Responsible in leading policy and development work under Core Digital Markets Department. This includes (i) developing policies for new products and digital marketplaces in the capital markets, (ii) review and enhance existing recognised market operator policies to strengthen trust and enable growth, (iii) analyse and develop market insights to formulate action plans, (iv) lead stakeholder engagements for policy development purposes and (v) oversee and review interventions for ecosystem growth (e.g. tax incentives, SARANA).

Lead the team on the following responsibilities in the department:

Policy development

• Oversee research, policy formulation and drafting for private market and platform-based investments including ECF, P2P and Digital Investment Managers.
• Supervise testing and policy development of participants in the sandbox testing exercise.
• Conduct regular review of existing policies to facilitate growth and evolution of digital investments, and develop policies for new products and digital marketplaces in the capital markets.
• Oversee industry data analysis to generate actional insights for ecosystem development.
• Stay abreast of emerging trends and regulatory developments in regulated crowdfunding industry and adjacent private markets.

Stakeholder engagement

• Oversee engagements with relevant internal and external stakeholders in factfinding and developing relevant initiatives or policies.
• Explore interventions, collaboration with industry and/or public stakeholders to facilitate ecosystem growth.
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of relevant data requests and reports.
  

Ongoing development interventions

• Oversee processing of ECF incentive claims
• Oversee and review SARANA implementation
  

Leadership and Management

• Foster a positive and productive work environment.
  
• Facilitate coaching, training and timely feedback to team members.

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Business Administration, Mathematics and other relevant degrees.
• 11-15 years of working experience.

Supports HOD and team lead, including ownership of certain projects on policy and development under Core Digital Markets Department. This includes (i) developing policies for new products and digital marketplaces in the capital markets, (ii) review and enhance existing recognised market operator policies to strengthen trust and enable growth, (iii) analyse and develop market insights to formulate action plans, (iv) lead stakeholder engagements for policy development purposes and (v) oversee and review interventions for ecosystem growth (e.g. tax incentives, SARANA).

Support HOD and team lead, including ownership of certain projects in the following responsibilities within the department:

Policy development

• Oversee research, policy formulation and drafting for private market and platform-based investments including ECF, P2P and Digital Investment Managers.
• Supervise testing and policy development of participants in the sandbox testing exercise
• Conduct regular review of existing policies to facilitate growth and evolution of digital investments, and develop policies for new products and digital marketplaces in the capital markets
• Oversee industry data analysis to generate actional insights for ecosystem development
  Stay abreast of emerging trends and regulatory developments in regulated crowdfunding industry and adjacent private markets

Stakeholder engagement

• Oversee engagements with relevant internal and external stakeholders in factfinding and developing relevant initiatives or policies
• Explore interventions, collaboration with industry and/or public stakeholders to facilitate ecosystem growth.
• Ensure accurate and timely submission of relevant data requests and reports

Ongoing development interventions

• Oversee processing of ECF incentive claims
• Oversee and review SARANA implementation

Leadership and Management

• Foster a positive and productive work environment.
• Facilitate coaching, training and timely feedback to team members.
• Promote a culture of continuous learning and skill

• Bachelor’s degree in Law, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce, Engineering, Business Administration, Mathematics and other relevant degrees.
• 6-10 years of working experience.

Lead and coordinate innovation related to digital assets in Malaysian capital market.

• Drive and significantly contribute to market scan to identify Digital Asset innovations and provide appropriate recommendations to management on product initiatives and policy deliberation​. Become subject-matter expert in relevant innovation topics (Digital Assets and Blockchain application in capital market).

Drive Digital Assets Policy Development:

• Lead Digital Asset policy development for issuance, trading and custody as well as dealing with Digital Asset – for crypto-assets and tokenized securities.

Asset Tokenization Pilot Working Groups:

• Co-Drive asset tokenization pilots with relevant product Depts, to launch pilots to gain insights and policy implications

Scan Digital Assets Innovation

• Constantly scan latest innovation in Digital Asset for policy deliberation – e.g., major protocol upgrades and use cases, Real World Asset tokenization, DeFi, Web3

Digital Assets Ecosystem and Stakeholders Engagement Lead / support engagements with:

• Local stakeholders (e.g., BNM, agencies, industry players and DLT experts) to develop Digital Asset ecosystem
• Regional and global innovators & regulators to keep breast of Digital Asset trends and Digital Asset policy development
• Represent SC at speaking engagements to socialize policy agenda on Digital Asset, participate in cross agencies Digital Asset working groups and policy roundtables on Digital Asset.

Support Digital Assets player and product processing:

• Participate in various internal working groups to assess novel Digital Asset business models for new player registration / product launch

Others:

• Oversee and coach team members in allocated tasks and to achieve KPIs and departmental goals.

Bachelor Degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering or in any relevant discipline from recognized university;

• Strong curiosity and fast learner to grasp emerging innovation, and able to derive underlying social / political / economical factors driving such changes.
• Strong background in both quantitative and qualitative research and analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with proven ability to educate and socialize new innovations and collaborate with other teams.
• Versatile and able to work under time pressure.
• 10+ years of working experience
• Experience in digital economy sector, especially fintech / consulting / public policy desired.
• Experience in capital market a strong plus.
• Solid Understanding of emerging innovation trends, e.g., Distributed Ledger Technology within the capital market.