Challengers and Incumbents at a Crossroad: Forging a Digital Banking Future

Businesses in Hong Kong are increasingly faced with the challenge of moving data offshore while maintaining data control and ensuring compliance. At the same time, the need for managing multicloud, cost optimization and customer experience are on top of mind of IT and business leaders. Owning your data strategy is key to enterprise competitiveness and achieving business goals.

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Your path to a digital future: Hong Kong digital transformation webinar focused on::

With limited technology budget, how do CDOs prevail in digital transformation?
How are banks preparing for a digital-first banking market landscape?
What are the challenges they are facing or might have overlooked?
Is fintech a threat, a partner, or a mixture of both?
What is the role of banking in the future?

As cloud-based infrastructure becomes more prevalent, data traffic will rise, and the volume of devices and endpoints will increase exponentially. However, problems arise when legacy networks don’t have the agility to scale quickly or cost-effectively.

In this session we will:
- Examine how and why businesses need to modernize their network architecture to deal with unpredictability and adjust to sudden market shifts
- Provide real world examples of how other companies are updating their infrastructures for greater agility, security and performance

Singapore has grown to become the third-largest FX centre globally with an ecosystem that is one of the most digital and dynamic in the world. With a diverse group of market participants, the country is moving to cement its position as the major financial centre in Asia where regional economic growth meets technology and innovation, and fintech development is embraced in the marketplace. But where will the market go in the future and what does Singapore need to do to get it there? How will fintech drive competition and change the nature of FX in Asia?

This discussion hosted by Kapronasia in partnership with Equinix features key industry leaders who will share their insights on how the Singapore FX ecosystem is stepping up to cement its position as the world’s leading financial centre and futurizing the FX market.

Gain exclusive insights on:
- How is the Singapore FX ecosystem fostering a culture of growth and innovation in the Asian and global financial markets?
- How has it expanded and transformed in recent years and where will it go in the future?
- What are the driving forces behind its success and technology adoption?
- How are global and regional FX players expanding their footprint in Singapore and driving competition through technology and innovation?
- How does the FX trading environment in Singapore compare to London, New York and Tokyo?
- Why are new market dynamics like Buyside participation and OTC trading likely to drive further expansion?

Speakers:
- Zennon Kapron, Founder and Director, Kapronasia
- John Knuff, VP Financial Technology Ecosystem Development, Equinix
- Wai Kin Chan, Head of APAC, BidFX
- Chris Knight, APAC Distribution at XTX Markets

In this roundtable, join C-Suite executives from Zoom Video Communications and Equinix, featuring IDC, in exploring best practices for accelerating digital initiatives and how businesses can implement, connect, scale and adapt to be ready for whatever is next.

Equinix, Zoom and IDC will be discussing:

•Key infrastructure challenges that digital leaders encounter as they accelerate initiatives.
•Best practices to consider when building and scaling a resilient digital business.
•Remote work’s impact on urbanization and supporting infrastructures.

Speakers:

•Jon Lin - President, Americas, Equinix
•Ryan Azus - Chief Revenue Officer, Zoom
•Richard L. Villars - Group Vice President: Worldwide Research, IDC

Data is at the heart of digital transformation. With the shift from Core to Cloud to Edge, more enterprise data will be created at the edge, driving the growth and requirement of greater bandwidth to work with these new sources of data-rich workloads.

This live virtual summit panel discussion will examine the enterprise modernization and transformation initiatives required to manage a distributed and siloed data sources environment.

Questions to be addressed in this panel include:

• How to ensure security and performance of business-critical workloads across a distributed and heterogenous hybrid cloud infrastructure?
• What is cloud adjacency and how Enterprises can benefit from it?
• Use cases

Panelists:

• William Lee, Research Director, IDC Asia Pacific – Cloud Services Group
• Sugumaran K, Senior Director, Business Development for Converged Infrastructure & Transformational Technology, Oracle (Japan & APAC)
• Robert Blackburn, Global MD Oracle Strategic Alliance, Equinix

There’s no doubt that cloud is now the chief conduit of the rapidly emerging digital economy accelerated further by the digital divide created by the current situation.

With enterprises and service providers continuing to build out their multicloud architectures and evaluate which workloads belong where, the ability to reach everywhere, interconnect everyone, integrate everything is more critical than ever before. Low latency proximity to the Cloud, Edge and Interconnection underpins successful multicloud architecture.

Learn more about these topics in this live virtual summit panel discussion.

