ASIFMA Tech and Ops Conference 2023

• Operational challenges impacting trading strategies and infrastructure.
• How to ensure you have the right infrastructure, operating model, and systems to support your business.
• Managing non-financial risk in an era of geopolitical tensions, cyber threats, digital disruptions, an ever-changing regulatory environment & climate change.
• Hybrid working: how to get it right. Impact on culture, monitoring and surveillance, agile working methods.
• IT infrastructure optimalisation.
• What major technology initiatives are in flight? What is driving these?
• Who are likely winners and losers from digital transformation?

Panelists: 

Magnus Haglind, SVP, Head of Products, Marketplace Technology, Nasdaq
Hasan Rauf, Head of Capital Markets, Business Development, Asia-Pacific & Japan, AWS
Kevin Wong, Chief Executive, APAC, Swift

Moderator:

Laurence Van der Loo, Executive Director, Tech & Ops, ASIFMA

• What are the key drivers for post-trade transformation?
• How are new technologies enabling transformational change in post trade?
• What are some of the major developments for the coming years?
• Moving to T+1: is the industry ready for US T+1? Lessons learned from Stock Connect. Lessons learned from India.
• Further shortening the settlement cycle. Will we move further to T+0 or even atomic settlement?

Panelists:
Nellie Dagdag, Managing Director, APAC Marketing & Communications & APAC Regional Manager, DTCC
Katie O’Connor, Director, Corporate Actions Securities Processing, S&P Global Market Intelligence
Radha Pillay, Head of APAC, SmartStream

Moderator: Lyndon Chao, Managing Director Equities & Post Trade, ASIFMA

• A discussion among regulators & industry to share views on the supervisory expectations & focus areas (BCM, Ops Res, VASPs, digital ops res, etc.)
• Degree of consistency across the industry and jurisdictions.
• How are firms navigating this landscape?

Panelists:
Brandon Lim, Head of Security Assurance (Regulated Sectors), APAC, AWS
(V) Orlando Fernandez, Senior Technical Specialist, Operational Resilience / Third Party Risk Management, Prudential Policy, Bank of England (BOE)

Moderator: TBC

• A chat on the talent challenges and opportunities in tech in Asia. 

Speakers: TBC

• Degree of consistency across the industry and jurisdictions.
• How are firms navigating this landscape.
• What is the optimal operating model and data/tech architecture?

Panelists: TBC

Moderator: TBC

• Zooming in on the most valuable asset classes and use cases for tokenization.
• Private or permissioned blockchains? That is the question.
• Legal and regulatory challenges in Asia.
• It’s an entire ecosystem overhaul – what can the industry do to move to the next level.

Panelists: TBC

Moderator: TBC

• What are the most promising use cases for Generative AI in capital markets?
• What are some of the incremental risks that need to be kept in mind? And how can they be mitigated?
• What does future-proof regulatory framework for (Gen) AI look like?

Panelist:
Hsien-Hui Tong, Executive Director – Investments, SGInnovate

Moderator: TBC

• A fireside chat on the Cyber threat landscape, cyber challenges stemming from digitalization and key recommendations to improve your cyber resilience.

Panelists: TBC

Moderator: TBC