Dea Markova

Director of Policy

Fireblocks

Dea Markova is Director of Policy at digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks, where she leads the global policy function, with direct responsibility for advocacy, political and regulatory intelligence, and go-to-market regulatory enablement across EMEA and APAC. Her team focuses on digital asset security and operational resilience, and engages in strategic alliances to support responsible growth across the payments and investment uses cases of digital assets, tokenised payments, and financial instruments.

Dea previously led political intelligence and advocacy campaigns in the EU, as Europe developed its regulations for the crypto sector. She relocated back to Europe after her post in the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she served in the MAS Financial Technology and Innovation Group. She was previously in London for 10 years, working in fintech and banking regulation.

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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.
1:00–1:30pmThu 25 JunWorkshopWorkshop Room, Level 1Open
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From Float to Yield: How Banks can Integrate Defi and Offer Stablecoin Yield Safely - Powered by Fireblocks

WorkshopWorkshop Room, Level 1Open
About this session

Technology and client demand are converging: banks can deploy stablecoin deposits into pooled, KYC'd, RWA-collateralised lending venues today. What's missing is the regulatory scaffolding — the economic model is novel, prudential treatment is undefined, and supervision hasn't caught up.
Two implementation choices would create uncontested ground: separate institutional DeFi from retail/permissionless DeFi, and separate it from tokenised repo. From there, regulators should recognise an asymmetric permissioning model (permissioned borrowers, permissionless suppliers) and define the prudential treatment of bank-held positions in tokenised credit venues.

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Agentic Commerce: Who Governs the Machine that Pays?

From Float to Yield: How Banks can Integrate Defi and Offer Stablecoin Yield Safely - Powered by Fireblocks