Avanee joined Swift in April, 2023 as the Global Lead, Trade Strategy based at Singapore. Avanee has over 22 years of banking experience across Singapore, North America, Hong Kong and India.
At Swift she is responsible to help formulate and drive the core strategic trade agenda as well as help swift redefine its role in the exciting and evolving global payments and trade eco system. She also helps
drive partnerships with banks, corporates, fintechs, governments and industry bodies on various initiatives to ensure frictionless trade for the community.
Avanee represents Swift at BAFT's Global Trade Industry Council as well as on various groups for International Chamber of Commerce.
Before Swift, Avanee was responsible for global product management for trade and supply chain finance
at ANZ. In her 19 years of banking, she has worked in a variety of roles including sales for trade,
payments & cash management, relationship management covering the shipping and logistics sector,
credit, strategy, and technology.
Avanee has a master’s degree in computer engineering from State University of New York and an MBA
from INSEAD.
Roundtable Room 3, Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Level 4
Invite-Only
Both digital trade and digital finance are frequently cited as key to solving the trade finance gap and more generally the financial inclusion gap. Although there are examples of instances where fintechs have helped to expand financial inclusion, the trade finance gap and the problems of financial inclusion continue to grow. The bulk of finance, technology and digital trade innovation– particularly in the past year where focus has been on the use of AI– have focused on making current processes faster and more efficient, without making a real dent on inclusion.
This roundtable seeks to recentre the inclusion discussion on the collaboration that digital trade and digital finance advocates must undertake to create real pathways – not just rhetorical ones – towards financial inclusion. Among the key discussion items will be:
- Creation and sharing of data from trade processes into finance
- Tokenization of real world and financial assets to solve deep tier/upstream access
- Partnership with Multilateral Development Banks and policymakers to drive private sector action
- The role of CBDCs and payments
Working with the audience, the roundtable seeks to outline a number of actions that can be taken collaboratively towards closing the inclusion gap and making real progress, bearing in mind the need to strike a better balance between the need for commercial viability of innovation and the need to solve inclusion issues and secure future prosperity.
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