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Au Chong Wei
Senior Head, Regional Innovative Product
UnionPay International
Au Chong Wei is the Senior Head of Regional Innovative Products at UnionPay International, leading initiatives that drive digital transformation and financial inclusion across Southeast Asia. With over 15 years of experience in the payments industry, Chong Wei has played a key role in advancing solutions that empower SMEs — from QR code interoperability and real-time push payments to mobile and account-based innovations that expand access to digital finance.
A strong advocate for inclusive growth, Chong Wei combines strategic foresight with deep technical expertise in ISO and EMVCo standards to deliver scalable, market-driven solutions. He holds a Master’s in Smart Product Design from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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3:00–3:15pmWed 18 NovFrontier StageHall 6, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
One Gateway, Multiple AI Models: Simplifying AI Access – Powered by UnionPay
About this session
Users rarely need just one AI model. Different tasks call for different models, but every extra provider brings another integration, contract and bill to manage. Payments networks existingly had been building a shared infrastructure that many institutions connect through and had already trusted. This session explores how that approach could work for AI: a single gateway that give institutions access to a range of vetted models through one API, with flexible usage plans and consolidated billing. It also looks at a new opportunity for card issuers, offering AI credits as a cardholder benefit so tech-savvy customers earn AI tools access as they spent on their daily purchases.
