STEP Asia Conference 2026 is the Asia-Pacific conference of STEP (the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners), held 20–21 October 2026 at the Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Marina Bay Sands, 10 Bayfront Avenue, Singapore 018956. Organizer-published theme: ‘Advising families in an emerging new world order’ — the two-day programme is built for trustees, fiduciary professionals, family office executives, private bankers, lawyers, tax advisers and other private-wealth specialists working with complex family structures across Asia and beyond. Organizer-published scale and terms: 38 speakers, 12.5 STEP CPD hours (6 public CPD points on day 1, 6.5 on day 2), SILE-accredited CPD activity, registration at SGD 2,100 for STEP members and SGD 2,550 for non-members. The room opened on the morning of 20 October 2026 with Ms Goh Seow Chee TEP (Managing Director, Aequitas Advisory Pte Ltd; Chair of the organising committee, STEP Asia Conference 2026) — the opener is documented on a venue-day post from inside the hall, which also reports that tax residence and citizenship loomed over the keynote and panel discussion: whatever the trust structure, a passport and a residency still decide the outcome. Session content visible on the stage frames shipped here: the PRC taxation regime (domiciled in China taxed on worldwide income; non-domiciled but 183+ days may qualify for a worldwide-income exemption subject to conditions; non-resident taxed only on China-source income; nationality irrelevant, PRC household registration decisive) and a panel on what Vietnamese families are trying to achieve — overseas education for children, overseas property ownership, international investment portfolios, acquisition of foreign businesses, family offices, offshore trusts, and the residence/citizenship and family-governance planning that supports them, framed around the legal framework question. Sponsor and exhibitor surfaces publishing the same dates and venue include IQ-EQ, Jersey Finance, Guernsey Finance and Bedell Cristin; Bedell Cristin’s own event page names partner Andrew Miller speaking on ‘Unveiling beneficial ownership in practice: spotlight on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) Recommendation 25’, and Guernsey Finance’s own page names chief executive Barnaby Molloy delivering a welcome address. REAL VENUE-DAY PHOTOGRAPHS on this dossier — 3 frames published from inside the hall as the conference opened, carrying the event’s own ‘STEP ASIA CONFERENCE — 20-21 October 2026 — Marina Bay Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore’ screen and the STEP podium cube. PHOTO-QAA PASS on freshly fetched originals (entropy 0.908 / 0.806 / 0.907; sd 28.9 / 33.8 / 29.4), no private-guest identity crop, no diffusion or AI imagery. CDN copies watermarked UnicornsMap.com $UM-Radar (~3% corner negative space, off faces). Currencies SGD (local) plus USD / EUR / GBP / CNY / HKD / JPY / INR / VND / AUD / MYR / IDR / THB / AED / CHF / KRW / TWD and USDT / USDC; 21-locale $UM-Radar layer (22 hreflang surfaces incl x-default); x402 4.99 USDC (Base) full-dossier unlock. Public OSINT only — the organizer publishes no 2026 delegate list; its own page carries a ‘Facts & figures from the Asia 2025 event’ block printing 22 sessions and 473 attendees, which is a prior-year baseline and not a 2026 roster, so nothing here is an attendance list; no invented attendees, net-worth figures or deals.

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