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Akio Isowa
Senior Managing Executive Officer & Group Chief Digital Innovation Officer
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Joining SMBC (Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation) in 1990, Akio Isowa was engaged in corporate banking, legal affairs, corporate planning, human resources management. He established the Retail Marketing Department and IT Strategy Department as the General Manager and led the debit card business, and the UX project of their internet banking app. As the head of Transaction Business Division, he led product and sales planning for online payment services such as Bank Pay and Cotra. Since 2023, he has been leading digital innovation of the SMBC Group as the Chief Digital Innovation Officer.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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10:20–10:50amThu 19 NovFestival StageHall 1, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
The Autonomous Economy: Where the Intelligence Layer Meets the Exchange of Value
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Akio IsowaSenior Managing Executive Officer & Group Chief Digital Innovation OfficerSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Douglas FeaginPresidentAnt International
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Rajat TanejaPresident of TechnologyVisa
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Anthony ThomasChief Strategy & Growth OfficerGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Imagine an economy where software doesn't just recommend decisions—it makes them, negotiates them, and settles them, all without a human in the loop. That future arrives when agentic AI meets programmable money. Autonomous agents that can transact, and digital money that can execute logic on its own, together unlock machine-speed commerce that today's financial rails were never built to handle. Learn how agentic AI and programmable money combine to reshape payments, settlement, and value exchange, what new risks emerge when agents transact autonomously, and how institutions should prepare for an economy that runs itself.
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