LATTICE80 Fintech 50 Singapore – Top Influencers

Singapore has long established itself globally as one of the most active hubs for fintech and innovation, a true Asian and global leader. This comes in addition to Singapore’s place as an important finance hub in Asia and the world.

Massive support from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) in terms of regulations and co-operation has provided a great environment to give fintech and blockchain innovation a conducive ecosystem to thrive in. Through initiatives like the FinTech Regulatory Sandbox and the Singapore FinTech Festival, MAS is one of the most supportive regulators among countries known to be fintech hotspots.

The third edition of the Singapore FinTech Festival organised by MAS has been announced and will focus on showcasing ASEAN FinTechs along with a summit on Artificial Intelligence in Finance between 12th to 16th November this year. The festival, which is now the largest FinTech event in the world, celebrates the best of innovation in the country. Over 30,000 people from 109 countries representing more than 5000 companies took part in the previous edition of the festival in 2017, bringing about US$2 billion in investments.

Singapore currently has well over 411 active startups as per FintechDB™ which includes a few international companies who have established an office in Singapore.

With a small population, the fintech products being developed in the country are primarily focused as B2B solutions. Although more recently, a few blockchain applications such as Bluzelle and C.O.S.S. have received global attention. B2C fintech products have markets in the South-East Asian region, similar to Hong Kong as an entry point to China.

The Fintech industry has had tremendous growth in recent years, and Asia has maintained its position as the leader with fast evolving markets like China, India, Singapore and Hong Kong. Singapore is viewed as one of the best places in the world to launch an ICO campaign to raise funds. This latest method is being adopted to democratise the VC industry as we know it.

LATTICE80 identifies some of the most important thought leaders who are creating an influence through action and impact in Singapore.

In case you think we have missed someone or wish to suggest a correction, please drop us a line on satyarth@lattice80.com.

SingaporeFintech	Name	Title	Company	Profile
	Adam Reynolds	CEO Asia Pacific	Saxo Capital Markets Pte Ltd
	Alistair Duff	Co-Founder & Head of Asia Pacific	DrumG Financial Technologies
	Altona Widjaja	Vice President	OCBC Bank
	Anson Zeall	Co-founder, CEO/CTO	CoinPip
	Ayesha Khanna	CEO	ADDO AI
	Chia Hock Lai	Head, Digital Office	NTUC Income
	Dan Liebau	Founder	Lightbulb Capital
	Daphne Ng	CEO	Jupiter Chain
	Darius Sit	Managing Partner	QCP Capital
	David Hardoon	Chief Data Officer	Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
	David Lee	Co-founder	BlockAsset
	Dušan Stojanović	Founder and Director	True Global Ventures
	Fernn Lim	Head, Culture and Fintech Acceleration, The Open Vault at OCBC	OCBC Bank
	Gina Heng	Founder	Miss Kaya
	Hope Liu	CEO	Eximchain
	Igor Pesin	Partner / Investment Director	Life.SREDA VC
	Jacqueline Loh	Deputy Managing Director	Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
	Janet Young	MD & Head, Group Channels & Digitalization	United Overseas Bank
	Joe Seunghyun Cho	Co-founder and Founding CEO	LATTICE80
	Joe Tusin	CEO & Founder	Chynge
	John Ng Pangilinan	Partner	Signum Capital
	Joo Seng Wong	Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer	Spark Systems
	Katherine Ng	Head of Marketing	Quoine
	Kayoko Francis	Co-Founder and CEO	Finesse Digital
	Kelvin Teo	Co-Founder	Funding Societies
	Koichi Saito	Founder and General Partner	KK Fund
	Marcelo García Casil	Founder and CEO	Maecenas
	Markus Gnirck	Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer	tryb
	Michael Tee	CEO	FundedHere
	Michele Ferrario	Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer	StashAway
	Mohit Mehrotra	Co-Leader MonitorDeloitte, APAC	Deloitte
	Neal Cross	Chief Innovation Officer	DBS Bank
	Ned Phillips	Founder and CEO	Bambu
	Patrick Dai	Founder	Qtum
	Pavel Bains	CEO	Bluzelle Networks
	Ray Li	Ex-Senior Manager Business Development	Huobi Global
	Richard Turrin	Fintech Expert & Consultant
	Rosaline Chow Koo	Founder and CEO	CXA Group
	Rune Evensen	Founder & Visionary Officer	C.O.S.S.
	Ryan Lou	Fintech & Innovation Group	OCBC Bank
	Samuel Hall	Partner and MD, ASEAN	Rainmaking Innovation
	Sanjna Parasrampuria	Head – Thomson Reuters Labs, Asia	Thomson Reuters
	Scott Bales	Managing Director	Innovation Labs Asia
	Suramya Gupta	Fund Manager Asia, Head of India Business, Board Member	SBI Holdings
	Tushar Aggarwal	Podcaster	Decrypt Asia
	Val Ji-hsuan Yap	Founder & CEO	PolicyPal Network
	Varun Mittal	ASEAN Fintech Lead	EY
	Vitalik Buterin	Founder	Ethereum
	Xinshu Dong	CEO	Zilliqa
	YY Lai	Lead of Startup & Incubation	PayPal

Last updated on 20th July 2018