Speakers
Jessica Rusu
Chief Data, Information & Intelligence Officer
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)
Jessica joined the FCA as Chief Data, Information and Intelligence Officer in June 2021.
As CDIIO, Jessica is leading the transformation of the FCA’s ability to analyse and use the data, intelligence and information it receives to effectively oversee the 50,000 firms it regulates. Jessica is building and evolving the FCA's relationship with big tech companies, fintechs and the wider data science community.
Jessica was the Chief Data Officer of Chetwood Financial limited, a digital native, start-up bank, where she spearheaded the use of machine learning. Before moving into fintech, Jessica was Senior Director of Finance & Analytics at eBay in Europe where she built out their advanced analytics and customer insight function.
She previously worked in credit analytics at Ford Motor Company and Stress Testing at GE Capital. Jessica has a degree from Penn State University in Management Science and Information Systems and an MBA from University of Michigan. More recently, she completed the Oxford Said Business School’s Artificial Intelligence programme.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:00–2:30pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
AI & Core Banking: Who Builds the Machine, Who Regulates it? Core Banking's New Compliance Perimeter
Policy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
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Jessica RusuChief Data, Information & Intelligence OfficerFinancial Conduct Authority (FCA)
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Will MontgomeryCo-Founder & Chief Product OfficerThought Machine
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Isabella ChaseHead of Policy, EMEATRM LabsModerator
About this session
Core banking functions such as credit decisions, trade finance, fraud detection and KYC are shifting from pilot demonstrations into live, algorithm-driven workflows, and the institutions pulling ahead are rebuilding these processes end to end rather than adding AI on top of what already exists.
This session brings together the people actually doing that rebuild - the platforms it runs on, the institutions deploying it, and the regulators overseeing it - to work through what that rebuild actually requires: which controls move from human sign-off to automated checkpoints, and where the audit trail needs redesigning rather than retrofitting. -

