Speakers
Peter Loo
Chief Legal & Compliance Officer
Bybit
Peter Loo is Chief Legal & Compliance Officer at Bybit, where he leads the company’s global legal, regulatory, and compliance strategy as Bybit continues its evolution into a fully integrated, regulated financial platform. With more than 25 years of cross-jurisdictional experience, Peter brings extensive expertise spanning investment banking, financial regulation, legal advisory, and digital assets across the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.
Prior to joining Bybit, Peter served as General Counsel & Head of Sector Development at Dubai’s Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA), where he played a key role in shaping Dubai’s virtual asset regulatory framework. He led work across licensing frameworks, market conduct policies, and enforcement protocols, while engaging with global exchanges, custodians, and institutional participants.
Peter has also held senior legal and compliance roles at leading financial institutions, including Barclays Capital and MF Global, advising on complex derivatives, structured products, and cross-border regulatory matters. As EMEA Head of Legal & Compliance at Amber Group, he led regulatory expansion and product structuring across Europe and the Middle East.
His career spans the evolution of financial markets from traditional derivatives and fund structuring to digital assets and tokenisation, giving him a broad perspective on the regulatory and commercial considerations shaping the next generation of financial services.
Speaking At
-
9:00–10:30amTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized MarketsSovereignty & Resilience in a Rewired Financial System
Designing for Resilience in Digital Money Infrastructure
Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
-
Dr. Abbas AlbashaSenior Strategy Consultant CBDCGiesecke+Devrient (G+D)
-
Dr. Alexandra HachmeisterDirector General Digital EuroDeutsche Bundesbank
-
Danny RussellHead of Payment Innovation Product and TechnologyBank of England
-
Dea MarkovaDirector of PolicyFireblocks
-
Humphrey ValenbrederChief Executive OfficerPartior
-
Isadora ArredondoVice President, Global PolicyHedera
-
Kelvin LiSenior Vice PresidentAnt International
-
Peter LooChief Legal & Compliance OfficerBybit
-
Steven McWhirterGlobal Policy LeadBinance
-
Takatoshi ShibayamaHead of Asia PacificLedger Enterprise
-
Zilong LiHead of Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction ServicesDBS Bank
-
Daniela BarbosaGeneral Manager, Decentralized Technologies, Linux Foundation & Executive DirectorLF Decentralized TrustModerator
About this session
As digital money infrastructure matures, more institutions are converging on the same handful of providers for custody, reserves, and connectivity. This concentration brings real efficiency and security benefits but it also creates correlated risk: a single provider's failure, outage, or reserve issue can propagate across multiple institutions at once, often in ways that aren't visible until it happens.
This session brings regulators and industry together to examine what resilient design actually requires as tokenization scales and the market consolidates, across technical redundancy, structural safeguards, transparency of dependency chains, and governance during a shared-provider failure. This roundtable aims to produce a set of principles on where responsibility should sit across the chain(s). -

