Daranee Saeju is the Assistant Governor in charge of Payment Systems Policy and Financial Consumer Protection Group. She oversees payment systems policies and regulations, as well as supervision of IT/cyber risks, market infrastructures, payment services providers, and non-banks. Fostering innovations in payments and fintech also come under her purview. In addition, she oversees works on market conduct, consumer protection and financial literacy.
Daranee has served the Bank for over 20 years in various critical functions including risk management, monetary policy formulation and implementation, foreign exchange policy and intervention strategy, markets and financial sector developments, financial stability, micro- and macro-prudential regulations, as well as international strategy.
During 2009-2011, she was seconded to the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the IMF in her role as an expert on monetary and foreign exchange operations and market developments.
Daranee obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Rochester in the United States, and a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science in England.
Hall A (Level 2)
Decoding Digital Assets and Payments
In this session, policymakers convene to envision the future state of financial market infrastructure, where multilateral cross-border fast payment linkages become the cornerstone of the global financial architecture. Leveraging on practical insights from exploratory projects such as Project Nexus, the session seeks to uncover the risks and opportunities and chart the way forward on how interlinking of fast payment systems could reshape cross-border payments, market dynamics and global connectivity.