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Yukinobu Saeki
Managing Executive Officer & Chief Executive for APAC
MUFG Bank, Ltd.
Mr. Yukinobu Saeki was appointed Chief Executive for Asia Pacific of MUFG Bank, Ltd., taking effect on 1 April 2026. He is responsible for overseeing the safety and soundness of the bank’s operations across 18 markets in the region as well as business promotion led by the Global Corporates, Japanese Corporates and Commercial Banking business groups. He is based in Singapore.
Prior to this appointment, Mr. Saeki was Deputy Head of Wealth Management Unit and Head of Investment Management Strategy Office, responsible for promoting MUFG’s group-wide strategies for the wealth and investment management businesses.
A banker with 30 years of experience, with almost half of that focused on deepening MUFG’s commitment in the Asia Pacific region, Mr. Saeki has held roles spanning international corporate credit, human resources and corporate planning. This new appointment marks Mr. Saeki’s second assignment in Singapore. During his first posting in 2020 to 2023, Mr. Saeki served as Head of Planning Office for Asia and was responsible for driving long-term strategy, planning discipline and organisational performance across multiple functions that include risk, compliance and regulatory matters, while overseeing MUFG branches located in South-east Asia, East Asia, South Asia and Oceania. He had also assisted in the set-up of the Asia Pacific regional headquarters in Singapore back in 2013.
He was appointed Head of Internal Audit Division for the Bank and Global Chief Auditor for the group in April 2023, and assumed the wealth and investment management positions in 2025.
Mr. Saeki’s extensive experience working in the Asia Pacific includes two postings in Shanghai, where he took on roles with the Shanghai Branch from 2005 to 2008, and headed MUFG China Corporate Planning Division from 2016 to 2018.
Mr. Saeki graduated from School of Political Science and Economics at the Waseda University in 1996.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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12:25–1:10pmFri 20 NovFestival StageHall 1, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
The New Economics Across the Payments Value Chain
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Anuj KhoslaChief Executive Officer - Digital BusinessHitachi Payment Services
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Shinichiro NishikawaHead of Global Payments Strategy & Transformation SectionNTT DATA Japan
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Stephen KarpinRegional President, Asia PacificVisa
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Yukinobu SaekiManaging Executive Officer & Chief Executive for APACMUFG Bank, Ltd.
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Irina ChuchkinaAdvisorGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
For years, payments competed on the rails—faster, cheaper, more reliable ways to move money from A to B. But as transactions become instant, ubiquitous, and nearly free, the rails themselves are commoditizing. The value is migrating elsewhere: to data, embedded experiences, working capital, fraud intelligence, and the software wrapped around every transaction. Moving money is table stakes; the real margin lives above it. Learn where payments value is genuinely being created as core processing commoditizes, how leading players monetize data, software, and embedded finance beyond the transaction, and what it takes to climb the value stack.
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