Bassel Assaad builds financial systems that are reliable, compliant, and designed to operate where infrastructure is hardest to get right. He advises banks, multilateral funds, and digital asset platforms on regulated payments, and on integrating AI into their products and roadmaps.
Four practice areas where I hold the deepest tools and longest mileage. Each engagement draws on whichever combination the decision requires.
Translate regulatory posture into a product brief, a target architecture, and a roadmap engineering and risk can ship.
Reserves, settlement, custody, oracles, and bank-rail integration. Designed against MiCA, NYDFS, and MAS.
Tokenized deposits, money-market funds, and real-world assets, engineered for institutional issuance and distribution.
Treasury, KYC, and exposure workflows shipped from pilot to production with the guardrails regulators expect.
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Bassel delivered an online guest lecture in the MIS course at the School of Business, American University in Dubai, covering blockchain infrastructure, network types, real-world applications across fintech, supply chain, and healthcare, and the career paths opening in the blockchain ecosystem.
Bassel joined the panel Building Trust, Regulation, and Jurisdiction in the Age of AI and Digital Assets, moderated by Colby Mangels of Taxbit, alongside Ondrej Kovarik (former MEP), Dr. Clara Guerra (Liechtenstein Government), Beatrice Fares (European Commission), and Thomas Labenbacher (Assetera).
Bassel joined Session 2 of Scaling Blockchain for Public Good at Sciences Po PSIA, hosted with UNDP AltFinLab, on the panel Delivering Blockchain-Based Financial Tools in Last-Mile Contexts, moderated by Ada Vaughan of the Stellar Development Foundation.
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The engineering record behind the discipline: patents filed across six jurisdictions, and peer-reviewed publications, from electric and hybrid powertrain research at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi.
Control device for electric machine.
Pump flow management for an electric-machine cooling system.
Onboard rotor temperature estimation for an electric machine.
Measured winding-temperature correction (2021 priority).
Housing for an electric machine with cooling circuit.
Vehicle electric-motor performance and efficiency optimization.
Oil cooling system for an electric machine.
Oil-cooled electric machine.
Cooling system for an electric machine (2019 priority).
Cooling and lubrication for an electric or hybrid powertrain.
Measured winding-temperature correction (2018 priority).
Oil-spray cooling system for an electric machine.
Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, Elsevier · Journal article
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Elsevier · Journal article
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications · Journal article
IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications · Journal article
International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, Elsevier · Journal article
Surveillance 7, Chartres · Conference paper
IEEE ECCE, Denver · Conference paper
IMACS, Valencia · Conference paper
IEEE IEMDC, Coeur d'Alene · Conference paper
ICEM, Lausanne · Conference paper
MECATRONICS / REM, Compiègne · Conference paper
IEEE ECCE, Cincinnati · Conference paper
ICEM, Alexandroupoli · Conference paper
IEEE ECCE, Portland · Conference paper
Springer, Berlin · Book chapter
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Bassel is a financial systems architect based in Paris. He advises banks, multilateral funds, and digital asset platforms on regulated payments, stablecoin and tokenized-product infrastructure, and the integration of agentic AI into financial workflows.
PhD in IT from Sorbonne University. From 2016 to 2021, R&D Engineer in Electric and Hybrid Motor Design at Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi, named inventor on 12 patents across France, the European Patent Office, the United States, China, Japan, and Korea. 15 peer-reviewed publications in electric machine engineering and signal processing.
Paris, France. Previously San Francisco, Bangkok, and Dubai. Works in English, French, and Arabic.
Founder and CEO of Tracee since September 2022; Product and Capital Architect at Arrel since May 2025; Emerging Technologies Expert at the United Nations Development Programme since January 2026, on the Central African Forest Initiative's Payments for Environmental Services program.
Yes. Bassel runs an independent advisory practice through Tracee and accepts a small number of mandates per year. Formats include short strategic reviews, multi-month embedded mandates working alongside internal teams, and ongoing advisory retainers. Clients are typically banks, payment service providers, fintechs, regulated digital asset platforms, asset managers, and multilateral institutions.
Bassel Assaad, PhD, is a Paris-based independent financial systems architect who advises banks, fintechs, and digital asset platforms on stablecoin strategy, regulated payments, and digital asset infrastructure. Founder and CEO of Tracee, Product and Capital Architect at Arrel, and Emerging Technologies Expert at the UNDP. Track record includes a patented multi-agent payment system, the global win of Circle's Impact competition in Paris, and a Stellar Community Fund grant.
Bassel takes mandates from banks and regulated institutions designing or deploying stablecoin and digital asset products. Recent work covers reserves and settlement design, custody and oracle architecture, bank-rail integration, tokenized deposits and money-market funds, and the operational requirements of MiCA, NYDFS, MAS, the Travel Rule, and GDPR. Paris-based, serving European, MENA, and multilateral institutional clients.
Yes. Through Tracee, Bassel advises banks, payment service providers, and digital asset platforms on regulated payments architecture and the operational requirements of MiCA, the Travel Rule, NYDFS, MAS, and GDPR. The advisory practice covers product strategy, stablecoin infrastructure, tokenized products, and agentic AI workflows in regulated finance, with hands-on experience inside European and Middle East institutional contexts.
The fastest route is email to hello@traceeapp.com or a direct LinkedIn message. A booking link for a short discovery call is on the Contact page. Bassel responds personally; there is no intake team.
For advisory engagements, speaking invitations, or press, the fastest route is a direct message.