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Kazuya Ikeda
Senior Managing Executive Officer Head of Transaction Business & AI Transformation Deputy Head of Global Business Unit
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
Kazuya Ikeda was appointed Senior Managing Executive Officer, Head of Transaction Business Division and Deputy Head of Global Business Unit SMFG/SMBC in April 2025. In May 2025, he was appointed Chairman, SMBC (China) Limited (SMBCCN). In October 2025, he was appointed Head of AI Transformation.
He joined Sakura Bank (currently SMBC) in 1993 and has been with the bank ever since. He has spent about one third of his career overseas, including eight years in Singapore. Prior to his current appointment, he held various leadership roles within the bank, including Joint General Manager, Planning Department, International Banking Unit, Tokyo (2016-2019), General Manager, Planning Department, Asia Pacific Division, Singapore (2019-2022). He was appointed Executive Officer of SMFG/SMBC in 2021, non-executive director of SMBC Bank International plc in 2022 and Managing Executive Officer in 2023.
He holds a BSc from Kyoto University (1993) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business (2003).
Speaking at SFF 2026
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2:10–2:40pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
RWA Tokenization: From Products to Liquid Markets
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Chris YinChief Executive OfficerPlume Network
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Fiona MurrayVice President & Managing Director, Asia PacificRipple
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Kazuya IkedaSenior Managing Executive Officer Head of Transaction Business & AI Transformation Deputy Head of Global Business UnitSumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC)
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Delane FooRegional Managing Director, APACNethermindModerator
About this session
RWA tokenisation has a surplus of vision and a shortage of honest post-mortems. This session is the latter. Which asset classes are seeing real traction, and which are stuck in pilot theatre? How much settlement has actually been compressed and what breaks in the transition? Tokenised collateral promises mobility the legacy system can't match, but only if the legal frameworks hold. The question for banks, financial institutions and asset managers: who are the new investors, and what do they need to see before they allocate? Practitioners who have shipped and carry the scars, separate the working from the wished-for.
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