About ACA
The Alliance is an organization focused on ideating with regional policymakers to create a responsible regulatory architecture that promotes Crypto’s role in the economy.
The Alliance is also a collaborative environment where constructive dialogue is engendered among market participants, civil society and government agencies to ensure that the positive effects of the Crypto eco-system can be fully realized.
The mission is driven by two passionate Asian financial sector veterans who are big believers of the technology underpinning a digital economic structure. Crypto is one of the many pillars in a digital economy that promotes the inalienable individual right to financial services.
Founder
Su Yen Chia
Singapore Office
Su Yen is responsible for working with regulators and policymakers to craft a sustainable regulatory eco-system for the Asia Crypto industry. She also serves as the spokesperson for the Alliance’s membership body.
The Alliance is tasked by its membership to professionalize the Asia crypto industry to be a responsible stakeholder in the financial sector.
Previously Su Yen was attached to Euroclear Bank where she performed various roles culminating in her appointment as Deputy CEO and authorized bank officer for the HK Branch.
Su Yen was the Head of Government Relations, Asia Pacific, for Barclays Bank and Vice-President of Public Policy for Credit Suisse AG; both roles were Singapore based. She also served a short stint as ISDA’s Asia Head of Public Policy.
Su Yen began her career with JP Morgan Chase in New York City and was attached to the United Nations Development Program in the UN Headquarters working on various projects related to the UN Millennium Development Goals.
A graduate of Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Su Yen is a Sasakawa Fellow and a grant recipient of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. A published author on Southeast Asia geo-political issues, Su Yen is conversant in Bahasa (both Malaysian and Indonesian) and speaks fluent English and Cantonese.
Advisor
Aaron Chua
Singapore Office
Aaron is a seasoned regulatory compliance professional who is presently the Regional Head of Compliance for Fazz Financial Group and StraitsX, a stablecoin issuer of the Singapore dollar, US dollar, and Indonesian Rupiah. He is also a non-executive Director of Fraxtor, a Singapore-based blockchain-enabled real estate co-investment platform that is presenting an innovative financing stream for the real estate industry, and an Advisor to Dawn Protocol, a Singapore-based real-world asset-backed stablecoin lending and borrowing protocol.
Aaron has more than a decade of experience in compliance-related roles in various capacities ranging from brokerage to private wealth businesses and crypto-related firms. As the former Compliance Director and Deputy Money Laundering Officer for Crypto.com, Aaron brings a wealth of knowledge in regulatory compliance.
