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Laura Dinneen
Head of Product Marketing
Zodia Custody
LD is a product and strategy leader working at the intersection of financial institutions, technology, and human decision-making. She currently leads Global Product Marketing at Zodia Custody, where she helps shape how banks, trading venues, and institutional investors participate in the digital asset economy.
With more than 20 years’ experience across Europe’s digital innovation consultancies and Australia’s major financial institutions, including Westpac and National Australia Bank, Laura has spent her career designing and launching new financial products, platforms, and market propositions.
Her work combines behavioural insight, research, and human-centred design to help institutions bring complex technologies – including digital assets, custody infrastructure, and tokenised finance – safely and successfully to market.
Speaking at
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1:30–2:45pmWed 25 MarPublic-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 2Open
Next-Gen Transactions
[Roundtable] Cutting the Costs of Cross-Border Trade – Modern Digital Money in Practice
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Alvinder SinghHead, Innovation Acceleration OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Amy-Rose GoodeyChief Executive OfficerDigital Economy Council of Australia (DECA)
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Belle LouFounderBloom Fintech
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Prof. David Lee Kuo ChuenChairmanGlobal Fintech Institute
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Effie DimitropoulosChief Executive OfficerAUDD Stablecoin
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Prof. Kadambot SiddiqueHackett Professor of Agriculture Chair and DirectorThe UWA Institute of Agriculture, The University of Western Australia
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Laura DinneenHead of Product MarketingZodia Custody
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Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology OfficerDigital Finance CRC
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Michael PrendivilleChief Executive OfficerJellyC
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Dr. Andrzej GwizdalskiCo-founder & ChairmanWestern Australia Web3 AssociationModerator
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Jannah PatchayExecutive in Residence & Board MemberGlobal Digital FinanceModerator
About this session
Western Australia’s economy is highly export-driven. With exports over $240 Billion, it makes nearly half of the total Australian goods exports. Yet cross-border payments still carry potentially avoidable friction such as settlement delays, layered fees, FX spreads, manual exceptions & compliance overheads, costs that hit SMEs hardest & compound across large trade flows.
This session is a practical, industry-first discussion focused on one question:
How can WA reduce the costs & friction of cross-border export payments & safely adopt modern, regulated digital settlement tools where they deliver clear benefits while maintaining strong compliance, consumer protection, operational resilience & effective supervision? -
