Digital Assets Week London Returns With Growing Institutional Lineup

What Happened

Anthony Clark-Jones, Head of Digital Assets (Products & Services), UBS Investment Bank

Waqar Chaudry, Executive Director; Head, Digital Assets. Financing and Securities Services; Corporate & Investment Banking, Standard Chartered Bank

Emilio Anting, VP of Digital Asset Partnerships, Franklin Templeton

Christoph Hock, Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets, Union Investment

Ryan Hayward, Head of Digital Assets and Strategic Investments, Barclays

Market Context

Digital Assets Week will return to London, where capital markets transformation through tokenization is examined in depth, from issuance and market structure to settlement, custody, liquidity and regulatory alignment.

Digital Assets Week is institution-led and designed to support substantive dialogue between market participants, regulators and infrastructure providers on implementation, risk management and market structure as digital assets increasingly intersect with traditional capital markets.

The 2026 edition will focus on how digital assets and tokenisation are moving from experimentation towards practical implementation across traditional financial markets. Discussions will examine the evolution of tokenised private and public markets, 24/7 trading, atomic settlement, fund administration, digital asset custody, stablecoins, payments infrastructure, regulation, liquidity and institutional blockchain adoption.

Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England

Emma Lovett, Executive Director, Markets Digital Assets, J.P. Morgan

Rosemary Hanna, Head of Division, Markets and Funds Policy, Central Bank of Ireland

Christian Lawrence, Chief Cross-Asset Strategist, Head of Americas & Energy Markets Research, Managing Director, Rabobank

Why It Matters

The underlying foundation of Digital Assets Week is Global Asset Digitisation Projects, making it the only venue where the commercialisation of tokenising assets is discussed comprehensively and at scale.

Key speakers confirmed to join the 2026 agenda include:

Details

Rachel Blake MP, The Economic Secretary to the Treasury, HM Treasury

Sumeera Younis, Chief of Operations – Crypto Task Force, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Sean Mullins, Head of Digital Assets Product, Securities Services, HSBC

Anna Matson, Senior Vice President, Head of Digital Assets & Innovation EMEA, Northern Trust

Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank

Previn Singh, Digital Assets – 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

Kelly Moffatt, Head of Digital Assets Compliance, Citi

Antoine Scalia, Founder and CEO, Cryptio

Cameron Drinkwater, Chief Product & Operations Officer, S&P Dow Jones Indices

Myles Wright, CEO, Finality Services and many more.