Contributors

Sinratana Lan

Siow Hwei Liew

Siow Hwei is the Director of BNP Paribas Securities, Head of the Business Implementation and Change Management covering Asia. In this role, she is instrumental in establishing the governance structure of the new function with the objective of leading the team to transition clients’ back-end processes successfully and instituting efficient change programs. 

Sisi Liao

Sisi Liao is a Senior Financial Researcher at the Lafferty Group.

Sofia A. Johan

Sofia A. Johan is an Adjunct Professor at Schulich School of Business and Extramural Research fellow at Tilburg Law and Economics Center, University of Tilburg

Somkrit Krishnamra and Ho Kok Yong

Somkrit is a Partner leading Deloitte's Financial Services Industry in Thailand. He has over 14 years of combined audit and advisory experience. He specialises in accounting standards, bank regulations, and system implementation of regulations in financial sector.

Kok Yong is the Financial Services Industry Leader for Southeast Asia and is an Audit Partner with Deloitte Singapore. He has more than 20 years of public accounting experience involving the financial audit of multinationals and local companies. His audit clients span across a diversified range of industries. He is also responsible for leading teams in the provision of advisory services in Southeast Asia and Singapore.

Sonia Swinney

Sophie Mady

Sopnendu Mohanty and Maha El Dimachki

Sopnendu Mohanty is the Co-founder and Group CEO of the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN), a Singapore-headquartered not-for-profit organisation that harnesses technology and fosters innovation to create more efficient, resilient, and inclusive financial ecosystems through global partnerships. Mr Mohanty was the first Chief Fintech Officer at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and a key visionary behind the Singapore FinTech Festival. He helped to establish Singapore on the global map as a leading center for innovation in the financial sector and a dynamic hub for fintech development. 

Maha El Dimachki is CEO of GFTN Solutions. Prior to this, Maha served as Centre Head, BIS Innovation Hub Singapore. In previous roles, Maha was Head of Department for Payments and then Early and High Growth Oversight, leading the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response to the Kalifa review of Fintech. She previously served as Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK on secondment from the FCA, responsible for running the payments operations of the UK’s payment operator.

Soumya Shivaramakrishnan

Spencer Ma