Global Digital Finance

🚨 NEW REPORT PUBLISHED 🚨 GDF and the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) Foundation are pleased to publish today a report which puts forth a proposal exploring how the Legal Entity Identifier (LEI) can reduce the challenges and costs associated with Know-Your-Customer (KYC) and Know-Your-Business (KYB) processes. The joint report examines how leveraging the LEI can address key pain points in due diligence processes, particularly those arising from manual and fragmented client identification methods. We showcase an industry use case featuring Zodia Markets onboarding Deus X Pay using their respective LEI codes, eliminating ambiguity and manual effort while ensuring compliance. Such workflows illustrate the LEI’s value in delivering trusted, structured, and globally recognized client information. The report concludes by setting out out a call to action to support the greater adoption from regulators and industry to utilize on the Global LEI System as a recognized source for client due diligence information. GDF and GLEIF remain committed to working with regulators and industry in order to continuously enhance best practice and standard setting across industry. Regulatory adoption and endorsement of the Global LEI system for KYB could be a critical first step in streamlining these processes to deliver a globally consistent, trusted, instant and reliable client profile. Download the report here ➡️ https://lnkd.in/d7gEktS4

Join us next month in Paris 🇫🇷 ! Elise Soucie Watts will be joining Paris Blockchain Week & Taxbit Digital Accord Summit as a speaker. Madeleine Boys will also be on the ground. During the week GDF will also be bringing our partnership to life with Adan for a special evening for our members. More details to follow. For PBW tickets use the code 'mp15gdf' for a discount on your tickets via this link: https://lnkd.in/eW48Jqud For the Digital Accord Summit, register your interest here: https://lnkd.in/eRnDMk8b #DigitalAssets #Taxbit #PBW2025

A fabulous morning at NYSE with FINTECH.TV and. Global Digital Finance Madeleine Boys Thank you for having me and discussing how Interoperability will turbo charge adoption and distribution of Tokenized Assets #digitalassets Ownera

Some behind-the-scenes 📸 of US Chief Strategy Officer & DGC Joshua Riezman earlier today with FINTECH.TV & Global Digital Finance at NYSE discussing crypto market structure and innovation in the US 🇺🇸

The market for real-world tokenized assets is projected to reach $30-50bn by the end of this year.   Joining FINTECH.TV from the floor of the NY Stock Exchange, R3 Co-Founder Todd McDonald discussed how ecosystem maturization combined with increased regulatory clarity are driving institutional and DeFi demand.    "While the on-chain economy for defi is incredibly robust, it is still quite early. If you think about the tens of billons of dollars that have been tokenized on-chain that compares to hundreds of trillions of dollars of real-world assets within the traditional economy," noted Todd.   "There is a desire to bring more RWA on-chain. In particular, when you look at the volatility across crypto, they're looking for differentiated assets, differentiated yields that RWAs can represent - but they have to be brought on-chain so that they can fit into the way that DeFi works, which is 24/7 and very interconnected."   Listen to Todd's full interview below to learn how R3 is paving the way for tokenized RWA adoption across both traditional and DeFi markets.   https://lnkd.in/eGpvn34U   #RWAs #DeFi #TradFi #R3 #Tokenization

✍ This year has been one of the busiest on record with consultation responses and legislative developments surging around the globe. 🌐 GDF has responded to 9 consultations since the start of the year spanning our US, UK, EU, MEA and APAC Policy & Regulatory Working Groups as well as our Global Policy Taskforce. We thank our our members for their contributions! 📝 To get involved or learn more about our policy and regulatory programme you can reach out to Elise Soucie Watts! 📂 Our full consultation response archive can be found here: https://lnkd.in/eNC2qGEM Catch up on the latest of Global Digital Finance's responses from January-March 2025 below ⤵️

The Digital Euro Association is hosting the Digital Euro Conference next month and GDF are delighted to have joined as an event partner. GDF's Executive In Residence Jannah Patchay will be joining Clarisse Hagège (Dfns) for a fireside on 'Stablecoins Under the Lens - Navigating Security, Interoperability, Regulation, and Market Adoption' There is still time to join this hybrid event, which can be attended in Frankfurt or online and will focus on the #DigitalEuro, #CBDCs, #stablecoins and Commercial Bank Money Tokens (CBMTs). 📅 27 March 2025 🎟️ https://lnkd.in/eqaWM2Pf (use the code GDF20)

‼️ 2 WEEKS TO GO BEFORE FIRST GDF TOKENIZATION FORUM SESSION OF 2025 IN LONDON ‼️ With such strong momentum built over its first year, it is our pleasure to reconvene this group for our first session of  2025 for a hybrid session of GDF's Tokenization Forum. The upcoming session will take place on Tuesday March 25 from 15.00 GMT at the Deloitte offices in London with dial-in options available for those who cannot join in-person. Under the co-chairship of Archax, Ownera and Tokeny, this upcoming session will bring together industry leaders to highlight and share insights from key production use cases in RWA tokenization and what is enabling growth and driving scalability in this market. We are pleased to announce the following speakers:  🔹 Benjamin C. Dean, Director Digital Assets Strategy, WisdomTree 🔹 Max Heinzle, Founder & CEO, 21X 🔹 Kim Hochfeld, Global Head of Cash, State Street Global Advisors 🔹 Ed Moorby, Partner, Deloitte 🔹 David Vatchev, Head of Tokenization, Fasanara Capital A full agenda will be circulated closer to the time. If you would be interested in joining in-person, please reach out to the Secretariat at Madeleine Boys

Exciting times ahead at Crypto Assets Conference '25! On March 26, our Chief Product Officer, Bernhard Elsner, will join Clarisse Hagège from Dfns and Elise Soucie Watts from Global Digital Finance for a fireside chat at the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center. They’ll explore how Dfns’s institutional-grade wallets and security solutions play a crucial role in bringing more of the capital markets to open networks like Canton Network.

GDF is pleased to announce the first virtual session of the GDF Digital Payments Forum session scheduled for Wednesday March 19 at 15.00pm GMT. Launched in 2024, the GDF Digital Payments Forum convenes industry experts on a quarterly basis to explore the world of digital money and payments, and discuss the opportunities and challenges in their development. This session will cover several key trends of the digital money and payments ecosystem with three presentations and discussions lined up on: 🔸 The US policy and regulatory landscape with Neel Chopra (Binance), 🔸 Stablecoins and the singleness of money with Matthew Osborne (Ripple) and Jannah Patchay (Global Digital Finance), and 🔸 Current business applications of stablecoins including crypto payments and non-trading use cases, as well as the role of non-USD stablecoins in the digital money ecosystem with Luke Boland and Dominic Maffei (Standard Chartered) and Richard Crook (Global Digital Finance and Deus X Pay). Register on the link below for this all-star line up ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/dKk-t6p5