A Cross-Disciplinary Leader Shaping Modern Finance
Jerry Tse
CEO
Eddid Financial
A Cross-Disciplinary Leader Shaping Modern Finance
Jerry Tse
CEO
Eddid Financial
Understanding finance from multiple vantage points has been a defining advantage in Jerry Tse’s career. With experience spanning academia, legal practice, and global investment banking, Tse has developed a leadership perspective that recognises both the opportunities and responsibilities inherent in financial innovation. This multidimensional journey has enabled him to approach modern finance not merely as a system of markets and transactions but as an ecosystem shaped by governance, strategy, and technology.
Today, as Chief Executive Officer of Eddid Financial Holdings and Vintech, Tse is steering the growth of an integrated financial services platform designed for an increasingly digital and interconnected global economy. His earlier leadership roles at institutions including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Macquarie Group, and DBS Bank provided deep exposure to international capital markets, financial institutions, and cross-border strategy. These experiences helped shape his understanding of how financial systems evolve and how institutions must adapt to remain relevant in times of rapid transformation.
Tse now leads the continued expansion of Eddid Financial as a comprehensive financial services group spanning broking, investment banking, private equity, insurance, and virtual assets. At the same time, through Vintech, he is advancing technology-driven solutions that support fintech development and enhance operational efficiency across financial services.
Central to his leadership philosophy is what he describes as “agility with stability”. While market dynamics demand innovation in areas such as artificial intelligence and fintech, Tse believes that meaningful and sustainable progress must remain anchored in strong governance, regulatory discipline, and strategic foresight. By integrating technological advancement with these enduring principles, he continues to shape a financial ecosystem built for long-term resilience and responsible innovation. How? Let’s read here.
Can you share a time you made a strategic pivot during uncertainty and what it taught you about managing change?
The most defining test was the collective transition of Eddid Financial from a traditional brokerage into a tech-driven ecosystem covering asset management, investment banking, and global equities and futures trading. Identifying the convergence of traditional finance with DeFi and Tokenised Real-World Assets (RWA), the team built an in-house R&D department to launch Eddid ONE as a gateway for integrated investment.
Such a transition requires listening to scepticism and fostering “shared conviction”. This resilience is what now enables the group’s successful expansion into the Middle East and Southeast Asia.
How have mentorship and learning experiences shaped your growth as a CEO and strategist?
There has been great fortune in receiving guidance from diverse mentors. Early on, industry veterans helped elevate the perspective from legal technicalities to a broader lens of business decision-making and corporate strategy.
This has taught us the importance of designing solutions that are both robust and commercially viable, which has become a core strength in how we serve our clients. This experience reinforced that the true value of expertise lies in being an enabler of progress, ensuring that innovation and integrity advance in tandem through mutual respect.
How can emerging leaders balance ethical responsibility with bold strategic risk-taking? Do you follow any personal mantra?
In the financial world, trust serves as the foundational pillar of growth. Even with advanced digital financial platforms, innovation only generates value when there is market confidence in an institution’s stability. It is often shared within the team that compliance is not a boundary to innovation but the essential stabiliser for growth.
Whether the group develops asset securitisation services or global asset allocation solutions, the primary focus remains risk controllability over immediate profit margins. The guiding mantra remains: “Steady steps lead to far-reaching success.”
What skills or mindsets should young finance professionals develop to stay relevant in the era of digital assets and fintech?
To lead in the coming decade, a traditional degree is merely the starting point. Three critical attributes are highly valued: First, data literacy, which is the ability to leverage data tools for informed decisions. Second, a RegTech mindset: as cross-border finance grows complex, those who can navigate regulatory landscapes are invaluable.
Finally, a growth mindset that stays curious about ESG and blockchain. The leaders of tomorrow will be those who can translate complex financial concepts into the language of technology while remaining lifelong learners who value diverse perspectives.
