Gabriel Callsen

Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation

International Capital Market Association (ICMA)

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Gabriel Callsen is a Senior Director, FinTech and Digitalisation, at the International Capital Market Association (ICMA). He is responsible for ICMA’s Bond Data Taxonomy (BDT) and Common Domain Model (CDM) for repo and bonds, two key initiatives to foster automation and interoperability in the international debt capital markets. He is secretary to ICMA’s FinTech Advisory Committee and DLT Bonds Working Group. He also represents ICMA at various international forums, including the Eurosystem’s New Technologies for Wholesale Settlement Contact Group (NTW-CG), the UK’s Industry Data Standards Committee (IDSC) and the MAS Project Guardian initiative. Gabriel has published various papers on FinTech, DLT, Big Data, AI, regulation and capital markets, and speaks regularly at industry conferences and educational events. Prior to joining ICMA, Gabriel worked for the European Commission and Tradeweb.

Speaking At

3:45–5:15pmMon 16 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 2Invite-Only
Tokenized Market Infrastructure – The Scaling Challenge

Connecting Tokenized Capital Markets

Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 2Invite-Only
About this session

Tokenized bond and fund issuance is growing quickly, but secondary-market liquidity hasn't kept pace — largely because issuance still sits on separate, platform-specific systems that don't connect to each other.

Interoperability standards exist, but adoption remains voluntary, and what should carry the cash leg (stablecoins, tokenized deposits, or central bank money) is still unresolved. This session brings together issuance platforms, interoperability infrastructure, and standard-setters to discuss what it would take to converge on shared rails, so liquidity can catch up to issuance.

Speakers

Gabriel Callsen

Speaking At

Connecting Tokenized Capital Markets