Kah Kit is an Adviser at the Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub (BISIH) in Singapore. He leads policy and governance work in next-generation financial market infrastructure projects such as Project Nexus which aims to interlink fast payment systems to enable instant cross-border payments. He also provides policy support for Project Mandala which seeks to develop compliance-by-design architecture to enhance cross-border payments. Aside from project contributions, he also represents the BISIH on the Governance and Oversight workstream of the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), providing insights and practical learnings to contribute to the G20 cross-border payments programme.
Kah Kit is a secondee from the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) with over 16 years’ experience ranging from legal advisory and prosecution of financial crimes to policy development in the areas of payments, fintech and digitalisation. At BNM, he was instrumental in spearheading Malaysia’s migration to digital payments and foster the development of interoperable real-time payments. He also led the Digital Currency Research Hub where he was responsible for developing policies and strategies on CBDC and digital assets. He holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has been admitted as a Barrister-at-law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom.
Roundtable 6
Invite-Only
Discussions on the regulation of decentralised finance (“DeFi”) have picked up pace over the past year. In the vein of the Financial Stability Board’s “same risk, same activity, same regulation” framework for regulating digital assets, many regulators have turned to the concept of activity-based regulation when looking at DeFi, stating that obligations apply to regulated activities even if they are decentralized.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has offered more specific recommendations on how supervisory oversight could be applied in its proposed policy recommendations for decentralized finance. The recommendations centre around the concept of ‘responsible persons’, who may be subject to regulation for DeFi arrangements, and applying risk management, disclosures and other obligations onto such persons.
In this roundtable, we bring together policymakers and industry participants to discuss possible frameworks for DeFi regulation, covering:
- “Same risk, same activity, same regulation”: How can we bring practical clarity of this concept to the DeFi space?
- Responsible person: Possible models for attributing responsibility in a decentralised environment
- Compliance, decentralised: What do good governance and controls look like for DeFi?
Singapore EXPO, Hall 3
Open
This panel will assess the state of instant payment systems around the world to identify critical adoption levers and key success factors to the adoption of instant payments in the retail space. Bringing together viewpoints from the merchant community, fintech and the public sector, the panel will discuss the role of digital public infrastructure, collaboration between industry players and the role of merchants in customer adoption.
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