Work

Consulting engagements.

Advisory engagements with banks, asset managers, payment providers, regulated digital asset platforms, and multilateral funds. Four practice areas, one discipline.

Portrait of Bassel Assaad, PhD, financial systems architect, in Paris
Channels

Three channels, one architecture.

Tracee. Independent advisory practice serving banks, multilateral funds, and digital asset platforms on financial systems architecture, regulated payments, and AI integration. Its build phase produced a patented multi-agent payment system, recognized among the global winners of Circle's Impact competition in Paris and awarded a Stellar Community Fund grant.

Arrel. Product and Capital Architect since May 2025. A non-custodial digital asset orchestration platform unifying custody, exchanges, compliance, and treasury for banks, asset managers, and payment providers. Owns the system, market, and capital architecture.

UNDP, CAFI. Emerging Technologies Expert since January 2026. Advising the Central African Forest Initiative's Payments for Environmental Services program, a $1B multi-donor climate fund for the Congo Basin: multi-rail payment architecture and AI for fraud detection, payment routing, and data quality.

Practice areas

Four areas where the tools are deepest.

  • Product strategy: regulatory posture to product brief to target architecture to roadmap.
  • Stablecoin infrastructure: reserves, settlement, custody, oracles, bank-rail integration under MiCA, NYDFS, MAS.
  • Tokenized products: tokenized deposits, money-market funds, real-world assets for institutional issuance and distribution.
  • Agentic AI workflows: treasury, KYC, exposure workflows from pilot to production with regulator guardrails.

See the four practice cards on the home page

Selected outcomes

Outcomes, in preparation.

Selected case studies will be published here, anonymized where mandates require. Topics in queue: stablecoin reserve and redemption architecture; tokenized deposit issuance under MiCA; KYC agentic workflow rollout in a regulated EMI; multi-rail PES disbursement under multilateral oversight.

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