Financial & Fintech

The Financial & FinTech Committee is a platform for collaboration and knowledge sharing between companies involved in the financial sector.

This committee allows members to discuss with other professionals to reinforce, on a regular basis, their expertise on financial topics, tools, new technologies and trends through knowledge, information sharing and best-practices.

The Financial & FinTech Committee is aimed at CFOs, bankers, financial sector advisors & experts, treasurers and senior representatives of financial, regulatory and academic institutions to discuss topics of interest in the financial world.

Past session highlights

• THE (R)EVOLUTION OF SHARED SERVICES: WHAT’S NEXT?

Presentations by Ian Brown, Head of Region, Solvay Asia Pacific Shared Services, Juvanus Tjandra, Partner, Management Consulting, KPMG Singapore, Varthini Larue, CFO South East Asia Pacific, Air Liquide .

The speakers shared about key business imperatives, opportunities & challenges as well as lesson learnt on how should organisation plan their shared services transformation journey!

• BLOCKCHAIN BEYOND THE HYPE: CORPORATE AND BANKING CASE STUDIES

Presentations and panel of discussion with Antony Lewis, Director of Research, R3, Tomasz Kurczyk, Digital Transformation Director, AXA Insurance, Val Ji-hsuan Yap, Founder & CEO, PAL Network and PolicyPal Singapore, Jordane Rollin, Head Digital Transformation, Trade Finance, Standard Chartered, Henry Roxas, Associate Director, Global Trade Partner Solution, R3, Faeez M. Noor, Co-Founder & CFO, Luxtag and Jérémi Joslin, CTO & Director, Newlogic.

The speakers brought participants through tangible use cases and practical business applications and debated on the subject of whether blockchain success is dependent on collaboration between traditional players and start-ups.

• PHENOMENON OF PEER-TO-PEER LENDING: HERE FOR GOOD? 

Dimitri Kouchnirenko, Co-founder & Director, Incomlend shared with members more about the phenomenon of peer-to-peer lending and discussed what it means for the industry. 

• TRANSFER PRICING UPDATES IN SINGAPORE

Felicia Chia, Partner, KPMG, reiterated the most salient points arising from the changes in Singapore transfer pricing regulations, addressed how to prepare transfer pricing documentation and policies and presented a selection of case studies.