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      Shadab Taiyabi

      Shadab Taiyabi

      Asia Head of Fintech Sales, GPS

      HSBC

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      Shadab is Asia Head of Fintech Sales within HSBC’s Global Payments Solutions (GPS), responsible for driving the fintech sales strategy across the region. He leads client engagement and solutioning for fintechs—partnering with product and coverage teams to deliver payments, cash management and liquidity solutions, and to support fintechs’ growth from early scale-up through to regional and global expansion.

      In addition to his role at HSBC, Shadab is the Immediate Past President and Exco Member of the Singapore FinTech Association (SFA), the national industry association and a cross-industry initiative designed to facilitate collaboration between all market participants and stakeholders in the FinTech ecosystem. Since his election in 2021, Shadab has led the SFA Executive Committee in shaping strategies to promote business growth, facilitate access to capital and opportunities as well as develop the FinTech talent pool as President till 2025 and now serves as Immediate Past President in the current Exco.

      During his tenure as SFA President, Shadab has been instrumental in launching and implementing initiatives such as the SG FinTech Club, the Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) framework, the Singapore FinTech Youth Chapter, the setup of Strategic Advisory Council, and new subcommittees focusing on payments, Web3 and Insurtech.

      Shadab is an IBF Fellow and has over 20 years of experience working in the financial services industry with over 16 years at FinTech companies. He has a strong track record of growing businesses in the fintech space and is a thought-leader across multiple diverse fintech segments such as wealthtech, insurtech, payments, digital financing as well as web3.0 applications in financial services.

      He has served as an Observer on the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) Payments Council, contributing to discussions on driving e-payment adoption and interoperability in Singapore. Additionally, Shadab has been a member of the IMAS Digital Innovation Committee, which advocates and promotes the adoption of digital technology and innovation within the asset management industry.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 3:20–3:50pmFri 20 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen

        Policy Rewiring

        Beyond Faster Payments: What’s Still Holding Cross-Border Payments Back?

        Policy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen

        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?