Where Finance Finds Its Future

On 4 December 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Digital asset custody: What do asset managers and asset owners need to know about digital asset custody and custodians?, the event attracted 160 registrants from asset managers, banks, custodian banks, digital asset custodians, exchanges, financial market infrastructures, insurers, investment consultants, law firms, regulators and technology vendors. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the seven sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.The panellists for this discussion were Glenn Morgan, Senior Vice President and Digital Asset Practice Leader at Aon; Anya Nova, Director of Sales, Europe at GK8 Custody; Donald Brouwer, Vice President of Business Development at Dfns; and Tom Pikett, Director and Digital Assets Product Manager at BNY. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 4 December 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Digital asset custody: What do asset managers and asset owners need to know about digital asset custody and custodians?, the event attracted 160 registrants from asset managers, banks, custodian banks, digital asset custodians, exchanges, financial market infrastructures, insurers, investment consultants, law firms, regulators and technology vendors. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the seven sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.The panellists for this discussion were James Pollock, EMEA Sales Director at Digital Asset; Kara Kennedy, Head of Digital Asset Product at J.P. Morgan Securities Services; Jürgen Hofbauer, Global Head of Strategic Partnerships at Taurus SA; Adam Groom, Head of Revenue and Exchanges EMEA at Copper; Thilo Derenbach, Head of Sales and Business Development, Digital Securities Services, at Clearstream; and, as moderator, Monica Summerville, Head of Capital Markets Technology Research at Celent. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 4 December 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Digital asset custody: What do asset managers and asset owners need to know about digital asset custody and custodians?, the event attracted 160 registrants from asset managers, banks, custodian banks, digital asset custodians, exchanges, financial market infrastructures, insurers, investment consultants, law firms, regulators and technology vendors. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the seven sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.The panellists for this discussion were John Siena, Associate General Counsel and Co-Head of Regulatory Strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman (BBH); Monica Gogna, Partner and Head of the Financial Institutions Law Group at EY; Romin Dabir, partner at Reed Smith; and Yvonne Deane Harte, Director for Secondary Markets and Post Trade policy at UK Finance. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 4 December 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Digital asset custody: What do asset managers and asset owners need to know about digital asset custody and custodians?, the event attracted 160 registrants from asset managers, banks, custodian banks, digital asset custodians, exchanges, financial market infrastructures, insurers, investment consultants, law firms, regulators and technology vendors. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the seven sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.The panellists for this discussion were Angie Walker, Global Head of Banking and Capital Markets at Chainlink; Anoosh Arevshatian, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zodia Custody; Keith O’Callaghan, Managing Partner at Archax Capital Limited; Qian Jian, Director, Digital Assets Strategy, SWIFT; and Dr Robert Barnes, co-CEO at BPX Digital Securities Exchange. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Future of Finance interview with Sanjeev Birari, Co-Founder and CBO of Zoniqx.Zoniqx, the California based pioneer of tokenisation platforms as a service, believes artificial intelligence compliance and interoperability are the keys to scaling the transformation of real world assets into digital assets. Dominic Hobson, Co-Founder and Editorial Director at Future of Finance interviewed Sanjeev Birari, Co-Founder and Chief Business Officer of Zoniqx to explain more, please watch, listen and read the interview below. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 15 October 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Tokenisation of securities and funds is going to happen. How will you and your organisation survive it?, the event attracted 200 registrants from banks, asset managers, brokers, central banks, financial market infrastructures and FinTechs. This is an account of what they contributed to the six panels that day, as well as what they learned from the panellists and each other.This episode is a summary of Panel 6, titled What tokenisation will enable the financial markets to deliver tomorrow which they cannot provide today. The Panellists were Breige Tinnelly, Head of Market Development at Archax; Gary O’Brien, Head of Bank and Broker Segment Strategy, Securities Services at BNP Paribas Securities Services; and Ralf Kubli, blockchain investor and board member at the Casper Association. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 15 October 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Tokenisation of securities and funds is going to happen. How will you and your organisation survive it?, the event attracted 200 registrants from banks, asset managers, brokers, central banks, financial market infrastructures and FinTechs. This is an account of what they contributed to the six panels that day, as well as what they learned from the panellists and each other.This episode is a summary of Panel 5, titled "Why the benefits of tokenisation depend on the issuance of “native” rather than “asset-backed” (or "digital twin”) digital assets". The Panellists taking part were Anthony Woolley, Head of Business Development and Marketing at Ownera; Emma Lovett, Credit Lead for the Markets Distributed Ledger Technology team at J.P. Morgan; Ian Hunt, independent authority and adviser on buy-side business processes and technology; Vic Arulchandran, Director and Head of Digital Product and Market Design at Deutsche Börse| Clearstream; and Stephen McConville, Head of Structuring at Hedgehog Invest. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 15 October 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Tokenisation of securities and funds is going to happen. How will you and your organisation survive it?, the event attracted 200 registrants from banks, asset managers, brokers, central banks, financial market infrastructures and FinTechs. This is an account of what they contributed to the six panels that day, as well as what they learned from the panellists and each other.This episode is a summary of Panel 4, titled "How a common platform or unified ledger could unleash network effects in the token markets". The Panellists taking part were Ami Ben-David, Founder and CEO of Ownera; Austen Appleby, Senior Product Manager – Interoperability at R3; Edward Glyn, Managing Director and Head of Global Markets at Calastone; Emma Landriault, Vice President, Incubation and Architecture at J.P. Morgan Onyx Coin Systems; Jørgen Ouaknine, Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets at Euroclear; and Lisa McClory, Digital Technologies Lead at D2 Legal Technology. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 15 October 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Tokenisation of securities and funds is going to happen. How will you and your organisation survive it?, the event attracted 200 registrants from banks, asset managers, brokers, central banks, financial market infrastructures and FinTechs. This is an account of what they contributed to the six panels that day, as well as what they learned from the panellists and each other.This episode is a summary of Panel 3, titled "Reasons other than lack of digital money that explain why tokenised securities and funds have failed to scale". The Panellists taking part were Jochen Metzger, Global Head of Markets at NowCM Group and CEO at NowCM Finance; Muneeb Shah, Head of Digital Assets Technology consulting at EY UK; Kushal Balluck, Senior Manager, Digital Securities Sandbox and Post Trade Innovation at the Bank of England; Soren Mortensen, Director, Global Financial Markets, at IBM; and Valérie Gilles Chief Commercial Officer and Partner at IZNES. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On 15 October 2024 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of AON in London. Entitled Tokenisation of securities and funds is going to happen. How will you and your organisation survive it?, the event attracted 200 registrants from banks, asset managers, brokers, central banks, financial market infrastructures and FinTechs. This is an account of what they contributed to the six panels that day, as well as what they learned from the panellists and each other.This episode is a summary of Panel 2, titled "Can securities and funds token markets can grow without genuine digital money on-chain?". The Panellists taking part were Damien Fontanille, Head of Business Development at Société Générale-FORGE; Jason Webb, Director of Web 3 at SS&C Technologies; Ben Brophy, Head of Blockchain at Fidelity International; and Daniel Coheur, Co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Tokeny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.