Stanley Yong

Stanley Yong

Deputy Director at the Monitary Authority of Singapore

Stanley Yong is Deputy Director in the Payments and Technology Solutions Office of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Most recently, he was MAS’ lead in Project Ubin, a Singapore dollar on distributed ledger prototype with a consortium of 9 banks. The project re-imagines cross border wholesale payments infrastructure. Prior to this, he developed the Smart Financial Strategy for Singapore’s financial sector with Deloitte. He now leads the execution of the prong of strategy for the non-traditional fintech ecosystem, introducing the new Proof-of-Concept grant scheme and leading projects in blockchain use-cases. As a regulator, Stanley developed the MAS’ model risk audit framework and led a team of quants that looked at market risk and valuation models. He has conducted data science courses, equipping over 60 central bank economists with programming skills and basic machine learning expertise in R. This continued on from his Phd work in the Institute for Infocomm Research at ASTAR where he applied machine learning to natural language processing. Stanley has graduate degrees in Computer Science, Statistics, Advanced Finance and an MBA from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain.

Presentations by Stanley Yong :

  • Panel
    The Blockchain Summit Conference, Thursday, March 23, 2017, 10:05

    Moderator: Dr. Yoav Intrator

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