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A Future of Finance interview with Alexandre Kech, CEO of GLEIF.
There are two main obstacles to the scaling of the markets in digital assets and one of them is the lack of interoperability between blockchain networks and between blockchain networks and traditional financial markets. The default answer, hallowed by history in multiple industries, is standards. By enabling different networks to exchange data, they multiply the overall volume of counterparties and transactions. Unfortunately, attempts to achieve interoperability standards in digital assets suffer from limited usage and winner-takes-all proprietorial schemes, condemning most market participants to deploy risky or clumsy workarounds. So it is significant that the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF), set up by the Financial Stability Board in 2014 to overcome a major accelerant of the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009 – namely, the lack of a trusted counterparty identification standard on a global scale – has broadened its work to encompass digital assets. Dominic Hobson, co-founder of Future of Finance, spoke to Alex Kech, CEO of GLEIF.
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A Future of Finance interview with Thorsten Peisl, Founder and Chief Executive at KALYP Technologies.
In 2026 Kalyp Technologies celebrates the tenth anniversary of its foundation as a provider of blockchain infrastructure to the regulated capital markets. It is an ambition that has required patience as well as more obvious resources, since securing the regulatory endorsement on which institutional engagement depends is a lengthy process. But now the company has built an open financial market infrastructure of its own, the Digital Securities Depositary Corporation (DSDC), and is embarked on its first major initiative - making American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) available as Digital Depositary Receipts (DDRs). Future of Finance co-founder Dominic Hobson spoke to Thorsten Peisl, Founder and Chief Executive of Kalyp Technologies.
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On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited summary of the discussions that took place.
Panellists: John Allan, Head of the Innovation and Operations Unit at the Investment Association; Romin Dabir, Partner, Financial Services and Regulation, Reed Smith; Anna Matson, EMEA Head of Digital Assets and Innovation, Northern Trust.
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On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited summary of the discussions that took place.
Panellists: Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal and Product Officer at Tokenovate; Steve Whyman, European Commercial Head of Digital Asset Funds and Business at Apex.
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On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited summary of the discussions that took place.
Panellists: Adrian Dale, Head of Regulation & Market Practice at the International Securities Lending Association (ISLA); Marcus van Abbé, Head of Digital Market Infrastructure at R3; Steve Whyman, European Commercial Head of Digital Asset Funds and Business at Apex; Roy Zimmerhansl, Partner and Head of Capital Markets, WTS Hansuke.
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On June 04, 2025, Tokenovate and Future of Finance co-hosted a half-day event at the City of London Club, titled Exploring Blockchain’s Real Impact on Securities Finance, Collateral Management and the Repo Market. The event attracted more than 120 attendees from banks, asset management companies, market infrastructure, law firms, industry associations, Fin-Techs and consultants. This is an edited summary of the discussions that took place.
Panellists: Doug Bambrick, Head of the UK Custody Product for the UK and Middle East, BNP Paribas Securities Services; Basu Choudhury, Head of Partnerships and Alliances, OSTTRA; Yalini Isweran, Executive Director, Product Management at DTCC Digital Assets; Martin O’Connell, Solutions Architect, HQLAx.
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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.
Panellists: Martin Watkins, CEO of Montis Group; Michele Curtoni, Head of Strategy at SIX Digital Exchange; Max Heinzle, founder and CEO of 21X; Vic Arulchandran, Director, Deutsche Börse | Clearstream and Head of Digital Product and Market Design; and Yalini Isweran, Head of the Digital Launchpad at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).
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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.
Panellists: Ben Brophy, Head of Blockchain at Fidelity International; Bob Ejodame, Vice President, Capital Markets, at INX; Lucas Bruggeman, CEO and President of the Board at BX Swiss Exchange; Massimo Butti, an independent adviser to several companies involved in digital assets; and Severin Kranz, Head of Business Development at 21X.
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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.
Panellists: Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets Strategy at WisdomTree; Katie Richards, Head of New Markets and Product Development at Incore Bank; Murat Ögat, Co-founder and CEO at Aktionariat; and Pat LaVecchia, CEO and Founder of Oasis Pro.
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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.
Panellists: Hirander Misra, Chairman and CEO of GMEX Group; Marcus van Abbé, Head of Digital Market Infrastructures at r3; Rita Martins, Head of Product Ecosystem, Digital Assets, at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG); Dr Robert Barnes, co-CEO at BPX Digital Securities Exchange; and Thomas Labenbacher, CEO and Founder of Assetera.
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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.
Panellists: Reyer Kooy, Global Head of Operations – Digital at Apex Group; Remo Glauser, Product Head in Tokenisation at Sygnum Bank; Prasanth Kalangi, Founder and CEO at Zoniqx; and Richard Shade, Chief Operating Officer at Archax.
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A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network.
A Future of Finance interview with Quant Networks’ Chief Product Officer Martin Hargreaves. Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contributing Editor at Future of Finance, Hargreaves describes how this model can improve automation, security and flexibility for users, while reducing fragmentation in the payments ecosystem.
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A Future of Finance interview with Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge Interview.
Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge, speaks to Bob Currie about how financial services organisations are thinking about their futures and how Broadridge applies a customer-led Agile development approach to drive its innovation strategy.
Recognising that not every development idea will result in a live implementation, Krugman explores what makes the difference between success and failure and how it has applied this thinking to business use-cases, including the development of its ClearFi data insights platform and its distributed ledger repo solution.
