Speakers
Dr. Amina Josetta Kayani
Executive Director
The Association of Banks in Malaysia
YM Raja Teh Maimunah
CEO
AEON Bank (M) Berhad
Fozia Amanulla
CEO
Boost Bank
Pei Si Lai
CEO
GXBank
Sazul Samsuri
CTO Digital Banking
KAF Investment Bank
Wei Wing Chiew
Chief Product Officer
TNG Digital
Raj Binani
Principal
Oliver Wyman
Jason Goay Ngee Chiew
Chief Risk and Compliance Officer
Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad
Shikha Johri
Managing Director
Alvarez & Marsal
Yew Choong Chew
Chief Data Officer
AmBank
Nadia Farhan Noordin
Head of Compliance
GXBank
Ling Kay Yeow
Partner
Ernst & Young Consulting Sdn. Bhd.
Bonnie Lee
Director - Strategy, Risk & Transactions
Deloitte Malaysia
Steven WONG Weng Leong
C-suite Banking & Financial Services Executive
Chee Hong Foong
Head of Data Science
MoneyLion
Rajiv Narayan
Business Investment Manager
Astral Wealth
Thomas Lim Mun Yong
General Manager
LawBank Asia
Biju Varghese
EVP, Enterprise Business Group (APAC)
eMudhra
Pas Apicella
Field CTO
Snyk
Mohammed Farhan
Sr e-invoicing consultant
ClearTax Malaysia
Anil Kumar Menon
Account Technology Strategist
Enfrasys
Dr. Amina Josetta Kayani
Dr Amina Josetta Kayani is a seasoned leader with over 28 years of extensive experience across corporate, academic, and non-profit sectors. Specializing in Accounting, Human Resource, and Strategic Management, her career has been marked by a commitment to driving organizational transformation, talent development, and performance management. Prior to her role as Executive Director of The Association of Banks in Malaysia (ABM), Dr Amina served in several high-impact leadership positions, including Acting CEO and Executive Vice President of Strategy at a national agency under the Ministry of Economy. She has also led people development at a leading digital payments company and directed industry linkages at a prominent graduate business school. Dr Amina began her career as an internal auditor in the financial industry.
Her academic qualifications include a Bachelor of Commerce in Accounting & Finance from the University of Melbourne, an MBA from Ohio University, and a Doctorate in Performance Management from Curtin University. In addition, she serves as an Adjunct Professor of Management at a leading university.
Dr Amina is also an active contributor to various boards and advisory panels, leveraging her strategic expertise to advance key initiatives across multiple sectors.
YM Raja Teh Maimunah
YM Raja Teh Maimunah was appointed as the CEO of AEON Bank (M) Berhad in December 2022. She brings an extensive experience of over 30 years in the financial industry, covering a vast range of banking segments, including Investment Banking, Wholesale Banking, Islamic Banking and Digital Banking.
Prior to that, she was the Managing Director of Wholesale Banking at the AmBank Group and CEO of AmInvestment Bank. Previously, Raja Teh was also the CEO of Hong Leong Islamic Bank and COO of Digital Innovation and Transaction Banking for the Hong Leong Group. She had also served at Bank AlKhair in Bahrain and Kuwait Finance House, both of which are GCC based Islamic banks. In 2016, she was awarded the Islamic Finance Personality by the Global Islamic Finance Awards.
At present, she serves on the Board of Directors of Kumpulan Wang Persaraan (Diperbadankan) (KWAP), Trustee on the Board of Amanah Warisan Negara, and recently appointed as Bursa Malaysia's Public Interest Director and Independent Non-Executive Director effective 1 July 2024.
Raja Teh graduated from the University of East London (UEL) with an LLB (Hons) and later on was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Laws from the same university.
Fozia Amanulla
Fozia Amanulla is the Chief Executive Officer of Boost Bank since 15 January 2024. Boost Bank is the first primarily Malaysian-owned digital bank, distinguished by its ground-breaking embedded digital banking app. Boost Bank is a subsidiary of Boost, the regional full spectrum fintech arm of Axiata.
