Chavi Jafa is the Head of Commercial and Money Movement Solutions for Visa in Asia Pacific. She was appointed in April 2023 and in this role, Chavi is responsible for expanding Visa’s network beyond consumer-to-merchant payments, driving new business opportunities and enabling new ways to move money for clients and partners across the region. This includes business-to-business (B2B), peer-to-peer (P2P) and government payment solutions, including the near real-time P2P network Visa Direct, and the cross-border corporate payment network B2B Connect.
Prior to this, Chavi was the Head of Business Solutions for various regions like Asia Pacific as well as India and South Asia.
Before joining Visa, Chavi worked with Citibank’s Transaction Banking business, managing various cash management and commercial card products for the bank globally. She is a career banker and payments expert, having worked across geographies including New York, India and Singapore.
In addition, Chavi led key relationships across corporate and public sector organisations. She was also part of the founding team that set up IDFC Bank, India’s largest project finance company as the Head of Payments and Strategic Alliances. She led the bank’s innovation businesses including mobile payments and alternate lending data.
Chavi has a Masters from Columbia University, majoring in International Finance and Economics and an MBA. She spends her free time running workshops for graduate students as well as mentoring early stage startups.
Roundtable 1
Invite-Only
Real-time payments are transforming digital payments for consumers, businesses and governments by delivering new levels of speed, innovation and efficiency. Today more than 60 countries already have instant (or "fast") payment systems (IPS) that allow these transactions to happen in mere seconds. But sending money abroad is often still slow and expensive.
In this roundtable, participants will seek possible solutions to connect these domestic IPSs internationally, with the goal of improving the speed, cost and transparency of cross-border payments.
Hall 5, Singapore EXPO
Open
Sustainability has become a key consideration for businesses to access the proliferation of green supply chains, business and financing opportunities. MNCs, large businesses and financial institutions are investing deeply to build up inhouse expertise. In comparison, many of the SMEs that make up key components of larger firms’ supply chains have yet to commence their sustainability journeys, citing challenges in navigating the complex standards and reporting landscape, coupled with high costs of technological solutions and training/advisory services.
Substantial and coordinated support is needed for SMEs to rapidly build their skillsets. Are there shortcuts SMEs can take to quickly equip themselves? What are some of the key resources and cost-effective technologies availed to them? What more do SMEs require? We discuss.
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