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Lawrence Chan
Group Chief Executive Officer
Network for Electronic Transfers (Singapore)
View LinkedIn profileLawrence brings over 30 years of deep and diversified experience to his position as Group CEO of NETS.
He is responsible for the companies in NETS Group, positioning the organisation as the industry operator, builder of payment infrastructure and winning the hearts and minds of consumers and merchants. Under his leadership, Lawrence has successfully increased digital payment adoption through NETS wide merchant network domestically and enabled cross-border payments where connectivity with overseas payments rails have been established.
To differentiate NETS in the rapidly evolving digital payment space, Lawrence is focusing on driving NETS value proposition through innovative solutions, aligning to the organisation’s purpose statement – Connecting Communities, Empowering Lives.
Prior to joining NETS, he served as Vice President – Regional Client Management, Asia Pacific for Visa and was responsible for managing regional acquirers and regional merchants. Lawrence also previously held leadership positions at PayPal and American Express. At PayPal, he was Vice President and General Manager for Japan and Southeast Asia. He also served as a Director on the Board of PayPal Pte Ltd until 2015. At American Express, he was based in Japan for four years, where he led the Merchant business before returning to Singapore and assuming the position of Senior Vice President, Global Payment Options, Asia Pacific.
Lawrence currently serves as Chairman of Nexus Global Operator, a joint venture established by NETS and PayNet to build, operate and maintain the Nexus infrastructure which aims to simplify cross-border payments by connecting domestic real-time payment systems.
In recognition of his contributions, he was awarded the Innovation Leadership Achievement Award by The Asian Banker in 2023 and the IBF Distinguished Fellow, Financial Markets in 2024. In 2025, he was also awarded the SkillsFuture Fellowship Award.
In addition, he serves as a Board Member of the Catholic Foundation and the LaSalle Trust of Singapore, both non-profit organisations. He is also the Chairman, Board of Governors of St Joseph Institution (SJI).
He earned his Bachelor of Science in Economics (Honours) degree from The London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.
Speaking At
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11:00am–12:30pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Global Frameworks, Interoperability & Shared Best Practices
From Convergence to Connectivity: Shared Rails & Shared Responsibility
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Helena ForestExecutive Vice President, Global Product & Commercial, Real Time PaymentsMastercard
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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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Serene GaySenior Vice President & Head of Value-Added Services, Asia PacificVisa
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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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9:00–10:30amTue 17 NovDesign ThinkingDesign Thinking RoomOpenModerator
Others
From Recommendations to Reality: Forging P2M Interoperability
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Carrie SuenVice President, Head of Global Affairs & Strategic DevelopmentAnt International
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Jeremy TanChief Executive OfficerLiquid Group Pte Ltd
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Sohini RajolaExecutive Director, GrowthNational Payments Corporation Of India (NPCI)
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Lawrence ChanGroup Chief Executive OfficerNetwork for Electronic Transfers (Singapore)Moderator
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Jo YeoDirectorMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As payment networks become increasingly connected, attention is shifting from interoperability in principle to interoperability at scale.
This concluding design thinking workshop will explore how commercial models and switch-to-switch connectivity can unlock seamless cross-border merchant payments, bringing together public and private sector stakeholders to co-create the next generation of interoperable payment infrastructure.
The session synthesizes all three workshops into an executable blueprint, delivering the capstone contribution to the policy Insights Report to be published by GFTN.
You may register your interest in the workshop here and we will be in touch.
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