Contributors

Rohit Narang

Rohit Narang is the managing director of APAC for Currencycloud.

Romadeep Chakraborty

An MBA from a premier business school in Mumbai, Romadeep works at India's first and largest depository -- National Securities Depository Limited -- as an Assistant Manager. She has previously worked with IDBI Bank, a PSU bank in India. Romadeep has 10 years of experience in the finance industry.

Romadeep Chakraborty and Diptiman Chakraborty

Romadeep Chakraborty is a a Post Graduate holding a MMS Degree with specialization in Finance and she's currently working as an Assistant Manager in National Securities Depository Limited (NSDL) looking after settlement processes in India. Diptiman Chakraborty is a  Post Graduate holding a MMS degree with specialization in Finance. He is currently working as a Senior Manager in Axis Bank Limited in India looking after product development for the bank.

Rosalind Ng

Rosalind Ng is the Chief Operating Officer and Global Head of Operations for Wealth and Retail Banking (WRB) at Standard Chartered. She joined the Bank in September 2007 and is based in Singapore. Ros manages the Operations teams globally in the areas of onboarding, servicing, wealth processes, fraud risk and collections. She also leads business risk management and governance aiming at continuously improving the risk control environment of the WRB business.

Rowena Everson

Rowena Everson is Head of External Performance Analytics at Standard Chartered Bank. She is experienced in FSI Communications.

Rupanjan Mukherjee

Rupanjan Mukherjee is a digital platform risk governance and controls management expert with over 15 years of experience in the banking and financial sector.

A PRINCE2 certified project manager, Mukherjee specializes in regulatory project engagement and implementation through collaborations with regulatory bodies in Singapore, while regularly contributing insights on the digital compliance landscape and emerging trends in financial security.

Rupert Naylor

Based in Singapore, Rupert Naylor is Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific at Mastercard where he oversees Data & Services, the professional services arm of Mastercard that encompasses the company’s offerings beyond the transaction. Data & Services harnesses the power of Mastercard’s real-time, anonymized and aggregated transaction data, powerful software platforms and wealth of expertise, to unlock a holistic view of consumer behavior, distill actionable insights and help banks, governments, retailers, travel companies and more to make better data-driven decisions that address their pain points and drive efficiency and value.

Sandeep Aggarwal

Sandeep Aggarwal is a banker based in New Delhi.

Sandeep Malhotra

Sandeep Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Core Payments, Asia Pacific, Mastercard, is an avid business technologist with more than 25 years of global experience delivering strategic technology and business solutions at Mastercard. In his current position as head of Core Payments, he oversees the development and management of all consumer and commercial products in the Asia Pacific region. These span debit, credit, prepaid, commercial, payments gateway and processing to acceptance, account-to-account flows, remittances, open banking, digital platforms and everything in between.

Malhotra’s long career with Mastercard has included stints in the US, Europe, and Asia, where he has held a variety of roles with increasing commercial and leadership responsibilities. These have included working across tech, product, software development and solutions engineering, and contributing to countless enhancements to Mastercard's core payments network. 

In addition, Malhotra was a key driver of the firm’s real-time account-based payments strategy and mobile payments joint venture (Smart Hub in the Philippines), creator of new products such as Pay-by-Account and Bill Pay, and led Mastercard’s $1b acquisition of Vocalink, a UK-based ACH infrastructure provider.

Based in Singapore since 2019, today he is a regular speaker at high profile business and industry forums, and an experienced media commentator on topics ranging from digital commerce, to open banking, digital currencies, the future of money, payments and more. 

Malhotra holds a Bachelor of Science from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Master of Science from University of Missouri-Rolla, and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Sangiita Yoong

Sangiita Yoong is a Lead Analyst for East & Partners Asia.