Fozia joined Boost in 2022 as the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Boost Credit, the AI based micro-financing business at Boost. Concurrently, she also held the position of CEO Designate for the digital bank of Boost
Prior to joining Boost, Fozia was the Chief Business Development Officer at Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad, where she spearheaded the bank's digital and partnership transformation for the SMEs. She also served as the CEO of Alliance Islamic Bank Berhad between 2017 to 2021
Throughout her career, Fozia has held various leadership roles in areas such as investment banking, corporate & commercial banking, SME banking, and Islamic banking. She also served as a board member of the CIIF (Chartered Institute of Islamic Finance) and AllianceDBS Research.
Fozia holds a BA Degree in Accounting and Finance from the University of Humberside, Hull, England. She is a Chartered Banker accredited by the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers and holds the distinguished title of Fellow Chartered Member of the CIIF.
Pei Si Lai
Lai Pei Si is currently the CEO of GX Bank Malaysia, the first Digital Bank in Malaysia. The start up Bank opened its doors in Malaysia in September 2023. Her role sees her leading a team of dynamic financial professionals and technologists who are passionate about transforming and redefining financial services. They aim to make financial services more inclusive and catering to the needs of all, including the unbanked, underbanked and
underserved segments.
A veteran in the financial services industry, Pei Si comes with an extensive experience
and deep customer centricity honed over 25 years in retail banking, wealth management,
corporate finance, product and business management, as well as governance, in both
local and international markets. Prior to her current role, she held senior management
positions in Standard Chartered Bank in the region and specific markets in Malaysia,
Brunei and Singapore.
Pei Si graduated with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) at National University of
Singapore, with a major in Economics & Political Science.
Sazul Samsuri
Mr Sazul, the Chief Technology Officer for KAF Digital Berhad, the Digital Bank arm for KAF Investment Bank. Educated in France, has been in Technology and Digital space for over 23 years in various industries such as Asset Management, Investment, Oil & Gas and consulting. Previous success stories include the operational and enablement of the first e-Wallet that provides daily return and introducing wealth management onto the e-Wallet space. Currently,he is building the team, the culture and digital platform for the Digital bank consortium lead by KAF Investment Bank.
Wei Wing Chiew
Chiew Wei Wing was appointed Chief Product Officer in April 2023, overseeing the product development & UX design of TNG Digital's products. He joined TNG Digital in March 2020 as Lead Specialist of Product Development, and was subsequently promoted to Co-Head of Product on 1st April 2022, leading the Platform & Payments team.
Wing has spent more than a decade building up his career as a Product Manager & Operations Specialist, where he led teams in building products in different stages of maturity such as pre-market, launch, growth and re-building stages. He had successfully driven go-to-market of new products, restructuring/expanding product lines, monetization/expansion strategies and product development efficiency.
Prior to joining TNG Digital, Wing was the Head of Product in Jewel Paymentech, a Singapore based company focusing on building fraud detection engines and merchant onboarding solutions for major payment players in the market including CIMB & GHL. Prior to that, he was the Product Lead in Samsung Malaysia Electronics where he was part of an elite team responsible to launch & operate one of the first digital mobile wallets in Malaysia, Samsung Pay.
Wing has also spent his early years in several home-grown, product-centric, multi-national companies, namely Green Packet Berhad & Macrokiosk Berhad, where he built products & product teams.
Wing graduated from Multimedia University with a Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
Raj Binani
Raj Binani is a Principal with the Financial Services Practice in Kuala Lumpur. Raj has worked across multiple regional and local banks, payment players, insurers in SEAsia. He has helped key institutions with their strategy, transformation and new digital business builds.
