Asia Fintech Forum 2026 opened on October 2 at the World Trade Centre Kuala Lumpur, bringing financial regulation, banking strategy and technology innovation into a shared debate on Asia's financial future. Organised by the Responsible Fintech Institute (RFI), its first flagship event outside Singapore carried the theme "Architecting Asia's Financial Frontier: AI, Digital Assets, and Inclusive Banking."
The official speaker line-up included Affendi Rashdi, Director-General of Labuan Financial Services Authority, and Kenneth Farrugia, CEO of the Malta Financial Services Authority, alongside senior executives and business leaders from UOB, Maybank Singapore and Siam Commercial Bank. With an agenda spanning ASEAN financial integration, stablecoins and AI-driven payments, the forum connected the policy questions shaping digital finance with the institutions building and adopting it.
Remi Technology participated as title sponsor. CEO and Co-Founder Sam Su delivered a keynote presenting Remi's vision for connecting banks with regulated digital finance. YongCheng Zhang, CTO, Remi Technology / Bison Group, joined the panel "Agentic AI & The Future of Payments," bringing bank-issued digital money and its cross-border applications into the discussion.
Su's presentation introduced Remi as the technology layer for regulated digital finance. Its vision puts banks at the centre of digital-money adoption: regulated digital money becomes part of the accounts, systems and services their customers already use. Remi is building the infrastructure to make that connection, combining the reach of an institutional network with the compliance capabilities and operational discipline that banking requires.
Cross-border payments are a practical starting point. Multiple intermediary banks can add fees, duplicate processing and delay to a transaction. Remi's direct-connectivity model is designed to shorten those chains, linking institutions through a network that brings transaction messages, compliance data and a shared view of transaction status together. The aim is to lower cross-border costs and improve processing speed while making international connectivity more accessible to banks of different sizes.
Remi's compliance-native architecture combines bank-grade KYC, KYT and AML support with Travel Rule data and integration through SWIFT messaging, ISO 20022, APIs and SFTP, helping banks bring traceable, auditable digital-finance capabilities into existing systems. On the payments panel, Zhang connected the discussion of AI-driven payments with institutional adoption, exploring the balance-sheet treatment of Bison Bank's regulated stablecoins and Remi's technology support for their cross-border use.
Bison Bank's EUB and USB are bank-issued E-Money Tokens (EMTs) under the EU's MiCA framework, designed for integration into institutional treasury and balance-sheet arrangements under applicable rules. Bank issuance and a defined regulatory framework give institutions a basis for evaluating the assets; Remi provides the connectivity, compliance-data capabilities and operational visibility to support their use across institutions.
Remi will continue developing its institutional network around the needs of banks and the markets they serve. Its ambition is to make regulated digital finance accessible within the banking system, enabling institutions across markets to expand cross-border services with lower costs, greater efficiency and the control and transparency their business demands.