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Owureku Asare
Director, FinTech & Innovation
Bank of Ghana
Owureku Asare leads Fintech and Innovation at Bank of Ghana, where he is responsible for policy and regulatory initiatives to strengthen the country’s digital financial ecosystem. With over 20 years of experience in banking, payments, and digital financial services, he has driven digital transformation projects across 33 African markets and forged strategic partnerships to digital finance and financial health in Sub-Saharan Africa .
He has worked closely with global partners such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Mastercard Foundation, CGAP, and the Better Than Cash Alliance, and co-founded the Financial Inclusion Forum Africa to advance innovation and financial inclusion across the continent.
Speaking At
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9:30–11:00amMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized Markets
Tokenized Markets: Frictions, Choices and the Path to Interoperability
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Alan CroftsHead of Innovation & FintechFMA New Zealand
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Herman SchuellerDirector, Innovation & Technology Risk - SupervisionDubai Financial Services Authority
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Jaime PradenasHead of Financial Technology HubCentral Bank of Chile
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Katie MitchellHead of APAC & MEA PolicyCoinbase
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Kushal BalluckSenior Manager, FMI Innovation & Payments PolicyBank of England
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Michael MaurerResearch EngineerMIT Digital Currency Initiative (DCI)
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Owureku AsareDirector, FinTech & InnovationBank of Ghana
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Peter KerstensAdvisor, DG FISMAEuropean Commission
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Tang WeiHead of Public Policy, Southeast Asia and ChinaStripe
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Toh Wee KeeGlobal Head of InsightsKinexys by J.P. Morgan
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Dr. Wong Huei ChingExecutive Director, Digital Strategy & InnovationSecurities Commission Malaysia
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Jael TanHead of Government ProgrammesGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
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Maha El DimachkiChief Executive Officer, GFTN SolutionsGlobal Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)Moderator
About this session
Tokenization projects today are often built vertically, with each initiative solving a specific problem within its own ecosystem. Yet tokenizing an asset in isolation does not deliver the full potential of tokenization. Benefits such as atomic settlement and greater capital efficiency depend on interoperability across the entire transaction chain — from the asset and its supporting infrastructure to trading, settlement and the movement of money. The challenge is how countries and institutions can pursue their own tokenization ambitions while avoiding the fragmentation that siloed approaches risk creating.
This roundtable brings together findings from a year of open-call research, alongside problem statements and perspectives from private-sector practitioners navigating the practical choices, risks and constraints of tokenization. It will explore how a decision-making framework can help countries assess their starting points and ambitions, identify the capabilities required across the transaction chain, and consider different pathways towards more interoperable markets. Looking ahead to 2027, participants will discuss emerging problem statements and the coordination, partnerships and policy support needed to connect individual initiatives into a more coherent financial ecosystem.
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