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Keith Desouza

Group Head of Treasury Liquidity Management, Treasury & Markets, DBS Bank

Keith Desouza is Managing Director and Group Head of Treasury Liquidity Management at Treasury & Markets, DBS Bank. Leading a regional team based in Singapore, Keith is responsible for managing the bank’s funding & liquidity across the international network as well as funding programmes including USCP & ECP. In addition, Keith is also involved in the development of innovative digital strategies and products such as new digital payments and channels.
Prior to his tenure with DBS Bank, Keith has also worked in similar role at ING Bank and JP Morgan.
Keith is a member of the Financial Markets Association of Singapore (FMAS) and holds a Masters degree with University of Mumbai.

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Roundtable 1

Invite-Only

Tue,14 Nov | 03:30PM - 05:00PM

(Invite-Only) Guardian roundtable: Concepts to commercialisation

Responsible Tokenisation

This roundtable will discuss the role of digital assets in expanding the opportunities and value capture for capital markets as well as the learnings in the various asset classes.

Christine Moy, Partner, Head of Digital Assets & AI, Apollo

Chua Chek Ping, Executive Director, Blockchain & Digital Assets, United Overseas Bank

Keith Desouza, Group Head of Treasury Liquidity Management, Treasury & Markets, DBS Bank

Lee Zhu Kuang, Chief Digital, Data & Innovation Officer, HSBC

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

CK Ong, Chief Operating Officer, SBI Digital Markets

Dr Steven Hu, Head of Digital Assets, Trade & Working Capital, Standard Chartered

Tyrone Lobban, Head of Onyx Digital Assets & Blockchain, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Peter Hilborne, Chief Operating Officer, Operations, Schroders Investment Management

Shobhit Maini, Co-head of Digital Assets, Global Markets, Citi

Ryosuke Ushida, Chief Fintech Officer, Financial Services Agency of Japan

Fabian Khoshbakht, Global Head of Client Insight & Innovation, BNY Mellon

Melvyn Low, Head Global Transaction Banking, OCBC Bank

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

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

Andrew Crawford, Vice President, Digital Assets, Franklin Templeton

Sheldon Mills, Executive Director, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)

Kelvin Li, Head of Global Fund Platform, Ant International

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

Technology Stage

Hall 3, Singapore EXPO

Open

Wed,15 Nov | 03:00PM - 03:45PM

Fostering global liquidity with trust anchors

Responsible Tokenisation

Digital asset and tokenisation has the potential to transform capital markets, allowing for new value capture. The road to digital assets (e.g. tokenised securities, natively issued structured products) becoming mainstream will require strong business fundamentals, wide participation by market participants and partnership with regulatory bodies to deepen understanding on the implications. Complementary to these factors is the need for collaborative effort by the industry and policymakers globally, avoiding the fragmentation of liquidity and supporting the development of a common framework in digital assets internationally.

Join this panel to hear from the public and private entities across Japan, Singapore and Switzerland on their collaboration in an industry pilot on securities based asset swap involving tokenised fixed Income products. They will also share the focus of the pilot, the role of trust anchors, the policymaker view, and opportunities/challenges that lie ahead for digital assets.

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