Jael Tan

Head of Government Programmes

Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN)

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Jael is responsible for steering strategic government affairs and internal consulting efforts to scale GFTN’s Connections business globally. Her portfolio includes driving engagement with public sector stakeholders and ecosystem leaders across Asia-Pacific, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, and expanding GFTN’s presence in new geographies. She currently plays a key role in shaping high-level dialogue platforms such as the Global SME Finance Forum, Point Zero Forum, Insight2040 and Singapore FinTech Festival, which convene policymakers, innovators, and institutions to co-create future-ready financial ecosystems.

Prior to her role, she served at the FinTech & Innovation Group with the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) and was responsible for driving global partnerships with public and private sector bodies that help shape Singapore as a Smart Financial Centre and to grow and expand Singapore’s vibrant FinTech ecosystem. Besides extensively engaging ecosystem partners of various jurisdictions on innovation and financial technology, Jael was also actively involved in developing the Singapore FinTech Festival, a knowledge platform for the global FinTech community.

Prior to joining MAS, Jael was a public relations and communications expert for companies in the B2B tech space. In addition, as the organiser of the inaugural Singapore Cocktail Festival which featured top cocktail bars in Singapore, she is passionate about giving small businesses in Singapore a platform to showcase their craft and in growing the vibrancy of the local ecosystem.

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9:30–11:00amMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 4Invite-OnlyModerator
Tokenized Market Infrastructure – The Scaling Challenge

Tokenization in Finance: A Year of Evidence and a Path Forward

Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 4Invite-OnlyModerator
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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Jael Tan

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Tokenization in Finance: A Year of Evidence and a Path Forward