CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship

CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship CFTE strives to help new-age professionals reimagine the role of technology through education, so they are equipped to reinvent finance 2.0.

Europe: 30 Churchill Pl, London E14 5RE, United Kingdom and Paris, France

Middle East: Cloud Spaces, AI Sarab Tower, Al Maryah Island, Abu Dhabi

Asia: 80 Robinson Road, Singapore and Hong Kong Next-gen technological advancements in Finance are disrupting traditional business roles, but they are also opening new gateways to more advanced opportunities. The courses we offer reflect the changes occ

urring in the industry including FinTech megatrends such as blockchain, machine learning, API’s and Big Data. Our mission resonates with every learner’s goals that wishes to rapidly advance in their career, to lead their next digital innovation project or even to drive the disruption in finance by building their own venture. We bring exclusive insights from leaders that are steering the developments in the financial sphere, from global CEOs to disruptive entrepreneurs. With CFTE, you won’t just learn what’s in the books, you will live the experience by grasping real-world applications. Follow the link to learn more about our courses: www.cfte.education

We bring exclusive insights from leaders that are steering the developments in the financial sphere, from global CEOs to disruptive entrepreneurs.

Your organisation is quietly turning into a team of freelancers.Not because anyone decided to. Because AI made everyone ...
26/08/2026

Your organisation is quietly turning into a team of freelancers.

Not because anyone decided to. Because AI made everyone individually faster, and nothing else changed.

An AI Chief of Staff is a professional who holds four capabilities at once: domain expertise, AI capability, systems thinking and organisational judgement.

The role exists because individual AI capability does not automatically become organisational capability.

Here is what happens when it does not.

Twelve people on a team. Each has found their own tools, built their own prompt library, developed a private way of producing work that nobody else can see, reuse or check.

Individual output is up. Coherence is down. Only the first half gets reported.

This is usually diagnosed as an adoption problem. It is not. Adoption is going fine. It is a systems problem, and it surfaces in four ways.

Work that cannot be handed over, because it lives inside one person's setup
Quality that varies depending on whose workflow the task passed through

No shared standard for what good looks like when AI produced half the output
The same problem solved privately, repeatedly, by people who do not know it was already solved

AI can create supercharged individuals. Without judgement, systems and operating discipline, organisations do not become supercharged. They become fragmented.

CFTE is running Singapore's first AI Chief of Staff programme this September.

Build exceptional AI skills over four weekends.

Applications close 3 September.

https://www.cfte.education/ai-chief-of-staff-programme

One test for your own team. If your strongest AI user left tomorrow, how much of how they work would leave with them?

Access to AI is now common. The ability to use it with depth, structure and judgement is not.That gap is where professio...
25/08/2026

Access to AI is now common. The ability to use it with depth, structure and judgement is not.

That gap is where professional value is moving.

Most organisations already have people who are strong in one of these four things.

Domain expertise. You understand the real problems, workflows, constraints and where value actually sits.

AI capability. You can research, analyse, create and execute with AI at a level that materially expands what one person can accomplish.

Systems thinking. You can translate complex work into structured workflows and design reliable human-AI systems.

Organisational judgement. You can identify the right opportunity, align stakeholders and turn capability into responsible progress.

Individually, each is useful.

Combined in one person, they are rare enough that most organisations struggle to find them internally.

That combination is what we call an AI Chief of Staff.

Not a role. Not a title. A way of operating in the AI era.

The Singapore Founding Cohort begins on 5 September. 20 selected participants, eight full days in person, personally led by Huy Nguyen Trieu.

Applications close 3rd September.

https://www.cfte.education/ai-chief-of-staff-programme

Which of the four is hardest to build inside your organisation?

AI capability is creating a capability divide between professionals.There are three levels emerging. Most people will st...
23/08/2026

AI capability is creating a capability divide between professionals.

There are three levels emerging. Most people will stop at the second.

The three levels are in the carousel.

Level two is a real achievement. You use AI systematically, you build reusable workflows, you are measurably faster and better at your job.

And that is usually where it stops. You get faster at the work you already do, while the work itself stays the same shape.

The gap that will matter over the next two years is not between people who use AI and people who do not.

It is between people who improve their own output, and people who change how the work is done.

Very few professionals can do the second. It takes AI capability, domain depth, systems thinking and organisational judgement in the same person, and almost nobody is building that combination on purpose.

Which of the three levels does your organisation have most of, and which does it need most?

Building the third one on purpose is what CFTE created Singapore's first AI Chief of Staff programme for the next generation of AI leaders, starting this September.

Twenty selected participants. Four weekends, eight full days, in person in Singapore, taught throughout by CFTE co-founder Huy Nguyen Trieu.

Applications close 28 August.

