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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Dr. Alexander Bechtel
Global Head of Digital Products & Solutions
DWS Group
Dr. Alexander Bechtel is the Global Head of Digital Products and Solutions at DWS and Chairman of the advisory board of AllUnity. Previously, he was the Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Strategy at Deutsche Bank and external consultant at the European Central Bank. Alexander publishes a monthly column for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and lectures on blockchain and financial technology at the University of St. Gallen. He has a PhD in finance from the University of St. Gallen, including a research stay at Stanford University.
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2:20–3:00pmThu 25 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Blueprint for Digital Assets
Unchaining Tokenized Money: Stablecoins, CBDCs, and the Race for Scale
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Dr. Alexander BechtelGlobal Head of Digital Products & SolutionsDWS Group
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Bilal Bin SaqibChairmanPakistan Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority
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Dr. Mampho ModiseDeputy GovernorSouth African Reserve Bank
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Dr. Wolfram SeidemannCEO Currency TechnologyGiesecke+Devrient
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Joasia E. PopowiczAssociate EditorCentral Banking PublicationsModerator
About this session
As CBDCs move from pilots to policy and stablecoins scale into real-world payment and settlement use cases, digital money is entering a phase of practical deployment. Yet regulatory and technical fragmentation continue to threaten the efficiencies that tokenization at scale promises to unlock.
The discussion will focus on where real adoption is already taking place today, what barriers are still preventing scale, and how central banks, financial institutions, and technology providers can unlock interoperability across CBDCs, stablecoins, and tokenized financial systems globally within current market conditions.
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