To discuss involvement in all outreach programmes, please reach out to [email protected]

We are also focused on outreach programmes with industry, association partners, policymakers, central bankers, and government departments and agencies. GDF’s policy and regulatory outreach events in 2025 include:

GDF Digital Finance Forum:

• Q1 Session on 4 March 2025 (APAC and EU/US time)
• Q2 Session on 9 June 2025 (APAC and EU/US time)
• Q3 Session on 9 September 2025 (APAC and EU/US time)
• Q4 Session on 9 December 2025 (APAC and EU/US time)

GDF Digital Asset Custody Roundtable, 6 March 2025

GDF Digital Payments Forum:

• Q1 Virtual Session – 18 March 2025

GDF Tokenization Forum:

• Q1 Hybrid Session – 25 March 2025, London

Roundtables, Events and Community Dinners:

• GDF | Adan Member and Community Dinner – 7 April 2025, Paris
• VARA Roundtable on RWA Tokenization & Networking Reception, 2 May 2025
• GDF | CCI UK Policy & Regulatory Event – June 2025
• UK – Global Digital Finance in Parliament, Dinner Roundtables – TBC

Digital Finance Days:

• ME – Digital Finance Day in Dubai – TBC
• US – Digital Finance Day in New York – 22 May 2025
• US – Digital Finance Day in Washington – TBC
• EU – Digital Finance Day in Brussels – TBC
• SG – Digital Finance Day in Singapore – around Singapore FinTech Festival
• ME – Digital Finance Day in Abu Dhabi – around Abu Dhabi FinTech Week

To discuss involvement in all policy and regulatory programmes, please reach out to [email protected]

We run a number of roundtable discussions with members when responding to regulatory consultations.

For spotlight presentations and readouts from previous forums, click here 

GDF’s Digital Finance Forum is an open policy forum, a regularly recurring meeting that is open to GDF members and the broader community. The 2025 forums will include:

• Policy updates: on the latest crucial policy and regulatory developments
• Consultation updates: an overview of ongoing consultations and focal points of industry feedback
• Digital and crypto asset market data and data on institutional adoption including enforcement trends and other crypto asset market news
• Fireside chats and discussions with industry leaders and regulators
• GDF members receive a summary write up from each meeting.

The Forum is offered at two different times once for APAC Afternoon/EMEA Morning and once for US Morning/EMEA Afternoon in order to be accessible to our global membership.

Members are invited to present thought leadership pieces and market data during this Forum.

The readouts from previous Digital Finance Forums, including fireside chats as well as spotlight presentations, can be found here.

Policy Working Groups (member-only)

Click here to see our current policy working groups

To discuss involvement in all open innovation and technical programmes, please reach out to [email protected]

GDF Tokenization Forum (open to all)

For community highlights from previous forums, click here.

The GDF Tokenization Forum is a regularly recurring meeting that is open to GDF members as well as the broader digital finance world and GDF community partners, led and supported by GDF members. It convenes industry experts to discuss key areas and insights into the tokenization of real world assets and evolving tokenization strategies, across different asset classes in financial services. The sessions are purposefully curated to drive thought leadership in these subject areas, and should the need arise, serve as a catalyst to mobilise participants to form a working group to drive actionable outcomes, such as a whitepaper or report on specific verticals (e.g. debt/equity, digital bonds, etc).

In 2024, this included:

• The FIX/FinP2P Protocol Interoperability Alliance, launched in partnership with the FIX Trading Community, which created frameworks to enable seamless integration between traditional and blockchain-based financial systems. White paper available here.
• The Sustainable Finance Tokenization Working Group is investigating how tokenization can enhance transparency and integrity in voluntary carbon markets, contributing to broader sustainability goals. Report to be published in Q1 2025.

GDF members receive a summary and write up from each session. The broader community can access the community highlights here.

The Tokenization Forum has moved into a hybrid format with sessions being held in priority GDF community hubs including New York, London and Singapore.

Open Innovation and Technical Working Groups (member-only)

Click here to see our current open innovation and technical working groups.

