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Kah Kit Yip
Head of Blockchain & Digital Assets
UOB
Kah Kit is the Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at UOB Group. He is an accomplished banking and finance professional with extensive experience across policy, technology and financial innovation, having held key roles at the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM). At UOB, he drives the group's digital asset strategy and capabilities development. He is focused on building scalable and commercially viable solutions that support the transformation of payments, banking, treasury and capital markets in the tokenized economy.
At the BIS Innovation Hub (BISIH), Kah Kit co-led several groundbreaking initiatives, including Project Nexus, which designed a next-generation multilateral fast payment network; Project Mandala, which introduced a programmable compliance framework; and Project Rialto, which developed advanced FX settlement protocols. In addition to project leadership, he represented BISIH on the CPMI Governance and Oversight workstream, contributing insights and practical expertise to the G20 cross-border payments programme.
Prior to BIS, Kah Kit spent over 18 years at BNM, where his responsibilities spanned legal advisory, financial crime prosecution, and policy development in payments, fintech, and digitalisation. He played a pivotal role in Malaysia’s transition to digital payments, driving interchange fee reforms and promoting open, interoperable real-time payment systems. He also led BNM’s Digital Currency Research Hub, spearheading exploratory work on tokenisation, CBDCs, and digital assets, including Project Dunbar, which tested a multi-CBDC platform involving the central banks of Australia, Malaysia, Singapore, and South Africa.
Kah Kit holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and is admitted as a Barrister-at-Law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln’s Inn, United Kingdom.
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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Ankur KanwarMD, Head of Cash & TB, ASEANStandard Chartered Bank
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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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Nischint SanghaviHead of Digital Currencies, APVisa
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Park Kwan HoonExecutive Director, Group Strategic Planning OfficeOCBC
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Pisut DarmaraksaSenior Vice President - Business Analyst / Solution Development MasterKASIKORNBANK Public Company Limited
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Qaiser AnwarudinDirector, Payment Services Policy DepartmentBank Negara Malaysia
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Toh Wee KeeGlobal Head of InsightsKinexys by J.P. Morgan
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Victor LiewCo-founder & Chief Technology OfficerStraitsX
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Zilong LiHead of Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction ServicesDBS Bank
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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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