As digital assets become mainstream components of institutional portfolios, investors will expect the transformative benefits of these new assets to come with the same levels of trust they have in traditional assets. HSBC’s Fiona Horsewill, global head of Securities Services and Sean Mullins, global head of Digital Assets Product, explore
Murex’s Ramzi Khemakhem, repo product manager, and Dorothy Queant, securities finance connectivity manager, explore economic and technological forces behind the rise of intraday repo and examine how hybrid post‑trade architecture enables this activity to scale safely and effectively
Collateral mobility and settlement efficiency are central for liquidity management, and as real-time settlement moves from theory to infrastructure, a transformation is underway, explain Deutsche Bank’s Monica Bolqvadze, capital and liquidity management, Treasury, and Sabih Behzad, head of Digital Assets & Currencies, Transformation
With tokenisation transitioning out of pilot phases and into production, a group of digital asset and financial experts at the Canadian Securities Lending Association explore how digital rails for collateral, cash, and securities are starting to reconfigure securities finance, and the key facets that will determine how fast these rails can carry real volume
As tokenised collateral moves from proof-of-concept projects to production-scale deployments, questions around interoperability, regulation, and market infrastructure are becoming increasingly important. Tonic’s Chris Watts, CEO and co-founder, and Steven Czarnota, head of digital, discuss the industry’s progress with Zarah Choudhary
With the increasingly prevalent issuance of tokenised deposits, Matthew Challis explores their future in commercial bank money and what it will take to move them from pilot to routine infrastructure
Speakers at the Securities Finance Times Boston Symposium examined how digital assets are moving from experimentation towards institutional infrastructure, while warning that legacy systems, interoperability, and operational complexity remain major hurdles
Eamonn O’Callaghan, global head of ETF Product at CACEIS, examines the regulatory, operational, and custody considerations shaping the growth of digital ETFs and ETNs as investor demand for cryptocurrency exposure through traditional investment wrappers accelerates
With regulators scrambling to classify digital assets, stablecoins sit on a fault line between payments and securities. Karl Loomes unpacks the emerging token taxonomy and what it means for investors across Europe and the United States
As institutional demand for digital assets accelerates, Zarah Choudhary examines how traditional custodians and crypto-native firms are competing — and converging — to define the future of digital asset custody
Matteo Carminati, head of product at Komainu, looks at how traditional institutions have been taking up digital assets, and how the next phase will be defined by interoperability
