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      Mindaugas Leika

      Mindaugas Leika

      Senior Financial Sector Expert

      International Monetary Fund (IMF)

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      Mindaugas Leika is a Senior Financial Sector Expert in the Global Market Analysis Division of the International Monetary Fund. His work focuses on developments shaping the financial system, including the interaction between technological innovation, financial institutions, and markets. He co-led the October 2026 Global Financial Stability Report chapter on asset tokenization.
      Before joining the Fund in 2016, he worked in the private sector, focusing on risk management and venture capital investment, and held senior positions at the Central Bank of Lithuania, including Advisor to the Governor, Head of the Central Bank's Financial Stability Division, Member of the Advisory Technical Committee of the European Systemic Risk Board, and Member of the ECB Banking Supervision Committee. At the Central Bank, Mindaugas helped establish financial stability reporting and coordinated crisis-management activities during the 2008–09 Global Financial Crisis.
      He holds master's degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Vilnius University.

      Speaking at SFF 2026

      • 3:15–4:00pmFri 20 NovFrontier StageHall 6, Singapore EXPOPremium

        Technology Rewiring

        Scaling Tokenization: New Efficiencies, New Vulnerabilities

        Frontier StageHall 6, Singapore EXPOPremium

        About this session

        Tokenization has moved beyond pilots into repo, money market funds and bond issuance, yet activity remains small and spread across siloed, permissioned platforms. Atomic settlement, programmable collateral and round-the-clock trading are stripping cost and reconciliation from the asset life cycle. The same features also remove the timing gaps and intermediaries that traditionally absorb liquidity and operational shocks. When settlement leaves no time to react, where does resilience come from? This session examines which gains depend on a shared ledger, what legal certainty and safe settlement must deliver before markets scale, and how safeguards work when markets never close.