Ketan Gaikwad

Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer

Receivables Exchange Of India Limited

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Mr. Ketan Gaikwad, the Managing Director and CEO of Receivables Exchange of India Limited (RXIL), is a banker with a career spanning 3 decades.
Prior to joining RXIL, he has held leadership roles in transaction banking in Barclays Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. He started his career with Bank of Baroda and has had multiple roles in Standard Chartered before heading trade finance in Barclays Bank.
Mr. Ketan Gaikwad is science graduate from Mumbai University and has a Master’s Degree in Management Studies from Symbiosis Institute of Business Management, Pune. He has completed Executive Leadership Program from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France, and advanced Programme on Fintech from IIM Kolkatta.

Speaking at SFF 2026

12:45–12:55pmFri 20 NovCatalyst StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
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MOU Signings: Forging Partnerships to Accelerate Sustainability Across Asia

Catalyst StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
About this session

As businesses across Asia navigate the transition towards a more sustainable economy, greater collaboration is needed to turn sustainability ambitions into practical action and tangible business opportunities. Join us at the Catalyst Stage to witness the launch of a series of strategic partnerships that bring together public and private sector stakeholders leveraging digital innovation to address shared challenges across supply chain decarbonisation, sustainable finance and trusted climate data.
1:40–2:15pmFri 20 NovCatalyst StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
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Asia’s Interoperable Green Economy: The Leap from National to Regional

Catalyst StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
About this session

Sustainability data is no longer just a reporting requirement. As the impacts of climate change become more pronounced, trusted data on ESG performance will increasingly shape who companies buy from, who banks finance, and where capital flows.

But sustainability data remains difficult to generate, difficult to exchange, and difficult to translate into the commercial decisions it ought to inform. SMEs, which make up the overwhelming majority of businesses across Asia, often lack the motivation, time, resources and financial capacity to get started. Those that do face fragmented requirements, limited guidance and repeated requests for similar information from different customers, financiers and regulators.

Across Asia, governments and development institutions are rising to the challenge.
- In Singapore, the public and private sectors are collaborating on common digital infrastructure in the form of Green 100, that underpins nationwide activation of “queen bees” and their supply chains.
- The Philippines is similarly exploring how publicly listed companies can mobilise suppliers for Scope 3 reporting, ahead of their mandatory ISSB reporting timelines;
- India is examining how inclusive and simplified disclosures can enhance MSMEs’ access to green marketplaces globally and strengthen access to green trade financing from banks.

A common ambition cuts across these efforts – the shared desire to move from reporting towards reusable economic infrastructure, in which trusted sustainability data is generated once, but put to work repeatedly across compliance, supply chain, procurement, and financing use cases.

This dialogue brings together the SEC Philippines, ADB, RXIL and MAS to explore the steps needed to make this transition real. Who builds the rails? What gets businesses onto them? Where does public infrastructure end and private innovation begin? And can these emerging national approaches ‘interoperate’ to collectively power Asia’s transition toward a low carbon economy?

Speakers

Ketan Gaikwad

Speaking at SFF 2026

MOU Signings: Forging Partnerships to Accelerate Sustainability Across Asia

Asia’s Interoperable Green Economy: The Leap from National to Regional

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