Kelvin Tan

Kelvin Tan is the CEO for audax, a corporate venture backed by Standard Chartered Bank, focusing on empowering banks and financial institutions to rapidly deploy and scale digital banking solutions. Under his leadership, audax has secured six mandates from major financial institutions across Asia and built a strong pipeline of opportunities, helping banks unlock new revenue models and drive ROTE through scalable digital transformation.

Before founding audax, Kelvin conceptualised, led, built and delivered Standard Chartered nexus, Standard Chartered’s comprehensive Banking-as-a-Service business. Kelvin has held multiple roles in Standard Chartered, ranging from Transaction Banking to Retail Products and Payments to Strategic Programmes, between 2012 and 2018. In those roles, he has led cross functional, cross border teams to deliver multiple capabilities for the bank including Apple Pay, Samsung Pay and Google Pay in multiple locales and the MyWay program (Singapore’s first silver generation targeted product programme).

Kelvin’s broader career spans consumer finance, transaction banking and FMCG, covering product, analytics, business management and research. He has worked in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand.

A recognised thought leader, Kelvin has been featured on global publications such as BBC and Forbes. He has also spoken at key engagements internationally, such as Finovate Asia, Singapore FinTech Festival, IBF, and Money 20/20.

He holds an M.A from the Committee in International Relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA (Hons) in Politics and International Studies from Murdoch University.