Shaping the Future of Finance in Asia: AI-driven FinTech, Digital Currencies And The Evolution Of Financial Infrastructure
Webinar
Background: This report, Finance in Asia: AI-driven, FinTech, Digital Currencies and The Evolution of Financial Infrastructure, evaluates the state of these technologies n Asia in 2026. Asia is defined as the Asia/Pacific region used by Z/Yen in our Global Financial Centres Index (GFCI), and other indices, excluding Australasia. The report summarises current trends and developments across major Asian financial centres such as Seoul, Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Shenzhen, and others where innovation thrives and AI-centric financial services are becoming the norm. The outcome of these initiatives is the wholesale transformation of finance and financial services across Asian geographies. The lessons from the trends and developments observed in Asia have worldwide implications for the evolution (and even revolution) of finance in both developed and developing economies.
Speaker:
Hugh Morris has over 35 years business experience and has deep expertise in financial services. He specialises in leading technology and business services companies, delivering profitable entrepreneurial growth. He was a Global Managing Partner at Accenture where he led the technology and outsourcing practices in the UK, led the public sector practice in Scandinavia, UK, Ireland and South Africa and, subsequently, the global Transition and Transformation practice for the outsourcing business of the firm. He then started his own business, Laureate Legal Services, aimed at delivering BPO services to leading UK law firms. He worked at Genpact leading business development in EMEA for financial services and then as Sales and Marketing Director for TORI Global, a financial-service focused consultancy.
Chairman:
Mike Wardle is CEO and the Head Of Indices for Z/Yen, managing work on the development and delivery of the Global Financial Centres Index, Global Green Finance Index, and Smart Centres Index. Mike worked as a civil servant for almost 20 years mostly within the field of education policy. He was a director and then Chief Executive of the General Social Care Council, establishing the regulation of social workers. Mike's career moved into consultancy, programme management and coaching and he worked with Z/Yen for six years delivering programme management services to the Church of England, Unison, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, and Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust before taking up his current role.
Speaker(s):
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Hugh Morris
Senior Associate
Z/Yen Group
Chairman:
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Mike Wardle
CEO & Head Of Indices
Z/Yen Group