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Key points
- 250+ corporate and financial institution leaders convene in Singapore as APAC payments market reaches ~US$18 trillion1
- Bank of America held its annual Treasury Leaders Summit (TLS) and Financial Institutions (FI) Forum events in Singapore to discuss the role of AI-led platforms for treasury, trade and payments
- Now in their 15th year, the events continue to convene clients and market participants to address key industry issues
SINGAPORE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasingly complex operating environment for trade and capital flows, elevated FX volatility and evolving liquidity risks are accelerating demand for AI-driven treasury, trade and currency solutions among Asia Pacific companies as they look to enhance resilience and performance.
This was a key takeaway from Bank of America's annual flagship client events held in Singapore – TLS (May 20) and FI Forum (May 21), which brought together more than 250 senior treasury and financial institution leaders from top global corporates, banks, asset managers and insurers.
Bank of America, the second largest bank in the world by market capitalization, has been hosting the TLS and FI Forum events for over 15 years, bringing together clients, market participants and policy makers to address the most pressing trends shaping payments, liquidity and transaction banking.
With more than US$13 billion in annual technology spend, Bank of America remains at the forefront of innovation, delivering world class solutions such as CashPro® and Intelligent Receivables®. These platforms help clients achieve real-time cash visibility, streamline payments and liquidity management, and enhance reconciliation capabilities at scale.
Hosted by Winnie Chen, Head of Global Payments Solutions (GPS), Asia Pacific at Bank of America, alongside senior global and regional leaders, the TLS and FI Forum underscored the US lender's role as a trusted strategic partner, convening clients to exchange insights, accelerate innovation and drive tangible outcomes.
"In an environment defined by persistent volatility and structural shifts, clients are seeking insights that go beyond theory," said Winnie Chen. "There is a clear pivot toward data and AI-driven capabilities that can help clients strengthen resilience, sharpen decision-making and deliver measurable results."
The events were held at a time when the Asia Pacific payments market has reached an estimated US$18 trillion in transaction value, highlighting a significant opportunity to optimize treasury, payments and risk management strategies in an increasingly complex environment.
"Bank of America's global platform, combined with our AI-enabled capabilities, positions us strongly to deliver seamless solutions that help clients navigate complexity and unlock growth," Chen added.
Frequently asked questions
Question: Who organizes the TLS and FI Forum events?
Answer: Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions (GPS) team organizes the Treasury Leadership Summit (TLS) and Financial Institutions (FI) Forum across Asia Pacific, with Singapore hosting its flagship editions. The bank has convened these events for over 15 years, reinforcing its long-standing commitment to client engagement and industry leadership.
Question: What is the objective of these events?
Answer: The forums are designed to bring together senior leaders from corporates and financial institutions to exchange perspectives on navigating market complexity. They provide a platform for peer-level dialogue focused on strengthening resilience, advancing innovation and delivering tangible outcomes amid evolving macroeconomic conditions, technological transformation and shifting client expectations.
Question: What differentiates Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions from its peers?
Answer: Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions business differentiates itself through the combination of its global network, deep industry expertise and sustained investment in technology innovation. With more than US$13 billion in annual technology spend, the bank delivers AI-enabled platforms such as CashPro® and Intelligent Receivables that provide clients with real-time insights, integrated liquidity management and scalable solutions. This positions Bank of America to help clients navigate complexity, enhance efficiency and drive growth across markets.
Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving nearly 70 million clients with approximately 3,500 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs (automated teller machines) and award-winning digital banking with approximately 59 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. As the #1 small business lender in the United States (FDIC), Bank of America offers industry leading support to approximately 4 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
For more Bank of America news, including dividend announcements and other important information, visit the Bank of America newsroom and register for news email alerts.
Reporters may contact
Kaustubh Kulkarni, Bank of America
Phone: +65 6678.1677
kaustubh.kulkarni@bofa.com
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Key points
- 250+ corporate and financial institution leaders convene in Singapore as APAC payments market reaches ~US$18 trillion1
- Bank of America held its annual Treasury Leaders Summit (TLS) and Financial Institutions (FI) Forum events in Singapore to discuss the role of AI-led platforms for treasury, trade and payments
- Now in their 15th year, the events continue to convene clients and market participants to address key industry issues
SINGAPORE, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Increasingly complex operating environment for trade and capital flows, elevated FX volatility and evolving liquidity risks are accelerating demand for AI-driven treasury, trade and currency solutions among Asia Pacific companies as they look to enhance resilience and performance.
