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Rodrigo Garcia de la Cruz
Chairman
Global Fintech Alliance
Rodrigo García de la Cruz is Chairman of the Global FinTech Alliance (GFA) and Chairman of the World FinTech Forum (WFF). The GFA brings together national, regional and continental FinTech organizations across 130 countries, connecting an ecosystem of more than 60,000 FinTech companies. It provides a structured framework for international cooperation and a coordinated voice for the digital finance sector.
As Chairman, he is focused on strengthening institutional dialogue between the FinTech sector, regulators, supervisors, central banks and international institutions; promoting responsible innovation, financial inclusion, interoperability and cross-border development; and helping to establish a coordinated global voice for digital finance.
Throughout his career, he has cofounded the Spanish FinTech and InsurTech Association (AEFI), the European Digital Finance Association (EDFA), and the the IberoAmerican FinTech Alliance (FIA). He has also launched FinTech masters in AFI School, IEB School and Instituto de Empresa.
Earlier in his career, he founded and led Finnovating and held positions across banking, finance and technology at Citibank, Barclays, Santander and Renault. He holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Business Administration, a Master's in the Management of Financial Institutions from IEB, and an executive programme in International Financial Markets from the London School of Economics.
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3:15–4:45pmTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 2Open
Accountability & Liability In Agentic Systems
Towards Greater AI Governance Alignment: State of Play and Opportunities
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Daranee SaejuDeputy Governor, Payment Systems Stability & Financial Services SupervisionBank of Thailand
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Daniel WuExecutive Director, AI & Data Policy, Asia PacificJPMorganChase
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Rodrigo Garcia de la CruzChairmanGlobal Fintech Alliance
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Aayush SuranaAssociate Director, AI Growth & ResearchGlobal Finance & Technology NetworkModerator
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Prof. Chia Tek YewAdjunct Professor/AdvisorNUS - Asian Institute of Digital FinanceModerator
About this session
Globally, regulators are each moving ahead with their own AI governance tracks, ranging from voluntary frameworks to draft legislation and sector-specific rules. This growing regulatory fragmentation, if not managed well, could raise the compliance burden for regional fintechs and banks, and ultimately undermine broader goals of achieving integrated digital markets, with multinational financial institutions having to account for different risk-classification, testing, and disclosure regimes in their AI use-cases.
Using Southeast Asia as a case, this roundtable takes stock of how ASEAN member states regulate and supervise AI in financial services, and where closer alignment is within reach. Participants, including ASEAN central banks, banking associations, and regional financial institutions, will discuss the most pressing near-term opportunities to leverage and challenges to address.
Roundtable outputs will feed into efforts to build a long-term implementation roadmap to facilitate greater alignment across AI governance in ASEAN, with lessons relevant to any region working to bring AI rules closer together.
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