Kah Kit is an Advisor at the BIS Innovation Hub in Singapore. He leads policy and governance work in next-generation financial market infrastructure, CBDC and digital asset projects. Notably, these include Project Nexus which aims to interlink fast payment systems to enable instant cross-border payments and Project Mandala which seeks to develop compliance-by-design architecture to enhance cross-border payments.

Kah Kit is a secondee from the Bank Negara Malaysia (BNM) with over 17 years’ experience ranging from legal services to policy development in the areas of payments, fintech, CBDC and digital assets. At BNM, he was instrumental in spearheading Malaysia’s migration to digital payments and foster the development of interoperable real-time payments. He also led the Digital Currency Research Hub which undertake exploratory work on CBDC and digital assets.

Kah Kit holds a Bachelor of Laws Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and has been admitted as a Barrister-at-law by the Honourable Society of Lincoln's Inn, United Kingdom.