Speakers
Tim Way
Senior Director, Global Banking
Fireblocks
Tim Way is Senior Director, Global Banking at Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on blockchain. His responsibilities include partnering with banks and financial institutions to equip financial institutions globally as they rewire how value is stored and moves. This includes helping institutions manage risk, unlock new revenue models, and scale with infrastructure that’s secure, enterprise-ready, and built for a digital economy.
Prior to Fireblocks, Tim spent over a decade at UBS, most recently serving as its APAC Digital Assets Lead, reporting into the APAC Chief Digital and Information Office (CDIO). Whilst there, he worked to scale blockchain initiatives to tokenise funds and structured products. He also led a team of over 100 to deliver US$50m of digitalisation to UBS China’s Wealth Management entities. His extensive experience at UBS spanned the Asset Management, Investment Banking and Wealth Management businesses.
He has also worked buy-side with a UK Hedge Fund and as a capital markets consultant at Accenture.
Originally from the UK, Tim holds a Masters of Maths from Warwick University and a Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) Diploma. He has called Singapore home for the past decade.
Speaking At
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3:45–5:15pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 2Invite-Only
Tokenized Market Infrastructure – The Scaling Challenge
Connecting Tokenized Capital Markets
Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 2Invite-Only
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Aaron SeabrookChief Operating OfficerMarketnode
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Andrea DoreGlobal Head of Treasury OperationsWorld Bank Group
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Audrey MetzgerDirector of Innovation & Financial Market InfrastructuresBanque de France
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David KatzVice President for Strategy & Public Policy, Asia PacificCircle
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Fernando VázquezPresident, Capital MarketsChainlink
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Gabriel CallsenSenior Director, FinTech and DigitalisationInternational Capital Market Association (ICMA)
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Magnus HaglindSenior Vice President & Head of Capital Markets TechnologyNasdaq
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Martin K. MüllerChairman of the Supervisory BoardRegulated Layer One
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Samuel RileyChief Executive OfficerClearstream Securities Services, Clearstream Holding AG
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Selene ChongGlobal Head of Digital Assets, CIBHSBC
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Prof. Tālis PutniņšCo-Chief Executive Officer & Chief ScientistDFCRC
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Tim WaySenior Director, Global BankingFireblocks
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Sandra RoChief Executive OfficerGlobal Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)Moderator
About this session
Tokenized bond and fund issuance is growing quickly, but secondary-market liquidity hasn't kept pace — largely because issuance still sits on separate, platform-specific systems that don't connect to each other.
Interoperability standards exist, but adoption remains voluntary, and what should carry the cash leg (stablecoins, tokenized deposits, or central bank money) is still unresolved. This session brings together issuance platforms, interoperability infrastructure, and standard-setters to discuss what it would take to converge on shared rails, so liquidity can catch up to issuance. -

