Laura is a Director at Temasek, where she oversees the firm’s work across asset management platforms, venture-building initiatives, and digital asset investments.
She serves as Board Observer at Partior, a joint venture with J.P. Morgan, DBS, and Standard Chartered focused on transforming cross-border clearing and settlement. She also supports Temasek’s strategic engagement with Seviora Group, Temasek’s Singapore-based asset management platform.
Since joining Temasek in 2007, Laura has built deep investment and operating experience across a broad range of sectors, partnering with portfolio companies to drive value creation and strategic transformation. Her coverage spanned businesses across technology, consumer, infrastructure, industrials, specialty chemicals, offshore marine, transportation and logistics.
Prior to Temasek, Laura held roles at Ernst & Young and General Electric, where she completed leadership-track assignments through GE’s Financial Management and CAS programs. Her international experience includes roles across GE Money in the United States, GE Aircraft in Japan, GE Plastics in China and Singapore, and GE Oil & Gas in Malaysia.
Laura is a Fellow of ACCA and holds a BA (Hons) in Accounting & Finance from Sheffield Hallam University. She serves on the Advisory Committee of Elevandi (now GFTN) and has been recognized as a Singapore 100 Women in Tech honoree in 2023 and a Fintech65 Leader in 2022.
Roundtable Room 3, Ground Floor
Open
Stablecoins have crossed $300 billion in circulation. Tokenized deposits are live at various global banks. Yet for all the headline numbers, the hard question remains unanswered: how do programmable money instruments actually integrate with the treasury operations, correspondent banking relationships, and payments infrastructure that keep traditional finance running?
This session convenes senior practitioners from banks, corporates, and digital asset firms to examine the real friction points - legal, operational, and technical - where digital money collides with TradFi plumbing, and where the integration is showing progress. Participants will discuss strategies to scale the integration of digital assets within traditional operations, including updating risk management frameworks, adhering to regulatory requirements, and architecting interoperability across systems.