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Ben Wong
General Manager, Southeast Asia and Hong Kong
Adyen
As Adyen’s General Manager of Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Ben oversees the company’s commercial operations in the region where he focuses on growth strategies and strengthening partnerships in Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong.
Ben built his career using over a decade of experience in technical roles to transition to business development with a deep understanding of the challenges and opportunities businesses have in adopting and optimizing new technologies.
A Singaporean native, Ben joined Adyen in 2016 and has since played a pivotal role in Adyen’s expansion across retail, ecommerce, and hospitality industries.
Prior to Adyen, Ben held technical roles in Worldpay, OCBC, and Land Transport Authority. Ben holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering from National University of Singapore.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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3:20–3:50pmFri 20 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Beyond Faster Payments: What’s Still Holding Cross-Border Payments Back?
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Shadab TaiyabiAsia Head of Fintech Sales, GPSHSBC
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Ben WongGeneral Manager, Southeast Asia and Hong KongAdyen
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Jeremy TanFounder & Chief Executive OfficerLiquid Group Pte Ltd
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Violas XiaoSingapore Chief Executive OfficerXTransfer
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Pieter FrankenGroup Chief Technology OfficerGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
For years, the payments industry has shared one ambition: make cross-border payments faster, cheaper, more transparent and more inclusive. Progress has been made, but the hardest problems are no longer technical. Firms moving money across borders still face differing compliance requirements, inconsistent standards, limited interoperability and persistent first- and last-mile frictions. These costs fall hardest on merchants and small businesses.
With the G20’s 2027 targets for cross-border payments approaching, the question is what can actually be delivered, and by whom.
This session brings together practitioners who move money across borders every day, from merchant acquiring and cross-border platforms to the fintech industry. It looks at Asia’s corridors, where markets operate at very different stages of development. Which bottlenecks cost businesses most? What has worked in practice? And where does industry need to act together, or need policymakers to step in, to turn ambition into measurable progress? -
