SINGAPORE, 21 Jan, 2026 – Singapore has partnered with Shenzhen to trial the first cross-border data validation platform linking China and Singapore, marking a significant advancement in future digital infrastructure cooperation between the Greater Bay Area and ASEAN nations.
The Singapore-Shenzhen Cross-Border Data Validation Platform, announced at the 15th Singapore-Guangdong Cooperation Council meeting, is now in trial operations. The platform addresses compliance, security and trust issues in cross-border data transmission by enabling user-initiated data transmission and platform-based hash verification.
Strategic Partnership for Digital Economy
The platform represents a collaboration between Accredify (as the operator on Singapore’s end) and China (Qianhai) Internet Exchange (as the operator on Shenzhen’s end), with WeBank, the first digital bank in China, providing overall architecture design and technical support. The initiative is supported by Enterprise Singapore, Authority of Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Modern Service Industry Cooperation Zone, and Commerce Bureau of Shenzhen Municipality.
“This platform provides a replicable model for digital cooperation between the Greater Bay Area and ASEAN countries,” said Quah Zheng Wei, CEO of Accredify. “It enables a credible approach to validate the authenticity of the documents presented by the users across borders while facilitating compliant cross-border data transfers.”
Addressing Real Business Challenges
Under the guidance of Shenzhen Branch of the People’s Bank of China and with support from various levels of the government, the trial operations focus on cross-border financial services use case, with Baihang Credit enabling cross-border verification of business owners’ personal credit reports. This capability directly addresses a common pain point for businesses expanding across the China-Singapore corridor: the difficulty of establishing creditworthiness in new markets.
Cross-border data bridge built on blockchain principles
The platform is built on open-source blockchain technology FISCO BCOS and Distributed Data Transmission Protocol (DDTP). Leveraging on immutability and traceability features of blockchain technology, the platform enables trusted validation of user-carried data through hash verification.
Based on the right to data portability, users download their information from data providers and independently transmit the information to data recipients, authorising the specific scope and purpose of data usage. The platform itself does not transmit or store any original data from the users but allows trusted validation of individual and corporate data through verification of the hashes. By separating data transmission by the users and hash verification, this approach ensures secure and efficient data portability in compliance with regulatory requirements.
Proven Model with Regional Success
The cross-border data verification model has demonstrated success in the Greater Bay Area. The Shenzhen-Hong Kong Cross-boundary Data Verification Platform has processed over 2,300 transactions since launch, connecting 19 institutions across 11 use cases. It has facilitated efficient access to loan services for Hong Kong residents in Shenzhen, enabled over HK$100 million in financing for Hong Kong affiliates of mainland SMEs, and effectively reduced verification time of admission letters issued by Hong Kong universities—these letters are used as cross-boundary remittance proof for Mainland students who need to pay Hong Kong universities’ tuition fees.

Expansion Plans
Future phases will expand the platform beyond financial services to include additional verifiable data sources and use cases, deepening data connectivity between Singapore and Shenzhen.
This platform is the first operational digital infrastructure for data flow between Singapore and Guangdong, providing replicable practical experience for future digital cooperation between the Greater Bay Area and ASEAN countries.

About the Collaboration
The Singapore-Shenzhen Cross-Border Data Validation Platform’s Singapore and Shenzhen operations are managed by Accredify and China (Qianhai) Internet Exchange respectively, with WeBank providing overall architecture design and technical support.
For more information, please visit the official website of the platform: https://dvp.accredify.io/home

About Accredify
Headquartered in Singapore, Accredify is APAC’s leading Verifiable Credentials (VC) platform provider, trusted by governments and enterprises across the region for nationwide implementations of tamper-proof, instantly verifiable digital documents. Accredify-issued VCs are compliant with international VC standards such as W3C and OpenBadges, making them globally interoperable. An industry-agnostic solution, Accredify’s platform has been applied across Education, Public Sector, Healthcare, Aviation, Maritime, and more, and implemented for key institutions such as Singapore’s Accounting and Corporate Regulatory Authority (ACRA) and Global Top 10 University, the National University of Singapore. To date, Accredify’s platform has issued over 10m VCs and processed more than 12m verifications on issued VCs. In 2023, Accredify was awarded the Overall Champion of the Supernova Challenge at GITEX, and the AWS Local Software Partner of the Year in 2024.
For more information about Accredify, please visit accredify.io.
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Kenneth Yan
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Accredify
kenneth.yan@accredify.io