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David Rogers
Chief Executive Officer, Asia-Pacific
B2C2
David Rogers is B2C2’s CEO for the Asia-Pacific region and has 26 years of experience in the financial industry. He worked for nearly 13 years on the sell side in various Equity Program and Electronic Trading functions, starting his career at Goldman Sachs in London before working for UBS in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
Following a 7-year period on the buy side, including being State Street Global Advisors’ APAC Head of Trading and having oversight for Fixed Income, Equity, Currency and Derivatives execution, in 2020 he made the move into Digital Assets. After a stint as COO for an HFT/MM firm, David joined B2C2 and is responsible for the firm’s institutional offering across the region, with offices in Singapore and Tokyo.
He has been an early-stage investor in a number of start-up ventures for the past ten years, including a digital asset manager, a cyber reinsurance firm, a quantum computing provider, a pioneer in the field of cancer treatment and a fitness technology leader.
Educated in the UK, he holds a BEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Reading and an MSc in Automotive Design from Cranfield University, doing a Summer internship at the Williams Formula One team as part of the latter.
Interventions lors du Sommet
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11:15–11:45amdim. 15 nov.Forum StageMain StageOpen
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Stablecoins Meet Bakong: Can Cross-Border Payments Be Reinvented?
À propos de cette session
Cross-border payments remain slow, costly, and fragmented, particularly across emerging markets in Asia. This session explores whether stablecoins and Bakong, Cambodia’s payment infrastructure, can offer a better path.
Then key leaders from the digital asset industry take the stage to discuss what this initiative could mean for the future of cross-border payments, from extending the model to other countries and currencies to positioning Bakong as a regional and global payment hub. Join us for an insightful conversation on where this new model could lead. -
1:30–3:00pmdim. 15 nov.RoundtableOpen
Baray - Monetary Sovereignty
Beyond the Dollar: Stablecoins, Local-Currency Settlement & the Future of Money
À propos de cette session
Most stablecoins in circulation are linked to the US dollar. For economies seeking to reduce their dependence on the dollar, that creates a fundamental contradiction: the same technology that can lower the cost of payments may also make dollar-denominated money easier to use. At the same time, local-currency settlement is advancing through bilateral arrangements, regional initiatives and domestic payment systems. The roundtable examines that tension directly. When do stablecoins solve a genuine user problem, and when do they reinforce existing monetary dependence? What would a credible local-currency digital instrument require in reserves, governance, redemption and supervision? And where does local-currency settlement provide a better answer than creating another form of digital money?
