As the Global Head of Digital Assets of BNY’s Digital Assets Business, Caroline Butler leads all global commercial digital assets initiatives across the bank. With a focus on delivering value to clients, Caroline is responsible for overseeing the digital asset platform strategy, new product development and delivery, and go-to-market efforts for all digital asset products and services across the enterprise.
Based in New York City, Caroline serves on the board of directors for BNY Mellon’s European bank board, Access Fintech, and the International Securities Services Association (ISSA). Previously, Caroline was Global Head of Custody Services for BNY Mellon, where she led the development of the industry’s first digital asset custody platform for traditional and digital assets from a global systemically important bank. Caroline’s global professional experience spans a range of investment services and trading businesses, centered on running and transforming businesses with expertise in equities, futures and options clearing, and securities services.
Roundtable Room 3 (Level 3)
Decoding Digital Assets and Payments
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
Hall C (Level 2)
Decoding Digital Assets and Payments
In this session, discover the imperative of constructing an open and interoperable foundation for financial networks, fostering collaboration, innovation, and seamless connectivity across the global financial ecosystem.