Sebastian Kelka
Classic management consulting combined with deep practical experience in banking and the regulated digital asset space. Personally in the project, no overhead.
Advice that comes from practice.
Sebastian Kelka combines classic management consulting and many years of hands-on experience at banks with deep digital asset expertise in the regulated financial industry.
15+ years in the banking sector and many years of experience in digital asset projects. The core expertise lies in the tokenisation of securities, the settlement of tokenised securities at custodian banks and depositaries, maintaining crypto securities registers, crypto custody, crypto trading, e-money tokens (stablecoins) and the regulation that goes with them.
No overhead, no handing work to junior colleagues who are being trained on your project, no academic concepts. Project management and quality assurance are handled personally, pragmatically and with an eye on results — from the first analysis through to completion.
Sebastian Kelka
15+ years in banking. 5+ years of digital asset projects in the regulated financial sector. 10+ digital asset projects. 4+ licensing procedures.
Working as an independent adviser to regulated financial institutions and FinTechs since 2024. Project management and quality assurance are handled personally, supported for specialist questions by a network of experienced experts from various fields.
Career highlights (selection).
- >15 years of practical experience in the financial sector, >5 of them focused on digital asset projects
- Led the licensing procedure for maintaining the crypto securities register and brought the register of the first private bank in Germany into operation
- Led several crypto securities issuances, among them the first significant issuance by a DAX 40 group on the Polygon PoS blockchain, acting as registrar across the entire lifecycle
- Led projects to transform and implement settlement processes for tokenised securities at custodian banks and depositaries
- Supported the build-up of an e-money institution from licence application to authorisation, implementing core processes and compliance procedures through to the launch of the first German MiCAR-compliant EUR stablecoin as an e-money token
- Advised a European settlement platform for tokenised securities on introducing scalable issuance and settlement processes and on a licensing procedure
- Supported the licensing procedure for crypto custody through to authorisation and developed mass-market-capable processes for crypto trading and custody at a transaction bank
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