Steven Claxton
Steven Claxton has a 20+ years accomplished Banking (risk management, valuations, and regulation) career across Asia Pacific and the United Arab Emirates. His responsibility at FIS is leading Treasury and Risk (in Asia Pacific as a Market Specialist, which sees him working directly with Banking clients to adapt FIS’ solutions to their strategic priorities.
Steven has worked for systemically important banks such as Standard Chartered Bank and as consultant with KPMG. His experience stretches across value propositions such as capital measurement & planning (ICAAP, Enterprise-Wide Stress Testing), prudential regulation (Basel III, Recovery & Resolution Planning), and behavioural modelling (credit (IFRS9), counterparty credit (xVA), operational, balance sheet (IRRBB) & liquidity).
Steven currently sits on the International Actuarial Association’s (IAA’s) Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), where he is leading a work stream on how AI is changing the Actuaries role across the financial sector.
Commentary
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