Joasia E. Popowicz

Digital assets have reached a tipping point when it comes to institutional adoption. Once sceptical, institutional players and investors are increasingly embracing digital money solutions – from tokenized assets to central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), cryptocurrencies, and stablecoins – as part of their financial portfolios.

Simultaneously, technological developments, from evolving custody solutions to emerging blockchain innovations such as smart contracts, interoperability, and cross-border tokenized transactions, are presenting new opportunities for investors to capture.

This session will gather industry leaders to discuss the evolution of custody and blockchain solutions to support investor needs, the impact of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and tokenized asset classes on institutional strategies, and the changing landscape of digital asset adoption by institutional investors.

Digital money, from central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) to stablecoins and tokenized deposits, have promised to simplify cross-border payments, accounting and record-keeping, as well as to improve financial inclusion on a global scale. Despite these benefits, digital money projects remain in a largely experimental stage and widespread adoption remains limited. This is in part due to challenges such as cybersecurity concerns and regulatory uncertainty to technical limitations, such as a lack of interoperability.

In this panel, leaders from the worlds of decentralised finance, investment banking, and technology, will share how today’s technical advancements are reshaping the landscape of digital money and financial market infrastructures, the factors that will determine the success of digital money initiatives, and how digital money will transform the financial system in the coming years.

Panelists will address:

·      The benefits and risks associated with digital money

·      The factors that will determine the success of digital money initiatives

·      How technical advancements today are reshaping the landscape of digital money and financial market infrastructures

·      How digital money will transform the financial system in the coming years