Top DBS woman banker, Tan Su Shan, talks about the bank's journey to become more of a technology company and how leaders learn to apply new technologies to the business through doing.

Darragh Hayes, CEO and Grant Leech, chief technology officer (CTO) at LEI Worldwide, shared their insights on how the legal entity identifiers (LEI) play a significant role for both regulators and clients. They also discussed the issues faced by the financial institutions in verifying the identity of people they transact with and the future trends, especially on cryptocurrency transactions.

Grant Leech, chief technology officer (CTO) at private limited company LEI Worldwide, shared his insights on the use of the verifiable legal entity identifier (VLEI) to enable the company to identify the parties involved in crypto-based transaction.

Grant Leech, chief technology officer (CTO) at LEI Worldwide talked about the importance of legal entity identifier (LEI) in regulatory reporting and compliance of companies. Darragh Hayes, CEO of LEI Worldwide, discussed how institutions such as SWIFT can integrate an LEI-based system acting as know your customer (KYC) layer in cross-border transactions.

Darragh Hayes, CEO of LEI Worldwide, discussed how the legal entity identifiers (LEI) help both regulators and clients in verifying the identity of the company and the officials involved in financial transaction.

He Cong, founder of Probe Group, talks about how technologies like 5G will affect the blockchain industry. He explains that its development will improve the computation and storage capabilities of the entire network.

He Cong, founder of Probe Group, explains how despite the restrictions on cryptocurrencies, Chinese regulators continue to support the development and use of blockchain with real economy applications. He also describes the use of Pro token for global cross-border trade settlement.

Simon Loong, founder and CEO of WeLab emphasised the importance of its first digital banking venture in Hong Kong, WeLab Bank, becoming profitable than to acquire as many customers as it can.

Eric Barbier, founder and CEO of TripleA, shares how his company received the first crypto payments licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the new Payment Services Act.

Lars Holst, founder and CEO of GCEX, talks about his goal to replicate the prime broking model employed by intermediaries such as Saxo to the trading of security tokens and cryptocurrencies.

Dusan Stojanovic, founding partner of True Global Ventures that recently invested in the digital brokerage, GCEX, says the strength of the management team, its record of completing ventures and ability to operate a volatile crypto business clinched the deal for him.

Lars Holst, founder and CEO of GCEX, and Dusan Stojanovic, founding partner of TGV, discussed with Emmanuel Daniel the business model of the UK based FCA regulated digital brokerage, how it works with institutional and professional clients on crypto assets, and expansion into Europe, Middle East and Asia.

Simon Loong, founder and group CEO of WeLab discussed the company’s plans to build a pan Asian digital banking business, the path to profitability of its first digital bank in Hong Kong and how it is working with lead investor, German multinational insurance and wealth management group, Allianz.

Eric Barbier, founder and CEO, TripleA, speaks with Emmanuel Daniel, founder, about receiving the first crypto payments licence from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) under the new Payment Services Act.

In this Leadership Perspective Series, Jose Arnulfo “Wick” Veloso, president of Philippine National Bank (PNB) discussed digital transformation, IT security, and the bank’s participation in BSP’s initiatives to provide key payment and financial services. He talked about how a mission-based strategy helped him to lead and build a culture of resiliency.