Standard Chartered Ventures CEO: DeFi and CeFi are ultimately both finance

The 2025 Finternet Asia Digital Finance Summit, supported by the OSL Group, was held in Hong Kong on November 4th. At the summit, Alex Manson, CEO of SC Centures, stated that both decentralized finance (DeFi) and centralized finance (CeFi) ultimately boil down to "Fin." Manson explained that SC Ventures doesn't invest in any particular sector, but rather in customer needs. As times change, people simply operate finance in different ways, like e-commerce. "This also means that there's no such thing as tokenized finance; it's just finance."