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Dr. Alexandra Hachmeister
Director General Digital Euro
Deutsche Bundesbank
Dr Alexandra Hachmeister is currently heading the General Directorate for the Digital Euro at Deutsche Bundesbank. She joined Bundesbank in 2022 where she headed up the Directorate General for Economic Education, University and International Central Bank Dialogue. Alexandra held various top management positions at Deutsche Börse AG, including Chief Regulatory Officer and Managing Director for Market Data & Services. Alexandra Hachmeister holds a doctorate in Market Microstructure.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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12:45–1:30pmWed 18 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Central Banks and Future Payment Systems: Priorities, Trade-offs, and Opportunities for Cross-Border Collaboration
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Daranee SaejuDeputy Governor, Payment Systems Stability & Financial Services SupervisionBank of Thailand
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Sasha MillsExecutive Director of Financial Market InfrastructureBank of England
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Tommaso Mancini-GriffoliHead of the Innovation HubBank for International SettlementsModerator
About this session
As financial systems evolve, central banks face a dual challenge -modernising the infrastructure that works today while building the foundations for what comes next. This means making strategic choices around the future of digital money and settlement, wholesale and retail systems connectivity across borders, and the interoperability, liquidity and governance arrangements that underpin them. At the same time, an increasingly AI-enabled financial system is raising the bar for the safety, reliability and resilience of critical payment infrastructure. This panel will discuss the key building blocks for the next generation of payments and where deeper cross-border collaboration can deliver capabilities that individual jurisdictions cannot achieve alone.
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4:30–5:00pmWed 18 NovPolicy StageHall 3, Singapore EXPOOpen
Policy Rewiring
Cross-Border Wholesale Connectivity: Building a More Connected Financial System
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Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
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Ivan OdonnatGeneral Director for Financial Stability & OperationsBanque de France
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Tommaso Mancini-GriffoliHead of the Innovation HubBank for International Settlements
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Alan LimDirector & Head, Financial Infrastructure & Artificial Intelligence OfficeMonetary Authority of SingaporeModerator
About this session
As digital money, tokenized assets and next-generation financial infrastructures gain traction around the world, jurisdictions and institutions are adopting a growing range of technologies, infrastructure models and settlement systems. While this diversity is driving innovation, it also raises an important question: how can increasingly interconnected financial systems continue to operate seamlessly across borders — without waiting for a single global standard to emerge first?
This panel brings together the institutions alongside policymakers and innovators from Asia, Europe and the UK to discuss what regional cooperation actually requires in practice: unified ledgers, synchronisation mechanisms, privacy-preserving technologies, and the governance arrangements that let independently built systems trust one another.
The discussion will examine the technical, legal, operational and regulatory challenges involved in scaling these regional models, and explore how deeper connectivity between them — rather than a single unified global system — may be the more realistic path to an interconnected financial system. -
