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Emma Joyce

Chief Revenue Officer, Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Emma is the Chief Revenue Officer at Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the largest industry association for the blockchain technology and digital assets community. GBBC furthers adoption of blockchain and emerging technologies by engaging regulators, business leaders, and global changemakers to harness these transformative tools for more secure and functional societies.

Emma has over 20 years of experience in the financial services sector, having previously held senior strategy and marketing roles at Fidelity and Citi.

At GBBC, Emma leads on growth and revenue at GBBC, sits on the Executive team, is a member of the global policy team, and heads up EMEA for GBBC. She also serves as a board director for GBBC USA and GBBC Giving.

Previously, she was the Chief Executive Officer of GBBC Digital Finance (GDF).

Emma is a recognized thought leader and speaker on blockchain and digital assets, and was named one of the top 20 most influential women in crypto by Financial News in 2023.

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GFTN Insights

Roundtable Room 2, Ground Floor

Open

Thu, 25 Jun | 02:00PM - 03:30PM

Building a Practitioner's Guide for Tokenization in Finance: Oversight Panel Convening

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Tokenization is reshaping financial infrastructure across many economies. The decisions that are being made now on architecture, standards and governance will determine whether that infrastructure serves developed and emerging and developing economies, or leaves some behind. Ensuring that outcome requires senior public sector voices at the centre of these conversations.

This session brings both working groups and the public sector Oversight Panel together for the first time. Working group leads will present their confirmed problem statements on what the evidence shows, and receive feedback and recommendations that working groups will pursue to build the practitioner's guide that will publish at Singapore FinTech Festival in November 2026.

About the initiative

GFTN is launching _Tokenization in Finance: Evidence and Implementation Pathways_, a structured, multi-stakeholder initiative convening two working groups drawn from leading financial institutions, infrastructure providers, and market participants to assemble a practitioner-oriented evidence base spanning spanning digital money and payment rails through to tokenized real-world assets, securities, funds, and capital markets infrastructure. At Singapore FinTech Festival in November 2026, the initiative will publish a practitioner guide designed to give financial institutions a structured basis for sequencing their digital asset strategies, and to equip regulators and finance ministries in emerging and developing economies with implementation pathways they can draw on directly.

Dr. Abbas AlbashaSenior Strategy Consultant CBDC, Giesecke+Devrient (G+D)

Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital Euro, Deutsche Bundesbank

Alisha ChhanganiAssociate Director, Future of Money, Atlantic Council

Amira KarimHead of International Public Policy, Payments & Financial Services, Amazon

Aqsa ZubairDeputy Director, FinTech Supervision, Bermuda Monetary Authority

Arena FernandezHead of Digital Regulatory Initiatives, Amazon

Ariadne PlaitakisDeputy Director, Regulation, Policy, & Research, Gates Foundation

Bilal Bin SaqibChairman, Pakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority

Bridget Rose Mesina-RomeroDirector, Payments Policy and Development Department, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Chad HarperHead of Coinbase Institute, Coinbase

Daisuke TerayamaDeputy Director-General, Head of Fintech Center, Bank of Japan

Emma JoyceChief Revenue Officer, Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

Ivan Mortimer-SchuttsGlobal Head of vLEI, Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

Kevin CowanMember of the Board, Central Bank of Chile

Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology Officer, Digital Finance CRC

Matilda Asante - AsieduSecond Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana

Michael MaurerResearch Engineer, MIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)

Mo JalilHead of Institutional Privacy, Ethereum Foundation

Natalya ThakurFounder & Chief Executive Officer, Knova

Pallavi ThakurDirector, Digital Assets Industry Engagement, Swift

Peter KerstensAdvisor, DG FISMA, European Commission

Sébastien Van CampenhoudtDirector, Innovation & Digital Assets, Tokenized Cash Lead, Euroclear

Steve VallasChief Executive Officer, Blockchain APAC

Sunayna TutejaFormer Chief Innovation Officer, Federal Reserve System

Tang WeiHead of Public Policy, Southeast Asia & Greater China, Stripe

Toh Wee KeeGlobal Head of Insights, Kinexys by J.P. Morgan

Wee Kiat GohOpen Innovation Lead, Julius Baer

Jael TanHead of Government Programmes & Special Projects, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN Solutions, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

Forum Stage

Kongresssaal, Level 1

Open

Thu, 25 Jun | 09:20AM - 10:00AM

Digital Assets at the Crossroads: A CEO Dialogue

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For the first time, the industry has what it spent years demanding - regulatory clarity, with MiCA enforced, the GENIUS Act signed, and market structure reform unlocking institutional tokenisation at scale. Yet the tailwinds arrive alongside real headwinds: a fractured macroeconomic order, geopolitical realignments reshaping capital flows, and AI competing for the infrastructure investment and boardroom attention once directed squarely at digital assets. This gathering of industry CEOs takes an honest look at where the industry truly stands.