SINGAPORE -- Caecilia Chu's summer visit to the New York Stock Exchange was no tourist trip. The chief executive officer of Singapore-based foreign exchange digital wallet YouTrip was given a private tour of the venue, with bourse executives and market makers like Citadel Securities pitching the glories of being a publicly-listed company on arguably the world's pre-eminent equities board.
The 40-year-old Hong Kong-born startup boss is now actively planning the path to an initial public offering for her six-year-old fintech that allows users to store, convert and spend money in more than 150 fiat currencies without the fees that banks or physical moneychangers usually charge.
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