Digital Assets Week London is set to return for its 2026 edition, bringing together what organizers describe as the strongest-ever level of financial institution and regulator registrations at this stage of the event's history. The growing roster reflects a broader shift across global finance, where tokenisation has moved from isolated proofs of concept to live products — including tokenised money market funds from firms such as BlackRock and Franklin Templeton — making forums focused on implementation, rather than exploration, increasingly consequential.

The conference, which bills itself as the only forum examining capital markets transformation through tokenisation in depth, covers the full lifecycle from issuance and market structure through to settlement, custody, liquidity, and regulatory alignment. Built on the foundation of Global Asset Digitisation Projects, the event positions itself as the sole venue addressing the commercialisation of tokenised assets at scale.

2026 Focus: From Experimentation to Implementation

The upcoming edition will center on how digital assets and tokenisation are transitioning from experimental pilots toward practical deployment across traditional financial markets. That transition is already visible across the industry: banks including J.P. Morgan, HSBC, and Société Générale have executed tokenised bond issuances and intra-bank settlement pilots, while settlement infrastructure providers such as Fnality Services — whose CEO is among the confirmed speakers — continue building regulated, multi-bank payment networks. Agenda topics include the evolution of tokenised private and public markets, 24/7 trading capabilities, atomic settlement, fund administration, digital asset custody, stablecoins, payments infrastructure, regulation, liquidity, and institutional blockchain adoption.

Digital Assets Week is institution-led and designed to facilitate substantive dialogue among market participants, regulators, and infrastructure providers on implementation challenges, risk management, and market structure as digital assets increasingly intersect with traditional capital markets. The 2026 speaker lineup reflects the cross-jurisdictional nature of that conversation, drawing senior voices from HM Treasury, the Bank of England, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Central Bank of Ireland, and Dubai's Virtual Assets Regulatory Authority (VARA) — regulators that have each taken distinct approaches to digital asset supervision.

Key Speakers

Confirmed speakers for the 2026 agenda 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. 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 Banking, 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

Confirmed Participating Institutions

Financial institutions and regulators confirmed to attend 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, among others.

Registration for Digital Assets Week London 2026 is now open, with tickets available at