On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.

Panellists: Martin Watkins, CEO of Montis Group; Michele Curtoni, Head of Strategy at SIX Digital Exchange; Max Heinzle, founder and CEO of 21X; Vic Arulchandran, Director, Deutsche Börse | Clearstream and Head of Digital Product and Market Design; and Yalini Isweran, Head of the Digital Launchpad at the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC).

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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.

Panellists: Ben Brophy, Head of Blockchain at Fidelity International; Bob Ejodame, Vice President, Capital Markets, at INX; Lucas Bruggeman, CEO and President of the Board at BX Swiss Exchange; Massimo Butti, an independent adviser to several companies involved in digital assets; and Severin Kranz, Head of Business Development at 21X.

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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.

Panellists: Benjamin Dean, Director of Digital Assets Strategy at WisdomTree; Katie Richards, Head of New Markets and Product Development at Incore Bank; Murat Ögat, Co-founder and CEO at Aktionariat; and Pat LaVecchia, CEO and Founder of Oasis Pro.

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On 13 March 2025 Future of Finance hosted a one-day event at the offices of ReedSmith in London. Entitled Digital asset exchanges: Will tokenisation be the nemesis of exchanges or the re-making of them?, the event attracted more than 200 registrants from stock exchanges, trading venues, digital asset exchanges, fund administrators, central securities depositories, central counterparty clearing houses, technology vendors, data vendors, consultants, custodians, asset managers, wealth managers, banks, brokers, insurers, payments service providers, law firms, venture capital funds, cryptocurrency firms, blockchain platforms and academia. This is an account of what they and the panellists contributed to the five sessions that day, both live and in the multiple-choice questionnaire they completed in advance, the results of which are also published here.

Panellists: Hirander Misra, Chairman and CEO of GMEX Group; Marcus van Abbé, Head of Digital Market Infrastructures at r3; Rita Martins, Head of Product Ecosystem, Digital Assets, at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG); Dr Robert Barnes, co-CEO at BPX Digital Securities Exchange; and Thomas Labenbacher, CEO and Founder of Assetera.

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A Future of Finance interview with Martin Hargreaves, Chief Product Officer at Quant Network.

A Future of Finance interview with Quant Networks’ Chief Product Officer Martin Hargreaves. Quant is applying programmable payments to modernise payments processes and workflows, embedding programmability at customer account level rather than into the payments infrastructure. Speaking to Bob Currie, Contributing Editor at Future of Finance, Hargreaves describes how this model can improve automation, security and flexibility for users, while reducing fragmentation in the payments ecosystem.

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A Future of Finance interview with Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge Interview.

Rob Krugman, Chief Digital Officer at Broadridge, speaks to Bob Currie about how financial services organisations are thinking about their futures and how Broadridge applies a customer-led Agile development approach to drive its innovation strategy.

Recognising that not every development idea will result in a live implementation, Krugman explores what makes the difference between success and failure and how it has applied this thinking to business use-cases, including the development of its ClearFi data insights platform and its distributed ledger repo solution.

In managing its innovation lab, 605 Studios, Krugman explains how Broadridge supports a mix of ‘disruptive’ and ‘synergistic’ project initiatives, explaining why disruptive projects typically grow most effectively within the innovation hub, while synergistic projects may be better nurtured within existing business units and product teams.

In doing so, Broadridge adopts a UniFI approach that attempts to break down the barriers between digital and traditional silos, with blockchain, tokenisation and AI technologies playing a central role in defining their mutual evolution.

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A Future of Finance interview with Milo Guastamacchia, Founder and CEO or Yooro.

Technology-driven securitisation platform Yooro aims to simplify investor access to private markets, focusing on investors in the European Union, UK, Switzerland and the UAE. The company’s Founder and Chief Executive Milo Guastamacchia speaks to Bob Currie about how this is reshaping approaches to fundraising in unlisted markets, while attracting new and wider categories of investor that may not have been attracted previously to private capital issues or structured products.

The result, says Guastamacchia, is a more “democratic” pathway for private markets investment, delivering better access to the market, greater transparency and improved ‘voice’ for the investor.

The sweet spot for Yooro is to apply securitisation and tokenisation in tandem, bringing real-world assets into a digital DLT-based environment and building secondary market liquidity in those instruments. Assets are typically held by a special purpose vehicle wrapper under Luxembourg law.

More broadly, the discussion reflects on Yooro’s formation and ambitions, delivery of its Securitisation-as-a-Service methodology, and what the future holds as it expands its product set and solutions coverage.

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