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Raphael Cohen
Product Lead, Airi
Airwallex
Raphael Cohen is the Product Lead for Airi at Airwallex, the company’s one-click checkout and agentic wallet that lets AI agents shop and pay on a user’s behalf. Based in Singapore, he works with payment networks and AI platforms to make agentic commerce safe and usable for consumers and merchants. Before Airwallex, Raphael spent 14 years as a merchant and founder, building consumer e-commerce businesses across food delivery, online travel, bike sharing, proptech, including Foodpanda, Rocket Internet ventures and more. He brings both the merchant’s and the payments provider’s view to how commerce is changing.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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3:00–3:30pmWed 18 NovMerchant AgendaMerchant Experience Zone (Hall 6)Open
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AI Agents in Action: From Shopping to Managing Money - Powered by Airwallex
About this session
What happens when a customer sends an AI agent to shop, and what should a merchant check about the payment flow? What changes when a business uses an agent to manage its own money? This 30-minute demonstration walks through both scenarios using Airwallex's Airi and Agentic Business Accounts.
It examines how a customer authorises a purchase, how a scoped payment credential reaches the merchant's existing checkout without a new merchant integration, and how a finance agent accesses account information and requests or carries out actions. Merchants will learn what to ask about integration, visibility, fraud and dispute handling, approval controls and human oversight.
