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Dea Markova
Director of Policy
Fireblocks
View LinkedIn profileDea Markova is Director of Policy at digital asset infrastructure provider Fireblocks, where she leads the global policy function, with direct responsibility for advocacy, political and regulatory intelligence, and go-to-market regulatory enablement across EMEA and APAC. Her team focuses on digital asset security and operational resilience, and engages in strategic alliances to support responsible growth across the payments and investment uses cases of digital assets, tokenised payments, and financial instruments.
Dea previously led political intelligence and advocacy campaigns in the EU, as Europe developed its regulations for the crypto sector. She relocated back to Europe after her post in the Monetary Authority of Singapore, where she served in the MAS Financial Technology and Innovation Group. She was previously in London for 10 years, working in fintech and banking regulation.
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). -
