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Brian O'Connor
Chief Technology Officer, Commercial & New Payments Flows
Mastercard
Brian O’Connor is the Chief Technology Officer for Mastercard’s Commercial and New Payments Flows business, where he defines and delivers the technology strategy that enables growth, drives innovation, and supports scalable execution across the organization.
Before joining Mastercard in January 2025, Brian spent nine years at JP Morgan, most recently serving as General Manager and Product Executive for multiple Embedded Finance product lines. In this role, he led the development of capabilities that enabled platform businesses to seamlessly integrate financial services directly into client workflows. Earlier, he served as Chief Business Technologist across several JP Morgan Payments businesses, overseeing global technology operations, solution architecture, and large‑scale engineering delivery.
Brian brings more than 25 years of technology and product leadership experience across leading financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and TransUnion. His background spans building and operating large‑scale platforms, advancing product innovation, and delivering secure, enterprise‑grade financial technology solutions at global scale.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:50–3:10pmWed 18 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
What Are The Unintended Consequences of Scaling Agentic AI?
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Lito VillanuevaFounding Chairman, Fintech Alliance PH; Executive Vice President & Chief Innovation & Inclusion Officer, Rizal Commercial Banking Corporation (RCBC)FinTech Alliance PH & RCBC
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Prof. Amanda BrockChief Executive OfficerOpenUK
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Brian O'ConnorChief Technology Officer, Commercial & New Payments FlowsMastercard
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Virginie BarbotVice President, Southeast Asia, Financial TechnologyNasdaqModerator
About this session
As financial institutions move agentic AI into core business, gains in growth, productivity and efficiency may bring consequences that are harder to see—and harder to contain. Within firms, greater autonomy could reshape jobs, decision-making, accountability and operational risk. Across markets and governments, it raises questions about oversight, stability and who is responsible when agents act across institutional boundaries. Closing this series, the session looks beyond the promised gains to ask who benefits, who bears the costs, and how leaders can recognise and govern outcomes they did not intend.
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