Featured speakers
Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Marco Kessler
Head Product and Business Development for Digital Assets
SIX Group
Marco Kessler joined SDX in October 2018 and has been a core contributor since the early days of the platform. Following the integration of SDX into SIX in 2025, Marco serves as Head Product and Business Development for Digital Assets at SIX, where he is responsible for shaping product strategy and driving commercial growth across the digital assets portfolio. As of August 2025,
Marco also serves as Head of the Management Board of SDX AG.
Marco brings more than 14 years of experience in capital markets and digital transformation. Prior to joining SDX, he worked at Accenture, where he played a key role in large-scale digital transformation programs for global Swiss banks, with a particular focus on wealth management, advisory, and core banking.
His expertise spans management and technology consulting, business architecture for financial services, and IT strategy, with a strong emphasis on innovation in financial market infrastructures.
Since joining SDX, Marco has been instrumental in building and scaling the platform and in advancing the adoption of digital assets within regulated capital markets.
With a deep understanding of financial markets and a strong product and business mindset, Marco continues to play a central role in the development of SIX’s digital assets offering.
Speaking at
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3:45–4:25pmTue 23 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets
Tokenized Equities: How the Stock Market Gets Rebuilt On-Chain
Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
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Lamine BrahimiCo-founder & Managing PartnerTaurus
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Marco KesslerHead Product and Business Development for Digital AssetsSIX Group
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Nicola WhiteVice President, Institutional Crypto, Robinhood and General Manager, BitstampRobinhood
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Oya CeliktemurDirector, EMEAOndo Finance
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Pavel KhristolyubovChief Operating OfficerWallet in Telegram
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Lars SjögrenBoard DirectorNFT Ventures ABModerator
About this session
Recent tokenization pilots signal that T+0 equity settlement is no longer theoretical - it is arriving, and it will change how shares are issued, traded, and held. Digital exchanges, wealth managers, platforms and custodians now face a fundamental question: how do you integrate on-chain equities into portfolios and platforms? This session brings together the architects of digital equity tokens to map what the transition actually requires.
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10:00–11:30amWed 24 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets
Tokenized Financial Markets: Advancing Trust, Integrity and Compliance
GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Andrei PustelnikovSenior Manager, Wholesale experiments and international projectsBank of England
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Jakub LesniowskiHead Digital Asset Platform and RiskUBS
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Jennifer LassiterManaging Director, Head of Digital Assets for Europe & AmericasStandard Chartered
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John O'NeillManaging Director, Digital Assets & Currencies, CIBHSBC
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Marco KesslerHead Product and Business Development for Digital AssetsSIX Group
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Marcos ViriatoChief Executive Officer & Co-FounderParfin
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Prof. Rolf H. WeberProfessorBlockchain Center, University of Zurich
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Sang Hyuk LimVisiting EconomistBank for International Settlements (BIS)
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Yasuo YamanakaDirector, Strategic Innovation LeadEuroclear
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Raunak MittalAdvisorBIS Innovation Hub Singapore CentreModerator
About this session
Tokenization is reshaping wholesale payments, foreign exchange, and securities. As adoption grows across platforms and jurisdictions, it introduces fragmentation, operational complexity, and coordination challenges that may affect liquidity, settlement certainty, and systemic stability.
This roundtable will examine the governance, control frameworks, and cross-border coordination needed to ensure trust, integrity, and resilience in tokenized financial markets. It will explore practical approaches to embed compliance, interoperability, and accountability, advancing trust in tokenization, and enabling it to scale.
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