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Brian O'Connor
Chief Technology Officer, Commercial & New Payments Flows
Mastercard
Brian O’Connor is the Chief Technology Officer for Mastercard’s Commercial and New Payments Flows business, where he defines and delivers the technology strategy that enables growth, drives innovation, and supports scalable execution across the organization.
Before joining Mastercard in January 2025, Brian spent nine years at JP Morgan, most recently serving as General Manager and Product Executive for multiple Embedded Finance product lines. In this role, he led the development of capabilities that enabled platform businesses to seamlessly integrate financial services directly into client workflows. Earlier, he served as Chief Business Technologist across several JP Morgan Payments businesses, overseeing global technology operations, solution architecture, and large‑scale engineering delivery.
Brian brings more than 25 years of technology and product leadership experience across leading financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and TransUnion. His background spans building and operating large‑scale platforms, advancing product innovation, and delivering secure, enterprise‑grade financial technology solutions at global scale.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:10–2:30pmWed 18 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
What Are The Unintended Consequences of Scaling Agentic AI?
About this session
AI agents will not only serve customers and execute payments. They will also be used to impersonate customers, automate fraud and probe financial infrastructure at unprecedented speed. Traditional controls built around human behaviour and manual intervention may no longer respond fast enough. This session examines how financial institutions can deploy autonomous defence, distinguish legitimate agents from malicious ones and contain threats without blocking genuine transactions.
