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Salim Dhanani
Chief Executive Officer
Pave Bank
Salim Dhanani is CEO & Co-Founder of Pave Bank, a corporate and institutional bank operating at the intersection of digital assets and traditional finance. Built for businesses globally, Pave Bank is designed for a new financial world with programmable money and regulated digital assets. The bank is backed by leading global investors including Accel, Tether, 468 Capital, Quona Capital and Wintermute Ventures.
Prior to founding Pave Bank, Salim co-founded and served as CEO of BigPay, one of Southeast Asia’s largest neobanks, raising over $165 million and scaling to more than 1.3 million cardholders. He also led the EMEA division at Carta Worldwide and worked with the World Bank Group in South America.
Salim has built his career in financial services, focusing on banking and payment technology for a diverse range of companies - including established banking players and fintech unicorns. He is also an active angel investor in fintech and Web3 through Thurloe Partners.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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3:10–3:45pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
What Makes Tokenization Production-Ready?
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Barry PlunkettChief Executive OfficerCosmos Labs
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Domenico NardelliTreasurerAsian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)
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Masashi WatanabeManaging Director, Head of Digital AssetsMUFG Bank, Ltd.
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Salim DhananiChief Executive OfficerPave Bank
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Jael TanHead of Government ProgrammesGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Tokenization doesn't fail on vision. It fails on plumbing. Behind every live corridor sits an unglamorous stack that decides whether it scales. Which settlement layer — L1, L2 or private and at what trade-off? How do you achieve legal finality across jurisdictions that don't agree? Which interoperability standards actually matter, and who is driving them? This session decodes the replicable components behind the case studies — the decisions that separate a production system from an expensive proof-of-concept.
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