The HSC Asset Management conference is set to take place on October 8, 2026, at the Fairmont Singapore, assembling a speaker roster for one of Asia's most consequential conversations at the intersection of institutional finance and digital assets. Organizers have confirmed the full list of participants, ranging from global banking executives and asset management leaders to protocol founders and venture investors. The confirmed names span regulated banks, asset managers, a global card network, a major credit rating agency, exchanges, and public blockchain foundations — the breadth of institutions now operating where traditional finance meets digital assets.

Among the headline names are Dr. Bankee Kwan, Chairman and CEO of CASH Financial Services Group, a prominent name in Asian financial services; Pang Qi Lim, CEO for Singapore and Southeast Asia at HSBC Global Asset Management, representing the region's leading institutional asset management perspective; and Arthur Hayes, Chief Investment Officer at Maelstrom, one of the most closely followed voices in crypto markets.

The roster also includes Yat Siu, Chairman and Co-Founder of Animoca Brands, a defining force in Web3 gaming and digital ownership, together with O'Neill, Managing Director and Digital Assets Analytical Lead at S&P Global Ratings, and Jansen Phee, Head of Fund Investment Solutions for APAC and Head of Global Investment Management for China at UBS.

They will be joined by Febby Avianto, Managing Director and Head of Wealth Management (Emerging ASEAN) at GWM Maybank Singapore; Grace Chong, Head of Financial Services Regulation at Drew & Napier; and Ken Lin, Managing Director and Head of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia Intermediary Business at Invesco, alongside representatives from Fidelity International, Ethereum Institutional, Galaxy Digital, Offchain Labs, Mastercard, Tether, Pantera Capital, Binance, ZKsync, and more.

Speaker Spotlights

Ken Lin — Managing Director, Head of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia Intermediary Business, Invesco

Few regional distribution leaders have a closer view of Southeast Asia's appetite for global investment products than Ken Lin. A CFA and CAIA charterholder, he oversees Invesco's relationships with banks, insurers, and wealth platforms across Hong Kong and the region, with Thailand a particular focus. His track record includes bringing Thailand its first ChiNext 50 depositary receipt, which references an Invesco ETF. He also co-authored a whitepaper with Boston Consulting Group and Aptos Ascend that describes tokenized funds as the “third revolution” in asset management. He speaks for a firm that managed approximately $2.5 trillion in assets as of June 30, 2026.

Pang Qi Lim — CEO, Singapore & Southeast Asia, HSBC Global Asset Management

Growing an asset manager across Southeast Asia requires understanding markets that rarely behave alike, and Pang Qi Lim has built his career on exactly that. Since November 2023 he has led HSBC Asset Management's business in Singapore and the wider region while also heading its strategic partnerships in Southeast Asia. His earlier tenure at Fidelity International included opening new distribution markets in Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines. As of April 2026, the Monetary Authority of Singapore's directory continues to list him as CEO of HSBC Global Asset Management (Singapore).

Jansen Phee — Head of Fund Investment Solutions, APAC & Head of Global Investment Management, China, UBS

When UBS's wealthy clients across Asia Pacific select a fund, Jansen Phee's team has typically shaped the options available. He oversees the fund business of UBS Global Wealth Management in the region and leads its Global Investment Management efforts in China. He chairs the bank's Asia Pacific Strategy Fund Forum and sits on its global funds forum. His career of more than 25 years in advisory, discretionary management, and research includes earlier roles at BNP Paribas Wealth Management, Mercer, and Citigroup Private Bank. He is a regular voice on fund selection and on the thematic opportunities emerging across Asia.

Andrew O'Neill — Managing Director, Digital Assets Analytical Lead, S&P Global Ratings

Credit analysis meets crypto in the work of Andrew O'Neill. After more than a decade at S&P rating structured finance, he moved into digital assets in 2022 and now leads the agency's research on how they may affect financial markets. He was named Managing Director in October 2023 and assumed the Digital Assets Analytical Lead role in April 2024. His research spans tokenization's impact on debt capital markets and the risk dependencies of public blockchains. He also helped develop S&P's Stablecoin Stability Assessments, launched in November 2023, and has represented the agency in Project Guardian's fixed income work on tokenized markets.

Arthur Hayes — Chief Investment Officer, Maelstrom

The perpetual swap, now a cornerstone of crypto derivatives trading, traces its origins to BitMEX, the exchange Arthur Hayes co-founded. Today he runs Maelstrom, a family office investing across venture, liquid, private equity, and public markets. Hayes is known for a macro-driven thesis that liquidity from U.S. fiscal and monetary policy will lift crypto, and he maintained a long-term bullish stance on Bitcoin and selected DeFi assets throughout 2026. Maelstrom is also raising a $250 million institutional fund targeting mid-sized crypto infrastructure firms.

Yat Siu — Co-Founder and Chairman, Animoca Brands

Ask who shaped the concept of digital ownership in Web3, and Yat Siu's name comes up quickly. His company, Animoca Brands, has grown into a group spanning gaming, NFTs, DeFi, and AI, with more than 600 investments. He has labeled 2026 the “Year of Utility,” arguing that AI agents will depend on blockchain for payments and identity, and has backed that view with a $10 million initiative for AI agent developers. Animoca is now pursuing a Nasdaq listing through a reverse merger with Currenc Group, which Siu describes as the first publicly listed, diversified digital assets conglomerate.