Apply here: https://www.cfte.education/ai-chief-of-staff-programme

AI Chief of Staff is a Silicon Valley concept, like Mark Zuckerberg's Chief of Staff: a strategic partner who amplifies ...
23/08/2026

AI Chief of Staff is a Silicon Valley concept, like Mark Zuckerberg's Chief of Staff: a strategic partner who amplifies an executive's impact by combining judgement, coordination and ex*****on.

Where as an AI Chief of Staff is the professional who brings those capabilities together and applies them to real work.

It is a rare combination of four things.

01. Domain expertise
You understand the real problems, workflows, constraints, stakeholders and sources of value in your field.

02. AI capability
You research, analyse, create, build and execute with AI at a materially higher professional standard.

03. Systems thinking
You translate complex work into structured workflows and design reliable human-AI systems.

04. Organisational judgement
You identify the right opportunities, work across stakeholders and support responsible implementation.

Together, they describe an AI Chief of Staff.

A rare combination of AI capability, systems thinking and organisational judgement that organisations are increasingly in search for.

Our inaugural AI Chief of Staff Programme in Singapore is designed to help you build exactly that profile and operate at that level.

Programme details:

📅 5 to 27 September 2026
📍 Singapore, in person
🗓️ Four weekends, eight full days
👥 20 selected participants

Cohort filling up soon. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage interested candidates to apply soon.

https://www.cfte.education/ai-chief-of-staff-programme

CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship is excited to launch Singapore’s first AI Chief of Staff Prog...
23/08/2026

CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship is excited to launch Singapore’s first AI Chief of Staff Programme, designed to develop the next generation of AI leaders.

Delivered in person by CFTE Co-founder Huy NGUYEN TRIEU, the programme will bring together a carefully selected cohort of 20 high-potential professionals and future leaders.

Participants will also learn directly from leading industry practitioners who have built, deployed, governed and led AI at scale within major organisations around the world.

The objective is not simply to teach participants more about AI.

It is to help them become significantly more capable at using and building with AI, while developing the judgement to help their organisations realise its value.

Throughout the programme, participants will develop a rare combination of practical AI capability, systems thinking and organisational judgement.

Programme details:

📅 5 to 27 September 2026
📍 Singapore, in person
🗓️ Four weekends, eight full days
👥 20 selected participants

Places in the founding cohort are filling quickly. Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage interested candidates to apply soon.

Learn more and apply : https://www.cfte.education/ai-chief-of-staff-programme

Singapore has been an important place for CFTE this summer 🇸🇬 With both CFTE co-founders in Singapore, the past few week...
22/08/2026

Singapore has been an important place for CFTE this summer 🇸🇬

With both CFTE co-founders in Singapore, the past few weeks have been an opportunity to reconnect with the ecosystem, exchange ideas and explore a question at the heart of our work:
How do we transform workforces and build AI capabilities at scale?

Across Singapore, we have been bringing this conversation to life:
→ At Singtel, exploring with leaders how AI is changing individual performance, leadership and organisations.
https://www.cfte.education/supercharged-recap

→ At our CFTE Summer Reception, bringing together leaders and friends from across Singapore’s finance, policy and workforce ecosystem.
https://www.cfte.education/summer-reception-singapore

→ With the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore and Standard Chartered, discussing what it takes to move AI from promising pilots to safe, scalable deployment in financial services.
https://www.cfte.education/ai-in-finance-roundtable-singapore

→ With NTUC LearningHub, exploring what it takes to build AI readiness across Singapore’s financial workforce at scale.

→ With GFTN, discussing how human capability, trusted infrastructure and ecosystem coordination can come together for an AI-powered financial system.
And the conversation continues.

We are also preparing to launch The AI-fication of System Thinking, exploring the emerging gap between using AI to improve individual tasks and redesigning workflows, systems and organisations around what AI now makes possible.
https://www.cfte.education/ai-fication-of-system-thinking-launch

Across all of these conversations, one theme keeps coming back: technology alone is not enough. Organisations also need the people, capabilities and systems to turn AI into meaningful impact.

If you are in Singapore and working on AI, workforce transformation or capability building at scale, we would be delighted to connect.

If AI capability needs to reflect someone’s role, where should they start?At CFTE, we think about the journey across thr...
21/08/2026

If AI capability needs to reflect someone’s role, where should they start?

At CFTE, we think about the journey across three complementary learning pathways.

1. Build the foundation

AI Literacy for Professionals is designed for professionals who want to understand AI, evaluate it more critically and use it with greater confidence.

It provides the foundation for people beginning to work more closely with AI in their professional lives.
https://courses.cfte.education/ai-literacy-for-professionals-online-course-2/

2. Move into practical application

Generative AI 360 for Financial Services goes further into how Generative AI is being applied across finance.

