Digital Asset Custody 2025

Digital Asset Custody 2025

By Future of Finance

Join us this December for the Digital Asset Custody Event — where the future of custody takes shape. A game-changer you can’t miss!

Date and time

Location

Aon

122 Leadenhall Street London EC3V 4AN United Kingdom

Lineup

Agenda

8:30 AM - 9:45 AM

Registration Opens with coffee and biscuits

9:45 AM - 10:00 AM

Welcome Address: Future of Finance and Gold Sponsor

10:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Keynote Speaker

10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

Panel 1 - Not all digital asset custodians are created equal

Topics and Questions: Are the differences between digital asset custodians greater than the differences between traditional custodians? What are the material differences between custodying digital as...

11:30 AM - 12:30 PM

Panel 2 - How digital asset custodians can facilitate trading

Topics and Questions: Many digital asset custodians claim to be offering a “prime brokerage” service. What do they mean by “prime brokerage”? Is off-exchange settlement of trades on closed networks, ...

12:30 PM - 2:00 PM

Lunch and networking

2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Panel 3 - Is digital identity the killer app for digital asset custodians?

Alexandre Kech (GLEIF)

Topics and Questions: - “Digital identity” means more than one thing (e.g. self-sovereign Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs), verified credentials issued by banks to customers, complete data sets contr...

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Panel 4 - America versus Europe versus Asia: The current state of digital ...

Topics and Questions: - How important is the legal and regulatory jurisdiction in determining what happens to client assets if a digital asset custodian fails? - How important is the legal and regula...

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Coffee break and networking

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Panel 5 - Is the digital asset custody industry consolidating or converging?

Topics and Questions: The number of non-bank cryptocurrency custodians is declining and the number of traditional banks offering digital asset custody services is rising. Does that tell us that insti...

6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Networking drinks and canapes

Good to know

Highlights

  • 11 hours, 30 minutes
  • In person

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

Business • Finance

Topics:


  • What explains the lack of institutional confidence in existing digital asset custody services?
  • Are the differences between digital asset custody and traditional securities custody real or illusory?
  • Are shorter settlement timetables (T+1 to T+0 to real-time “atomic settlement”?) a competitor to, an accelerator for or an enabler of digital assets?
  • What is the path of digital asset custody in the United States after SAB 121 and the Safeguarding Rule?
  • What part can custodians (and central securities depositories (CSDs)) play in the integration of the markets in digital assets and traditional assets?
  • What role can custodians play in accelerating the scale of digital asset markets by creating and facilitating distribution networks?
  • Is the power of digital identities to transform customer due diligence and on-boarding exaggerated?
  • Is consolidation the only way to de-fragment the digital asset custody industry?


Audience: Pension Funds; Foundations and Endowments; Insurers; Pension Consultants; Custody Banks; Sub-Custodian Banks; Digital Asset Custodians; Asset Managers; Wealth Managers; Regulators and Policy Makers

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ALL TICKETS ARE SUBJECT TO APPROVAL. IF YOU ARE NOT APPROVED, YOU WILL BE ISSUED A FULL REFUND WITHOUT ANY DEDUCTIONS.

Hear from Speakers and an Esteemed Panel of Experts (Many more to be announced):

Alexandre Kech – CEO of GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Indentifier Foundation)

Bart Garré - Legal, Governance and Regulatory (Innovation, Data and Cyber) at Euroclear

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Future of Finance

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Early bird discount
£149 – £199
Dec 3 · 8:30 AM GMT