In managing its innovation lab, 605 Studios, Krugman explains how Broadridge supports a mix of ‘disruptive’ and ‘synergistic’ project initiatives, explaining why disruptive projects typically grow most effectively within the innovation hub, while synergistic projects may be better nurtured within existing business units and product teams.
In doing so, Broadridge adopts a UniFI approach that attempts to break down the barriers between digital and traditional silos, with blockchain, tokenisation and AI technologies playing a central role in defining their mutual evolution.
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A Future of Finance interview with Milo Guastamacchia, Founder and CEO or Yooro.
Technology-driven securitisation platform Yooro aims to simplify investor access to private markets, focusing on investors in the European Union, UK, Switzerland and the UAE. The company’s Founder and Chief Executive Milo Guastamacchia speaks to Bob Currie about how this is reshaping approaches to fundraising in unlisted markets, while attracting new and wider categories of investor that may not have been attracted previously to private capital issues or structured products.
The result, says Guastamacchia, is a more “democratic” pathway for private markets investment, delivering better access to the market, greater transparency and improved ‘voice’ for the investor.
The sweet spot for Yooro is to apply securitisation and tokenisation in tandem, bringing real-world assets into a digital DLT-based environment and building secondary market liquidity in those instruments. Assets are typically held by a special purpose vehicle wrapper under Luxembourg law.
More broadly, the discussion reflects on Yooro’s formation and ambitions, delivery of its Securitisation-as-a-Service methodology, and what the future holds as it expands its product set and solutions coverage.
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A Future of Finance Interview with Richard Brown, Chief Technology and Product Officer at R3.
R3 celebrates its tenth anniversary this year. Richard G. Brown, R3’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, speaks to Bob Currie about the drivers for Corda’s design, how these are changing, and how far the company has fulfilled the targets that it envisaged at formation.
The discussion explores the potential for convergence of private and public blockchain ecosystems, thereby potentially making a wider range of higher-quality assets available to DeFi investors and tapping into a large pool of demand and liquidity sitting on public blockchain. But what can we say at this stage about the mechanics of building this cross-chain interoperability?
In bringing real-world assets to DeFi, we examine how to retain the simplicity and accessibility of permissionless chains while accommodating TradFi’s complex lifecycles and risk protocols.
In delivering convergence of public and private ecosystems, we address the difficulties in ensuring that financial institutions, and their regulators, are comfortable in transacting with investors or counterparties operating in a public ecosystem. What are the challenges in delivering the institutional-standard security and finality that these FIs will continue to expect?
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On 13 February 2025 BX Digital hosted a virtual seminar that addressed the question: “Token markets need liquidity: Where will they get it from?” The importance of the topic is obvious. A market in which assets can be bought and sold quickly without moving the price is bound to grow more quickly than one in which assets can be bought and sold slowly, if at all, and only by moving the price in an adverse direction. By this criterion, the cryptocurrency markets, let alone the tokenised asset markets, lack sufficient liquidity.The conventional solution is to attract more issuers and investors. Unfortunately, it is fallacious. The experience of traditional markets shows that liquidity is not generated sufficiently by buyers and sellers alone. Furthermore, liquidity must be manufactured by market-makers, lead brokers, securities dealers, inter-broker dealers, exchanges and trading venues, banks, investment banks, and principal and high frequency trading firms. Yet blockchain was invented precisely to get rid of intermediaries such as these. So the purpose of the discussion hosted by BX Digital was to test whether blockchain-based finance can indeed scale without intermediaries, whether tokenisation can make the generation of liquidity more efficient and what exchanges can do to encourage the growth of liquidity.
The seminar, held in conjunction with Future of Finance, attracted 116 registrants. They heard Lidia Kurt, CEO of BX Digital, Michael J. Cyrus, Head of Short-Term Products, Equity Finance & FX at DekaBank, Mike Reed, Head of Partnership Development for Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton, Jasmine Burgess, Chief Risk Officer at Coinbase Asset Management, and Lloyd Wahed, Founder and CEO at Members Capital Management, discuss the question from a variety of angles. The registrants contributed to the discussion by completing an on-line poll.
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A Future of Finance interview with Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal & Product Officer at Tokenovate.
Tokenovate delivers post-trade automation for derivatives and securities finance trades. Chief Legal and Product Officer Ciarán McGonagle speaks to Future of Finance’s Bob Currie about how the company is applying blockchain and smart contract technology to build a financial ecosystem that is automated, resilient and efficient.
Representing a financial product as a bundle of rights and obligations governed by conditional logic, McGonagle reflects on the flexibility offered by smart contracts in managing the cash flows, transfers of ownership and other lifecycle events associated with these contracts. He explains how Tokenovate’s unused transaction output (UTXO)-based model shapes the legal remedies available to asset owners in case of legal dispute or misappropriation – and how this may differ from other flavours of blockchain.
Drawing on his previous experience working at ISDA, McGonagle discusses how Tokenovate is applying the common domain model (CDM) to translate standard representation of key trade terms into real-world systems and workflows. In closing, he reflects on how the company is contributing to public policy formation and potential outcomes from its representations in Washington and Brussels, its work with financial regulators and its participation at New York Climate Week.
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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 Laurent Kssis, Board Member and Strategic Advisor to Issuance.Swiss AG; Philip Rage, Director of Strategic Initiatives at Soter Insure; Tariq Rasheed, a Partner at Reed Smith; Jeet Singh, Partner and EMEA Blockchain Leader at EY; and, as moderator, Ed Pugh, Development Director, Fintech and Digital Assets, at Aon.
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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.
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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.
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