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Maha El Dimachki
Chief Executive Officer, GFTN Solutions
Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)
Maha is Chief Executive Officer, GFTN Solutions. GFTN (Global Finance and Technology Network) bridges policy, capital and technology to build resilient, efficient and inclusive ecosystems.
Prior to this Maha served as Centre Head, BIS Innovation Hub Singapore. The centre develops public goods in the technology space to support central banks in how they discharge their roles in a digital economy and improve the financial system using emerging technologies.
In previous roles, Maha was Head of Department for Early and High Growth Oversight leading the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) response to the Kalifa review of Fintech. She served as Chief Payments Officer at Pay.UK on secondment from the FCA, responsible for running the payments operations of the UK’s payment operator.
Maha joined the FCA in 2017 to set up the first Payments Department and was responsible for crafting and implementing the FCA supervisory strategy for the UK Payments Sector.
Maha has a keen interest in observing and participating in the many exciting changes that are unfolding in the financial services, innovation and fintech environment. She mostly enjoys crafting and implementing solution with tangible impact.
She is the author of Fintech Regulation in Practice. A book that provides a clear, hands on guide to the practical considerations that fintechs, banks adopting fintech and other key players in the fintech ecosystem need to take into account when embedding regulation.
She serves as the independent reviewer of the Australian Regulatory Sandbox, appointed by the Australian Treasury.
Maha has a Degree in Commerce from Macquarie University and a Masters in Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Speaking at
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11:10–11:50amTue 24 MarSummit StageWinthrop HallOpenModerator
Blueprint for Digital Assets
How to Build Better Money - Trust Stack for Money in Motion
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Alvinder SinghHead, Innovation Acceleration OfficeMonetary Authority of Singapore
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Effie DimitropoulosChief Executive OfficerAUDD Stablecoin
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Kate CooperChief Executive OfficerOKX
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Dr. Mark StaplesChief Technology OfficerDigital Finance CRC
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Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN SolutionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Money is critical infrastructure & most people only notice it when it fails. This session explains how trust in digital payments & settlements can be strengthened as cyber threats rise, economies digitize, and quantum moves from theory to threat. You’ll leave with practical trust upgrades that matter most for the decade ahead - access to resilient, secure money & payments in the age of disruption.
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1:30–2:45pmTue 24 MarPublic-Private RoundtablesUniClub - Roundtable Room 1Invite-OnlyModerator
Blueprint for Digital Assets
[Closed-Door Roundtable] Indo-Pacific Digital Money Infrastructures - Building the Next Wholesale Payment Rails
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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. -