This was a key takeaway from Bank of America's annual flagship client events held in Singapore – TLS (May 20) and FI Forum (May 21), which brought together more than 250 senior treasury and financial institution leaders from top global corporates, banks, asset managers and insurers.
Bank of America, the second largest bank in the world by market capitalization, has been hosting the TLS and FI Forum events for over 15 years, bringing together clients, market participants and policy makers to address the most pressing trends shaping payments, liquidity and transaction banking.
With more than US$13 billion in annual technology spend, Bank of America remains at the forefront of innovation, delivering world class solutions such as CashPro® and Intelligent Receivables®. These platforms help clients achieve real-time cash visibility, streamline payments and liquidity management, and enhance reconciliation capabilities at scale.
Hosted by Winnie Chen, Head of Global Payments Solutions (GPS), Asia Pacific at Bank of America, alongside senior global and regional leaders, the TLS and FI Forum underscored the US lender's role as a trusted strategic partner, convening clients to exchange insights, accelerate innovation and drive tangible outcomes.
"In an environment defined by persistent volatility and structural shifts, clients are seeking insights that go beyond theory," said Winnie Chen. "There is a clear pivot toward data and AI-driven capabilities that can help clients strengthen resilience, sharpen decision-making and deliver measurable results."
The events were held at a time when the Asia Pacific payments market has reached an estimated US$18 trillion in transaction value, highlighting a significant opportunity to optimize treasury, payments and risk management strategies in an increasingly complex environment.
"Bank of America's global platform, combined with our AI-enabled capabilities, positions us strongly to deliver seamless solutions that help clients navigate complexity and unlock growth," Chen added.
Frequently asked questions
Question: Who organizes the TLS and FI Forum events?
Answer: Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions (GPS) team organizes the Treasury Leadership Summit (TLS) and Financial Institutions (FI) Forum across Asia Pacific, with Singapore hosting its flagship editions. The bank has convened these events for over 15 years, reinforcing its long-standing commitment to client engagement and industry leadership.
Question: What is the objective of these events?
Answer: The forums are designed to bring together senior leaders from corporates and financial institutions to exchange perspectives on navigating market complexity. They provide a platform for peer-level dialogue focused on strengthening resilience, advancing innovation and delivering tangible outcomes amid evolving macroeconomic conditions, technological transformation and shifting client expectations.
Question: What differentiates Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions from its peers?
Answer: Bank of America's Global Payments Solutions business differentiates itself through the combination of its global network, deep industry expertise and sustained investment in technology innovation. With more than US$13 billion in annual technology spend, the bank delivers AI-enabled platforms such as CashPro® and Intelligent Receivables that provide clients with real-time insights, integrated liquidity management and scalable solutions. This positions Bank of America to help clients navigate complexity, enhance efficiency and drive growth across markets.
Bank of America
Bank of America is one of the world's leading financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle-market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving nearly 70 million clients with approximately 3,500 retail financial centers, approximately 15,000 ATMs (automated teller machines) and award-winning digital banking with approximately 59 million verified digital users. Bank of America is a global leader in wealth management, corporate and investment banking and trading across a broad range of asset classes, serving corporations, governments, institutions and individuals around the world. As the #1 small business lender in the United States (FDIC), Bank of America offers industry leading support to approximately 4 million small business households through a suite of innovative, easy-to-use online products and services. The company serves clients through operations across the United States, its territories and more than 35 countries. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE: BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.
For more Bank of America news, including dividend announcements and other important information, visit the Bank of America newsroom and register for news email alerts.
