Stéphanie Cabossioras
Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer, Societe Generale-FORGE
SG-FORGE put securities on chain years before the cash to settle them, and her case, made from inside a bank and to the European Parliament, is that the cash leg is the unfinished half.
Why the room needs them.
Stéphanie Cabossioras is Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer of Societe Generale-FORGE. She is a former Deputy General Counsel of France's Autorité des marchés financiers, and was later Executive Director of Binance France. In December 2025 she gave evidence on digital assets to the European Parliament's ECON committee, asking for the cap on DLT market infrastructure to be removed or set no lower than EUR 500 billion and for regulated euro stablecoins issued by European entities. She spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 as a panellist on institutional DeFi.
The full account.
Stéphanie Cabossioras is Chief Strategy & Global Policy Officer of Societe Generale-FORGE, the Societe Generale group's digital asset subsidiary. She joined in July 2024 as General Secretary, responsible for the company's corporate functions: regulatory, legal, compliance and financial. The strategy and policy role came in November 2025.
Most of her career was spent inside French public institutions. A graduate of the École nationale d'administration, she was an expert in means of payment at the Banque de France in 2010, a judge and auditor at the Cour des comptes from 2013 to 2016, and then spent five years at the Autorité des marchés financiers, heading its European affairs department from 2017 to 2018 and serving as adviser to the General Counsel and then Deputy General Counsel until 2022. mind Fintech reports that, as deputy director of legal affairs there, she took part in developing France's PSAN regime for digital asset service providers. Her CV records her as General Counsel of Binance France in 2022 and its Executive Director from 2022 to 2023, before she returned to the Cour des comptes as a senior financial auditor.
On 3 December 2025 she gave evidence for SG-FORGE to the European Parliament's ECON committee at its public hearing on digital assets, alongside witnesses from Euroclear, the European Systemic Risk Board secretariat and the EHESS; the Parliament billed her as a board member of the digital asset trade body ADAN. Her written statement asked for the cap on financial instruments admitted to trading on DLT market infrastructure to be removed or set no lower than EUR 500 billion, for the prudential regime applicable to cryptoassets to be eased so that banks can develop these services for customers, and for regulated euro stablecoins to be developed alongside a wholesale central bank digital currency.
She spoke at Proof of Talk Paris 2026 as a panellist on "Institutional DeFi: The Use Cases Worth the Risk", on the Hecto Main Stage from 11:00 to 11:40 on 2 June 2026, in a session moderated by Hadley Stern. CoinDesk reported that she pointed to SG-FORGE's record of tokenising structured products and green bonds on public blockchains, and said the company had to fix the cash settlement layer by developing its own regulated stablecoins, such as EURCV and USDCV. The following afternoon she was a panellist at the FESE Convention on the digital transformation of financial services in the EU.
What Stéphanie believes about the next ten years.
Years of shipping.
Lines that keep proving correct.
“At the end of the day, we were stuck because there was only the securities leg on the blockchain, and we had no cash leg on the blockchain. That's why we started to issue a stablecoin.”
“We don't want to keep our assets in our private wallets, in our safes at home. We want to delegate this peace of mind to a third party. And that's why custodians or banks still have a future.”
“It is absolutely crucial that Europe develops strong regulated euro stablecoins issued by European entities.”
What they have built, written, and backed.
Built
- France's PSAN regimemind Fintech reports that, as deputy director of legal affairs at the Autorité des marchés financiers, she took part in developing the national registration regime for digital asset service providers.
- Legal Blockchain & Crypto AssociationFounding member and vice-president, 2022, per the CV she filed with the European Parliament.
- Association for Women in Cryptocurrency, French branchFounding member and deputy vice-president of the French branch, 2024, per the same CV.
- Five articles on digital asset lawPublished in French law reviews between 2022 and 2025: the DLT pilot regime for market infrastructures (Bulletin Joly Bourse, March 2022), custody under the UNIDROIT principles on digital assets (Revue de droit bancaire et financier, July–August 2023), the regulation of digital asset services (Revue Lamy Droit des affaires, January 2024), legal qualifications and regulatory regimes for taking crypto assets (Revue trimestrielle de droit financier, September 2024) and civil law and crypto assets (Revue de droit bancaire et financier, January 2025), several co-written with practising lawyers and academics. Her CV lists three further publications, on securities law and on history.
Stéphanie at Proof of Talk Paris 2026
The next Proof of Talk is in Abu Dhabi.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.
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