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Peerapong Thonnagith
Deputy Director, Payment Policy and Financial Technology Department
Bank of Thailand
As a Deputy Director of FinTech and Innovation Office under Payment Systems and Financial Technology Policy Development at the Bank of Thailand, he is responsible for the technical development on CBDC- and tokenizationrelated initiatives e.g., cross-border wholesale CBDC, domestic CBDC pilot, and interoperability for tokenization, etc.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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4:30–5:00pmWed 18 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Cross-Border Wholesale Connectivity: Building a More Connected Financial System
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Ivan OdonnatGeneral Director for Financial Stability & OperationsBanque de France
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Peerapong ThonnagithDeputy Director, Payment Policy and Financial Technology DepartmentBank of Thailand
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As digital money, tokenized assets and next-generation financial infrastructures gain traction around the world, jurisdictions and institutions are adopting a growing range of technologies, infrastructure models and settlement systems. While this diversity is driving innovation, it also raises an important question: how can increasingly interconnected financial systems continue to operate seamlessly across borders — without waiting for a single global standard to emerge first?
This panel brings together the institutions alongside policymakers and innovators from Asia, Europe and the UK to discuss what regional cooperation actually requires in practice: unified ledgers, synchronisation mechanisms, privacy-preserving technologies, and the governance arrangements that let independently built systems trust one another.
The discussion will examine the technical, legal, operational and regulatory challenges involved in scaling these regional models, and explore how deeper connectivity between them — rather than a single unified global system — may be the more realistic path to an interconnected financial system. -
