HSC Asset Management Singapore: Where Global Asset Managers, Banks, And Crypto Infrastructure Converge
In Brief
HSC Asset Management Singapore, Oct 8 at the Fairmont, unites HSBC, Tether, S&P Global and more to explore institutional finance and digital assets.
The upcoming HSC Asset Management conference in Singapore is set to bring together senior leaders from institutional finance and the digital asset industry, uniting global asset managers, banks, crypto investment funds, and technology companies to explore the forces shaping the next phase of financial markets across Asia and beyond.
Taking place on October 8, 2026, at the Fairmont Singapore, the conference will convene C-suite executives, investors, and infrastructure builders at the intersection of traditional finance and digital assets, examining how capital, regulation, and technology are reshaping the financial landscape, from fund allocation strategies and private wealth to tokenization, stablecoin settlement, and the growing convergence of blockchain and AI. With more than 100 speakers and 3,000 attendees expected, the event is organised by HSC Asset Group in collaboration with Mpost Media Group.
Among the notable participating companies in the Singapore edition are HSBC Global Asset Management, UBS, S&P Global Ratings, Invesco, Fidelity International, Maybank, Mastercard, Maelstrom, Animoca Brands, Galaxy Digital, Pantera Capital, Ethereum Institutional, Offchain Labs, ZKsync, Tether, Binance, Cactus Custody, and Steakhouse Financial, among many others.
Here is a look at some of the conference’s top participants.
HSBC Global Asset Management
With USD 876 billion under management across 18 countries and territories as of March 2026, HSBC’s asset management arm belongs to a banking group that has spent the year building regulated digital-money infrastructure. In April, the HKMA granted the group one of Hong Kong’s first two stablecoin issuer licences, and on September 30 it named its Hong Kong dollar stablecoin HSBC RedCoin. The stablecoin is scheduled to launch in the second half of 2026 through PayMe and the HSBC HK app, with subscriptions to tokenized investments among its initial uses. Also in April, the group extended its Tokenised Deposit Service, already available in Hong Kong, Singapore, Luxembourg, and the UK, to the United States. In June, it partnered with CSOP on a tokenized class of CSOP’s Hong Kong dollar money market ETF. For attendees tracking how large asset managers and banks approach tokenization and stablecoin rails, Pang Qi Lim, CEO Singapore & Southeast Asia, will offer a macro perspective in the fireside chat on growth, rates, and allocation shifts, moderated by Bloomberg’s Abhishek Vishnoi.
Tether
Scale has never been the open question for the issuer of USDT; verification has, and 2026 is when that began to change. The company reported $1.5 billion in net operating profit for Q2, up from $1.04 billion in Q1, according to a BDO attestation released on July 31. USDT in circulation stood at $184.6 billion against $187.75 billion in total assets. On August 13, KPMG US issued an unqualified opinion on the 2025 financial statements of Tether International, the USDT issuer, in the company’s first full independent audit. Tether also launched USAT, a GENIUS Act-compliant dollar stablecoin issued through Anchorage Digital Bank, to serve the U.S. regulated market. For institutions evaluating stablecoins as a settlement layer, Tether’s reserve disclosures and regulatory positioning bear directly on that case. Matt Crow, Head of Regional Expansion, joins the Infrastructure for a Digital Economy panel.
S&P Global
No traditional financial institution has moved more deliberately into the digital asset space in 2026 than S&P Global. Recent milestones include tokenizing the iBoxx U.S. Treasuries Index on the blockchain in March 2026, the first time a major index provider made a financial benchmark available as a native digital asset, and launching a co-branded S&P Kaiko Digital Asset Indices suite for global, 24/7 digital asset markets in September 2026. The company has also published Stablecoin Stability Assessments and issued its first credit rating for a DeFi protocol. Most recently, S&P Global agreed to acquire smart contract security firm OpenZeppelin, expanding its digital assets strategy into onchain risk assessment and bringing the security standards behind the world’s leading stablecoins, tokenized funds, and DeFi protocols under the S&P umbrella. With Andrew O’Neill, Managing Director and Digital Assets Analytical Lead at S&P Global Ratings, joining the Stablecoins: The New Settlement Layer panel, Singapore attendees get a direct view of how institutional-grade standards are being applied to on-chain finance.
Maelstrom
Arthur Hayes, co-founder of BitMEX, invests across the crypto and Web3 ecosystem through Maelstrom, his family office. Co-founded with Managing Partner Akshat Vaidya in 2023, the fund takes a patient capital approach, emphasizing quality projects over fast deployment, a philosophy that has defined its portfolio strategy since inception. In 2025, Maelstrom moved to raise $250 million for its debut private equity fund, Maelstrom Equity Fund I, targeting four to six acquisitions of medium-sized companies in the crypto space, with a focus on trading infrastructure, data analytics, and blockchain service providers. Entering 2026, Arthur Hayes positioned the fund at near-maximum risk exposure, betting on a liquidity wave driven by U.S. deficit spending and leaning into privacy coins and emerging DeFi tokens as his highest-conviction plays. With Arthur Hayes joining Yat Siu of Animoca Brands for a fireside chat on AI Agents and the Future Economy, Maelstrom represents one of the most closely watched perspectives in active crypto investing today.
