Digital asset infrastructure company BitGo has appointed Angela Ang as Managing Director of APAC and President of BitGo Singapore. According to the company's announcement, Ang brings extensive regulatory experience from her previous roles at the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and TRM Labs, where she served as Head of APAC Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships. The appointment follows BitGo's recent dtcpay partnership and growing demand for compliant crypto custody services across Asia Pacific. As reported by BitGo, Ang cleared all regulatory and fit-and-proper requirements before taking the role, demonstrating her commitment to maintaining compliance standards. The company has now officially announced this appointment with BitGo Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BTGO) confirming the leadership change.
Ang joins BitGo from TRM Labs, where she was part of the blockchain intelligence firm's founding APAC team and helped support regional growth. As reported by BitGo, she spent more than a decade at the Monetary Authority of Singapore and led the team that built and operationalised Singapore's payments and crypto licensing regime. The company stated that this background provides direct experience in regulation, policy and institutional market building, making her well-suited to lead the firm's regulated digital asset infrastructure push across Asia Pacific. Jody Mettler, BitGo's Chief Operating Officer and President of BitGo Bank & Trust, noted that Ang's experience covers regulation, market infrastructure, and commercial growth, which are relevant as institutions seek trusted partners that can meet regulated financial system standards. The hire reflects a broader pattern across the institutional crypto industry, where firms competing for custody and settlement mandates from banks, asset managers, and sovereign wealth funds have increasingly moved to hire ex-regulators whose credibility can shorten the sales cycle with compliance-conscious clients.
According to BitGo's announcement, Ang will lead business growth, market development and operating infrastructure across Asia-Pacific. Her mandate focuses on expanding institutional access to regulated digital asset services, including custody, wallets, trading, financing, settlement, staking and stablecoin infrastructure. The hire follows BitGo's move to take crypto custody onto public markets, with the company's IPO generating up to $201 million in proceeds and achieving a valuation near $2 billion. The company now trades on the New York Stock Exchange under BTGO and has since entered the Fortune 500 at No. 273. The hire signals that BitGo sees compliance architecture, not product breadth, as the primary differentiator for the next phase of APAC institutional adoption. The company provides custody, wallets, trading, financing, settlement, staking, and stablecoin infrastructure services to institutional clients through BitGo Singapore Pte. Ltd., which is regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a Major Payment Institution.
As reported by BitGo, Singapore will remain the base for the company's APAC strategy, with BitGo Singapore regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore as a Major Payment Institution. Angela Ang stated that BitGo has built its reputation around security, compliance, resilience, and trust, while noting that Singapore has one of the world's respected digital asset frameworks. She added that APAC is entering a new phase of institutional market development, highlighting the strategic importance of licensed services and local expertise. The appointment also demonstrates how former regulators are moving into digital asset firms as the market shifts toward licensed infrastructure, providing BitGo with a senior regional leader as institutions look for compliant crypto services. Singapore's MAS framework has become the benchmark for digital asset regulation across the region, shaping how counterpart regulators in Hong Kong, Japan, and Australia have approached their own licensing regimes.
The Singapore appointment continues BitGo's regional staffing pattern, following the company's earlier appointment of a former Citi and Standard Chartered banker to lead its European sales push. Ang inherits a regional market where rivals are also courting institutions, including Nomura-backed Komainu's move to offer crypto custody in Japan and larger exchanges like Kraken building US institutional custody services through Wyoming-chartered banks. Traditional finance names are also entering the space, with Nasdaq planning to launch institutional custody and Schwab aiming for crypto custody at its advisor channel by 2027. Against this competitive field, BitGo is leveraging Ang's deep understanding of Asia's main regulatory hub. The company serves what it calls thousands of institutions across custody, wallets, staking, trading, financing, settlement, and stablecoin infrastructure, though it did not provide specific client numbers. The Singapore base provides BitGo with a senior regional leader as the company continues to expand beyond Asia, with the company now trading as a public company and listed on the NYSE in January 2026.
