Carrie Suen is the Senior Advisor at Ant Group, where she is responsible to drive our global strategies and thought leadership of Ant's international policy objectives to bring more inclusive, green and sustainable changes to the ecosystem. She also oversaw the legal and privacy functions for Ant International Business Group.
Carrie is a seasoned lawyer and has experience in wide range of subject matters ranging from fintech regulatory, corporate governance, M&A, equity offerings to listed companies compliance. Since joining Ant in 2014, Carrie has been at the forefront of the global digital payment and regulatory development, where she accumulated practical insight of the market pain points. Carrie has been involved in regular direct communications and dialogues with regulators/government and international organizations, to raise awareness the importance of financial inclusion and help shape the policy landscape globally. Under her leadership, Ant’s International Legal team grew fourfold from 2017-2020, supporting over 100 markets/regions.
In 2020, Carrie received the APAC outstanding leader award from the IFLR recognizing her support of diversity and empowerment at work. Carrie is an advisory board member of the Emerging Payments Association Asia and an active member of the sub-committees of the Singapore Fintech Association in fostering more support and championship for women fintech leadership in Singapore and the region.
Roundtable Room 1 (Level 2)
Decoding Digital Assets and Payments
In the past year, arguments have been had, points made and sides chosen between Teams Banking and Crypto.
Team Crypto threw down the gauntlet in the first Oxford-style debate we held at Point Zero Forum last year, lauding the real-life implementations and impact stablecoins have had in expanding financial inclusion and heralding an age of internet-scale composable and programmable money. In the same breath, they highlighted deposit tokens' limitations in addressing the last mile and expanding financial security on a global scale.
On the other side of the table, Team Banking countered by underscoring the limited assets stablecoins are constrained by, stating instead the ability of tokenised deposits to enable efficient transactions and support a wide range of financial industry use cases safely.
Observers then gave both teams credit for their arguments; but Team Crypto gained a slight edge during a second debate at the Singapore FinTech Festival later in the year, winning the audience's popular vote. This is a not-to-be-missed Grand Finale to the Digital Currency Trilogy.
Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- Stablecoins or Tokenised Deposits
- Digital Currency Showdown: Stablecoins Vs Tokenised Deposits