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Jo Yeo
Director
Monetary Authority of Singapore
Jo is a Director and Division Head at the FinTech & Innovation Group (FTIG) at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS). She leads the Payments Development and Data Connectivity Office, responsible for shaping Singapore's payments ecosystem and driving payments development initiatives, alongside cross-border data connectivity.
Jo has led Singapore's most consequential payments infrastructure and policy projects, including PayNow Generation 2, the Singapore Payments Network (SPaN), Project Nexus — a multilateral solution connecting fast payment systems across countries — and PayNow's cross-border linkages with Thailand, India, and Malaysia. Other landmark initiatives include SGQR, Direct FAST, the Payments Council, and the digital payments transition from corporate cheques in Singapore. Earlier in FTIG, she served as project director and lead policy architect for the Payment Services Act.
Jo's career began in law, with experience as Assistant General Counsel at MAS and prior private practice at Allen & Gledhill and Amica Law.
Speaking At
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11:00am–12:30pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-OnlyModerator
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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