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Dr. Abbas Albasha
Senior Strategy Consultant CBDC
Giesecke+Devrient (G+D)
View LinkedIn profileSenior Strategy Consultant with over fifteen years of senior experiences in central banking, national financial infrastructure modernization, and strategic technology innovation. Former Central Bank Vice Governor, Vice Chairman of the board and former Vice Minister of Finance and former Executive Director at the board of the Arab Monetary Fund, representing six countries. Lead the establishment of a stock market and its regulator, Securities Market Commission, as former head of Securities Market Project Unit. Expert in CBDC architecture design, particularly in wholesale CBDC, tokenized assets and cross border platform designs. Contributed to the development of CBDC road maps and technical integration of advanced digital currency sandboxes for central banks at pilot and proof of concept projects. Part time lecturer at the EU Business School in Munich.
Speaking At
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9:00–10:30amTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Sovereignty & Resilience
Designing for Resilience in Digital Money Infrastructure
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Dr. Abbas AlbashaSenior Strategy Consultant CBDCGiesecke+Devrient (G+D)
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Danny RussellHead of Payment Innovation Product and TechnologyBank of England
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Dea MarkovaDirector of PolicyFireblocks
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Isadora ArredondoVice President, Global PolicyHedera
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Kelvin LiSenior Vice PresidentAnt International
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Takatoshi ShibayamaHead of Asia PacificLedger Enterprise
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Zilong LiHead of Digital Currency Unit, Global Transaction ServicesDBS Bank
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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). -
