Singapore-ASEAN payments face stablecoin shift as regulation matures

BizPay links fiat transactions through stablecoin rails as firms seek faster cross-border settlement.

Stablecoins are gaining a larger role in regional business payments as clearer digital asset regulation gives traditional companies more confidence to use blockchain-based infrastructure.

Albert Wong, Senior Vice President at OSL and head of BizPay, said OSL launched BizPay to bring its Web3 infrastructure into traditional payments. OSL Group is a listed company in Hong Kong and operates one of Asia’s largest licensed Web3 exchanges.

Demand for stablecoin-based payment rails is increasing as more suppliers want to receive stablecoins and more customers look for ways to send them across borders, Wong told Singapore Business Review on the sidelines of the South China Morning Post’s GBA ASEAN Summit 2026, held at Fullerton Ocean Park Hotel Hong Kong, 30 June.

Hong Kong’s stablecoin licensing regime is expected to support this shift. Wong said regulation is one of the key drivers of adoption because it gives businesses confidence that digital payment activity is being governed.

Still, regulatory differences across markets remain complex. Wong said OSL’s role is to help businesses manage compliance so that payments meet requirements in both the sending and receiving jurisdictions.

He said stablecoins could reduce friction in cross-border payments, which remain costly and slow under traditional channels. Between the Greater Bay Area and ASEAN, Wong expects adoption to increase as businesses seek faster and lower-cost settlement options.

BizPay is also offering what Wong described as a “sandwich” model, where businesses continue using fiat currency at both ends of a transaction. For example, a company may receive Indonesian rupiah and settle into a Hong Kong dollar bank account, whilst stablecoins move value in between.

Wong said this allows businesses to use the speed and cost benefits of stablecoins without changing the fiat interface they already use.

He added that central bank digital currencies and stablecoins are likely to coexist, with different instruments serving bank settlement, trade and business payment use cases.

For OSL, the test is whether regulation can turn stablecoins into a practical payment rail for traditional businesses across the Greater Bay Area and ASEAN.

Follow the link for more news on

Stable Coin

Reaching the people who run Asia's businesses is harder than it used to be.

Inboxes are crowded. Attention is short. The executives you most want to reach — the founders, CFOs, and operators who actually move budgets — are the hardest to find through the usual channels. If you're building a company, a category, or a reputation, you already know this.

We've spent twenty years building the room they read. Singapore Business Review is where senior decision makers in Singapore and across Southeast Asia come for business coverage they can't get elsewhere — in print, online, and in person at the summits and roundtables we host across seven markets.

If you have something these readers should know about — a point of view worth publishing, a product worth their attention, an event worth their time — we'd like to hear what you're trying to do.

Book a meeting

| Or download the media kit (PDF)

240,000 senior readers quarterly in print Top 1,700 Singapore companies reached

7 markets across Southeast Asia