Project Experience
•Private Banking Design and Build for the largest bank in Vietnam
•Holistic retail banking transformation design for the largest bank in Vietnam
•Target operating model design and digital factory setup for a leading Vietnamese Bank
•Strategy and transformation plan for a leading financial institution in Malaysia
•Strategy and transformation planning, incl. merger planning with another institution, for a leading financial institution in Malaysia
•Business due diligence for a payment provider in Malaysia
•Organization design and agile setup for a leading insurer in Malaysia
•International market strategy for a leading bank in Malaysia
•Digital payments and retail banking business build in Myanmar
•Digital business strategy for a leading Thai Bank
•New business build of leading payment player in Myanmar
•Branch modernization and network transformation in Myanmar
•Business due diligence for a payment provider in Indonesia
•Strategy design for a new greenfield bank in India
•Business model assessment for a payments bank in India
Qualifications
•MBA, Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Lucknow
•B. Tech, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay
•Prior to Oliver Wyman, Raj was an Associate Partner with McKinsey’s SEAsia Financial Services practice
Jason Goay Ngee Chiew
Jason Goay brings over 25 years of financial industry experience to his current role as Chief Risk and Compliance Officer at Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad. He began his career at Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Berhad (now AmInvestment Bank Berhad) and Perwira Affin Merchant Bank Berhad (now Affin Investment Bank Berhad), working in factoring, corporate banking, and capital markets.
Jason spent 12 years at HSBC Bank Malaysia Berhad, enhancing their risk management framework through roles in financial analysis, corporate recovery, treasury credit risk, stress testing, and corporate credit approvals. Prior to his current position, he was with Danajamin Nasional Berhad for 11 years, first as Director of Risk Management and later as Chief Risk Officer.
Jason’s extensive background and proven track record underscore his dedication to maintaining the highest standards of risk management and compliance at Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad, supporting the bank’s strategic objectives.
Shikha Johri
Shikha Johri is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Performance Improvement Practice in Singapore. She brings more than 16 years of experience in Financial Services across wide breadth of sub-sectors including Banking, Payments, Asset management and Insurance.
Ms. Johri has deep expertise in large transformation programs focused on delivering tangible value for clients including digitalization, strategy implementation, new business build, mergers, and acquisitions. She has worked with top banks in South East Asia delivering tangible benefits such as improvements in return on capital, branch productivity & time to market.
She has also advised several Fintech companies and/or neobanks in successfully building and growing their business including new product launches, regional footprint expansion, cost optimization, and inorganic growth opportunities. Additionally, she has worked with global payment schemes and payment infrastructure providers in delivering value through new business models and pricing strategy along with advice on key enablers such as technology architecture and risk.
Her notable achievements include acquisition integration for a global insurance company, regional expansion blueprint for a Fintech unicorn and productivity transformation for multiple financial institutions.
Prior to joining A&M, she worked for Kearney in Singapore for three years and served as Partner. Before that, she spent 12 years with Oliver Wyman serving leading financial institutions in South East Asia.
Ms. Johri earned an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad. She speaks regularly on latest topics and trends in Financial Services including Fintech events & Industry Forums.
Yew Choong Chew
I attained the Master's degree and Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Information Science and Control Engineering from Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. I love generating ideas, building practically useful products and knowledge sharing. I am an enthusiast of new technologies, especially those related to information retrieval, machine learning, and data science.
I have more than 20 years of working experience in software development, large-scale transformations, data analytics and data management, across multiple industry segments – Banking, Telecommunications, Software Services, Education, Research & Development, Publication, Advertisement, Market Expansion Services.
I have been technical leader of a wide range of high-impact projects, resulting in 4 patents, with another 3 pending. I am a co-founder of DIBots IT Solutions Sdn. Bhd., co-founder of Malaysian National Computer Confederation AI Special Interest Group (MNCC-AI SIG) and is appointed as external supervisor for few local universities.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yew-choong-chew-ab076a38
Nadia Farhan Noordin
Nadia is currently the Head of Compliance at GXBank - Malaysia’s first digital bank, where she has been instrumental for nearly two years to ensure the bank is supported with robust governance and controls. She joined GXBank with a clear purpose: to build something from the ground up, contributing to Malaysia’s first digital bank and empowering Malaysians to take control of their financial futures.
