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Derek Chan
Chief Executive Officer
Singapore Payments Network (SPaN)
Derek Chan is a payments industry leader with over 20 years of experience across payment infrastructure, operations, product innovation, and business development. He currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Singapore Payments Network (SPaN).
Prior to joining SPaN, Derek was Chief Business Officer of Banking Computer Services Pte Ltd (BCS), a subsidiary of NETS, where he oversaw the operations of Singapore's core payment infrastructure, including PayNow, FAST, Interbank GIRO, SGD and USD cheque clearing systems, and the SGQR Central Repository. He also played a key role in delivering major industry initiatives, including the launch of PayNow for consumers and businesses, enabling non-financial institution access to PayNow-FAST, implementing the SGQR Central Repository, and establishing the PayNow-PromptPay Singapore-Thailand linkage.
Derek has also held senior leadership positions at Visa and Mastercard, including roles as Head of Merchant Sales and Solutions for Indochina, Myanmar and the Philippines at Visa, and Vice President, Acceptance Development, Asia Pacific at Mastercard.
Derek holds a Bachelor of Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Master of Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
Speaking At
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11:30am–1:00pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
Global Frameworks and Shared Best Practices in Payments Chains
From Convergence to Connectivity: Shared Rails & Shared Responsibility
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Adeline KimGroup Country Manager, Regional Southeast Asia & SVP, Global Clients, Asia PacificVisa
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Derek ChanChief Executive OfficerSingapore Payments Network (SPaN)
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Edward YueGeneral ManagerANT International
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Lawrence ChanGroup Chief Executive OfficerNetwork for Electronic Transfers (Singapore)
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Qaiser AnwarudinDirector, Payment Services Policy DepartmentBank Negara Malaysia
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Tingli BongDirector - Market Engagement, ASEANSwift
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Jo YeoDirectorMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As payment networks become increasingly interconnected, the challenge is no longer whether they can connect, but how they coordinate. At the Point Zero Forum 2026 roundtable, leaders from payment networks, central banks and regulators converged on a common principle: compete at the customer experience layer, collaborate on the standards and infrastructure beneath it.
But connectivity creates new questions. As instant payment systems, card networks, wallets and emerging digital money platforms become part of a growing "network of networks", who manages shared risks, aligns incentives and coordinates the rules that keep the ecosystem open, resilient and innovative?
This roundtable will bring together global payments leaders to explore the governance, economics and architecture of the next generation of integrated payment networks, and what it will take to build a truly connected global payments landscape.
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