Allan Song

Head of Transformation & Performance Management, Financing & Securities Services, 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 digital transformation programs focused on driving operational efficiencies across custody services and fund administration.

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 Operations and Technology teams in Standard Chartered continue be an industry leader in adopting emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and cloud, in order to future proof against accelerated market disruption.

Allan has more than 18 years’ 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, 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.