Ep 41 | Building Tomorrow’s Insurer | Reinventing Finance: Walter de Oude on Building Singlife and the Future of Chocolate Finance

What happens when you build one of Asia’s most successful digital insurers—then decide to start over?In this episode of Building Tomorrow’s Insurer, Walter de Oude, Founder and CEO of Chocolate Finance (and previously Founder of Singlife), joins Kanopi CEO Nigel Fellowes-Freeman for an honest conversation about risk, reinvention, and the blurry lines between banking, insurance, and asset management.Walter shares his journey from actuary to founder, including:The hard-won lessons of launching Singapore Life from scratchWhy branding and customer trust can be a company’s strongest assetsHow he’s now building Chocolate Finance, a capital-light model for smarter, happier moneyWhat the future of financial ecosystems might look like as banks, insurers, and asset managers convergeThis one’s for anyone fascinated by where finance goes next—and what it takes to build something truly new.