Scaling digital asset adoption requires common foundational infrastructure and regulatory clarity. The Insights Forum will set the roadmap for successful global digital assets infrastructure and successful tokenization implementation.   

Stablecoins, exceeding USD $200 billion in circulation, now face heightened policy scrutiny. The Forum will explore how differentiating between retail and institutional stablecoins can guide regulatory clarity and operational design; examine successful regional stablecoins that balance foreign exchange stability with local currency relevance; and assess the capability of on-chain controls to satisfy regulatory requirements. 

Despite global initiatives, cross-border payments remain costly, complex, and fragmented. The growth of embedded finance, mobile wallets, super apps and stablecoins is reshaping how individuals and businesses transact globally, expanding financial access while introducing new interoperability and regulatory challenges. 

Insights Forum will convene regulators and payment leaders to align legal standards, enable technical interoperability and advance scalable public-private infrastructure for real-time and inclusive cross-border payments.  

As AI evolves from rule-based systems to autonomous agents, it introduces both transformative potential and new systemic risks.

Insights Forum will explore AI use cases that could accelerate industry adoption; develop common AI components to scale innovation and reduce duplication; and address governance gaps essential for safe and responsible AI in financial services.  

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), including digital identity, real-time payment rails and comprehensive data exchanges, is a critical enabler of inclusive and resilient financial systems.  

As DPI scales across jurisdictions, regulatory complexity and data governance challenges increase. Insights Forum will explore pathways to interoperability and new regulatory capabilities needed to govern foundational infrastructure for the digital economy.  

As technology in finance becomes more pervasive, appropriate safeguards need to be put in place to address concerns around transparency and data privacy and combatting cybercrime. Fragmented regulation, sovereignty concerns, and diverging data privacy laws hinder collaboration.  

Insights Forum will examine the role of RegTech, programmable compliance and privacy-preserving technologies in strengthening supervision and improving enforcement.   

Emerging technologies are reshaping the global financial workforce, demanding new skills and diverse talent. At the same time, access to capital remains a major barrier, particularly for startups and SMEs in emerging markets.  

Insights Forum will explore strategies for building competitive FinTech ecosystems across regions, improving access to capital and cultivating global talent pipelines.  

The financial system is exposed to a new class of systemic risks shaped by emerging technologies. For example, quantum computing has the potential to unlock over USD $600 billion in value for financial services by 2035, but it also poses profound risks to existing encryption and infrastructure.  

Insights Forum will stress test black swan scenarios and future shocks, from quantum breakthroughs to digital asset contagion, and explore how regulators and institutions can prepare for a fundamentally different risk landscape.  

In 2025, ESG leadership is shifting from boardrooms to ecosystems. Real transformation is unfolding across the value chains, financial systems and communities that power the real economy. Anchored by the Green100 Summit, a nationwide initiative mobilising Singapore’s business ecosystem, this theme explores the commitments, incentives and partnerships needed to build momentum for net zero from the bottom up.  

At the same time, this theme explores the social risks that can undermine inclusive growth and reimagine the design of financial services to empower rather than exclude.  

This theme redefines ESG leadership for a new era: grounded in collaboration, driven by participation and focused on outcomes that are tangible and inclusive.