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Sid Sharma
Director, Global GTM Partnerships
Airwallex
Sid Sharma leads product partnerships at Airwallex, connecting AI platforms with financial capabilities for commerce. His collaborations with OpenAI, Google and Anthropic put him close to AI’s shift from generating recommendations to taking consequential action. His perspective: agentic commerce will not be won by smarter models alone; it depends on agents acting within clear boundaries for identity, consent, control and accountability. At Singapore FinTech Festival, Sid draws on his practical, firsthand product experience to explore what must be in place before agents shop for customers or manage business money—and how to make the shift useful, trusted and responsible at scale.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:50–2:10pmTue 17 NovMerchant AgendaInsights2040 Annual Meetings @ MBS L5Open
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When AI Agents Take Action: From Shopping to Business Finance - Powered by Airwallex
About this session
As AI agents begin to make purchases on customers' behalf, merchants face new questions: how can they verify that a purchase is authorised, manage fraud and disputes, and reduce false declines? Within the business, using agents to manage money raises similar questions about access, permissions and accountability.
This discussion examines both sides, exploring what merchants should check about customer consent, the payment credential, transaction controls and human oversight before enabling agents to transact with customers or act on business finances. -
3:00–3:30pmWed 18 NovMerchant AgendaMerchant Experience Zone (Hall 6)Open
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AI Agents in Action: From Shopping to Managing Money - Powered by Airwallex
About this session
What happens when a customer sends an AI agent to shop, and what should a merchant check about the payment flow? What changes when a business uses an agent to manage its own money? This 30-minute demonstration walks through both scenarios using Airwallex's Airi and Agentic Business Accounts.
It examines how a customer authorises a purchase, how a scoped payment credential reaches the merchant's existing checkout without a new merchant integration, and how a finance agent accesses account information and requests or carries out actions. Merchants will learn what to ask about integration, visibility, fraud and dispute handling, approval controls and human oversight.
