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      Steve Vallas

      Steve Vallas

      Chief Executive Officer

      Blockchain APAC

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      Steve Vallas is CEO of BlockchainAPAC and one of the leading voices on digital assets in Australia and the Asia-Pacific.

      A qualified lawyer and management strategist, he works across policy, regulation, institutional strategy and market infrastructure, translating complex developments into clear commercial and strategic choices.

      In Australia he engages with ASIC, AUSTRAC, APRA and Treasury and has served on the ASIC Digital Finance Advisory Panel. Internationally his work spans the US, UK, Singapore, Hong Kong and the UAE through direct engagement with regulators, roundtables, closed-door convening and speaking roles. He is regularly invited to speak, moderate and lead senior conversations across international markets, and his relationships extend across governments, regulators, financial institutions and technology providers.

      Through BlockchainAPAC he runs the National Dialogue series, Policy Week and the DA List Top 50, using convening to move policy and commercial decisions forward.

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        [Invite-only] The Next Layer of Digital Finance: Stablecoins, Agentic Payments and Governance Across ASEAN - Powered by Tether

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        About this session

        ASEAN sits at an inflection point in digital financial infrastructure. Domestic instant payment rails have matured and are, to a significant extent, interoperable across borders. Stablecoin adoption - from native crypto-asset trading- would evolve to other use cases, such as B2B cross-border settlement, a liquidity settlement layer for tokenised products, and payments. AI agents are also moving from experimentation to execution across payment infrastructure, treasury operations, and consumer-facing financial service Central banks, financial regulators, and infrastructure providers across the region a convening on 3 areas: How should stablecoin oversight evolve beyond crypto-asset regimes towards other real-world use cases? How should agentic payments be treated alongside incumbent payment systems? What should be prepared? And what does responsible AI governance look like in practice?

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