Trezor
At a conference shaped by institutional capital, Trezor offers a different answer to a core question: who should hold the keys? The Prague-founded company introduced the first Bitcoin hardware wallet in 2014 and has built its reputation on open-source transparency, with its firmware and hardware designs open to public scrutiny. Today, its Safe line, led by the flagship Safe 7, is built around an auditable secure element and a quantum-ready design, giving individuals and organisations a way to keep direct control of their digital assets. Trezor Suite, the company’s companion software, supports a growing range of networks, including Stellar. As tokenized assets and onchain finance expand, custody, security, and long-term resilience are moving to the centre of the institutional conversation. For attendees weighing those trade-offs, CEO Matěj Žák on the Navigating the Global Regulatory Landscape panel and Product Lead Jan Setina on Onchain Asset Security will offer the self-custody perspective.
Stellar
Few public blockchains have drawn institutional attention as quickly as Stellar has this year. The open-source network, supported by the Stellar Development Foundation, is increasingly used for tokenized assets and cross-border payments, and its plans with DTCC to bring tokenized securities onto the network signal growing confidence from traditional market infrastructure. That momentum shows in the data: tokenized real-world assets on the network have grown several times over since the end of 2025 and now approach $4 billion, while stablecoin activity has reached record levels. Payment companies such as MoneyGram have also chosen Stellar for dollar-stablecoin services, extending its reach from capital markets to everyday money movement. For those assessing which blockchains can carry regulated securities and payments at scale, Stellar offers a closely watched example, with Foundation Chief Business Officer Raja Chakravorti joining the Global Capital in the Era of Transformation panel.
Who’s Coming to Singapore: A Conference Where Institutional Capital Meets Digital Assets
HSC Asset Management Singapore will bring together asset managers, banks, family offices, protocol builders, and infrastructure providers, each representing a distinct layer of a market in which traditional finance and digital assets are converging across Asia.
Capital allocation and investment perspectives open the Grand Stage. Pantera Capital moderates the Fund Strategies for Digital Asset Allocation panel, joined by Maelstrom, Caerus Global Management, CSOP, and Arcanum. Drew & Napier adds the regulatory view of how funds are structured and deployed. On the Global Stage, C² Ventures, Bitscale Capital, The Spartan Group, and BingX address where the money goes in crypto, giving a direct read on how professional capital is being allocated in the current cycle.
Private wealth and traditional asset management form the institutional core of the programme. UBS, Invesco, Farro Capital, and Tsao Family Office take part in the Private Wealth in Asia panel on strategies for family offices and banks, with GWM Maybank Singapore also on the speaker list. HSBC Global Asset Management’s Pang Qi Lim joins Bloomberg’s Abhishek Vishnoi for the Asia Macro Outlook fireside chat on growth, rates, and allocation shifts. Fidelity International and M&G Investments then appear alongside Hivemind Capital, Binance, and the Stellar Development Foundation on the Global Capital in the Era of Transformation panel, closing the Grand Stage.
Tokenization and real-world assets draw on both infrastructure providers and established financial names. RedStone, Ethereum Institutional, Fidelity International, Broadridge, ST0x, and China Asset Management examine the limits of what can be tokenized. Fasanara Capital’s head of RWA tokenization appears on the Infrastructure for a Digital Economy panel, and Finloop’s Head of RWA delivers the keynote on bridging traditional finance and digital assets from Hong Kong to the world. MetaMask and Turtle Group’s session on the operating system for tokenized markets extends the theme into the Global Stage.
Banking infrastructure and regulation are covered by two dedicated panels. makebanc, BitGo, HashKey Cloud, Dune, Dfns, and Jsquare discuss how banking infrastructure is being rebuilt. EY, CF Benchmarks, Bybit, Detelio, and Trezor, with CoinEasy moderating, map the global regulatory landscape. The programme also includes a signing ceremony between HSC Asset Group and CASH Financial Services Group.
Stablecoins and payments are explored from the issuer, ratings, and rails perspectives. S&P Global Ratings, Steakhouse Financial, StraitsX, and Stable take part in The New Settlement Layer panel, with MetaMask moderating, and Tether contributes on the Grand Stage infrastructure panel. On the Global Stage, Mastercard, Mercuryo, Hashgraph, Nethermind, and Gate look ahead to the payment rails of 2030, alongside Aurora Labs.
The Global Stage also covers the technology and market structure underneath. Chainlink, ZKsync, Monad Foundation, Offchain Labs, and Aethir argue that public chains are now infrastructure, with Gosai Law moderating. Binance, MEXC, ChangeNOW, Deribit by Coinbase, and Alpaca address the infrastructure behind liquidity, and Animoca Brands, Figment, FXHB Asset Management, CoinRoutes, and Atom Finance debate active capital versus passive liquidity. Cactus Custody, Safeheron, FailSafe, Trezor, and Lava Foundation take up onchain asset security.
Rounding out the programme, AI and the agentic economy get two sessions. Maelstrom’s Arthur Hayes and Animoca Brands’ Yat Siu discuss AI agents and the future economy in a fireside chat moderated by CoinMarketCap. Sonic Labs, Ledger Enterprise, Mercuryo, AMBR, and TiDB of PingCAP, with Addressable moderating, then examine the infrastructure and applications behind the agentic economy.
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Alisa, a dedicated journalist at the MPost, specializes in crypto, AI, investments, and the expansive realm of Web3. With a keen eye for emerging trends and technologies, she delivers comprehensive coverage to inform and engage readers in the ever-evolving landscape of digital finance.
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