Reporters may contact
Kaustubh Kulkarni, Bank of America
Phone: +65 6678.1677
kaustubh.kulkarni@bofa.com
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Bank of America Highlights Surging Demand for AI-Led Treasury, Fx Solutions in Asia Pacific
- Rising AI adoption drives growing security risks, making AI security essential infrastructure
- End-to-end AI security solutions spanning attack, validation, and control, backed by frontier research and publications
- NAVER D2SF discovered the team through its campus startup competition and invested following incubation, with collaboration opportunities around safe AI expanding
SEONGNAM, South Korea, June 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- NAVER D2SF, NAVER's in-house corporate venture arm, has made a new investment in AIM Intelligence (CEO, Sangyoon Yu), an AI security startup. AIM Intelligence develops AI security technologies that help enterprises adopt AI safely as AI deployment rapidly expands. NAVER D2SF made the investment based on the view that AI security is becoming critical infrastructure in the era of generative AI, agentic AI, multimodal AI, and physical AI.
As AI adoption accelerates across enterprises, new security risks — including AI malfunction, data leakage, privilege abuse, and prompt injection attacks — are increasing just as rapidly. As a result, AI safety validation and control are becoming essential requirements regardless of advances in model performance. Demand is growing among enterprises seeking to establish security frameworks throughout the entire AI lifecycle, from deployment to live operations. AIM Intelligence is meeting this shift head-on, rapidly translating customer requirements into product updates while building a track record of real-world deployments in AI security and safety.
AIM Intelligence provides AI security solutions spanning the full cycle of attack, validation, and control. Its automated red teaming solution, Stinger, proactively identifies vulnerabilities by designing and validating millions of attack scenarios, while its real-time guardrail system, Starfort, controls risky AI behavior during live operations. Drawing on experience contributing to AI model safety projects at global frontier research organizations including OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta, the company is building a field-tested security framework tailored to real-world environments.
AIM Intelligence also brings strong research credentials to the AI security and safety space. The team has published approximately 20 papers on AI guardrails and has validated its technical capabilities through presentations at top-tier academic conferences. Beyond current LLM and agent security, the company is also developing Physical AI safety technology to ensure safety in physical environments such as robotics.
AIM Intelligence is currently building commercial references with enterprise customers across industries including enterprise, financial services, and the public sector. By working closely with customers in live operational environments, the company is refining its AI security and safety solutions while expanding capabilities to address industry-specific compliance requirements.
AIM Intelligence is a team with a well-rounded combination of frontier AI safety research, product development, and business execution. NAVER D2SF discovered the company through its 2024 Campus Startup Competition and participated in this investment following an incubation period. Co-founder and CEO Sangyoon Yu and the founding team bring experience in AI safety research and entrepreneurship, with a particular strength in rapidly sensing shifts in the AI landscape and translating those insights into products.
"AIM Intelligence has rapidly commercialized a practical AI security solution covering the full AI lifecycle, and we are also exploring collaboration opportunities with NAVER's security organization around safe AI initiatives," said Sanghwan Yang, Head of NAVER D2SF. "It is particularly impressive that a student-founded team has achieved this level of execution in the security sector, where experience and references are especially important. We will continue expanding opportunities to connect with AI-native founders in their teens and twenties who bring strong instincts and energy."
"As AI moves beyond productivity tools and into payment platforms, vehicles, and robotics, AI security is becoming part of critical industrial infrastructure," said Sangyoon Yu, CEO of AIM Intelligence. "This strategic investment reflects how AI security is increasingly being recognized as a real business priority across industries. AIM Intelligence aims to grow into an AI security infrastructure company that enables the safe development, validation, and operation of generative AI, agentic AI, and physical AI."
Meanwhile, NAVER D2SF's 2026 Campus Startup Competition recently concluded with a record-high 320+ applicants, including solo founders and high school startup teams, highlighting changing trends in tech entrepreneurship. Development speed and product maturity were notably higher this year, with more teams demonstrating real business traction beyond the idea stage. As AI continues to lower barriers to product development, NAVER D2SF plans to further expand its engagement with AI-native founders who can quickly identify and proactively solve emerging market problems.
About NAVER D2SF
NAVER D2SF is NAVER's in-house corporate venture arm, supporting sustainable growth by collaborating with startups. Founded in 1999, NAVER has maintained its position as Korea's leading search engine for over 20 years and operates across commerce, content, fintech, and cloud services. Under the technological vision of D2 (For Developers, By Developers), NAVER is actively developing new technologies and global partnerships to grow as a leading tech company.
To learn more, visit https://d2sf.naver.com
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NAVER D2SF Invests in AIM Intelligence, an AI Security Startup
