Building a Blueprint for Banks in the Crypto Sector

Boon is a banking professional with broad perspectives and cross functional expertise. He specialises in the intersection of securities market services, technology and regulations. He is accomplished in different change agent and leadership roles; in target operating-business model transformation, product p&l management in volatile market conditions, time-to-market product development and market entry, corporate development, and post-global financial crisis regulatory advocacy. In securities and advocacy, Boon is adept in market entry, repatriation, funds, liquidity, clearing, custody, settlement and FX matters to assist clients and firm’s navigation of industry evolutions. He adds hands on experiments in technology like AI and data, digital currencies, digital assets custody, crypto asset management, and cybersecurity to commercialization, implementation and advocacy engagements. He is a community volunteer, innovation panel judge and a technopreneurship mentor to nurture “present + next-gen”. Boon holds cybersecurity, computation/AI, PE/VC and professional accountancy qualifications, and is based in Singapore.

I source investment and partnership opportunities in the Digital Asset and Blockchain industry - if you are startup, investor or established institution in this space and think that we could work together, feel free to reach out!

Zennon Kapron is the Director of Kapronasia, one of Asia's leading financial technology research and consulting firms. Prior to Kapronasia, Zennon was the Asia Pacific Financial Industry Manager and Global Banking Industry Manager for Intel. At Intel, he helped position and sell Intel-based architecture to financial services firms globally. Before Intel, Zennon worked at Citi at a number of different technology management roles culminating in his role at CIO for Citigroup Portugal. Zennon is a recognised thought leader on fintech in Asia and a regular speaker at financial conferences globally including: Money 20/20, TradeTech, Sibos, SIFMA, Innovate Finance, Future of Fintech in Asia, APFIC and many others. He has testified in front of the U.S. Congress on matters of China Fintech and is regularly quoted in the press and television appearances including CNBC, Bloomberg, The Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times to name a few. Zennon is the author of 'Chomping at the Bitcoin: The Past, Present and Future of Bitcoin in China' published by Penguin as well as countless reports and commentaries on the state of financial technology in Asia. Zennon holds a Bachelors in Computer Science from Syracuse University and an MBA from INSEAD. Zennon also mentors a number of fintech startups and is an angel investor.