The next phase of AI in finance will not be defined by better models alone, but by institutions that can successfully embed AI into regulated business processes at scale. From compliance and risk management to customer servicing and agentic finance, AI is creating new opportunities to transform how financial services are designed, delivered and supervised. As institutions explore frontier AI capabilities, the challenge is no longer just building AI solutions, but operationalising them responsibly while maintaining trust, resilience and accountability.
 
Many financial institutions face similar challenges in developing, evaluating and deploying AI, yet often tackle them independently. Through BuildFin.ai, financial institutions, technology providers and research institutes are collaborating to develop and scale frontier AI capabilities within established regulatory and risk management frameworks. This includes the development of the MindForge AI Risk Management Toolkit, which provides practical guidance, industry case studies and implementation insights, as well as the SAFR (Safeguards for Agentic Finance at Runtime) framework, which explores safeguards for AI-enabled financial activities. This roundtable brings together members of the BuildFin.ai community and industry leaders to exchange lessons from the front lines of AI deployment and discuss how collaboration can help accelerate the responsible adoption of AI across financial services.

The next 24 months could compress a decade of change. For corporate leaders, the opportunity is not simply to understand new technology — it’s to determine where it may help strengthen resilience, accelerate growth and inform decision-making across the organisation.

Analysts estimate that agentic AI and quantum computing could unlock more than $1 trillion in value by 2035. Join us for a 2.5-hour executive session designed to help you translate emerging capabilities into practical business outcomes. We’ll examine whether trust and security, rather than technology alone, may become key constraints and why this may require action now.

You’ll explore the foundations of trust in agentic commerce: from agent identity, permissions and human-in-the-loop design to evidence trails designed to support auditability. Learn how robust controls, accountable human judgement and collaboration across regulators, industry partners and the wider ecosystem can support the safe deployment of autonomous commerce at scale.

We’ll then examine how connected banking may help your business move money, trade and grow internationally. Gain practical insight into where digital money, tokenisation, digital assets and currencies could fit within your operating and treasury flows. We’ll explore how unified connectivity can help your organisation make better decisions and serve customers more effectively.

Throughout the session, we’ll explore how AI, modern platforms and emerging digital rails can support relevant, real-time experiences at scale, with a focus on customer trust, human accountability and responsible decision-making.

3:30pm - 3:40pm

Welcome & Opening Primer: The Case for Urgency

Speaker: Manoj Dugar, Managing Director and Head of Asia, ex Greater China, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC

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3:40pm - 4pm

Resilience in 2028: When AI and Quantum Redraw the Risk Map

The Agentic AI revolution, driven by the latest frontier models, and quantum computing are on track to unlock over $1 trillion in economic value by 2035. But both these frontier technologies are simultaneously redrawing the risk and resilience paradigm. Join this keynote to learn how institutions should approach these technologies as a 2-year resilience mandate, not a 5-year research project.

Speaker: Robert Oates, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Singapore, HSBC

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4pm - 4:30pm

Automated, Always-on and Real Time: Governing Commerce in the Agentic Decade

Autonomous agents will soon be initiating and settling commerce and treasury transactions on behalf of corporates and institutions – the practical question is whether the right guardrails are in place before adoption scales. Our panellists will share how they’ve applied regulatory principles in practice through a proof of concept, including a walkthrough of what was tested and the controls underpinning it. They’ll explore what make agentic AI in payments trusted, from agent identity and permissions to human-in-the-loop design, segregation of duties and evidence trails that stand up to policy and audit scrutiny.

Speaker(s): Koh Tze Yong, Lead Solutions Architect, AXS, Patrick Sze, Chief Technology Officer, Green Link Digital Bank, Dr. Maxim Afanasyev, Financial Services Industry Lead for JAPAC, Global Strategic Industries, Google Cloud, Kenneth Gay, Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS), Gary Liu, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Terminal 3, Amber Henderson-Smart, Global Head of Client Connectivity, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC, Jessie Saw, Head of Product Management, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC (Moderator)

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4:30pm - 4:35pm

Break

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4:35pm - 5:05pm

Digital Money in Practice: Choosing the Right Asset for your Flows

Within 5 years, corporate treasurers are likely to hold a portfolio of digital money forms, not just one – their success will depend on building that fluency now, not when the choice is forced on them. Specialists will decipher where tokenised deposits, stablecoins and existing rails genuinely fit – and where they do not – using real corporate flows.

Speaker(s): Lewis Sun, Global Head of Digital Currencies, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC, Selene Chong, Global Head of Digital Assets, Corporate and Institutional Banking, HSBC

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5:05pm - 5:20pm

One Connection, Every Channel: Connectivity as the Control Plane 

As agents, data, and ERPs coincide – simplified connectivity across channels will be the true enabler behind the flows. Speakers will explain how innovative connectivity links ERPs, bank channels and emerging agentic tools so data, approvals, execution and confirmation are joined up end-to-end.

Speaker: Amber Henderson-Smart, Global Head of Client Connectivity, Global Payments Solutions, HSBC

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5:20pm - 5:50pm

Trade Without Hand-offs: Event-Driven Working Capital 

Trade specialists will explain where trust breaks today in the trade cycle – status ambiguity, data quality gaps, manual hand-offs and counterparty friction. By re-imagining trade, our speakers will illustrate how connected data plus execution can help address these issues immediately. The session includes the launch of HSBC TradeCash.

Speaker(s): Tze Tze Lee, Global Head of Documentary Trade, Global Trade Solutions, HSBC, Vinay Tiwari, Head of Product & Propositions, South East Asia Cluster, Global Trade Solutions, HSBC

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5:50pm - 6:00pm

Closing Synthesis – Connecting the Dots: Your Institution's Next Move 

A crisp synthesis of the day’s takeaways – what’s real, what’s next, and what requires action now. We’ll close with sharing of practical 12 month roadmap: priority use cases to pilot, key trust/control guardrails to lock in early, and the collaborations and operating model shifts needed to move from insight to execution.

Speaker: Ruby Ho, Managing Director and Head of Markets and Securities Services, ASEAN, HSBC