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SFT Symposium Tokenised securities and the new collateral frontier

At the ninth iteration of the Securities Finance Symposium in London, a group of industry experts sit down to discuss what tokenisation needs to do to drive the market forward, and the interoperability and architectural issues currently holding it back

Beyond tokenised treasuries

As tokenisation gathers momentum, Dr Shlomo Ovadiah and Dr Camila Ovadiah of S.P.O.T.T.Y. examine how blockchain infrastructure could unlock capital for underserved businesses and reconnect investment with the productive economy

From silos to integration

KDPW’s Michal Krystkiewicz, head of Innovation, Dorota Mackiewicz, deputy director, Legal Department, and Rafał Wawrzyniak, chief technology officer and IT MD, explore how CSDonDLT aims to integrate distributed ledger technology with existing post-trade infrastructure, enabling innovation without compromising legal certainty

Tokenisation is solving yesterday’s problems

Eric Piscini, adviser to Hashgraph, considers how tokenisation’s real potential lies not in making existing financial products more efficient, but in enabling entirely new markets, products, and business models

When digital assets stop being an asset class

Institutional adoption is usually measured by how much capital moves into dedicated crypto funds. That may be the wrong measure. David Lloyd, founder and CEO at CV5 Capital, considers how the boundary that created the digital asset category is becoming progressively harder to locate

Accounting for tokenised assets

Reese Lucas, product director at FundGuard, explores how tokenisation is redefining investment accounting, the lack of native platform support for digital assets, and why firms need to build for adaptability to keep pace with regulatory changes

The trading desk will take Bitcoin as collateral, the risk desk decides how to hold it

Thomas Wu, chief financial officer at Ledn, examines how banks are approaching Bitcoin as collateral and why risk considerations, from capital treatment and custody to liquidity and liquidation, are shaping how institutions choose to hold the asset

Why capital mobility will define the future of onchain markets

Alex Tsepaev, chief strategy officer at B2PRIME Group, discusses the importance of free capital movement to growing digital asset markets, issues the industry is facing, and what needs to be done to find a common language and shared standards

Tokenised IPOs: The future of going public?

As institutional players move to bring primary equity offerings onchain, tokenised IPOs promise to compress listing timelines and slash underwriting costs. But while the technology promises a future defined by atomic settlement, smart contracts, and monetary savings, the reality is one of muddled regulatory complexity and a market that might not be ready. Matthew Challis explores

Tokenised securitisations: Evolution not revolution

Ranajoy Basu, partner, and Nathan Menon, director at Squire Patton Boggs, examine how tokenisation could modernise securitisation through digital issuance, faster settlement, and automation, while leaving its underlying legal architecture largely unchanged

The future of transatlantic money

On 14 July 2026, the UK and US released a joint statement on stablecoins’ place within the future of institutional money. Matthew Challis explores the implications of a transatlantic alliance and how it could lay the groundwork for the asset class to transition from a speculative crypto workaround to a conduit of modern payment rails

Unlocking onchain collateral

Jordan Goldman, chief operating officer and president of M1X Global, speaks to Karl Loomes about why collateral remains the missing piece of tokenisation, the role of natively-issued digital sovereign bonds, and how continuous collateral movement could reshape the global repo market