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Victor Liew
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer
StraitsX
Victor Liew is the Co-Founder of StraitsX, formerly known as Xfers, where he leads over 250 engineers driving security, infrastructure, and blockchain initiatives. Under his leadership, the company grew from a startup in the Y Combinator accelerator program into a leading payment gateway in Singapore, and now as a stablecoin-native settlement layer.
He has been building StraitsX’s modular, programmable infrastructure, which has become the foundation for powering stablecoin adoption and use cases. This includes leading the development of the Purpose Bound Money project, a technological infrastructure for stablecoin-based blockchain payments, in collaboration with major firms like Grab, Amazon, Ant, and Docomo.
Before starting Xfers, Victor served as a Software Engineer at Quora in the United States. He holds a Bachelor of Computing (Honours) from the National University of Singapore.
Speaking At
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4:00–5:30pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 3Open
The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized Markets
BLOOM: When Digital Money Works Together
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Chengyi OngDirector of Policy & Regulatory Strategy, APACCircle
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Kah Kit YipHead of Blockchain & Digital AssetsUOB
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Kelvin LiSenior Vice PresidentAnt International
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Pisut DarmaraksaSenior Vice President - Business Analyst / Solution Development MasterKASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited
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Victor LiewCo-founder & Chief Technology OfficerStraitsX
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
The conversation around digital money has largely focused on issuance, whether stablecoins, tokenized deposits or central bank digital currencies. BLOOM (Borderless, Liquid, Open, Online, Multicurrency) focuses on a different question: how can different forms of digital money coexist and work together seamlessly in real-world payments, treasury, liquidity management and cross-border settlement? Bringing together banks, payment service providers, FinTechs and policymakers, BLOOM supports the development, deployment and scaling of digital money solutions, alongside the interoperability, regulatory alignment and partnerships needed for adoption.
This roundtable convenes the BLOOM community to take stock of ongoing work on cross-bank interoperability, programmable compliance and liquidity optimisation, and share lessons from implementation. Participants will also explore emerging opportunities such as micropayments, agentic payments and automated treasury management, and identify the standards, partnerships and policy support needed to scale these capabilities across institutions and jurisdictions.
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