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Tang Wei
Head of Public Policy, Southeast Asia & Greater China
Stripe
Tang Wei is the Head of Public Policy for Southeast Asia and Greater China at Stripe, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Singapore FinTech Association. At the Monetary Authority of Singapore he helped develop PayNow, Singapore's real-time payments infrastructure, before moving into the private sector: business development at Grab Financial Group, public policy at Meta (including work on the Libra stablecoin project), and financial compliance leadership at Alibaba International Digital Commerce. His experience spans payments, stablecoins, and agentic commerce. Tang Wei left doctoral research in quantum computing for a career in payments and fintech, with a foundation in physics, philosophy, and linguistics.
Speaking At
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9:30–11:00amMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
Tokenized Market Infrastructure – The Scaling Challenge
Tokenized Markets: Frictions, Choices and the Path to Interoperability
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Herman SchuellerDirector, Innovation & Technology Risk - SupervisionDubai Financial Services Authority
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Jaime PradenasHead of Financial Technology HubCentral Bank of Chile
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Kushal BalluckSenior Manager, FMI Innovation & Payments PolicyBank of England
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Peter KerstensAdvisor, DG FISMAEuropean Commission
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Alan CroftsHead of Innovation & FintechFMA New Zealand
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Tang WeiHead of Public Policy, Southeast Asia & Greater ChinaStripe
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Toh Wee KeeGlobal Head of InsightsKinexys by J.P. Morgan
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Jael TanHead of Government ProgrammesGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
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Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN SolutionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Tokenization projects today are often built vertically, with each initiative solving a specific problem within its own ecosystem. Yet tokenizing an asset in isolation does not deliver the full potential of tokenization. Benefits such as atomic settlement and greater capital efficiency depend on interoperability across the entire transaction chain — from the asset and its supporting infrastructure to trading, settlement and the movement of money. The challenge is how countries and institutions can pursue their own tokenization ambitions while avoiding the fragmentation that siloed approaches risk creating.
This roundtable brings together findings from a year of open-call research, alongside problem statements and perspectives from private-sector practitioners navigating the practical choices, risks and constraints of tokenization. It will explore how a decision-making framework can help countries assess their starting points and ambitions, identify the capabilities required across the transaction chain, and consider different pathways towards more interoperable markets. Looking ahead to 2027, participants will discuss emerging problem statements and the coordination, partnerships and policy support needed to connect individual initiatives into a more coherent financial ecosystem.
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1:00–2:30pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
Global Frameworks, Interoperability & Shared Best Practices
Bilateral Linkages, Shared Multilateral Hubs, or Tokenized Instruments: Pathways to Improving Cross-Border Payments Connectivity
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Andrew McCormackChief Executive OfficerNexus Global Payments
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Carrie SuenVice President, Head of Global Affairs & Strategic DevelopmentAnt International
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Jonathan JachymChief Policy OfficerPayward
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Khai Uy PhamAdvisor, Cross-border Payments & Financial Market InitiativesBanque de France
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Lucy InghamVice President of ResearchFXC Intelligence
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Tang WeiHead of Public Policy, Southeast Asia & Greater ChinaStripe
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Dr. Tara RiceHead of Secretariat, Committee on Payments & Market InfrastructuresBank for International Settlements (BIS)
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Yang WenhuiChief Executive Officer, TenPay Global Singapore & General Manager, Tencent Financial Technology, Asia PacificTencent
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Lara DouglasDirector of ImplementationFinancial Stability BoardModerator
About this session
Instant domestic payment systems already work and several countries have linked theirs bilaterally, cutting cross-border transfers from days to seconds at a fraction of the cost. But each new bilateral link involves its own negotiation, and multilateral alternatives have yet to go fully live.
Meanwhile, the G20's own 2027 targets for cost and transparency in cross-border payments are, on current trajectory, likely to be missed. The persistent blocker often isn't the payment rail at all, but mismatched technical requirements between jurisdictions that add friction regardless of which technology carries the transaction. What would it actually take to move from a growing patchwork of bilateral links to something that scales – or will the growing adoption of tokenized instruments for cross-border payments render these efforts obsolete?
This session explores the multiple pathways to achieving greater cross-border payments connectivity, from shared multilateral hubs, scaling up bilateral linkages, tokenized instruments, and alternative approaches developed by FinTechs to scaling instant cross-border payments connectivity. Participants will discuss the technical and commercial barriers to scaling instant payments connectivity; identify why current models have yet to deliver the G20 targets; discuss whether the KPIs themselves need redesigning to better capture end-user outcomes; explore the role of tokenized instruments as an alternative approach to solving the cross-border challenge; and determine the viable approaches to greater payments connectivity.
Insights from this discussion will help inform the Financial Stability Board (FSB) as it considers priorities for enhancing cross-border payments beyond 2027.
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