Digital Assets Week will return to London on 6–7 October 2026, with organizers positioning the event as a forum for examining capital markets transformation through tokenisation in detail, including issuance, market structure, settlement, custody, liquidity and regulatory alignment.

The event is built around Global Asset Digitisation Projects, which organizers describe as the foundation of Digital Assets Week and as a venue for comprehensive discussion of the commercialisation of tokenising assets at scale. The focus comes as major financial institutions have moved beyond proofs of concept, with tokenised money market funds, intraday repo settlements, and blockchain-based payment rails entering live production at firms across the US, Europe and Asia.

Digital Assets Week is institution-led and is designed to support detailed dialogue among market participants, regulators and infrastructure providers on implementation, risk management and market structure as digital assets increasingly intersect with traditional capital markets. London's hosting of the event reflects the city's sustained effort to position itself as a jurisdiction for digital asset infrastructure, complementing parallel regulatory frameworks advancing in the EU through MiCA and in the UAE through VARA.

The 2026 edition will focus on how digital assets and tokenisation are shifting from experimentation toward practical implementation across traditional financial markets. Planned discussions will cover 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.

Key speakers confirmed for the 2026 agenda include:

• Rachel Blake MP, The 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. Securities and Exchange Commission
• Anthony Clark-Jones, Head of Digital Assets (Products & Services), UBS Investment Bank
• Sean Mullins, Head of Digital Assets Product, Securities Services, 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; Head, Digital Assets. Financing and Securities Services; Corporate & Investment Bank, Standard Chartered Bank
• Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Managing Director, Deutsche Bank
• Emilio Anting, VP of Digital Asset Partnerships, Franklin Templeton
• 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
• 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, Head of Americas & Energy Markets Research, Managing Director, Rabobank
• Antoine Scalia, Founder and CEO, Cryptio
• Cameron Drinkwater, Chief Product & Operations Officer, S&P Dow Jones Indices
• Myles Wright, CEO, Fnality Services

The speaker roster spans regulators from the UK Treasury, the Bank of England, the U.S. SEC, the Central Bank of Ireland and VARA, alongside digital asset leads from global banks and asset managers, underscoring the cross-border coordination dimension that market participants have identified as critical to scaling tokenised markets.

Organizers said this year's event is already recording the strongest level of financial institution and regulator registrations at this stage of any previous edition.

Financial institutions and regulators confirmed to participate include representatives from Aberdeen, ABN AMRO Bank, AllianceBernstein, ANZ Banking Group, Aviva Investors, Baillie Gifford, Bank of America, Bank of England, Barclays, BlackRock, BNP Paribas, Citi, Deutsche Bank, Fidelity International, Franklin Templeton, Goldman Sachs, HM Treasury, HSBC, Intesa Sanpaolo, J.P. Morgan, Lloyds Bank, M&G Investments, MUFG Bank, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Northern Trust, Rabobank, Société Générale, Standard Chartered, State Street, T Rowe Price, TSB Bank, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, UBS, Union Investment, VARA and WisdomTree.

Registration for Digital Assets Week London is open at