Summer Yu is the Group Chief Compliance Officer of Alpha Ladder Group, a Singapore-headquartered Digital Green Group committed to building
sustainable and inclusive financial infrastructure across payments, FX, and digital assets. She brings over two decades of experience in global compliance, licensing, and financial crime risk management, with a proven track record of enabling safe, scalable, and regulatorily sound growth.

Before joining Alpha Ladder, Summer was Group Head of Compliance at Aspire, where she established the global compliance and financial crime
compliance (FCC) function from scratch. She designed and implemented a multi-jurisdictional compliance framework. At Aspire, she played a critical role in uplifting the entire Regulatory and FCC framework, enhancing governance, systems, and operational capacity to support
Aspire’s rapid growth and international expansion.

Prior to Aspire, Summer was Global Head of Compliance for ByteDance’s payments business, where she advised on group-wide regulatory and AML frameworks and ensured global standards were applied in diverse jurisdictions. She also built the global compliance team from scratch, providing the foundation for ByteDance’s international payments and digital finance ambitions.

At PayPal China, Summer was the PBOC-approved Vice General Manager and Head of Compliance, leading the landmark effort that secured the first payment license ever granted by the People’s Bank of China to a foreign-owned entity. Earlier in her career, Summer spent more than a decade at HSBC in senior risk and compliance leadership roles, where she oversaw wealth management, investment advisory, and capital markets
compliance. She helped HSBC launch its first Qualified Domestic Institutional Investor (QDII) product in China and supervised the compliance of structured notes, dual-currency investments (DPS), capitalprotected instruments (CPI), and other complex investment vehicles.

Summer holds a Master’s degree from Macquarie University. She has extensive expertise in regulatory compliance, AML/CFT, safeguarding, and operational resilience frameworks, with direct experience applying requirements global jurisdictional coverage. Her professional focus also covers consumer duty, market integrity, crypto custody, tokenisation of real-world assets (RWA), cross-border payments, and
digital investment products.

At Alpha Ladder Group, Summer leverages her global compliance expertise and strategic insight to lead the Group’s compliance function, ensuring the company continues to innovate responsibly while maintaining its leadership in digital finance.