Prior to GXBank, Nadia had spent over 10 years at Bank Negara Malaysia, covering areas on Corporate Governance, Risk Management, AML/CFT, Capital Management, and Regulatory Audit, throughout her stint in Banking Supervision. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance from Lancaster University.
Ling Kay Yeow
Professional background
• Kay Yeow has over 25+ years of experience in Information Technology and Banking Consulting.
• His wide experience across ASEAN covers Risk, Business and Technology. He has delivered Target Operating Model Design, Climate Risk Transformation, Digital Transformation & Innovation and Enterprise Architecture & IT Strategy.
Selected professional experience
• Partner leading the Climate Risk and Operational Riskprojects in Malaysia, covering Regional Banks and Digital Banks.
• Overseeing Partner for 3 Malaysian banks in their Climate Risk journey.
• Experienced in ASEAN, providing input in the initiation of Climate Risk in the banking environment.
• Engagement partner for implementation support to comply with BNM’s CRMSA for a large standalone Malaysian Islamic Bank and a large Malaysian financial institution.
• Lead Partner for an Operation and System transformation, focusing on the Treasury and Core system design for an ASEAN Central Bank.
• Involved in the IT modernisation of Malaysia leading bank in 4 key areas such as change management, leadership alignment and transformation of the digital business.
• Advisor and Engagement Partner for a Shariah compliant core banking replacement project involving 45 branch deployments, retail and corporate business, back-office
systems and internal and external communication.
• Lead Partner for a Project Management Office for a large local bank to coordinate over 200 resources in the design, planning and execution of the group-wide compliance to
new reporting standards, covering 4 operating countries and 7 business lines.
• Engagement Partner in a process improvement strategy and design for a government owned Credit Corporation. Scope included all key processes in a Malaysian Regulated
Financial Services provider.
• Partner for Malaysia leading bank’s Asset Management engagement for implementation of Bloomberg as a core trading system.
Bonnie Lee
Bonnie is a Director in the Strategy, Risk & Transactions practice of Deloitte Malaysia. She specializes in Governance, Risk Management & Compliance (“GRC”) for the financial services industry. Prior to this, she served in Bank Negara Malaysia as a bank supervisor.
Steven WONG Weng Leong
Steven WONG Weng Leong is a seasoned banking and financial services executive with over 30 years of extensive industry experience. His career trajectory showcases rapid advancement fueled by a committed and ambitious approach, underscored by a profound understanding of both foreign and local financial landscapes.
As a growth-oriented leader, Steven has consistently demonstrated a knack for driving organizational change and fostering innovations. He possesses a track record marked by substantial business growth, pioneering initiatives and a relentless commitment to transforming organizations into more agile, client-centric entities.
Currently serving as the Chief Digital & Global Banking Strategist at China Construction Bank (CCB) Malaysia, Steven leads bank-wide business expansion efforts and provides strategic direction for key divisions such as Global Banking & Markets, Financial Institutions, and Wholesale & Retail Digital Banking. His responsibilities encompass spearheading fintech and blockchain initiatives, driving product and technology innovation, and enhancing digital offerings tailored to the Malaysian and ASEAN markets.
Steven's extensive leadership background includes pivotal roles in prominent financial institutions such as Western Union, Alliance Financial Group, Maybank, Mayban Life Assurance, MIDF Amanah Investment Bank and Citi. Throughout his career, he has excelled in Front Office, Middle Office and Back Office capacities, showcasing versatility and a comprehensive understanding of the financial ecosystem.
Educationally, Steven holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (Honors) degree with a major in Finance from the National University of Malaysia (UKM). Additionally, he is licensed by the Securities Industry Development Corporation (SIDC), Malaysia with certifications in Module 6 (Stock Market & Securities Law) and Module 7 (Financial Statement Analysis & Asset Valuation).
