Sandra Ro

Chief Executive Officer

Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)

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Sandra is a proponent for ‘human-centric tech’. From investment banking and currency markets to blockchain technology, she is an early angel investor and advocate of cryptocurrencies and digital assets.

She currently serves as the CEO of Global Blockchain Business Council (GBBC), the largest leading non-proﬁt association for the blockchain, digital assets, and emerging technology community, with more than 500 institutional members across 100+ jurisdictions and industry sectors.

In 2023, she was appointed to the CFTC Chair’s Global Markets Advisory Committee (GMAC), Digital Asset Market Subcommittee (DAMS) and cochairs the Taxonomy and Tokenization Infrastructure workstreams within the subcommittee. She also serves on the Japan Ministry of Economy, Industry, and Trade (METI) blockchain advisory group as well as the Ukraine Ministry of Digital Transformation blockchain research group and several other key committees and councils across AI and digital assets.

Whilst at CME Group, she headed FX & Metals Research & Product Development and founded a new business unit, Digitization. Sandra and her team created the CME CF Bitcoin pricing index and reference rate, CME Bitcoin Futures, and post trade, clearing and settlement solutions as well as the first corporate digitized gold solution with UK’s HMT’s Royal Mint called RMT. She filed and received some of the earliest cryptocurrency and derivatives related patents.

Previously, she was a London-based derivatives banker at Morgan Stanley and Deutsche Bank in the foreign exchange, interest rates, and equities markets.

Sandra holds a M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from London Business School, studied Computer Science at Columbia University, School of Continuing Studies and earned a double B.A. degree from Yale University in History (Military) and Studies in the Environment, culminating in a final thesis on “A History of the Proliferation of Chemical and Biological Warfare in the 20th Century”.

講演

4:00–5:30午後木 26 2月GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Bellesalle 4FPremium
Blueprint for Digital Assets

GL1 Dialogue | GL1 ダイアログ

GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 1, Bellesalle 4FPremium
About this session

Digital assets are shifting from pilot projects to live deployment, with interoperability, infrastructure design, and regulatory compliance becoming key priorities.
Global Layer One (GL1) addresses how these critical workstreams can develop cohesively through shared standards. This roundtable discusses how common technical, operational, and policy frameworks can deliver interoperability across different market infrastructures, integrate compliance directly into system architecture, and enable secure, scalable adoption of digital assets in global finance.

デジタル資産は、実証実験から本格的な実装の段階へと移りつつあり、相互運用性やインフラ設計、規制順守が主要な優先課題となっています。

Global Layer One（GL1）は、こうした重要な取り組みを、共通基準のもとでどのように一体的に発展させていくかを探る国際的な構想です。本ラウンドテーブルでは、共通の技術的・運用的・政策的枠組みによって、異なる市場インフラ間の相互運用性を実現し、コンプライアンスをシステム設計に組み込みながら、デジタル資産を安全かつ拡張可能な形でグローバル金融へ導入する道筋について議論します。
11:00午前–12:30午後金 27 2月FSA RoundtablesRoundtable Room 2, Bellesalle 5FOpen
Blueprint for Digital Assets

FSA Roundtable: Forging the Future of Digital Payments | FSAラウンドテーブル：デジタル決済の未来を切り拓く

FSA RoundtablesRoundtable Room 2, Bellesalle 5FOpen
About this session

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As blockchain-based payment and settlement initiatives move from experimentation toward real-world implementation, this roundtable aims to clarify the respective roles of central bank money, commercial bank money, and Non-Bank Private Money (including stablecoins) in the future payment ecosystem. Through perspectives from financial institutions, infrastructure providers, non-bank payment players, and regulators. We seek to identify key technological, legal, and operational challenges, and to explore areas for collaboration that can support scalable and safe innovation.

現在、ブロックチェーンを活用した決済・清算の取り組みは、実証段階から実装段階へと移りつつあります。本ラウンドテーブルでは、将来の決済エコシステムにおける中央銀行マネー、商業銀行マネー、そしてノンバンクの民間マネー（ステーブルコインを含む）の役割を検討します。

金融機関、インフラ事業者、ノンバンク決済事業者、規制当局それぞれの視点から、技術面・法制度面・運用面の課題を掘り下げるとともに、安全で拡張可能なイノベーションを実現するための連携の枠組みを探ります。

2026人の注目講演者

Sandra Ro

講演

GL1 Dialogue | GL1 ダイアログ

FSA Roundtable: Forging the Future of Digital Payments | FSAラウンドテーブル：デジタル決済の未来を切り拓く