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Carrie Suen

Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies, Ant Group

Carrie Suen is the Senior Advisor at Ant Group, where she is responsible in driving Ant’s global strategies and thought leadership to bring more inclusive, green and sustainable changes to the ecosystem globally.

Carrie is a seasoned lawyer and has experience in wide range of subject matters ranging from fintech regulatory, corporate governance, M&A, equity offerings to listed companies compliance. Since joining Ant in 2014, Carrie has been at the forefront of the global digital payment and regulatory development, where she accumulated practical insight of the market pain points. Under her leadership, Ant’s International Legal team grew fourfold from 2017-2020, supporting over 100 markets/regions.

Carrie is a member of the Technical Governance Board of Mojaloop Foundation, a charity organization in promoting financial inclusion through open-source interoperable payments systems. Carrie also sits on the advisory board of the Emerging Payments Association Asia (EPAA) and represents EPAA on G20/FSB led cross-border payments - legal, regulatory and supervisory (LRS) taskforce.

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Roundtable 4

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Tue,14 Nov | 09:30AM - 11:00AM

(Invite-Only) Project Savannah: Maximising the potential of digital ESG credentials for MSMEs

Accelerating ESG

While the globalisation of supply chains offers myriad opportunities for MSMEs to scale and access new markets, the call for them to disclose, verify and track their sustainability performances may prove to be a hindrance in accessing the growing pools of green supply chains, business and financing opportunities.

Project Savannah was developed to help these MSMEs overcome the challenges they face in measuring and reporting their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performances. It seeks to do so through capacity building, simplified reporting and more accessible data.

In this session, participants will exchange views on how to strengthen resourcing and incentivisation for MSMEs to undertake such reporting, and how governments, international organisations and private sector players can coordinate support. Additionally, they will discuss how Project Savannah can be scaled more rapidly and efficiently, and to which priority markets, in order for its benefits to be promulgated to areas of greatest need.

This roundtable seeks to establish the foundations for a Project Savannah implementation playbook that outlines deployment strategies, best practices, and actionable steps for current and future participants.

Carrie Suen, Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies, Ant Group

Lim Chee Kiong, EVP, Group Strategic Programme - Sustainability, Maybank Singapore

Emily Pierce, Chief Global Policy Officer, Persefoni AI Inc.

Helge Muenkel, Chief Sustainability Officer, DBS Bank

Saurav Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer, Proxtera Pte Ltd

Xue Tan, Head of Business Development - Asia, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Aiaze Mitha, Global Lead, Digital Finance and SDGs, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

H.E. Khaled Albasias, Director Financial Sector Development, Saudi Central Bank

Zhang Bailing, Head of Green Fintech, APAC, Univers

Lionel Wong, Head, Green FinTech Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Nicolette Bartlett, Chief Impact Officer, CDP

Chris Southgate, Sustainability Lead, Microsoft

Dr Ming Tan, Executive Director for the Tech for Good Institute, Tech for Good Institute

Antony Ruddenklau, Global Head of Fintech & Innovation, Financial Services & Partner, KPMG International

John Rwangombwa, Governor, National Bank of Rwanda

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Roundtable 3

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Tue,14 Nov | 01:30PM - 03:00PM

(Invite-Only) How Universal Trusted Credentials (UTC) can transform financial inclusion

Digitising Inclusion

The UNDP, MAS, and other international parties have launched a concept called Universal Trusted Credentials (UTC). This unique concept will enable MSMEs to create digital identities and trusted credentials through a non-collaterized set of date points. Once these UTC are accepted by financial institutions, MSMEs will be able to access a wider and deeper level of financing. This concept has a huge potential to uplift MSMEs globally.

The UNDP will host a session for UTC introducing it as a concept, highlighting its current progress, and seeking areas for which it could further advance. The panel members include senior central bank leaders and financial institution partners.
The aims of the session are to:
1.    Advance industry thinking on UTC and specifically around process and benefits.
2.    Harness collective experience and best-practices.
3.    Connect with different countries in order to expand and deepen UTC use in represented markets.

Carrie Suen, Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies, Ant Group

Eugene Goh, Deputy Director, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Manish Bhai, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, UNO Digital Bank

Ndungu Thairu, Deputy Managing Director, Consolidated Bank Ghana

Qamar Saleem, Chief Executive Officer, SME Finance Forum

Saurav Bhattacharyya, Chief Executive Officer, Proxtera Pte Ltd

Xue Tan, Head of Business Development - Asia, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Dr Maxwell Opoku-Afari, Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana

Dawn Chan, Chief Executive Officer, Centre for Impact Investing & Practices (CIIP) & Managing Director Investments, Temasek Trust Capital, Temasek Trust Capital

Ouk Sarat, Director of Payment System Department, National Bank of Cambodia

Nikhilesh Goel, Co-founder & Group Chief Executive Officer, Validus

Anju Abrol, Chief Executive Officer, Head of Wholesale Banking APAC, ING Bank

Ho Giao Pik, Managing Director, Head Strategic Alliances & Fintech, United Overseas Bank

Jean Pierre Gagnon, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Sathapana Bank Plc.

Thomas Krogh Jensen, Chief Executive Officer, Copenhagen FinTech

Aiaze Mitha, Global Lead, Digital Finance and SDGs, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)

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Roundtable 4

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Tue,14 Nov | 03:30PM - 05:00PM

(Invite-Only) Shaping the future of cross-border transaction compliance

Digitising Inclusion
Efficient Payments

Disparate regulatory and policy frameworks are some of the biggest obstacles to smooth cross-border payments. They expand the regulatory compliance burden across teh payment chain, increase the time for cross-border transactions, and introduce potential uncertainties among stakeholders.

In this roundtable, central bankers, industry experts and thought leaders from academia and the private sector are invited to advance the discussion on priority actions for achieving the G20 targets for enhancing cross-border payments in promoting an efficient legal, regulatory, and supervisory environment for cross-border payments while maintaining their safety, security, and integrity.

The first part of the roundtable will focus on expanding insights around existing challenges surrounding compliance in cross-border payments, policy, and regulatory interoperability. Meanwhile, the second part will explore the role of technology and standards, and their potential to improve policy and regulatory compliance outcomes for all stakeholders.

Albert Choon Kwang See, Director, Foreign Exchange Policy Department, Bank Negara Malaysia

Carrie Suen, Senior Advisor, Global Affairs & Sustainability Strategies, Ant Group

Chan Yam Ki, Vice President, Strategy and Policy, Circle

Dr Jonas Gross, Chief Operating Officer, etonec

Yan Liu, Deputy General Counsel, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Naveen Mallela, Global Head of Coin Systems, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Prashant Pande, Senior Financial Specialist, ASEAN+3 Macroeconomic Research Office (AMRO)

Praveen Jain, Head of Client Success, GSS - Global Screening Services

Professor Bob Wardrop, Director, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance & Founder, RegGenome, RegGenome

Xue Tan, Head of Business Development - Asia, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Dr Zhang Xiao, Founder, zCloak Network

John Ho, Head, Legal, Financial Markets, Standard Chartered

Cameron Dark, Manager, Digital Currencies, Reserve Bank of Australia

Lee Kuan Wei, Head of APAC Regulatory Legal, Stripe

Duckhyung Kim, Manager, Payment & Settlement Systems Department, Bank of Korea

Puneet Singhvi, Managing Director and Head of Digital Assets for Citi Institutional Client Group, Citibank

Angeline Lam, Head, Payments Policy Division, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Sonja Davidovic, Adviser, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Suhaimi Ali, Assistant Governor, Bank Negara Malaysia

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