

Careers in Payments & Risk in the Age of AI
The biggest risk to your career isn't AI. It's becoming a professional whose work AI can easily replicate!
AI can write emails, summarize meetings, analyze data, and even help build products. As these tools become accessible to everyone, simply knowing how to use AI is no longer enough.
What will set professionals apart is what AI can't easily replicate: context, judgment, commercial thinking, industry expertise, local market knowledge, and the ability to make the right decision when there isn't an obvious one.
That's exactly why now is the right time to talk about Careers in Payments & Risk.
The industry isn't just adopting AI. It's expanding into new markets, navigating evolving regulations, launching new payment methods, and tackling increasingly sophisticated fraud and risk challenges. At the same time, companies are rethinking the skills they hire for, the roles they create, and what future leadership looks like.
Join us for Careers in Payments & Risk in the Age of AI, where we'll cover:
How Payments & Risk careers are evolving and the trends professionals should be paying attention to.
Opportunities for both commercial and technical professionals.
The roles currently seeing the strongest demand and what's driving that demand.
Why local expertise is becoming increasingly valuable for global Payments & Risk organizations.
How professionals can position themselves for long-term career growth.
How AI is changing hiring, recruitment, and the qualities companies value most in talent.
Speakers
Angel O'Hara
People & Talent leader with 10+ years of experience across talent acquisition, people operations, organizational design, compensation, performance management, and workforce planning across Latin America, North America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East.
Sonal Mehra
Co-founder at tawgl - a new age AI based HR tech venture. In her career spanning over 18 years, Sonal has held leadership positions in companies like Godrej, Micromax and Gaana. In her roles, she has had a deep focus on digital transformation and rapidly scaling teams.
Moderator
Vishal Mehta
Founding Partner, T&P Advisory. With over 15 years of experience in payments, Vishal advises businesses on payments strategy, product, market expansion, and partnerships, drawing on deep hands-on experience across APAC and India, two of the world's most dynamic payments markets.
About T&P Advisory:
T&P Advisory (Travel and Payments) is a Singapore-based payments advisory and consulting firm led by industry leaders Vishal Mehta, SheueChee Beh, Kanika Mittal, Janet Tan, and Arvin Singh, bringing nearly 100 years of combined experience from world-class organizations such as Expedia, Microsoft, Visa, NTT DATA, Meniga, Delivery Hero, PayPal, Uber, JPMorgan, Discover, Hoolah, Worldpay, and ShopBack, along with advocacy groups including MAG, MRC, and MPAI.
Our vision is to democratise payments knowledge, treating payments as strategy, not as an afterthought.
We also run the Payments Club, a global community of 700+ payments professionals and enthusiasts, brought together through online and offline engagements, webinars, curated meetups, and global gatherings across markets including the US, Singapore, Dubai, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, India (more countries coming soon)
Learn more about T&P: www.travelandpayments.com