Sébastien Van Campenhoudt

Director, Innovation & Digital Assets, Tokenized Cash Lead

Euroclear

Sébastien Van Campenhoudt is a Director in the Innovation & Digital Assets division at Euroclear since January 2026. As Tokenized Cash Lead, he focuses on advancing initiatives linked to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), stablecoins, and tokenized deposits.

Over 16 years at Euroclear, Sébastien has held several senior roles, including Chief of Staff to the Group Chairman, Public Affairs Director specializing in DLT and digital asset legislation, and Credit Officer managing a team overseeing credit exposures across multiple regions. He began his career at Euroclear as a Hedge Fund specialist within FundSettle.

Sébastien holds a Master’s degree in Economic Sciences from ICHEC Brussels Management School and a Bachelor’s degree in International Trade from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études Commerciales, both in Belgium.

Speaking at

2:00–3:30pmTue 23 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

The Future of Commercial Bank Money On-Chain

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

As the adoption of stablecoins accelerates globally, policymakers and financial institutions are confronting a deeper structural question: what form of money will anchor the next generation of digital finance?
Deposit tokens have emerged as one of the leading responses to this challenge, combining the safeguards of the traditional banking system with the programmability and efficiency of distributed ledger technology. However, despite growing institutional interest, most initiatives remain confined to pilots and closed networks, even as stablecoins rapidly achieve scale, distribution, and integration across digital asset ecosystems.
This roundtable brings together banks, infrastructure providers, and financial institutions to examine the challenges that constrain adoption of tokenized deposits, and the extent to which deposit tokens will coexist with or compete against stablecoins and other forms of digital money. It will also explore the growing push by jurisdictions worldwide to develop local-currency stablecoins as a strategic counterweight to dollar-denominated instruments and what these twin approaches - local currency stablecoins vis-a-vis on-chain commercial bank money - mean for the future shape of digital money.
Critically, the discussion will pose a broader strategic questio: whether tokenized commercial bank deposits can provide a sovereign and trusted foundation for the digital economy, or whether the future of digital money will be predominantly shaped by private stablecoin ecosystems, and the role of jurisdiction-specific stablecoin models therein.
5:05–5:45pmTue 23 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets

On-Chain Settlement: The Infrastructure for Atomic Finality

Forum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
About this session

The promise of blockchain settlement has always been atomicity - simultaneous exchange of asset and payment, with finality in seconds rather than days. Live pilots from major exchanges, custodians, and correspondent banks are proving the technology works; the harder challenge is rebuilding the legal frameworks, operational workflows, and legacy infrastructure that surround it. This session examines what it genuinely takes to move from today's T+1 standard to a world where settlement is instantaneous, global, and always on.
12:00–1:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

Building a Practitioner's Guide for Tokenization in Finance: Working Group Members Convening

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

The problems that constrain tokenization at scale do not belong to one working group, one institution, or one regulatory perimeter. Cross-ledger settlement, stablecoin licensing fragmentation, FMI readiness in developing markets, and the legal enforceability of smart contracts are structurally connected with each a precondition for the next, each requiring actors across infrastructure and regulation to work from the same evidence base.
This session brings both working groups together for the first time in person. Working Group 1 (Interoperability and Infrastructure) and Working Group 2 (Regulation, Trust, and Governance) will each present their problem statements before presenting to the Oversight Panel. The purpose is to establish shared understanding of the initiative's full scope, test framing with peers who approach the same challenges from different vantage points, and sharpen the asks that each working group will direct to the Oversight Panel in the session that follows.
About the initiative
GFTN has launched _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.
2:00–3:30pmThu 25 JunGFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

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

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Ground FloorOpen
About this session

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.

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The Future of Commercial Bank Money On-Chain

On-Chain Settlement: The Infrastructure for Atomic Finality

Building a Practitioner's Guide for Tokenization in Finance: Working Group Members Convening

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