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Parul Seth Khanna
Co-founder & Director
Universal Pensions Pte Ltd
View LinkedIn profileParul Seth Khanna is co-founder and director of Universal Pensions (formerly pinBox Solutions), a Singapore- and India-based pensionTech enterprise dedicated to building inclusive digital pension systems for developing countries. She also leads the microPension Foundation in India, an innovation and R&D hub focused on financial resilience solutions for low-income women and informal workers. Parul’s work spans Asia and Africa — from Rwanda, Nigeria, Uganda and Kenya to India, Bangladesh, and Papua New Guinea — where she has partnered with governments, regulators, and digital finance stakeholders to design retirement literacy tools, outreach strategies, and digital platforms for pensions and protection. She pioneered “gift-a-pension,” the world’s first ePension platform for domestic and blue-collar workers. She has co-edited 'Saving the Next Billion from Old Age Poverty: Global Lessons for Local Action' and 'Templatising microPensions for Africa'. Earlier in her career, Parul worked with the BBC World Trust, CNBC, and NDTV.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:00–2:40pmFri 20 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Capital Rewiring
The South–South Playbook: Rewiring Finance for the Remaining 1.6 Billion Unbanked
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Hélder LopesGovernorBanco Central de Timor-Leste
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Dr. Patrick NjorogeFormer GovernorCentral Bank of Kenya
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Nasim AlievCo-FounderSkyro
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Parul Seth KhannaCo-founder & DirectorUniversal Pensions Pte Ltd
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Irene Arias HofmanChief Executive OfficerMIRAModerator
About this session
Emerging markets have built some of the world’s most innovative models for financial inclusion. This panel explores what Africa and Asia can learn directly from each other — from digital public infrastructure and payments to regulation and public-private partnerships — and whether a new South–South playbook can accelerate the next phase of financial inclusion.
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