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Discover how blockchain is transforming Securities Financing and Collateral Management. Uncover its impact on Securities Financing today!

Date: March 13, 2025 Venue: Reed Smith Offices at 1 Blossom Street, London E1 6RS 1-Day Event: 8.30 am to 8.00 pm Audience: Traditional Exchanges; Digital Exchanges; CCPs; CSDs; Issuers (non-financial and financial); Asset Managers; Wealth Managers; Banks and Broker/Dealers; Technology Companies; Regulators and Public Policy Makers Topics Are tokenisers making a mistake in choosing to ignore the conventional public equity markets? Are tokenisers currently focused on alternat

What is the event about? This virtual round table is a Thought Leadership discussion focused on how to solve the biggest single obstacle to progress in the tokenisation of securities and funds: the lack of liquidity. Liquidity is touted routinely as a benefit of tokenising securities and funds. But liquidity is not just a consequence of tokenisation at scale. It is also a cause of large and active markets in security and fund tokens. So what is this cause-and-effect thing tha

Date: December 4th 2024 Venue: The Aon Centre, The Leadenhall Building, 122 Leadenhall Street, London EC3V 4AN 1 Day Event: 9.15am to 7.30pm This Future of Finance one day Digital Asset Custody Event will explore issues of pressing concern to Asset owners and their consultants; and from them to asset and wealth managers, bank (and non-bank) digital asset custodians global custodian banks, sub-custodian banks. Audience: Pension Funds; Foundations and Endowments; Insurers; Pen

What is the event about? What will catalyse the growth of the tokenised securities and fund markets? Lists of obstacles to growth – lack of fiat currency on blockchains and regulatory uncertainty chief among them – are not hard to find. But the purpose of this Round Table is not to rehearse what we know already. It is to remake the case for tokenisation by identifying the problems that tokenisation solves, and the benefits tokenisation confers, asset class by asset class, and

This Future of Finance half day event will provide a series of interviews and panel discussions that will explore how tokenisation is helping asset managers distribute products to new groups of investors, enabling retail investors to access investment strategies previously available to institutional investors only, cutting costs, risks and time for asset managers in issuing and servicing funds, making expensive and cumbersome investor on-boarding processes more efficient and

The potential gains from the tokenisation of securities and funds are immense. Governments and corporates would pay less for equity and debt capital. Investors would enjoy higher returns on portfolios that cost less to create and maintain. Asset managers would distribute more profitable individualised savings products to wider audiences at lower costs. Economies would invest more and grow faster. Yet token markets remain stubbornly small even by comparison with the cryptocurr

The Internet is evolving from closed platforms dominated by centralised Big Tech firms creating value by monetising the data of their customers (Web 2.0) to one characterised by open platforms owned by users creating value by trading digital assets peer-to-peer (Web 3.0). The growing number of commercial applications of blockchain technologies, which are an integral part of the transition to Web 3.0, are creating a demand for blockchain-native cash equivalents to provide a me

What is the event about? The securities and the fund markets need to be digitally transformed. The profits of the asset and wealth...

What is the webinar about? The story of stock exchanges over the last 50 years is one of trading, data and technology. These three...

What is the event about? On 17 November 2023 Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), told a conference of bankers that “a truly European capital market needs consolidated market infrastructures.” [1] European capital markets certainly lack them now. They are a quarter the size of the American capital market yet support three times as many stock exchanges, and 20 times as many post-trade financial market infrastructures. The lack of a European equ

What is the event about? The custodians, whose profession was once a byword for the least glamorous activity in the securities industry,...

What is the event about? Once true digital money is available on blockchain networks, the token revolution will begin. What that money...

What is the event about? Institutional investors have toyed with the cryptocurrency markets for years. Where they are actually committed...

The voluntary carbon credit market has emerged rapidly as a market-friendly way of combating climate change. It has attracted...

Regulated banks are waking up to the threats and opportunities created by the decision to bring Stablecoins within the regulatory...

When it came to digital money useable on blockchain networks, the choice between central bank money and commercial bank money used to...

What is the event about? Future of Finance is hosting an invitation-only event to explore whether central securities depositories (CSDs)...