Brad Jones | Chief Executive Officer
Wave Money

Brad Jones is the Chief Executive Officer of Wave Money, a role he has held for the last seven years. Wave Money is a fintech joint venture in Myanmar owned by Telenor Group, Yoma Strategic Holdings and Yoma Bank. Wave Money is the leading mobile financial services provider in Myanmar, serving millions of customers monthly across a network of more than 68,000 agents. He has worked in financial services for over 21 years and previously he headed mobile money and innovation for Visa in Asia Pacific, North Africa and the Middle East. He has also been an emerging payments consultant to World Bank Group, working in a variety of markets including the Philippines, Indonesia, Bangladesh and China. Prior to Visa, Brad was the founding Managing Director of Wing Cambodia, the first bank-led mobile money deployment in Asia.

Appearances:

Seamless Asia 2022 - Day 1 @ 10:00

PANEL: Accelerating the adoption of digital payments

By attending this session, you will learn:

What are the incentives for consumers and business to make the shift to digital payments?
How is COVID accelerating the adoption of digital payments worldwide and is Asia following the pace?

(If any) What policies do you think we will see to rotect vulnerable groups when it comes to usage of new form of payments?
What other payment forms are you expecting merchants to turn to consumers to favour and are those two always aligned?

Moderator: Kristy Duncan, Founder And Chief Executive Officer, Women in Payments