Lightbulb Capital releases Singapore FinTech Champions List 2018 ahead of FinTech Festival

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Lightbulb Capital

3 min readNov 10, 2018

Dear Reader,

Welcome to Lightbulb Capital’s 2018 Singapore FinTech Champions List published to coincide with the Singapore FinTech Festival. It showcases and celebrates the diversity and talent in the Singapore FinTech community.

In order to create this list, we identified some of the key people making a difference in the industry and sent a short questionnaire asking them to highlight their primary focus, their key challenges and some more personal skills and attributes that we would otherwise never know. The resulting answers enable us to paint a broad picture of the focus and challenges of the FinTech industry in Singapore and to uncover some entertaining personal insights from those who shape the future.

We discover that engaging and collaborating with banks is seen as both an opportunity and a challenge. There is also a general consensus that a clearer regulatory framework would be helpful.

Many of those working in established financial institutions describe the challenge of embracing change and innovation in a regulated and traditional setting and offer some useful suggestions to improve this. Lightbulb Capital’s “Innovation Culture Catalyst” program provides a perfect solution for this!

We also discover a rather serious theme when it comes to selection of “most influential book” with Ray Dalio’s Principles cited well above The Bible, novelists are all but absent. On a more light-hearted note, we learn that that the hidden talents of the pillars of our industry include the ability to read backwards and mouth-catching of flying peanuts.

To find out who exactly possess these rare skills and gain deeper insights into what is keeping your peers busy and sleepless, we invite you to browse the Champions List.

We thank all those who responded and apologize to the many important community members who we certainly missed: our Rolodex is not universal, but feel free to correct that by getting in touch.

We hope that you enjoy reading through the mini-interviews and if you want to know more, consider reaching out to the individuals who make up this inclusive community. They mostly don’t bite!

Thanks to Yvonne Lim in our team who worked very hard to compile this list of Champions.

Here’s a quick summary for you: