Georg Schneider

Global Head of RWA

Digital Asset

Georg Schneider is Managing Director and Global Head of Real-World Assets at Digital Asset, where he leads commercial strategy for Canton Network's institutional tokenization and collateral mobility agenda. He works with globally systemic banks, CSDs, exchanges, and trading firms to move the core building blocks of wholesale finance on-chain, unlocking 24x7 mobility and capital efficiency across cash, securities, and collateral. He previously spent nearly a decade at Credit Suisse across structured products and equity derivatives, latterly as Head of Desk Quants, and holds an MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zürich.

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12:00–1:30pmTue 23 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Roadmap for AI and Quantum

Agentic Commerce: Who Governs the Machine that Pays?

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

AI agents are already initiating real financial transactions - booking, subscribing, settling, and disbursing without a human approving each step. The commerce and payments infrastructure built around human decision-makers was not designed for a counterparty that never sleeps, cannot be held to a contract in the traditional sense, and can be compromised at the model layer rather than the credential layer.

This session convenes payments architects, legal practitioners, and AI deployment leads to work through the practical questions the industry is looking to answer: how do you authenticate an agent, assign liability for an autonomous transaction gone wrong, and design governance frameworks for a technology that is already in production.

Participants will examine the specific mechanics of agentic payment flows - wallet delegation architectures, spending limit enforcement, multi-agent authorisation chains, and the emerging standards around agent identity that are still being written in real time by consortia that have not yet reached consensus.

The session will also surface the fraud and risk management implications: how transaction monitoring systems designed to flag anomalous human behaviour respond to the high-frequency, pattern-consistent activity of a well-functioning agent - and what entirely new risk frameworks may be required when the buyer is a model, the merchant is an API, and the dispute resolution process was designed for neither.
2:30–3:30pmWed 24 JunLaunchpadLaunchpad Room, Level 1Open
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Building the Bank-Grade Backbone: How Pioneer Banks Are Anchoring the Digital Asset Ecosystem - Powered by Banking Circle

LaunchpadLaunchpad Room, Level 1Open
- Georg SchneiderGlobal Head of RWADigital Asset
- Rafael MastroberardinoDigital Assets Partnerships & StrategyFranklin Templeton
- Tero ReunaChief Executive Officer, Paxos Issuance EuropePaxos
- Aymeric SalleyHead of Digital Assets PlatformBanking CircleModerator
About this session

The rails of money and assets are being redrawn. Digital assets are already reshaping treasury management, settlement, and payments, but making this technology work under a bank umbrella demands an entirely different standard of infrastructure. This session places first-mover banks at the centre of fast-growing digital asset ecosystems: as the trust anchor connecting stablecoin issuers, tokenized asset managers, payment companies, fintechs, and institutional settlement networks. Hear from the pioneers already building to that standard, and what it truly takes to get there.

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Agentic Commerce: Who Governs the Machine that Pays?

Building the Bank-Grade Backbone: How Pioneer Banks Are Anchoring the Digital Asset Ecosystem - Powered by Banking Circle