Why Amy Lee, the niece of Singapore’s first prime minister, helped launch a crypto-friendly bank

“For my whole life, I thought I would enjoy retirement,” she tells Fortune at her home in central Singapore. “To my horror, I developed insomnia because there was no structure in my life.” Her boredom sent her in an interesting direction: When Singapore lifted its COVID movement restrictions in 2022, Lee recalls she put on a face mask “and sat through an eight-hour course on blockchain.” Lee, who is also the niece of Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s first prime minister, now chairs the global advisory board of the Singapore Gulf Bank, a fully licensed, Bahrain-based digital bank which offers investors…