Beyond his professional endeavors, Steven is characterized by his boundless energy, personable demeanor and unwavering dedication to achieving results. He enjoys a fulfilling personal life, being happily married with four children.
Chee Hong Foong
Chee Hong is the Head of Data Science with over 10 years of experience in the fintech sector, leading a team of 80. Specializing in leveraging advanced analytics, machine learning, and AI to drive innovation. He has led teams in building data-driven strategies and AI products that enhance financial products, optimize risk management, and improve customer experiences. With a strong background in developing scalable solutions for complex financial challenges, Chee Hong is passionate about empowering businesses with the power of AI.
Rajiv Narayan
Business Investment Manager
Astral Wealth
Thomas Lim Mun Yong
Thomas Lim’s brand story, particularly through his role as General Manager of LawBank Asia, centers around innovation in the legal industry, merging technology and law to create a more accessible and efficient legal platform. LawBank Asia's mission is to simplify how people connect with legal professionals and access legal services, combining AI technology with traditional legal practices to meet the needs of SMEs and individuals alike.
Through initiatives like LawBank AI, which provides AI-powered legal consultations, document drafting, and review services, and the "Find Lawyer" platform, which allows clients to compare lawyers and their fees, Thomas Lim's brand emphasizes accessibility, transparency, and innovation.
Additionally, Thomas Lim’s brand story likely reflects a commitment to ensuring LawBank Asia remains at the forefront of legal technology while establishing strategic partnerships, both locally and internationally, to create valuable opportunities for their clients.
Biju Varghese
is a seasoned business leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and delivering results in the technology sector. With over two and half decades of experience, he has honed his skills in strategic planning, creative development, and technical execution, making him a versatile and effective leader. He played pivotal role in establishing public Certificate Authorities (CAs) in multiple countries, leveraging his extensive expertise to ensure their success. Biju has a wealth of international experience, having advised countries worldwide on their PKI and digital transformation strategies.
Biju's areas of expertise include:
Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Cryptography, Secure Transaction and Identity Management, Digital Transformation, IoT Security, Mobile Payments
As the Head of the Enterprise Business Group for APAC at eMudhra Ltd, Biju is responsible for developing and executing business strategies across the region. His ability to establish strategic partnerships and navigate complex business environments has been instrumental in eMudhra's success.
Prior to joining eMudhra in 2008, Biju held significant roles at Aditya Birla Group company and IDRBT, established by Reserve Banking of India, demonstrating his expertise in the technology sector and his commitment to driving innovation.
Biju's educational background includes a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and a Master's degree in Technology Management from the University of Kerala, India. He has also completed a Senior Management Programme at the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta, further enhancing his leadership and strategic thinking skills.
Pas Apicella
Pas Apicella is the Field CTO for Snyk in the Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region, where he collaborates with large financial services institutions (FSIs) and other enterprises to secure their cloud-native applications throughout the entire software development lifecycle, from source to cloud. His expertise helps businesses mitigate risks while staying at the forefront of innovation.
With over 20 years of experience in open-source software, distributed systems, and cloud-native development, Pas has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies. His career includes high-impact roles at top technology firms, contributing to key projects at Snyk, Elastic, Pivotal, VMware, Oracle, and IBM. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science from RMIT University.
Mohammed Farhan
Mohammed Farhan is Sr e-invoicing consultant at ClearTax Malaysia. With a focus on ensuring compliance for enterprises, Farhan has played a pivotal role in launching solutions tailored for businesses exceeding RM 100 million in revenue. Working closely with solution architects, Farhan has helped design robust, compliant e-invoicing systems tailored to the needs of Malaysian businesses, optimizing their tax compliance processes. His efforts have positioned ClearTax Malaysia as a trusted partner in the country’s digital transformation in tax compliance.
Anil Kumar Menon
Account Technology Strategist
Enfrasys
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