Global Cryptoasset Standards

Click here for the Standards.

The Joint GDF and ACI FMA Standards Stewardship Working Group is focused on promoting and stewarding the Standards. The launch of this Joint Working Group represents the next phase of GDF’s legacy Global Financial Institutions for Crypto (GFIC) Working Group. Initially established to foster a common financial conduct and operating standards framework for cryptoassets in the wholesale market, the GFIC Working Group released the Standards in July 2023.

The current Joint Working Group is:

• Developing applicable scenarios and use cases for the implementation of the Standards on the ACI FMA’s ELAC (E-Learning, Attestation, and Certification) education Portal.
• Providing a sandbox environment for firms to test attestation and certification to the Standards through ELAC, thus supporting better alignment among market participants and promoting the consistent application of the Standards.
• Ensuring the Standards evolve as industry matures by maintaining it as a living document that reflects the industry’s ongoing priorities and concerns. The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has expressed strong support for the Standards and sees them as a valuable supplement to future FCA rules on cryptoassets.

GDF’s original Code of Conduct had 10 codes of conduct and an AML Due-Diligence Questionnaire for VASPS / CASPS, following rigorous development and public consultation. These have now been individually retired with the highpoints from each of the codes used in the newer Global Cryptoasset Standards, a standard along with education products, now maintained by GDF and its partner the ACI FMA, the administrator of the FX Global Code.

IVMS101 – The InterVASP Messaging Standard

GDF, OpenVASP, and XReg Consulting joined forces to update the crypto industry standard IVMS101 messaging format, and to develop new standards. Participation in the working group is open to all relevant technical experts.

FinP2P Router Network

GDF is the FinP2P network administrator. FinP2P interconnects the financial services industry to enable the distribution and trading of tokenized assets by delivering interoperability routers to sell-side, buy-side and other regulated service providers.

We host a quarterly call with major jurisdictional regulators and agencies (over 60 receive discretionary invites) and deliver industry responses to key consultations.

These are our 2025 priorities for the Regulator Only Forum:

Working Member Level:

• Join member-only Technical Working Groups and Policy Working Groups
• Invitations to member only events, and industry roundtables
• Invitation to participate in GDF regulatory roundtables
• Access GDF content repository, with updates from our global policy forums and technical forums (including readouts from the Digital Finance Forum, Tokenization Forum and Digital Payments Forum)
• Access IOSCO’s affiliate member bi-weekly updates
• Tickets and discounts to industry event
  • Since 2024, we have formalised a partnership with Digital Asset Week which includes discount on sponsorship opportunities and free participation in the DAW Catalyst Programme

Advisory Member Level:

All of the aforementioned benefits plus:

• Join the GDF Advisory Council, and participate in the strategic direction of GDF
• Co-chair GDF Working Groups and Forums
• Invitations to private curated dinners and opportunities to engage with the broader GDF community (both public and private sector)
• Speak on GDF panels and webinars
• FintechTV appearance on the Digital Asset Report
• Invitation to submit a piece to the GDF Annual Report
• We host a monthly GDF Advisory Council call (last Monday of each month at 9am ET/2pm GMT on Zoom)
• A forum for members to discuss current regulatory topics and issues. It also helps set the tone for GDFs response on consultations and important issues and helps to set GDF’s annual programme priorities.
• Advisory Council members include Archax, Chainalysis, DLA Piper, Hogan Lovells, OKX, PayPal, R3, Ownera, Solidus Labs, Standard Chartered, and TRM Labs, amongst others.

Leadership Level:

All of the aforementioned benefits plus:

• Customised (global) market, policymaker, regulator, and community development roundtable and dinners
• Customised branded industry research, insights, and thought leadership reports for wider distribution
• Customised GDF conference partner (physical, virtual, or hybrid), with leading industry, regulatory panels and industry leader keynote speakers (POA)
• 2 annual Leadership “Board” meetings with the GDF board and external policymaker and regulatory Observers.