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      Caroline Bowler

      Caroline Bowler

      Former Chief Executive Officer

      BTC Markets

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      Caroline Bowler is the CEO of BTC Markets, one of the largest digital asset exchanges in Australia. BTC Markets has over 362,000 Australian clients, who have traded more than $28bn since 2013.

      Caroline has worked in Financial Services since 2004, both in Europe and Asia Pacific. Over her career, Caroline has worked with a variety of financial institutions. These include investment banks, hedge funds, financial technology companies, and financial advisors. This has extended to blockchain and digital asset companies since 2015.

      Caroline is an advisory board member of the RMIT Digital3 research hub. She is also a former board member of industry group Blockchain Australia; Blockchain Leader of the Year 2022 and the 2022 recipient of the Female Fintech Leader of the Year award from Fintech Australia.

      With regular appearances on Bloomberg, ABC, 7News, 9News, Sky News Australia alongside featured commentary in the AFR, SMH, The Age, The Australian, news.com.au, she is considered one of Australia’s foremost experts on cryptocurrencies and regulatory framework.

      Caroline Bowler, CEO BTC Markets Pty Ltd
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      Speaking At

      • 1:30–3:30pmMon 16 NovLaunchpadLaunchpad RoomOpen

        The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized Markets

        In the Spotlight: Institutional Digital Assets

        LaunchpadLaunchpad RoomOpen

        About this session

        A 2-hour curated session on what it now takes to run digital assets at institutional scale. Across custody, compliance, infrastructure and execution, four firms building the regulated plumbing of digital finance will show what has shipped in the last twelve months and what institutions should be asking of their counterparties as a result.

        Rather than debate whether institutional adoption is coming, the session works through the four layers it depends on: where assets are held, how identity and money are kept clean, which rails can carry regulated activity, and how all of it reaches the trading desk. Each segment is anchored in live deployments rather than roadmaps.

        1:30pm - 1:45pm

        Welcome & GFTN Opening Remarks

        Speaker: Vanessa Ho, Senior Lead, Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

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        1:45pm - 2:10pm

        Keynote: When Crime Runs on AI: What Institutional Digital Asset Compliance Now Requires - Powered by TRM Labs

        TRM Labs' AI-in-Crime Adoption Index rose from 28 to 54 between 2024 and 2026, and deepfake-driven scam losses this year have already exceeded all of 2025 by 263% — while synthetic identity documents, real-time face-swap and voice cloning are routinely defeating the liveness and verification controls institutions rely on at onboarding. This fireside examines what that means for AML/CFT programmes built for a pre-AI threat model: where controls are failing, which typologies have actually matured versus which are still nascent, and separately, how compliance functions are deploying AI on the defence side without losing the explainability a regulator or a court will demand. Ziqing Ang, Head of Policy for APAC at TRM Labs and a former Monetary Authority of Singapore official unpacks the tools custodians, issuers and liquidity counterparties are deploying to fight back — including the question few institutions are asking yet: can you evidence how your model reached that decision?

        Speaker(s): Ziqing Ang, Head of Policy APAC, TRM Labs

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        2:10pm - 2:35pm

        Panel: Stablecoins as Bank Products: How Banks Are Going On-Chain - Powered by Anchorage Digital

        Banks continue to depend on US dollar settlement that halts at cut-off times, traps pre-funded liquidity in nostro accounts and takes days to reach finality. Stablecoins on public blockchains offer open, 24/7 interoperability, primary liquidity direct from the issuer and a shared settlement layer that any counterparty can reach. Drawing on Anchorage Digital’s stablecoin correspondent banking programme and its pilot participation in MAS’s Project BLOOM, this panel examines how banks are using a stablecoin issued by a federally regulated bank as the USD leg for real-time inter-bank and cross-border settlement, the prudential and operational questions risk and treasury teams should be asking, and why upgrading settlement corridors through modular, parallel deployments alongside existing rails is the practical path forward.

        Speaker(s): Lu Yin, Head of APAC, Solana Foundation, Patrick Sze, Chief Technology Officer, Green Link Digital Bank Pte. Ltd., Luke Boland, Global Head, Fintech, Client Coverage, Standard Chartered Bank, Moses Lee, Head of APAC, Anchorage Digital (Moderator)

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        2:35pm - 3pm

        Panel: What It Takes: Does Ethereum Meet the Requirements of a Regulated Financial Institution? - Powered by Nethermind

        Regulation applies to institutions and to how they treat assets. So, what does it take for public Ethereum to become infrastructure that a regulated financial institution can rely on? This session looks at who is responsible for the asset, the infrastructure, and the institution. It covers how Ethereum’s risk surface differs from cloud, and what changed to make institutions take it seriously. It also explores how to extend controls, compliance, privacy and reporting beyond the application layer, and busts common myths about who earns value from an Ethereum transaction.

        Speaker(s): Dharani Kishore, Head of Product, APAC, Nethermind

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        3pm - 3:25pm

        Panel: Beyond Trading: The Next Chapter for Stablecoins

        Stablecoin supply has reached record highs, and institutions are asking new questions. They no longer ask whether stablecoins matter. They ask where stablecoins beat existing rails and what it takes to use them safely at scale. Leaders from two of the industry’s major institutional infrastructure providers go through the use cases that are working today: cross-border B2B payments, 24/7 treasury management, on-chain collateral, and settlement for tokenised assets. They also cover what still holds adoption back and what has to change for stablecoins to become everyday financial plumbing.

        Speaker(s): Angela Ang, Managing Director, Asia-Pacific, BitGo, Lily King, Chief Operating Officer, Cobo, Bernice Neo, Business Development, APAC, Taxbit (Moderator)

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        3:25pm - 3:30pm

        Closing