# Work | Bassel Assaad

> Bassel Assaad

Work
# Consulting engagements.
Advisory engagements with banks, asset managers, payment providers, regulated digital asset platforms, and multilateral funds. Four practice areas, one discipline.
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](https://basselassaad.com/#work)
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.
## Start a conversation.
For an advisory engagement, the fastest route is email or a booked call.
[Get in touch](https://basselassaad.com/contact)

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