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Yasuo Yamanaka

Yasuo Yamanaka

Director, Strategic Innovation Lead, Euroclear

Yasuo Yamanaka is IT Strategic Innovation Lead within Group Digital Capabilities at Euroclear, one of the world's largest financial market infrastructures. He explores data-enabled services and distributed ledger technology to modernize both the infrastructure of capital markets and the business models built on it. His core expertise spans fixed income, settlement, global custody, collateral management and digital assets. With more than fifteen years in financial market infrastructure, he has worked across Tokyo, Brussels, London and Luxembourg, most recently as Deputy Branch Manager and Head of Commercial for Japan, giving him a cross-regional view of how market structure and investor protection differ between Asia and Europe.