Katie Mitchell

Head of APAC & MEA Policy

Coinbase

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Katie Mitchell leads Policy in the Asia Pacific, Middle East, and Africa Regions forCoinbase. Katie joined Coinbase from Crypto.com where she served as the firm’s first Head of Global Policy and Engagement. She was previously the Global Head of Public Policy at Nium, a payments fintech firm headquartered here in Singapore where she built and led the Policy function from zero to impact.

Katie began her career at Visa where she worked across both the business in San Francisco, and the Global Government Engagement team for over a decade, including time in Washington, D.C. and Singapore.

Katie has been a representative to the World Economic Forum’s Innovators Programme and has served on the Board of the Emerging Payments Association Asia. She is in the Leadership Circle of Foreign Policy for America and is a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

She received her B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University where she was also a dual sport division 1 athlete in both rowing and volleyball.

Speaking At

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

Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
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.
3:00–4:30pmTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
The Scaling Challenge in Tokenized MarketsGlobal Frameworks and Shared Best Practices in Payments Chains

Enterprise Tokenized Settlement: Can Convertibility Hold Under Stress At Scale?

Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Open
About this session

Tokenized money is going plural — stablecoins and tokenized bank deposits are both moving toward live enterprise use in 2026, but they hold their value at par through different mechanisms, and each faces a different test under stress. Stablecoins hold par through reserves and redemption, now being formalized by 2026 rulemaking, from the GENIUS Act to MiCA; under stress, the question is whether reserves and redemption queues hold up in a run. Tokenized deposits hold par through the existing two-tier banking system and a central bank's guarantee of convertibility, but scale through interbank plumbing that's still being decided — settlement-bank arrangements or shared platforms. Under stress, the question there is whether that plumbing, and the counterparty exposure it creates, holds up if a bank or a platform fails.
As regulators and participants warned at the Point Zero Forum, the open question is whether convertibility at par survives a crisis in practice, on any of these rails. This session asks what needs to be built at each stage — reserve or capital backing, custody or bank participation, secondary-market trading, and cross-ledger settlement — for that convertibility to hold under stress. It puts reserve-backed and deposit-backed models on equal footing: where each is already resilient, where each is still exposed, and whether a fragmented rails landscape is itself becoming the bigger risk to singleness than any one model's design.

Speakers

Katie Mitchell

Speaking At

Tokenized Markets: Frictions, Choices and the Path to Interoperability

Enterprise Tokenized Settlement: Can Convertibility Hold Under Stress At Scale?