• Enterprise cloud migration challenges
• What does it takes to connect the Applications, Businesses and Clouds.
• How Open source technologies are becoming become standards in deploying applications across hybrid multicloud infrastructures.
• Use case scenarios

Panelists:
• William Lee, Research Director, IDC Asia Pacific – Cloud Services Group
• Nigel Watson, Head of Technology Partners, Google Cloud APAC
• Melissa Cotton, Senior Leader, Google Strategic Alliance, Equinix

COVID-19 has accelerated digital transformation at a rate never seen before. Businesses have since increased the adoption of hybrid and multicloud services, scaling online collaboration and network capacities to expand business online and cater to a remote workforce. It is essential for Network Service Providers to be connected to the right Interconnection Platform to access major networks, clouds, and other service providers. Platform Equinix™ allows Service Providers to be part of a global digital ecosystem to help drive digital success in these uncertain times.

In this session, we will discuss:

- The latest market trends
- How to build a digitally ready interconnected platform
- How to respond to the demand surge for digital platforms

Speakers:
- Sam Ho, Principal Global Solutions Architect, Equinix Singapore

디지털트랜스포메이션으로 인해 엔터프라이즈 IT인프라는 나날이 복잡해지고 있습니다. 하이브리드 멀티클라우드를 활용하여 이러한 복잡성을 해결하고 클라우드비용과 성능관리를 개선할수 있습니다.

2020년과 그이후: 성공적인 상호연결이 가능한 하이브리드 멀티클라우드 전략을 위해 디지털 비즈니스 전망과 글로벌 인터커넥션 인덱스에 대한 인사이트를 전달하고 국내기업을 위한 하이브리드 멀티 클라우드 전략을 제시합니다.

The race is on between challengers and incumbents but in order to keep up with ever-changing customer expectations, both must overcome frustrations for mutually valuable collaborations and rethink different plays in the new digital banking ecosystem. Indeed, challengers and incumbents are at the intersection of payments, mobile, data and cloud, but how else will technology and collaboration reshape the banking landscape?

This webinar features key industry leaders who will share their insights on Asia’s digital banking future.

In this session, we will cover:

- How innovation through collaboration will drive the best products and services available in the market
- How the different plays in the new digital banking ecosystem will translate into an even greater customer experience in the digital future
- How technology and collaboration will reshape the banking landscape

Speakers:
- Zennon Kapron, Founder and Director, Kapronasia
- Lance Homer, Global Head of Strategy for Electronic Payments, Equinix
- Marie Steinthaler, Vice President, TrueLayer
- Goh Chuan Yong, Regional Director, CEO’s Office, iFAST Corporation Ltd
- Nisha Paramjothi, Senior Vice President, MatchMove Pay Pte Ltd

디지털트랜스포메이션으로 인해 엔터프라이즈 IT인프라는 나날이 복잡해지고 있습니다. 하이브리드 멀티클라우드를 활용하여 이러한 복잡성을 해결하고 클라우드비용과 성능관리를 개선할수 있습니다.

2020년과 그이후: 성공적인 상호연결이 가능한 하이브리드 멀티클라우드 전략을 위해 디지털 비즈니스 전망과 글로벌 인터커넥션 인덱스에 대한 인사이트를 전달하고 국내기업을 위한 하이브리드 멀티 클라우드 전략을 제시합니다.

Hear from network leaders from Dropbox, Equinix, Netflix, and Zoom about how they are scaling their networks and services during times of unprecedented network demand.

Avi Freedman moderates a panel on the following topics:
- How these companies have scaled their networks
- Best practices for scaling networks for service delivery
- Secrets to success for partnering with application teams
- Best practices for supporting corporate IT
- How to navigate changes to efficiently scale to remote-primary world

“一带一路”企业技术出海 产业融合

With a stronger push for digital transformation, the resilience of the cloud is increasingly in the spotlight. Whether it is for mobilising remote workforces, maintaining business continuity, or developing innovative responses to shifting priorities, cloud computing is front and centre.

Find out more about what keeps leaders up at night when it comes to the adoption of cloud services such as security, managing cloud spend, resource consumption and the right cloud expertise. Learn from our expert panel on how to mitigate these risks and manage your cloud priorities in an increasingly digital world.

In this session we will explore:

- What's on leaders minds at the moment, from adoption of cloud services, to managing cloud spend, resource consumption and more...
- How to mitigate risks
- How to manage cloud priorities in an increasingly digital world

通过区块链和互联数字平台支持疫后数字化转型

現在、多くの企業がクラウドインフラを利用しており、そのシステム領域も情報系、Web系から基幹系へと拡大しています。また、クラウドベンダーごとに異なる特徴を有することから、システム領域ごとにクラウドの選択を行うマルチクラウドが一般化しつつあります。本セミナーでは、マルチクラウドにおけるインフラの選択とネットワークについて考察します。