It connects the technology with practical areas including research, customer service, data analysis, risk, compliance and decision support.
https://courses.cfte.education/generative-ai-360-for-financial-services-online-course/

3. Develop specialist capability

Generative AI for Compliance is designed for professionals working across compliance, risk and governance.

It explores Generative AI through the lens of responsible use, governance, risk and professional oversight.
https://courses.cfte.education/generative-ai-for-compliance-in-financial-services-online-course/

The result is not one AI course for everyone.

It is a pathway from:

Foundation → Application → Specialist capability

So whether you are building your own AI capability or thinking about AI learning across an organisation, the starting point can reflect the work people actually do.

Explore CFTE’s approach and the three learning pathways:

https://blog.cfte.education/the-eu-ai-acts-august-2026-milestone-is-your-workforce-ai-literate/

One area the EU AI Act brings into focus is AI literacy.But what does AI literacy actually mean for you in your role?It ...
19/08/2026

One area the EU AI Act brings into focus is AI literacy.

But what does AI literacy actually mean for you in your role?

It depends on how you interact with AI.

If you use Generative AI for research, writing or analysis, you may need to understand how to:

→ question AI-generated outputs
→ recognise limitations and potential errors
→ handle information appropriately
→ know when human judgement is needed

If you work in product, operations or transformation, your focus may go further:

→ where AI could add value
→ how it can be applied to existing workflows
→ what risks need to be considered
→ how people and AI work together

And if you work in compliance, risk or governance, another layer becomes important:

→ understanding how AI is being used
→ identifying limitations and risks
→ asking the right questions
→ providing informed oversight and challenge

All of these are forms of AI capability.

But different responsibilities require different capabilities.

That is why workforce AI literacy should not simply mean giving everyone the same training.

For financial institutions, the more useful question is:

What does each group of people need to understand, apply and oversee in order to work effectively with AI?

We explore the EU AI Act and the case for role-specific AI capability here:

https://blog.cfte.education/the-eu-ai-acts-august-2026-milestone-is-your-workforce-ai-literate/

We’re pleased to see Tram Anh Nguyen, Co-Founder of CFTE, joining the ICAI International Conference 2026 – ASEAN in Sing...
17/08/2026

We’re pleased to see Tram Anh Nguyen, Co-Founder of CFTE, joining the ICAI International Conference 2026 – ASEAN in Singapore this week.

On 22 August, Tram Anh will take part in the session “AI × Finance × Strategy: The Algorithmic Enterprise”, alongside CA Shivam Palan and Debananda Ghosh, with the discussion moderated by CA Kushal R Jaju.

The conversation will explore how AI is reshaping finance and the enterprise — and what this means for strategy, decision-making and the role of human judgement as organisations move from experimenting with AI to applying it at scale.

At CFTE, this is a conversation close to our work: helping financial institutions, leaders and professionals build the capabilities needed to navigate technological change and apply AI responsibly and effectively.

We look forward to the discussion and to connecting with the finance community in Singapore.

📍 Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore
📅 21–22 August 2026

🔗 Register: https://icai.org.sg/icai-international-conference-2026

You’ve probably heard a lot about the EU AI Act.But what actually is it, and what does it mean for people using AI at wo...
17/08/2026

You’ve probably heard a lot about the EU AI Act.

But what actually is it, and what does it mean for people using AI at work?

The EU AI Act is the European Union’s legal framework for artificial intelligence.

Rather than treating every AI system in the same way, it takes a risk-based approach.

In simple terms, the rules become more significant depending on what the AI does, how it is being used and the potential risks involved.

The Act covers areas including:

→ how certain AI systems are developed and used
→ transparency around AI and AI-generated content
→ requirements for higher-risk applications
→ governance and human oversight
→ the knowledge and understanding of people working with AI

And that last point matters to almost every organisation adopting AI.

AI regulation isn’t only a technology or compliance issue. It is also a people issue.

If you are using AI to research, write, analyse information, support decisions or interact with customers, understanding what the technology can and cannot do increasingly matters.

That is where AI literacy comes in.

AI literacy is about developing the knowledge and judgement to understand AI, recognise its capabilities and limitations, assess its outputs and use it appropriately in the context of your work.

And it does not necessarily look the same for everyone.

A general employee using Generative AI may need different knowledge from a product manager deploying an AI use case or a compliance professional responsible for oversight.

For financial institutions, the question is therefore becoming:

Do our people understand AI well enough for the roles they perform?

We explore what the EU AI Act’s August 2026 milestone means for workforce AI capability here:

https://blog.cfte.education/the-eu-ai-acts-august-2026-milestone-is-your-workforce-ai-literate/

Address

London

Website

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Business

Send a message to CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship:

Shortcuts

Share

Category