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Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Daisuke Terayama
Deputy Director-General, Head of Fintech Center
Bank of Japan
Daisuke currently serves as the head of the FinTech Center at the Bank of Japan. He joined the Bank of Japan in 1998 and has been deeply engaged in payment and settlement systems for many years, contributing from multiple perspectives. His extensive expertise spans various areas, including conducting research and formulating policies related to payment and settlement systems, reviewing and reforming payment ecosystems and market practices, and managing the development and operation of systems maintained by the Bank of Japan.
Since 2024, Daisuke has been leading the Bank of Japan's pilot experiment for a retail CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) and has taken on significant responsibility for Project Agora, focusing primarily on its technological aspects. Additionally, he has played an instrumental role at the FinTech Center, where he contributed to the establishment of the DLT (Distributed Ledger Technology) Sandbox Project and has been actively involved in shaping the future direction of Japan's payment and settlement systems.
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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
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Dr. Abbas AlbashaSenior Strategy Consultant CBDCGiesecke+Devrient (G+D)
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Alisha ChhanganiAssociate Director, Future of MoneyAtlantic Council
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Amira KarimHead of International Public Policy, Payments & Financial ServicesAmazon
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Aqsa ZubairDeputy Director, FinTech SupervisionBermuda Monetary Authority
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Arena FernandezHead of Digital Regulatory InitiativesAmazon
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Ariadne PlaitakisDeputy Director, Regulation, Policy, & ResearchGates Foundation
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Bilal Bin SaqibChairmanPakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
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Bridget Rose Mesina-RomeroDirector, Payments Policy and Development DepartmentBangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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Chad HarperHead of Coinbase InstituteCoinbase
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Daisuke TerayamaDeputy Director-General, Head of Fintech CenterBank of Japan
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Emma JoyceChief Revenue OfficerGlobal Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)
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Ivan Mortimer-SchuttsGlobal Head of vLEIGlobal Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
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Kevin CowanMember of the BoardCentral Bank of Chile
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Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology OfficerDigital Finance CRC
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Matilda Asante - AsieduSecond Deputy GovernorBank of Ghana
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Michael MaurerResearch EngineerMIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
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Mo JalilHead of Institutional PrivacyEthereum Foundation
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Natalya ThakurFounder & Chief Executive OfficerKnova
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Pallavi ThakurDirector, Digital Assets Industry EngagementSwift
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Peter KerstensAdvisor, DG FISMAEuropean Commission
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Sébastien Van CampenhoudtDirector, Innovation & Digital Assets, Tokenized Cash LeadEuroclear
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Steve VallasChief Executive OfficerBlockchain APAC
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Sunayna TutejaFormer Chief Innovation OfficerFederal Reserve System
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Tang WeiHead of Public Policy, Southeast Asia & Greater ChinaStripe
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Toh Wee KeeGlobal Head of InsightsKinexys by J.P. Morgan
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Wee Kiat GohOpen Innovation LeadJulius Baer
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Jael TanHead of Government ProgrammesGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
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Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN SolutionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
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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