[Closed-Door Roundtable] Indo-Pacific Digital Money Infrastructures - Building the Next Wholesale Payment Rails

Wholesale digital money is moving from experimentation to infrastructure. Across the Indo-Pacific & Europe, central banks, regulators & financial institutions are testing tokenised settlement models to improve cross-border payments, liquidity efficiency & risk management through initiatives such as Project Acacia (Australia), Project Guardian and BLOOM (Singapore).

This closed-door session convenes senior leaders from policy, banking, market infrastructure, and technology providers to compare takeaways from leading pilots and align on what it will take to move from proofs-of-concept to interoperable, secure, scalable wholesale settlement rails across jurisdictions.  

The roundtable builds on GFTN’s recently launched Digital Money principles, emphasising interoperability, sovereignty, resilience, trust, and inclusion. Participants will also consider enabling foundations underpinning trusted digital markets. 

Speakers

Alvinder Singh

Alvinder Singh

Head, Innovation Acceleration Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Doulos Lee

Doulos Lee

Manager, Bank Negara Malaysia

Kylie Stewart

Kylie Stewart

Digital Currencies Senior Manager, Reserve Bank of Australia

Dr. Mark Staples

Dr. Mark Staples

Chief Technology Officer, Digital Finance CRC

Robert Porter

Robert Porter

Head of Digital Asset Services (Business), Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)

Steve Vallas

Steve Vallas

Chief Executive Officer, Blockchain APAC

Victoria Richardson

Victoria Richardson

Partner, ID Partners

Moderator

Maha El Dimachki

Maha El Dimachki

Chief Executive Officer, GFTN Solutions, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)