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Ceridwen Choo
Chief Executive Officer
Cleanverse International Pte Ltd
Ceridwen Choo is Co-founder & CEO of Cleanverse International, which has developed a compliance trust infrastructure that programs the core pillars of TradFi financial governance onto every value transfer conducted on public blockchains. The interlocking of verified identity and verified assets enforces asset eligibility checks before value moves, and embeds travel rule compliance in real-time.
With over 20 years of experience in managing retail banking and payments businesses at notable organizations including DBS, HSBC, Railsbank and Mastercard, she has helmed strategic accountabilities on driving business profitability through revenue growth and product innovation. Previously CEO of DCS Innov (an intermediary of Diners Club Singapore), she launched Singapore’s first payment token issued by a non-bank financial institution licensed under the Banking Act. This led the 50-year old institution into its next growth phase as a leader that connects TradFi to DeFi through product innovation.
At Cleanverse, she is shaping the future of trusted, transparent and compliant on-chain finance that will be led by AI agentic platforms, ready for the next era of progammable finance.
Speaking at the summit
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1:30–3:00pmSun 15 NovRoundtableOpen
Baray - Monetary Sovereignty
Beyond the Dollar: Stablecoins, Local-Currency Settlement & the Future of Money
About this session
Most stablecoins in circulation are linked to the US dollar. For economies seeking to reduce their dependence on the dollar, that creates a fundamental contradiction: the same technology that can lower the cost of payments may also make dollar-denominated money easier to use. At the same time, local-currency settlement is advancing through bilateral arrangements, regional initiatives and domestic payment systems. The roundtable examines that tension directly. When do stablecoins solve a genuine user problem, and when do they reinforce existing monetary dependence? What would a credible local-currency digital instrument require in reserves, governance, redemption and supervision? And where does local-currency settlement provide a better answer than creating another form of digital money?
