This year, our strategic focus highlights the pivotal role of CIOs in driving banking innovations that empower the underbanked, streamline operations with AI, and promote sustainability in fintech. Asia is at a critical juncture where technology-driven financial inclusion can profoundly impact millions. Governments and policymakers must recognize the transformative potential of fintech, digital payments, and blockchain in extending services to the unbanked and reducing cross-border remittance costs.
Mobile payments and digital wallets are already enhancing access to banking services in underserved areas, while blockchain ensures transparency.
This effort transcends technology; it’s about fostering economic empowerment and resilience, allowing individuals to build better futures.
– Empowering the Underbanked with Open Banking: Exploring how open banking frameworks enable third-party developers to create solutions that address the unique needs of underbanked communities, such as tailored banking services and microfinance options.
– Super Apps as Access Points for Financial Services: Discussing how super apps can integrate essential financial services, providing easy access to banking, insurance, and credit for underbanked populations.
– Mobile Family Wallets and Financial Inclusion: Analysing the role of mobile wallets in fostering family-based savings and financial management, especially in rural and underserved urban areas.
– Seamless Remittance Services for Economic Empowerment: Highlighting innovations in mobile remittance services that reduce costs and barriers for migrant workers and their families, thus enhancing their financial stability.
– AI-Driven Solutions for Personalised Financial Services: How artificial intelligence can automate and personalise financial services, improving access to financial resources and advice.
– Streamlining Financial Services with Hyper-Automation: Addressing how automation in the middle office can speed up the processing of microloans and insurance claims, reducing overheads and improving service delivery to MSME clients.
– Green Data Centres and Inclusive Banking: Discussing the role of sustainable technologies in scaling up operations efficiently to reach underbanked populations without escalating costs or environmental impact.
– Dynamic Storage Solutions for Financial Inclusion Data Needs: How optimized data storage and processing can support extensive data analytics necessary for developing financial products aimed at the underbanked.
In partnership with the ASEAN Economic Forum (AEF) the ASEAN Fintech Forum is the premier event that brings together Southeast Asia’s most influential minds in the financial technology sector. This exclusive, invite-only gathering is designed for the senior level executives from banking, financial services, and insurance companies who are driving the future of finance in the region.