Tat Yeen Yap, CFtP
<name>Tat Yeen Yap</name>
<company>Maybank Singapore</company>
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<membership-type>Professional</membership-type>
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Tat Yeen Yap brings a unique vantage point to fintech, having worked across both financial innovation and banking leadership.
His fintech career highlights and contributions include:✔ Working for the pioneering fintech that delivered the world’s first in-production blockchain application in trade finance✔ Launching the first third-party trade finance service accessible on SWIFT API✔ Delivering the Singapore Trade Finance Registry, a national anti-fraud utility
In his banking career, he has spent significant time in trade finance, working across documentary trade, supply chain finance and digital trade finance. His industry contributions include having been a drafting group member of rules for digital trade at the ICC and ITFA, and as Sherpa of the Digital Trade Finance Lab at the Asia Pacific Financial Forum.
“There is much we can learn from fellow Fellows — and the camaraderie is great. Whether it’s collaboration, ventures, or simply knowledge-sharing, the possibilities are abundant.”
As a Chartered Industry Fellow, Tat Yeen values CFtP’s role in equipping practitioners with technical and ethical grounding.
“The CFtP and CFtA programmes are structured, industry-relevant, and ethically grounded. They equip professionals with both the technical depth and values to drive meaningful change.”
At GFI, Tat Yeen represents the practitioner-leaders who turn knowledge into sustainable innovation.
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