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Chengyi Ong
Director of Policy & Regulatory Strategy, APAC
Circle
Chengyi Ong is Director of Policy and Regulatory Strategy for APAC at Circle, where she focuses on advancing digital assets, payments, and programmable blockchain infrastructure across the region, supporting the development of a more open and global financial system. Previously, she led APAC public policy at Chainalysis and spent over a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore, working across financial regulation, supervision, industry development, and central banking.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:40–3:20pmFri 20 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpenModerator
Policy Rewiring
Anchoring Digital Financial Markets
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Aaron SeabrookChief Operating OfficerMarketnode
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Isadora ArredondoVice President, Global PolicyHedera
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Dr. Wolfram SeidemannChief Executive Officer Currency TechnologyGiesecke+Devrient
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Chengyi OngDirector of Policy & Regulatory Strategy, APACCircleModerator
About this session
Tokenisation has moved well past the pilot stage, but a market only works if the infrastructure underneath it can be trusted: networks built for institutional scale, platforms that connect issuance, trading and settlement, a trusted form of money to settle in, and an infrastructure that lets institutions run digital assets as everyday business. This panel brings together the people building each of those layers.
The discussion works through what each layer needs to hold up under real institutional volumes, where the handoffs between networks, platforms, settlement money and legacy systems still cause friction, and what the operating model behind digital assets looks like in practice: who runs what, how it connects to existing infrastructure, and what it takes to scale. Attendees leave with a practical view of what "anchoring" digital markets means, from the network to the money that settles on it. -
