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Alan Lim
Director & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence Office
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Alan is the head of the Financial Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence Office at the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He is responsible for strategies to advance Singapore’s digital financial infrastructure and leads initiatives to foster responsive innovation in AI and digital asset. Prior to this, he held leadership roles in the private sector including managing consulting and development teams across Asia Pacific.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:30–5:00pmWed 18 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpenModerator
Policy Rewiring
Cross-Border Wholesale Connectivity: Building a More Connected Financial System
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Ivan OdonnatGeneral Director for Financial Stability & OperationsBanque de France
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Tommaso Mancini-GriffoliHead of the Innovation HubBank for International Settlements
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As digital money, tokenized assets and next-generation financial infrastructures gain traction around the world, jurisdictions and institutions are adopting a growing range of technologies, infrastructure models and settlement systems. While this diversity is driving innovation, it also raises an important question: how can increasingly interconnected financial systems continue to operate seamlessly across borders — without waiting for a single global standard to emerge first?
This panel brings together the institutions alongside policymakers and innovators from Asia, Europe and the UK to discuss what regional cooperation actually requires in practice: unified ledgers, synchronisation mechanisms, privacy-preserving technologies, and the governance arrangements that let independently built systems trust one another.
The discussion will examine the technical, legal, operational and regulatory challenges involved in scaling these regional models, and explore how deeper connectivity between them — rather than a single unified global system — may be the more realistic path to an interconnected financial system. -
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1:00–1:30pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
The Agentic Enterprise: Accountability and Containment When the Machine Decides
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Casey KlyszeikoExecutive Vice President, Global Merchant & Network Services ProductAmerican Express
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Colin PayneHead of InnovationFinancial Conduct Authority (FCA)
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Richard TongCo-founder & Chief Executive OfficerTotal Neural Enterprises
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Irene LiuManaging Director, Risk & Compliance Lead for Southeast AsiaAccentureModerator
About this session
Agentic AI has moved from pilots to systems that touch real credit decisions, real client money and real compliance rules, and the institutions getting the governance right this year are setting the ceiling for the next decade. This session examines where accountability sits once an agent, not a person, initiates the action, across risk, audit and reporting lines — and then confronts the scenario most institutions would rather not discuss: what actually happens in the moments after an agent goes wrong.
An agent doesn't take a coffee break. When it fails, it can fail at machine speed, across every transaction it touches, before a human even notices. So the real test isn't whether agents fail, but how fast an institution can contain them when they do, and who is authorised to make that call. This discussion moves from the accountability question to the operational one: what real-time containment looks like in practice, where autonomous systems are most likely to break, and how to build the kill switches and safeguards that limit the blast radius before autonomy is extended any further.
Attendees leave with a sharper view of the controls that need to exist before autonomy is extended further. One of the key questions the panel will look to dive deeper into: Who is accountable when an autonomous agent makes a bad call, moves client money, or silently breaks a compliance rule? -
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4:50–5:20pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Policy Rewiring
Geoeconomics of Tokens: Lessons From Live Cross-Border Tokenized Corridors
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Fernando VázquezPresident, Capital MarketsChainlink
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Oli HarrisGlobal Head of KinexysKinexys by J.P. Morgan
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Scott BauguessVice President, Global Regulatory & International PolicyCoinbase
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Angela AngManaging Director, Asia-PacificBitGoModerator
About this session
Cross-border tokenized corridors are moving from proof-of-concept to production. Hear from the people who made the crossing: what broke first - tech, legal or liquidity; what the operating model actually looks like when someone has to issue, settle and supervise; what they would never build again; and the honest timeline from pilot to scaled corridor. This discussion will be around the gating factors, the requirements, and what it really takes to move live value across borders on tokenised rails.
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