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Mayoran Rajendra
Managing Director, General Manager, AI Transformation Department
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Mayoran Rajendra is the Managing Director and Head of AI Transformation Office, SMBC, where he leads digital strategy in the Asia-Pacific region. He manages investment and collaboration with promising Asian startups through the SMBC Asia Rising Fund, a corporate venture capital fund established jointly with the Incubate Fund in 2023.
Prior to the current role, he was the CEO and Country Leader of GE Digital Japan, where he led various Digital Transformation initiatives with large industrial companies in Japan and Asia Pacific region.
He received his master’s and bachelor’s degrees in Medical Robotics from Faculty of Engineering, The University of Tokyo.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:30–2:00pmThu 19 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Scaling AI: Where Financial Services is Seeing Real Returns
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Abhijeet RameshVice President, Head of Innovation & Growth, Asia PacificVisa
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Janet YoungManaging Director and Group Head, Channels & Digitalisation, Strategic Communications & BrandUOB
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Mayoran RajendraManaging Director, General Manager, AI Transformation DepartmentSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Quan YuGeneral Manager of Bettr Global CreditAnt International
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Dr. David HardoonManaging Director & Head of Advanced AI, Southeast AsiaAccentureModerator
About this session
The conversation around AI in financial services has moved beyond experimentation. The challenge is no longer identifying promising use cases—it's deploying AI at scale in ways that deliver measurable business value. From payments and banking to fintech and customer engagement, leading institutions are embedding AI into core operations to improve productivity, strengthen risk management, personalise customer experiences, and accelerate innovation. Yet while some initiatives become enterprise capabilities, many others remain trapped in pilot mode.
Bringing together leaders from across the financial services ecosystem, this panel explores where AI is creating tangible impact today, what it takes to scale successful deployments across the organisation, and the operational, cultural, and governance challenges that determine whether AI delivers lasting value. The discussion will examine how institutions are prioritising AI investments, measuring success beyond productivity gains, and building the data, operating models, and organisational capabilities needed to move from isolated use cases to enterprise-wide transformation. -
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3:30–3:45pmThu 19 NovFrontier StageHall 6, Singapore EXPOPremium
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Dynamic Ontology Alignment for Financial Insights and Actions - Powered by SMBC
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Mayoran RajendraManaging Director, General Manager, AI Transformation DepartmentSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Shohta IshiiExecutive Director, AI Transformation OfficeSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
About this session
CFOs face outcomes shaped by operations, supply chains, markets and regulation, yet the data to connect them sits fragmented across silos. Building on years of work from CFO Dashboards to a natural-language CFO Agent, Dynamic Ontology Alignment links financial and operational signals to business scenarios. It turns fragmented information into trusted, explainable insights, which lays the foundation for AI-powered Decision Intelligence as the CFO office moves from reporting performance to orchestrating decisions.
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