Daniel Wu & Pat Patel
Daniel Wu is the head of financial services, public policy at AWS and drives AWS' public policy and government affairs strategies with financial services regulators in Asia Pacific to support the banking, payments, capital markets, and insurance sectors to transform with the cloud.
Wu has 10 years of public policy and government affairs experience in Southeast Asia. Prior to AWS, he was the director of public affairs (APAC) at UPS. He also writes about trade issues affecting ASEAN and APEC integration and speaks at university classes.
Pat Patel leads Elevandi as its executive director. Prior to Elevandi, he was the principal executive officer at Monetary Authority of Singapore.
He graduated from Bournemouth University with a master's in international business administration.
Commentary
From automation to agency: Asia’s wealth leaders can reinvent, not just streamline
Singapore aced its FATF evaluation — now comes the hard part
Are Asia’s digital banks prepared for the stablecoin era?
Why APAC is building home-currency stablecoins
Why Southeast Asian wealth managers must design the business before buying the technology
Why trust in Asian banking increasingly gets built off the record
Hong Kong cleared stablecoins for take-off. Getting them to work across Asia is the hard part
The financing challenge behind Asia’s wealth transfer
Banks need to rethink identity governance for AI agents
From stablecoins to sovereignty: The rise of trust-based digital dollar systems