Regulatory Engagement

Financial Services Regulatory Engagement

Varun also set up the Fintech Regulatory Practice to bring together regulators and ecosystems. He leveraged his trust and relationship with regulators to offer licensing and compliance support to internet commerce and fintech firms with the aspiration to provide regulated financial services. He provided strategic insights to regulators, development finance institutions and trade promotion agencies to help them build and scale fintech ecosystems and test innovative concepts like a regulatory sandbox. In addition, he enhanced their access with ecosystem participants like startups, venture capital, regulator, universities to define and deploy fintech hub operating models and operations.

Monetary Authority of Singapore

Worked closely with MAS for last five years on ecosystem development and support

Judge of MAS Fintech Festival Awards (2016-2020)
Ambassador, MAS Fintech Festival, 2020
Organized world’s largest fintech investor summit with Monetary Authority of Singapore attended by over 400+ investors, 800+ startups with 12 & 2 billion USD capital committed in 2018 and 2017 respectively

SFF_MATCH_Case Study.pdf

Singapore FinTech Festival attracts US$12 billion of capital for ASEAN enterprisesMAS announced that 380 investors who enrolled for the Singapore FinTech Festival’s deal-making platform, have indicated intentions to invest up to a total of US$6.2 billion in ASEAN enterprises next year, and an additional US$6 billion over the next two years.

US$2b of capital available for FinTech start-ups through Singapore FinTech Festival 2017’s Investor Summit

The future of FinTech and financial services.pdf

State Bank of Vietnam

Vietnam FinTech Challenge.pdf

Supported the FinTech Challenge Vietnam in partnership with Vietnamese government bodies including the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) and Mekong Business Initiative (MBI). The program attracted 141 applicants, of which 45 were from Vietnam and 96 were foreign applicants from 27 different countries. EY’s involvement is evidence of EY’s commitments to strengthening partnerships between key players of the FinTech community and expand knowledge sharing among stakeholders in order to foster greater financial inclusivity.

Trinidad & Tobago International Financial Center (TTIFC)

TTIFC - Case Study.pdf

Trinidad and Tobago International Financial Center.pdf

Central Bank of Egypt

Worked closely with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) to develop strategy for developing Egypt into a fintech hub, community engagement and regulatory sandbox strategy.

Central Bank of Egypt's FinTech Strategy_V15.pdf