Inside the Full Agenda

Beyond the headline names, the Fairmont Singapore stage will host fund managers, protocol founders, regulators, and infrastructure builders across two stages. The split shapes the day's arc: the Grand Stage concentrates on institutional allocation, private wealth, tokenization, banking infrastructure, stablecoins, and regulation, while the Global Stage follows capital flows, liquidity, public chains, security, AI agents, and payments.

Grand Stage

The day opens with a panel on fund strategies for digital asset allocation, featuring Joey Shin, Junior Partner at Pantera Capital; James Aitchison, Founder and CIO of Caerus Global Management; and Akshat Vaidya, Managing Partner at Maelstrom. Mikhail Ivanov, CEO of Arcanum, and Alexandra Zhao, Head of Digital Assets at CSOP, complete the lineup. Together they will examine how capital is being allocated to the asset class, from crypto-native funds to Hong Kong's asset managers.

The private wealth in Asia session brings together WealthRyse, Farro Capital, Tsao Family Office, UBS, and Invesco. The infrastructure for a digital economy panel features Tether, Fasanara Capital, Galaxy Digital, Soter Insure, Bitbase.com, and [QR] Wallet, following a keynote from Finloop.

Tokenization faces its hardest question in the session on the limits of what can be tokenized. Marcin Kaźmierczak, Co-Founder of RedStone, moderates a panel that includes Matthew Dawson of Ethereum Institutional and Emma Pecenicic, Head of Digital Assets Distribution at Fidelity International. Theo Golden, Head of Tokenized Product, International at Broadridge; Nick Magliocchetti, Co-Founder and CCO of ST0x; and Don Ng, Director of Digital Assets at China Asset Management, contribute a blend of market infrastructure and asset management experience. That mix of asset management, market infrastructure, and distribution mirrors the multi-party composition of tokenization initiatives such as Project Guardian, in which S&P's O'Neill has represented the agency's fixed income work on tokenized markets.

The redefining banking infrastructure panel includes makebanc, BitGo, HashKey Cloud, Dune, Dfns, and Jsquare. Later in the day, a signing ceremony between HSC Asset Group's Vadim Krekotin and Dr. Bankee Kwan of CASH Financial Services Group will formalize a new strategic collaboration between the two organizations — one of the few points on the agenda where a concrete business outcome is scheduled rather than discussed.

Stablecoins receive an Asia-focused treatment, with Moz, CSO of Akindo, moderating a panel on the new settlement layer. Tianwei Liu, Co-Founder and CEO of StraitsX, joins Jiyeon Park, APAC Lead at Steakhouse Financial, and Brian Mehler, CEO of Stable. Justin Kugel, Executive Vice President of Growth at World Liberty Financial, represents one of the market's more closely watched issuers. The topic comes with analytical scaffolding for institutional audiences: S&P Global Ratings launched its Stablecoin Stability Assessments in November 2023, research O'Neill helped develop, offering a framework for evaluating stablecoin issuers.

The session on navigating the global regulatory landscape features CoinEasy, EY, CF Benchmarks, Bybit, Detelio, and Trezor. The stage closes with global capital in an era of transformation, featuring Serotonin, Fidelity International, Hivemind Capital, M&G Investments, Stellar Development Foundation, and Binance.

Global Stage

The Global Stage opens with where the money goes in crypto, featuring LunaPR, C² Ventures, Bitscale Capital, Axis Eight, BingX, and The Spartan Group. The infrastructure behind liquidity brings together Arcadia, Binance, MEXC, ChangeNOW, Deribit by Coinbase, and Alpaca, followed by a keynote from FinChain.

The public chains panel amounts to a who's who of base-layer builders. Krish Gosai, Managing Partner at Gosai Law, moderates a session with Niki Ariyasinghe, APAC VP at Chainlink, and Marco Cora, Director of Foundation at ZKsync. Eunice Giarta, Co-Founder of Monad Foundation; Steven Goldfeder, Co-Founder and CEO of Offchain; and Mark Rydon, Co-Founder of Aethir, will argue that public blockchains now constitute core infrastructure.

AI agents take center stage at midday in a fireside chat with Arthur Hayes and Yat Siu, moderated by Alice Liu, Head of Research at CoinMarketCap.

The afternoon shifts to security and capital. The onchain asset security panel features Lava Foundation, Cactus Custody, Safeheron, FailSafe, and Trezor. Active capital beats passive liquidity brings together Atlas Capital, Atom Finance, Figment, CoinRoutes, FXHB Asset Management, and Animoca Brands, followed by a fireside chat on building the operating system for tokenized markets with MetaMask and Turtle Group.

The agentic economy panel ranks among the day's most forward-looking sessions. Tomer Sharoni, Co-Founder and CEO of Addressable, moderates a conversation with Feroz Lakhani, Head of Marketing and AI Product at Sonic Labs, and Takatoshi Shibayama, Head of APAC at Ledger Enterprise. Arthur Firstov, CBO of Mercuryo; Michael Wu, Founder and CEO of AMBR; and Terrence, Web3 Lead at TiDB of PingCAP, will explore what autonomous agents mean for infrastructure and payments. A keynote from Dune asks where the yield went.

The day closes with the payment rails of 2030, featuring Aurora Labs, Mercuryo, Mastercard, Hashgraph, Nethermind, and Gate. Mastercard's participation puts a global card network on the same closing panel as crypto-native firms, extending the incumbent-and-native mix that defines the wider lineup.

Organizers note that additional founders, investors, developers, and industry pioneers are expected to join the event for a day of insights and networking.

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