Allan Song

Allan Song is the Head of Data & Digital for Financing & Securities Services (FSS) at Standard Chartered, based in Hong Kong. As a global transformation leader, his mandate covers 40 markets in Asia, Middle East and Africa, leading a portfolio of Data, AI and Digital Asset transformation programs focused on driving industry leading asset servicing capabilities across custody, funds and digital.

He is passionate about solving complex problems and developing strategic global solutions to improve automation, scalability, client experience, regulatory adherence, and operational effectiveness.  In recent years, his focus has been ensuring Business, Operations and Technology teams in Standard Chartered continue be an industry leader in adopting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and blockchain, in order to future proof against accelerated market disruption.

Allan has 20 years of experience in financial services, and prior to Standard Chartered, has held senior positions at other financial institutions where he has led COO, technology, operations, business architecture and data analytics teams.  He holds a degree in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, in the same faculty as Professor Geoffrey Hinton and OpenAI Co-Founder Ilya Sutskever, specializing in computational complexity theory, financial engineering and data management.  He continues to be active in artificial intelligence and digital asset communities across the industry.