Digital Assets Week Returns to London with Expanded Institutional Participation

Digital Assets Week is back in London for its 2026 edition, concentrating on the shift from experimental tokenisation projects to real‑world implementation in traditional financial markets.

Event focus and agenda

The conference will explore the full lifecycle of tokenised assets, including issuance, market structure, settlement, custody, liquidity, stablecoins, payments infrastructure, regulation and institutional blockchain adoption. Topics such as 24/7 trading, atomic settlement and fund administration will be examined in depth.

Institution‑led dialogue

Designed as an institution‑led forum, the event aims to foster substantive discussion among market participants, regulators and infrastructure providers on risk management and market‑structure challenges as digital assets intersect with legacy capital markets.

Confirmed speakers

Key speakers include:

• Rachel Blake MP, Economic Secretary to the Treasury (HM Treasury)
• Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure (Bank of England)
• Sumeera Younis, Chief of Operations – Crypto Task Force (U.S. SEC)
• Anthony Clark‑Jones, Head of Digital Assets (UBS Investment Bank)
• Sean Mullins, Head of Digital Assets Product (HSBC)
• Emma Lovett, Executive Director, Markets Digital Assets (J.P. Morgan)
• Anna Matson, Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Assets & Innovation EMEA (Northern Trust)
• Waqar Chaudry, Executive Director, Digital Assets (Standard Chartered)
• Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation (Deutsche Bank)
• Emilio Anting, VP of Digital Asset Partnerships (Franklin Templeton)
• Previn Singh, Head of Tokenisation Strategy (Fidelity International)
• Doug Bambrick, Head of Custody Product – UK and Middle East (BNP Paribas)
• David Reed, Director – Digital Assets Product (Invesco)
• Deepa Raja Carbon, Managing Director and Vice Chairperson (VARA)
• Christoph Hock, Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets (Union Investment)
• Kelly Moffatt, Head of Digital Assets Compliance (Citi)
• Rosemary Hanna, Head of Division, Markets and Funds Policy (Central Bank of Ireland)
• Ryan Hayward, Head of Digital Assets and Strategic Investments (Barclays)
• Christian Lawrence, Chief Cross‑Asset Strategist (Rabobank)
• Antoine Scalia, Founder and CEO (Cryptio)
• Cameron Drinkwater, Chief Product & Operations Officer (S&P Dow Jones Indices)
• Myles Wright, CEO (Finality Services)

Institutional and regulator participation

Registrations include representatives from a broad range of banks, asset managers and regulators, such as Aberdeen, ABN AMRO, AllianceBernstein, ANZ, Aviva Investors, Baillie Gifford, Bank of America, Bank of England, Barclays, BlackRock, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity International, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, J.P. Morgan, Lloyds, MUFG, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Northern Trust, Rabobank, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, State Street, T Rowe Price, UBS, Union Investment, VARA, WisdomTree and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Registration

Registration for Digital Assets Week London is now open.