Singapore FinTech Festival 2022 returns as an in-person event | Press Releases | Asia

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and Elevandi today announced the return of the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) as an in-person event to be held from 2 to 4 November 2022.

SFF 2022 will focus on ‘Building Resilient Business Models amid Volatility and Change’, with industry events and the annual Innovation Lab Crawl held on 31 October and 1 November, as a prelude to the main festival. The event will be held at the Singapore EXPO.

SFF 2022 theme

With the global economy seeing a rise in inflation and facing the risk of a significant slowdown in growth, the outlook for the FinTech industry has become challenging, with many FinTech firms striving to remain robust and viable amid the crisis. SFF 2022 will thus focus on discussing ways to build a robust business model in today’s challenging market environment.

Key stakeholders including global heads of state, policy makers, regulators, financial services leaders, founders, investors and technology leaders will outline the drivers of change and share how organizations can design robust business models capable of navigating today’s and future challenges. In particular, the conference will examine three central questions:

• Viable: How do organizations build and redefine business models that can be more resilient to volatile market conditions?
• Responsible: How do organizations balance social responsibility and profitability to achieve greater stakeholder satisfaction and engagement?
• Inclusive: How do organizations design inclusive business models that address the needs of both the unbanked and underbanked?

Summits

The conference will include a series of global and knowledge plenary meetings, and a The Elevandi Insights Forum is organized in the form of round table sessions.

• Global plenary sessions will focus on leaders and organizations addressing the core construct of Resilient Business Models.
• Knowledge Plenum sessions will include breakout sessions on Web3 and Payments; Environment, Social and Governance (ESG); Banking for businesses; Insurance and pensions; International Growth Markets powered by the World FinTech Festival; and the FinTech Regulation.
• The Elevandi Insights Forum will consist of private, deep-dive roundtables that bring the public and private sectors together to meet challenges facing the financial sector and drive forward important actionable results.

Display

SFF will also see the return of a physical exhibition with over 500 leading organisations, including global financial institutions, regulators and FinTechs, showcasing the latest innovations and developments in the FinTech space.

The exhibition will include ecosystem stages that are freely available to attendees to get up close and personal with the latest technologies, products and launches from industry players. These stages will feature product announcements and product displays from exhibitors; a specially curated ESG Impact Zone; deep dive into countries and sectors in the World FinTech Festival1; and the finalists’ showcases from the MAS Global FinTech Hackcelerator2 and the Polyfintech100 API Hackathon3.

Other highlights

Debuting at SFF is the Elevandi Global Founders Network, an exclusive global influencer program that identifies exceptional founders, on an annual basis, who are building sustainable and robust businesses, with a positive impact on the world. The global founders will be selected through a nomination process, honored at SFF and share their 10-minute insights at Founders Peak.

Attendees can also look forward to the winners’ showcase at the SFF Global FinTech Awards4 and curated networking sessions, including a new FinTech Marketeers Meetup and an Investors Summit powered by Elevandi Connects.

Sopnendu Mohanty, Chief FinTech Officer, MAS and Chairman of Elevandi, said: “As the leading global knowledge platform for FinTech, SFF 2022 will focus on bringing best-in-class experts to share industry insights to build business models that remain viable and resilient amid the crisis . The format this year has been enhanced to add a series of intimate and interactive sessions, to foster a deeper discussion between public and private sector stakeholders. The return of a personal SFF will energize all stakeholders in the FinTech community to stay strong and focused despite the strong headwinds ahead.”

Jean-François Quentin, CEO of Constellar, said: “We are delighted to bring the global FinTech community together in Singapore, home to world-class events including SFF. The SFF community is a special community that has continued to connect and collaborate on our hybrid event platforms over the past two years. With live events back at full capacity, the return of SFF in-person will enable personalized and immersive event experiences to catalyze new innovations, strengthen networks and build impactful partnerships.”

SFF 2022 is organized in collaboration with Constellar and in collaboration with the Association of Banks in Singapore. Since its inception in 2016, SFF has become the premier platform for the global FinTech community to engage, connect and collaborate on issues related to financial services development, public policy and technology.

Last year, SFF featured global leaders such as Ben Horowitz, Co-Founder and General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz; Bill Winters, CEO, Standard Chartered Bank; Christopher Young, Executive Vice President Business Development, Strategy and Ventures, Microsoft; François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor, Banque de France; Marc Benioff, Chairman, Co-CEO and Co-Founder, Salesforce; and Dr Marian Croak, Vice President of Engineering, Google.

Last year’s edition brought together 60,000 participants from over 160 countries. Elevandi and Constellar are proud to jointly deliver this year’s SFF. Visit www.fintechfestival.sg to register for SFF 2022 and receive updates.

About the Monetary Authority of Singapore

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) is Singapore’s central bank and integrated financial regulator. As a central bank, MAS promotes sustained, non-inflationary economic growth through the implementation of monetary policy and close macroeconomic monitoring and analysis. It manages Singapore’s exchange rate, official foreign exchange reserves and banking sector liquidity.

As an integrated financial regulator, MAS promotes a healthy financial services sector through its prudential oversight of all financial institutions in Singapore – banks, insurance companies, capital market intermediaries, financial advisers and financial market infrastructures. It is also responsible for well-functioning financial markets, good conduct and investor education.

MAS also works with the financial services industry to promote Singapore as a dynamic international financial centre. It facilitates the development of infrastructure, the use of technology and the upgrading of competence in the financial industry.

About Elevandi

Elevandi has been set up by the Monetary Authority of Singapore to promote an open dialogue between the public and private sectors to promote FinTech in the digital economy. We work closely with authorities, founders, investors and business leaders to drive collaboration, education and new sources of value at industry and national level.

Our initiatives have brought together over 300,000 people to drive the growth of FinTech through events, closed-door roundtables, investor programs, education initiatives and research. Our flagship is the Singapore FinTech Festival together with rapidly growing platforms including the world FinTech Festival and Point Zero Forum.

About Constellation

Constellar connects a global ecosystem of event partners and consumers through a comprehensive portfolio of intellectual property rights (IP) in the MICE (Meetings, Incentives, Conventions and Exhibitions) industry. As Asia’s reference partner for curating innovative event and arena experiences,

Constellar enables efficient networks to bring global markets, businesses and consumers together for sustainable growth. With our expertise and commitment, we are invested in helping you build trusted, long-term stakeholder relationships and enable cross-industry collaboration through world-class audience engagement solutions. Visit constellar.co for more information.

About the Association of Banks in Singapore

ABS is a non-profit organization that represents the interests of the banking community in Singapore. In this way, ABS works closely with the relevant authorities to develop a solid financial system in Singapore. Since its establishment in 1973, ABS has promoted a unifying voice in banking matters.

It has brought its members closer together through various guidelines and banking practices, as well as supporting mutually beneficial projects to address the challenges of the financial and banking environment in Singapore. Today, ABS has a membership of 155 local and foreign banks. More information about ABS is available at www.abs.org.sg.