2026 Speakers
2026 Distinguished Speakers
Kylie Stewart
Digital Currencies Senior Manager
Reserve Bank of Australia
Kylie Stewart has more than 20 years’ experience in public policy and is currently a Senior Manager at the Reserve Bank of Australia, where she leads the RBA’s research into digital currencies. She oversees the RBA’s major experimental research initiative, Project Acacia, which is exploring the role of digital money in wholesale tokenised asset markets. This work is being undertaken in partnership with the Digital Finance Cooperative Research Centre.
Kylie’s previous roles at the RBA include serving as Senior Manager of Clearing and Settlement Supervision and Senior Manager responsible for business policy for the RBA’s settlement infrastructure. She has also worked at the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in the United States, where she played a key role in the initiation of US faster payments.
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1:30–2:45pmTue 24 MarPublic-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Blueprint for Digital Assets
[Closed-Door Roundtable] Indo-Pacific Digital Money Infrastructures - Building the Next Wholesale Payment Rails
Public-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 1Invite-Only
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Alvinder SinghHead, Innovation Acceleration OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Doulos LeeManagerBank Negara Malaysia
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Kylie StewartDigital Currencies Senior ManagerReserve Bank of Australia
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Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology OfficerDigital Finance CRC
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Robert PorterHead of Digital Asset Services (Business)Australia and New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ)
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Steve VallasChief Executive OfficerBlockchain APAC
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Victoria RichardsonPartnerID Partners
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Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN SolutionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
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. -

