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Masashi Watanabe

Managing Director, MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Masashi Watanabe is a Managing Director at the Corporate Planning Division in MUFG Bank, leading the Digital Asset / Web3 Business Development team based in Tokyo, Japan.

He has been involved in the bank’s business development for more than 25years, including Transaction Banking, IT & Payments and Digitalization area, working abroad in London and Bangkok.

Prior to his current role, he took part in developing a payment platform utilizing blockchain technology in Tokyo. He holds a BA in Economics from Waseda University, Tokyo.

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Elevandi Insights

Roundtable 4

Invite-Only

Tue,14 Nov | 01:30PM - 03:00PM

(Invite-Only) Multilateral platforms: Open and interoperable networks

Responsible Tokenisation

Tokenisation of financial and real economy assets is estimated to accelerate the pace of digitalisation and impact the broader economy beyond financial services. Despite good progress in asset tokenisation experimentations and pilots, the lack of FMI compliant digital infrastructure which financial institutions can use to execute digital asset transactions prevents financial institutions’ ability to deploy digital assets at scale.

This roundtable discusses the importance for multilateral platforms to be powered by open and interoperable networks amongst global banks and regulators. Moderated by Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Division Chief in the Monetary and Capital Markets Department at the International Monetary Fund and Alan Lim, Head of the FinTech Infrastructure Office at the MAS.

Matthias Obrecht, Head Market Analysis, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Naveen Mallela, Global Head of Coin Systems, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Rajeev Tummala, Head of Digital & Data - Asia & MENA, HSBC Securities Services

Caroline Butler, Global Head of Digital Assets, BNY Mellon

Dr Peter Wierts, Senior Economist, Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

Holger Neuhaus, Head Market Innovation & Integration Division, Directorate General Payments & Market Infrastructure, European Central Bank

Damien Fontanille, Institutional sales, Societe Generale - Forge

Harish Natarajan, Practice Manager, Financial Inclusion and Infrastructure, World Bank

Claudine Hurman, Director of Innovation and Financial Market Infrastructures, Banque de France

Dr Christoph Puhr, Lead CoE Digital Assets, UBS Group AG

Danny Russell, Head of Digital Currency Technology, Bank of England

Masashi Watanabe, Managing Director, MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Sandip Patil, Managing Director, LMS & Digital Assets Asia Lead, Citi

Giuseppe Zingrillo, Director General for Information Technology, Banca d'Italia

Alan Lim, Head, FinTech Infrastructure Office, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli, Division Chief of the Payments, Currencies, and Infrastructure, International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Insights Stage

Hall 2, Singapore EXPO

Premium

Thu,16 Nov | 02:05PM - 02:55PM

Will FIs and regulators trust the digital asset transaction network?

Responsible Tokenisation

Despite good progress in asset tokenisation experimentations and pilots, it has been identified that the lack of an open, unified digital infrastructure which financial institutions can use to execute digital asset transactions is limiting financial institutions’ ability to deploy digital assets at scale. This panel will discuss the case of a foundational digital infrastructure that is open and accessible for regulated financial institutions to develop, deploy and use applications for financial industry use-cases. This session will highlight key principles and capabilities of such a digital financial network backbone as well as prevailing mechanisms to achieve interoperability between existing and new financial infrastructures.

Umar Farooq, Global Head of Financial Institution Payments and Chief Executive Officer, Onyx by J.P. Morgan, J.P. Morgan