Working Groups and Forums

GDF Members are at the forefront of creating market and conduct standards and best practices for cryptoasset and digital finance participants. Our working groups include subject matter experts from across the ecosystem from crypto/digital assets, traditional financial services, legal and academic communities.

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Digital Payments Forum

The GDF Digital Payments Forum is a recurring quarterly meeting that is open to GDF members as well as the broader digital finance community and GDF community partners, led and su ...

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Tokenization Forum

The new GDF Tokenization Forum is our new bi-monthly fixture convening industry experts to discuss key areas and insights into the tokenization of real world assets and evolving tokenizatio ...

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Digital Finance Forum

The GDF Digital Finance Forum is our bi-monthly fixture providing policy updates, overviews of the live global consultations, and updates providing the latest digital asset market data. GDF ...

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Digital Asset Custody x Tokenization Working Group

GDF mobilized a new Custody Working Group in partnership with the International Securities Services Association (ISSA). The WG published "Digital Asset Custody Deciphered" in Q4 2 ...

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Tokenized MMFs Working Group

Under the aegis of the GDF Tokenization Forum, the Tokenized Money Market Funds Working Group has been established to explore the potential of Tokenized Money Market Funds (TMMFs) as eligib ...

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US Policy and Regulatory Working Group

Launched for 2025, GDF launched the US Policy & Regulatory Working Group to provide detailed technical policy input on draft regulatory frameworks and bills, support on implementation o ...

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GDF and ACI FMA Standards Stewardship Joint Working Gro ...

The launch of this WG represents the next phase of GDF's Global Financial Institutions for Crypto (GFIC) Working Group, through which we developed and published the Standards in July 2 ...

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MENA Policy and Regulatory Working Group

The working group for the MENA region is being launched 2024 to formulate the GDF community response to proposed regulation from MENA jurisdictions. The group convenes members’ input to e ...

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GDF x W3H APAC Policy and Regulatory Working Group

As part of our new partnership with Web 3 Harbour (W3H) we are also launching a joint APAC Policy & Regulatory working group. This WG will be a place to convene GDF and W3H community ...

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Sustainable Finance Tokenization Working Group

The Working Group will be co-chaired by Bryony Widdup, Partner, Co-Head Sustainable Finance and Investment at Hogan Lovells and Deanna Reitman, Partner, Finance, Energy & Sustainable Co ...

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UK Policy and Regulatory Working Group

The working group for UK policy and regulation is being launched in 2024 to formulate the GDF community response to ongoing and upcoming consultations on the UK legal and regulatory framewo ...

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MiCA Working Group

The working group for Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) was launched in 2020 to formulate the GDF community response to the EU’s proposed regulation. The group convened members' input to en ...

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GDF/FIX Working Group: FIX – FinP2P Protocol Interope ...

GDF is collaborating with the FIX Trading Community to launch a joint working group enabling a new initiative: The FIX – FinP2P Protocol Interoperability Alliance. The Allian ...

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GFIC Working Group

The Global Financial Institutions Crypto Working Group (GFIC), administered by Global Digital Finance (GDF) and chaired by Standard Chartered and Ownera, was established to work t ...

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Sanctions

The Sanctions Working group is working on industry-agency engagement on sanctions compliance in the crypto and digital asset industry. The group was launched after the GDF Emergen ...

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ESG

Crypto’s role in the climate change crisis is increasingly a focus for global regulators and policy makers. The ESG Working Group will kick off on Wednesday, 6 April 2022 to dis ...

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LATAM Working Group

The working group will focus on: Key regulatory challenges across jurisdictionsTaxation considerations across jurisdictionsIdentifying the key regulatory and policy priorities ...

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STABLECOINS Code Refresh

The Stablecoin working group will refresh the GDF Code of Conduct Principles for Stablecoins and Stablecoin Issuers. ...

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Tax Treatments

The Tax Treatments working group convened members to create a an overview of the global treatment of cryptoassets. Having published the first iteration of this paper in July 2020, ...

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Shared Market Surveillance Working Group

This working group will develop shared surveillance data standards and frameworks for digital asset markets, necessary to address global regulatory concerns with cross-market mani ...

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