Conan French

This roundtable furthers Elevandi’s focus on developing the digital public goods, including at the 2023 Singapore FinTech Festival and 2024 Japan FinTech Festival.

Operating under the theme of Decoding Digital Assets and Payments, this roundtable will inform policy and business leaders on how data ecosystem development and cross border data policies may impact emerging digitalization agendas within trade, finance and sustainability. Alongside the G7 agenda for Data Free-Flow with Trust (DFFT), these areas of economic activity and policy require enhanced mechanisms for trusted and reliable data sharing or analysis across jurisdictional and policy borders.

It aims to enhance awareness and dialogue between different international initiatives shaping policy governing cross-border data flows. There are several key initiatives in this area, each emanating from a different policy domain.

- The DFFT initiative set out by the G7 and G20 aims to promote cross border data flows while respecting privacy, security, and intellectual property rights;
- the CPMI agenda aims to provide support to enhance efficiency, transparency, and safety of cross border payments with interoperability as a key building block; and
- the ICC Digital Standards Initiative convenes trade and finance stakeholders to enable trade digitalization with interoperability and data sharing as primary objectives, and where success relies on the free flow of commercial data in cross border supply chains.

Other initiatives include bilateral digital trade agreements that seek to enhance access to data and systems such as credit bureaus or business registry and legal data normally reserved for domestic institutions or industry members. In this patchwork of critical initiatives, this roundtable provides an opportunity for mutual update and dialogue across to forge more effective, integrated approaches to data governance and flows in support of the global digital economy.

Attendees will be invited to participate in polls and Q&A.

Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- Foundations for Cross Border Data Flows to support Digital Finance Trade and Sustainability - From Idea to Implementation
- Shaping data policies through cross-border collaboration
- Digital economy: Data-driven financial services with trade | SFF 2023

This roundtable reflects Elevandi’s commitment to supporting inclusive policy making in AI & Quantum, which included the 2023 Singapore FinTech Festival’s Outlook of AI and report “Global AI Governance: Convergence or Fragmentation?”.

Financial services (FS) have much at stake and much to contribute to the AI technology and standards work currently underway; however, FS firms and their regulators are not necessarily at the center of the debate. Financial grade validation and trust are essential for new developments in GenAI and LLM to be fully employed for customer facing use cases in financial services. The increasing move to third party models and technology development outside the firewall are challenging the well-established governance frameworks FIs had put in place for predictive AI and machine learning. At the same time, existing data and cloud access frameworks are integral to determining how AI develops, is accessed, and the outcomes it delivers for the economy.

Moving forward, links between roles, standards, technology design, and data frameworks will determine the trajectory for AI development and outcomes across markets. Operating under the theme of Forming Frontier Tech, this roundtable led by the Institute for International Finance will convene industry leaders, technical experts, and policy makers in a dialogue to identify key points and links between technology design and development, standards and regulations, the path for adoption, and the prospects for deployments.

Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- Primer on AI: Governing Self-learning Intelligent Systems
- Outlook of AI
- Global AI Governance: Convergence or Fragmentation?