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Herman Schueller
Director, Innovation & Technology Risk - Supervision
Dubai Financial Services Authority
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With over two decades of experience in providing thought leadership, talent development, and performance management, successfully orchestrating large-scale digital transformation initiatives across various financial sectors, including the US, Canada, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Asia. As a strategic leader, Herman is adept at driving Innovation within the Fintech Ecosystem and helping prepare the future of financial services infrastructure.
In his current role as Director, Innovation and Technology Risk – Supervision, he currently oversees the supervision of the Fintechs under the DFSA including Money Services, Crowdfunding and Digital Assets firms. As well, the team also manages Cybersecurity and Technology Risk of all Authorised Firms in the Dubai International Financial Center. A key remit is to drive the Innovation Strategy for the DFSA, including the adoption of digital assets within the center and support to the Fintech ecosystem in the DIFC. Prior to this, he was the Head of Digital Transformation at the Central Bank of the UAE, driving the implementation of key digital payments strategies. He oversaw the Digital Transformation team, which helped to develop detailed business requirements and spearhead initiatives in Open Finance, Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), and the creation of the Central Bank’s Innovation Hub. Prior to the UAE, Herman was at Standard Chartered Bank in Hong Kong and Singapore where he led the Digital Transformation & Innovation team HK, enhancing project management capabilities across Greater China and North Asia.
Speaking At
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9:30–11:00amMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 4Invite-Only
Tokenized Market Infrastructure – The Scaling Challenge
Tokenization in Finance: A Year of Evidence and a Path Forward
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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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Kushal BalluckSenior Manager, FMI Innovation & Payments PolicyBank of England
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Peter KerstensAdvisor, DG FISMAEuropean Commission
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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 built vertical by vertical, each solving its own problem in its own silo. But tokenizing an asset on its own doesn't unlock what tokenization is actually for with the real benefit, from atomic settlement to capital efficiency, only being realised once the whole chain is interoperable end to end, not just the asset sitting on it. If the end state is a genuinely tokenized financial system, the question for any country or institution becomes how to build toward it without locking in the fragmentation a siloed approach creates. Tokenization in Finance: Evidence and Implementation Pathways starts from the premise that avoids tokenizing in a bubble and offers a playbook that lets a country begin from its own ambition, mapping not just what it takes to tokenize an asset, but the full chain needed to trade it efficiently and interoperably with everything else.
This roundtable shares what a year of open-call research has surfaced with a decision-making framework for countries looking to embark on their tokenization initiatives, problem statements from practitioners weighing key options and risks and worked examples showing the framework applied in practice. Participants will also look ahead to 2027, exploring the next wave of problem statements and identifying the coordination, partnerships and policy support needed to move from evidence to adoption across institutions and jurisdictions.
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11:00am–12:30pmTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Sovereignty & Resilience
Trusted Data Collaboration for Safe and Resilient Financial Systems
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Herman SchuellerDirector, Innovation & Technology Risk - SupervisionDubai Financial Services Authority
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Kelvin LiSenior Vice PresidentAnt International
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Prof. Kwok-Yan LamProfessorNanyang Technological University
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Lara DouglasDirector of ImplementationFinancial Stability Board
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Louise JohnstonDigital Assets & Blockchain, Global PolicyMastercard
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Qaiser AnwarudinDirector, Payment Services Policy DepartmentBank Negara Malaysia
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Simran SinghAI Lab LeadFinancial Conduct Authority (FCA)
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Karmela HoltgreveDeputy Head & Head of OperationsBIS Innovation HubModerator
About this session
Trusted cross-border data collaboration and analytics has useful applications in payments, addressing financial crime and helping central banks and financial authorities monitor systemic risk and enhance supervision. Privacy enhancing technologies have demonstrated good potential in enabling cross-institution data collaboration while preserving privacy, confidentiality and institutional control, but have failed to scale beyond pilots. This roundtable will examine emerging privacy-preserving technology applications in the financial sector and discuss the technological, governance and policy foundations required to scale trusted data collaboration.
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