TL;DR
- Ondo Finance appointed Allison Parent, former executive director of the GFMA, as its new chief policy officer.
- Parent brings experience from Barclays, the Bank of England, and as legal counsel to the U.S. Senate Budget Committee.
- Ondo Finance has accumulated nearly $2 billion in total value locked in tokenized Treasuries products and $1 billion on its equities platform.
Ondo Finance brought on Allison Parent as its new chief policy officer, a move aimed at strengthening and improving dialogue with regulators and lawmakers amid growing regulatory pressure on tokenized assets. The announcement was made by the company itself through an official press release.
Parent joins from the Global Financial Markets Association (GFMA), where she served as executive director of the financial trade association that represents the world’s leading capital markets participants globally. Her background also includes senior roles at Barclays and the Bank of England, as well as having served as legal counsel to the United States Senate Budget Committee, where she participated in drafting the Dodd-Frank Act following the 2008 financial crisis.
Ondo Finance is pleased to welcome Allison Parent as Chief Policy Officer.
Allison joins Ondo after nine years as Executive Director of the Global Financial Markets Association, where she represented leading financial institutions and helped shape policy to support global… pic.twitter.com/psLNt9JtQs
— Ondo Finance (@Ondo) August 28, 2026
Ondo Finance Looks to Strengthen its Compliance Framework
“Parent’s appointment reflects the next phase of our work: industry collaboration with regulators around the world as tokenized assets enter the financial mainstream,” the company stated in its release. The firm launched OUSG in 2023, its institutional short-term Treasuries fund, and today manages approximately $2 billion in total value locked across its fixed income products.
In September 2025, it debuted Ondo Global Markets, a platform for tokenized equities and ETFs that reached $1 billion in value locked in just eight months, according to John Hoffman, managing director and head of product portfolios.
At the same time, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission are intensifying their activity over the crypto industry, yet federal legislation remains stalled. The Clarity Act, the bill designed to regulate digital assets comprehensively for the first time, has faced all manner of obstacles, from disputes between banks and crypto firms over stablecoin rewards to the conflicts of interest surrounding President Donald Trump.
AÂ procedural vote is scheduled for mid-September, though the calendar is tight with November elections on the horizon.
“Balanced regulatory policy means weighing growth and innovation against market integrity, consumer protection, and overall financial stability,” Parent stated in the release.
