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Kevin Kang
Co-Founder
Reap by Payward
Kevin Kang is a Co-Founder at Reap, a Payward company. Reap is a global fintech that enables financial connectivity and access for businesses worldwide through stablecoin-enabled infrastructure. In 2026, Reap was acquired by Payward, the parent of Kraken, in one of Asia’s largest fintech exits, joining one interoperable stack spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
At Reap, Kevin oversees the company's overall operations and strategic growth initiatives, and is also responsible for driving organizational efficiency. Drawing on his background in banking, particularly with regulation and risk management, he brings the discipline of traditional finance to the agility of fintech, ensuring Reap scales efficiently while maintaining operational excellence and trust.
His leadership has contributed significantly to the company's position as an innovative leader in the financial technology space.
Kevin began his career in investment banking at Scotiabank, one of Canada’s Big Five banks, where he witnessed firsthand the barriers to access in legacy financial systems for both web2 and web3 companies. Recognizing this opportunity to bridge these gaps using innovative financial technology, he co- founded Reap in 2018 with Daren Guo, his childhood best friend.
He views the emergence of stablecoins as a powerful technological enabler to solve real-world payment problems in more efficient ways. He is passionate about fintech, digital financing, mass adoption, and Web3 payments.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:10–4:50pmWed 18 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
When Agentic AI Meets Programmable Money, What Comes Next?
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Evy TheunisManaging Director & Head of Digital Assets, Institutional Banking GroupDBS
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Kash RazzaghiChief Commercial OfficerCircle Internet Group (Circle)
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Sanjay SarafChief Product Officer - Fiserv Merchant SolutionsFiserv
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Kevin KangCo-FounderReap by Payward
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Sunayna TutejaFormer Chief Innovation OfficerFederal Reserve SystemModerator
About this session
Three forces are colliding at once—autonomous agents, programmable stablecoins, and real-time rails—and together they could rewrite how money moves entirely. As AI agents begin to transact independently and stablecoins gain regulatory footing, the boundaries between payments, settlement, and currency are dissolving faster than most institutions can react. Learn how agentic payments and stablecoins intersect to enable machine-speed money movement; what infrastructure and compliance shifts this convergence demands; and where the earliest commercial opportunities are emerging.
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