14 May 2026, Singapore
The Global Fintech Institute is convening a new AI and Finance Subcommittee to explore, investigate, and advocate the areas of AI for Finance and Finance for AI, under the stewardship of human leadership, and to reinforce the symbiotic relationship between artificial intelligence and financial services. The Subcommittee builds on the joint mission of GFI and the Artificial Intelligence International Institute (AIII).
The Subcommittee is chartered to publish institutional perspectives, convene closed-door dialogues, and contribute practitioner thinking to the policy and industry conversations shaping how AI is built into the next decade of finance. Its remit cuts across two directions of travel: the application of AI inside banking, markets, risk, and insurance, and the role of finance in funding, governing, and stewarding the AI systems that increasingly shape the real economy.
The Subcommittee is chaired by Prof James Ong, Founder and Managing Director of AIII. Prof Ong brings two decades of leadership at the intersection of applied AI research and industry deployment, and is well placed to translate research-grade thinking into practitioner-grade outputs. He is joined by Rachel Lee, Director of Blockchain and Digital Asset at Cyberport; Andeed Ma, President of the Risk and Insurance Management Association of Singapore; and Dr. Brindha Jeyaraman, Founder of Aethryx.
The membership spans applied AI, capital markets infrastructure, risk and insurance, and entrepreneurial work in responsible AI infrastructure. That combination is intentional. The work of reinforcing the symbiosis between AI and finance, under human stewardship, needs voices from each constituency, and it needs them at the same table.
The Subcommittee will make its first public appearance on 19 May at the DEAI Summit, where the inaugural panel "AI and Finance Symbiosis: Blue Ocean Opportunity for Empowering AI for Humanity", organised by AIII and GFI, will frame the agenda the group will carry forward. Upcoming convenings also include a closed Cantonese-language roundtable in Hong Kong on real-world assets and AI, and the World AI Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai from 28 to 31 July.
External stakeholders interested in collaborating, contributing perspectives, or engaging on a specific theme can reach out via the Global Fintech Institute website.