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Sophia Lopez
Founder & President
Kaleido
Sophia Lopez is Founder and President of Kaleido, an award-winning blockchain, digital assets and tokenization platform that provides scalable and secure infrastructure to enterprises globally. Its clients include the world’s largest private transaction banks, leading CSDs, exchanges, top asset managers, payment processors, over twenty central banks, and organizations such as Swift, World Bank, and IMF, along with 100s of global enterprise networks.
Sophia helped launch the IBM Blockchain Platform, the industry’s first blockchain-managed service. She held executive P&L responsibility for IBM's blockchain product portfolio. Previously, Sophia held multi-billion dollar P&L executive roles at IBM for its enterprise software and hardware lines of business.
Sophia currently serves on the Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust Governing Board. She is an advisor to blockchain and digital assets startups, and delivers digital assets and blockchain sessions at forums such as Davos, the Milken Institute and GFTN. Sophia has an engineering degree from Harvard University and an MBA from UNC Chapel Hill.
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4:00–5:30午後水 25 2月GFTN InsightsRoundtable Room 2, Bellesalle 5FPremiumModerator
Next-Gen Transactions
Stablecoins and Tokenised Assets in Practice – Global Infrastructure, Regulation, and Real‑World Adoption | 現場に広がるステーブルコインとトークン化資産──国際的なインフラ、規制、実用化の現在地
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Ann ChienPartnerIVC
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Ben SandersChief Growth OfficerRootstockLabs
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Candace KellyChief Legal & Policy OfficerStellar Development Foundation
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Emily ParkerSenior Strategic AdvisorCoincheck Group
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Gilbert VerdianChief Executive OfficerQuant
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Jessica ChuahChief Compliance OfficerAxiom Xchange
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John KikkoSenior DirectorHashgraph
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Morgan WilliamsCo-Founder & Chief Operating OfficerBlockradar
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Sirirat JunwongsasinDeputy DirectorBank of Thailand
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Takeshi ChinoGeneral ManagerBinance Japan
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Angelina KwanChief Executive OfficerStratford FinanceModerator
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Sophia LopezFounder & PresidentKaleidoModerator
About this session
This roundtable brings together leaders from global stablecoin issuers, blockchain foundations, digital asset exchanges, institutional infrastructure providers, corporates, and venture investors to examine how stablecoins and tokenised assets are entering mainstream financial markets. The discussion will explore deployment across payments, treasury, trade, and capital markets, including how USD and JPY stablecoins, tokenised deposits, and other forms of digital money are being used for intraday liquidity, cross‑border settlement, and programmable trade and supply‑chain finance.
Speakers will share case studies from Japan and across Asia, highlighting how exchanges, issuers, corporates, and ecosystem builders are navigating regulation, compliance, and risk management while building new corridors and liquidity venues. By combining issuer, infrastructure, corporate, and investment perspectives, the session will illustrate how these instruments are reshaping market structure, what this means for financial institutions and corporates, and where the next phase of adoption is likely to emerge.
本ラウンドテーブルでは、世界的なステーブルコイン発行体、ブロックチェーン財団、デジタル資産取引所、機関向けインフラ提供事業者、事業法人、ベンチャー投資家などのリーダーが集まり、ステーブルコインおよびトークン化資産が主流の金融市場へどのように浸透しつつあるのかを議論します。
決済、トレジャリー、貿易、資本市場といった分野での活用事例を取り上げ、米ドル建ておよび円建てステーブルコイン、トークン化預金、そのほかのデジタル通貨が、日中流動性の確保、クロスボーダー決済、さらにはプログラム可能な貿易金融やサプライチェーン・ファイナンスにどのように活用されているかを掘り下げます。
日本およびアジア各地の事例を通じて、取引所、発行体、事業会社、エコシステム構築者が、規制、コンプライアンス、リスク管理に対応しながら、新たな資金の流れと取引の場を築いている実態を紹介します。発行体、インフラ提供者、事業会社、投資家それぞれの視点を交えながら、これらの仕組みが市場構造をどのように変えつつあるのか、金融機関や事業会社に何を意味するのか、そして次の成長局面がどこから現れるのかを明らかにします。 -
