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Peter Loo
Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Bybit
Peter Loo is Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at Bybit, where he leads the company’s global legal, regulatory, and compliance strategy as Bybit continues its evolution into a fully integrated, regulated financial platform. With more than 25 years of cross-jurisdictional experience, Peter brings extensive expertise spanning investment banking, financial regulation, legal advisory, and digital assets across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Prior to joining Bybit, Peter served as General Counsel & Head of Sector Development at Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), where he played a key role in shaping Dubai’s virtual asset regulatory framework. He led work across licensing frameworks, market conduct policies, and enforcement protocols, while engaging with global exchanges, custodians, and institutional participants.
Peter has also held senior legal and compliance roles at leading financial institutions, including Barclays Capital and MF Global, advising on complex derivatives, structured products, and cross-border regulatory matters. As EMEA Head of Legal & Compliance at Amber Group, he led regulatory expansion and product structuring across Europe and the Middle East.
His career spans the evolution of financial markets from traditional derivatives and fund structuring to digital assets and tokenisation, giving him a broad perspective on the regulatory and commercial considerations shaping the next generation of financial services.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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5:30–6:00pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Capital Rewiring
Building Trusted Hubs for Programmable Money
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Peter LooChief Legal & Compliance OfficerBybit
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Rene MichauGlobal Head, Digital Asset AdvisoryStandard Chartered
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Hon. Natia TurnavaGovernorNational Bank of Georgia
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James BoeyChief Executive Officer, China, India, ASEAN, Central Asia & Europe; Co-Chief Executive Officer, GFTN Connections Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
As rules move into the money itself, the appeal of a jurisdiction or a platform depends less on legacy and more on whether innovators, institutions and regulators can all trust what is built on it. Earning that trust rests on three tests.
First, clarity: rules that are predictable enough for firms to commit capital and talent, and robust enough to protect stability.
Second, connectivity: rails that link new forms of money to the traditional financial system and across borders, so that value created in one market can move into others.
Third, credibility: compliance that holds up across jurisdictions, because a hub is only as strong as the standards its participants carry abroad.
The panel will discuss what makes a jurisdiction or platform a trusted home for programmable money, where programmable money is delivering value today, and how regulators and industry can build hubs that are open to innovation and trusted for stability. -
