliman, Head of Responsible Investment & Business Management, Alternatives, HSBC Asset Management
- Remi Bourrette, Head of Venture and Growth Investments, HSBC
Day 4 & 5 - HSBC Lab Crawl Sessions
International business for SMEs made simple and secure
More than 80% of businesses in Singapore are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), and they face mounting challenges in this rapidly changing environment; becoming international, and managing payables and receivables across borders. HSBC’s Global Wallet, a new multi-currency account allows customers to hold multiple currencies and make next-gen payments. It enables customers to make payments as if they were in the same location as their suppliers, and utilise local addressable account numbers to receive payments from their customers.
- Narayan Ranganathan, Head of Innovation, Global Payments Solutions, Asia, HSBC Singapore
Navigating around HSBC Digital Accounts Receivables Tool (DART)
Receivables reconciliation remains a key challenge for businesses as the process can be manual and intensive. Businesses may experience inaccuracies and insufficient data, restraining their ability to identifying the payor and invoice details. The complexity can arise from various factors such as payment infrastructure limitation, partial payment or the use of credit note without prior notification. Through this session, you’ll get to learn about HSBC Digital Accounts Receivables Tool (DART), a solution which has been developed to address these issues. HSBC DART enables sellers and buyers to exchange open invoices and detailed payment information, via HSBC hosted web portal and android mobile application. It provides both parties with visibility and traceability of invoices status, allowing sellers to swiftly match incoming payments against outstanding invoices
- Anthony Kek, Vice President, Product Management (Domestic Payments), Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
- Komgrit Treetipbut, Senior Vice President, Product Management, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
Making Banking Invisible with FX & Payments Ecosystem
HSBC’s strategic response to provide overarching propositions for bilateral FX & cross border payables/receivables by seamlessly combining FX & Payments products leveraging technology.
- Himanshu Joshi, Head of Transactional FX, Asia, HSBC Singapore
Guide to Liquidity Management Dashboard and Cash Flow Forecasting
Liquidity Management Dashboard and Cash Forecasting
Poor visibility is one of corporate treasury’s greatest challenges and a major obstacle to more efficient liquidity management. HSBC’s Liquidity Management Portal has been developed with the specific aim of resolving this issue and maximising liquidity visibility by streamlining the underlying data management. Managing your liquidity risk is an imperative, in today and tomorrow’s world. HSBC’s Cash Flow Forecasting Tool can improve your ability to accurately forecast your global liquidity position. This fully integrated solution forecasts all cash movements that impact your day-to-day cash position from the present day to three years into the future, based on information captured from your organisation’s cash pool structures, bank accounts and transaction-level data.
- Scott Samson, Director, Liquidity and Investment Products, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC Singapore
HSBC Digital Wealth Enhancements
Digital Wealth
With key digital wealth enhancements introduced to improve user experience for customers, join our session to learn more about how our enhancements can help you grow your wealth on the go, at your own time
- Mahalakshmi Iyer, Senior Vice President, Team Head, Wealth Products & Journeys (Wealth Digital Platforms), Wealth and Personal Banking, HSBC Singapore
Faster and Simpler International Payments with HSBC Global Money Transfers
With Global Money Transfers, you can send money overseas faster at attractive FX rates, with just a few taps on the HSBC Singapore app.
- Benny Tan, Senior Vice President, Transactional Banking, Wealth & Personal Banking, HSBC Singapore
- Rakesh Pandey, Senior Vice President, Head of Payments, Wealth & Personal Banking, HSBC Singapore
Tokenisation: Propelling innovation at the speed of light
Tokenisation
Through this session, you'll get to learn about the potential of DLT and tokenisation in accelerating innovation - creating completely new asset classes and networks as well as transforming traditional asset classes. The implications for banks and what HSBC is currently developing in this space will also be discussed.
- Rachel Roch, Product Analyst, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
- Xin Yi Tan, Product Analyst, Digital & Data, Securities Services, HSBC Singapore
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