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Permissionless blockchain in financial services

This roundtable reflects Elevandi’s commitment to developing the infrastructure to support the adoption of new technologies.

Permissionless blockchains presents multiple opportunities for the pooling of global liquidity. The inherent traceability of all records offer significant cybersecurity enhancements over traditional systems by prevent false transactions. Moreover, continuously verifiable point-in-time snapshots of the distributed ledger offers added resilience to ensure business continuity.

In this industry-focused roundtable operating under the theme of Decoding Digital Assets and Payments, we invite private sector discussants to consider the pathways to implementation of permissionless blockchains by laying down all cards on the table. Speakers are invited to actively challenge the supposed benefits of permissionless blockchains with their inputs, discuss trade-offs, and address the perceived risks surrounding the technology.

This session seeks to lay the groundwork for later dialogues on the applications of permissionless blockchain in the form of structured products and collateral settlements.

This is one of two discussions surrounding permissionless/public blockchains in the financial services at the Insights Forum. Attendees who wish to familiarise themselves with the topic may refer to the reference materials below.
- Public blockchain as a transfer infrastructure in regulated sectors
- Plenary Address by Ravi Menon: State of Global Finance & Technology | JFF 2024

Speakers

Ashley Lannquist

Ashley Lannquist

Digital Finance Expert, International Monetary Fund

Bruno Batavia

Bruno Batavia

Director of Emerging Tech, Valor Capital Group

Caroline Butler

Caroline Butler

Global Head of Digital Assets, BNY

Lauren Belive

Lauren Belive

Head of Public Policy, US, Ripple

Mo Shaikh

Mo Shaikh

Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder, Aptos Labs

Naveen Mallela

Naveen Mallela

Managing Director, J.P. Morgan

Nilmini Rubin

Nilmini Rubin

Chief Policy Officer, Hedera

Sabih Behzad

Sabih Behzad

Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank AG London

Sergey Nazarov

Sergey Nazarov

Co-Founder, Chainlink

Seth Ginns

Seth Ginns

Managing Partner, CoinFund

Stefan Grasmann

Stefan Grasmann

Chief of Blockchain, Zühlke

Varun Paul

Varun Paul

Business Lead for CBDC, FMI & Blockchains, Fireblocks

Moderator

Pradyumna Agrawal

Pradyumna Agrawal

Managing Director, Investment (Blockchain), Temasek