As the Head of Digital Cash for the Digital Assets business, Rajeev is tasked with establishing the product strategy, vision, and executing the product roadmap. Before assuming his current role, Rajeev served as the Head of Digital Assets Platform, overseeing the design and development of BNY Mellon’s multi-asset, multi-chain digital assets platform. He was instrumental in developing BNY Mellon’s digital asset custody product, which marked a significant milestone as the first such offering by a global systemically important bank. Additionally, Rajeev spearheaded efforts to identify opportunities and build enterprise capabilities around artificial intelligence and machine learning.
Rajeev joined BNY Mellon from State Street, where he held various leadership positions focused on developing solutions for financial markets using emerging technologies. He holds a graduate degree in Technology Management from Columbia University.
Roundtable Room 3 (Level 3)
Open
This roundtable gathers experts from key organizations involved in shaping the future of wholesale cross-border payments. In this early phase—focused on collecting diverse requirements, shaping the technological fundamentals and establishing a multi-stakeholder project organisation—participants will share initial lessons learned and discuss anticipated challenges for future phases of Project Agorá. The discussion is designed to foster robust debate and exchange innovative ideas from various perspectives.
It aims to discuss the driving forces and motivation behind project Agorá and synthesise early insights around key coordination, technical, and operational challenges in building a resilient next-generation tokenised cross-border payment platform. Further the roundtable aims to share and ideate on possible strategies to resolve identified challenges and consider emerging technology trends in future phases of the project.
The discussion will produce a report of synthesised insights, current challenges and proposed solutions and strategies, to effectively and efficiently enable the future of cross-border payments with future phases of Project Agorá.