Name: TradFis Blockchain Imperatives - Hard Truths for Financial Services
Start: 2023-07-19T10:52:00Z
End: 2023-07-19T10:52:59.000Z
Location: BrightTALK

Digital Asset is the leading provider of blockchain and tokenization software and services for the world’s largest financial institutions, market infrastructure, and tech providers. Our customers build regulatory-grade, distributed ledger applications with Daml and connect via Canton Network, the only network built to unlock the potential of synchronized financial markets.


Momentum is building around the tokenization of assets in capital markets, with recent developments signalling a significant shift towards more accessible and efficient financial systems. 

However, challenges persist. The rise of “token islands” and fragmented ledger solutions threatens to create barriers to liquidity and market efficiency. Progress is uneven across regions—while advanced markets are experimenting with tokenization, others lag behind. Building seamless, global collateral networks requires integrating innovative solutions with legacy systems, balancing transformation with the realities of existing infrastructure.

Key Discussion Points/Questions:
Demonstrating Momentum: What recent developments showcase the growing momentum in tokenizing collateral, and how are they shaping the industry?
Building Global Collateral Networks: What is required to create seamless, global collateral rails that maximize the potential of tokenized assets?
Learning from the Past: How can lessons from past financial crises (e.g., UK Gilts turmoil, 2008 financial crisis, and Black Monday in 1987) inform our strategies for implementing tokenized assets?
Managing Uneven Progress: How do we navigate uneven regional advancements and integrate legacy systems while driving transformation?
Technological Advances: Where are the most promising technological developments happening today, and how can they be leveraged?
Strategic Priorities for 2025: What are the top three priorities for 2025 to deliver immediate ROI while paving the way for the future of global collateral networks?
Public-Private Partnership: How are industry and authorities working together to mature the legal framework and catalyse adoption?

Join us to explore how secondary markets, digitally native assets, and stablecoins are redefining capital markets. Discover where to focus your efforts to ensure short-term wins while driving the long-term vision in this rapidly evolving landscape.

The Future of Fixed Income - Unleashing Tokenized Assets in Capital Markets

Join us for an exclusive webinar exploring the potential of unified ledgers and the Canton Network in the digital transformation of global finance. Bernhard Elsner, Chief Product Officer at Digital Asset, will provide a detailed review of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's GL-1 initiative, The "Finternet" vision by BIS and Canton Network's Global Synchronizer.

This session will also offer valuable insights into creating a seamless, interconnected financial system that reduces barriers and fosters unprecedented industry collaboration. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about the future of digital finance and blockchain technology. Register now to secure your spot!

Unified Ledgers - Technical Enablers of Innovation

Following the wide-reaching industry pilot of the Canton Network, this session will give you the chance to see the network in action. During the pilot, 45 leading financial institutions, asset managers, and service providers connected on Canton to experience the exponential opportunities of interoperable capital markets. See for yourself how tokenized real-world assets were mobilized across a network of independent blockchains without sacrificing the controls required by regulated markets or the value of atomicity promised by blockchain technology.

Join the team to:
     • See how tokenized money market funds were mobilized as collateral to optimize cash flow and intraday 
       risk management
     • Gain insight into how Canton uniquely enables connectivity without making privacy or control trade-offs
     • Get answers to our most frequently asked questions and a preview of what’s next for the public- 
       permissioned network

This session will feature speakers:
     • Bernhard Elsner, Chief Product Officer, Digital Asset
     • Georg Schneider, Head of Financial Products, Digital Asset
     • Ben Singh-Jarrold, Product Marketing Director, Digital Asset


Read the Canton Network Pilot Report here: https://www2.digitalasset.com/pilot-report-btwebinar

Canton Pilot Demo: Real-world asset tokenization with connectivity and control

Join us for our webinar, Decoding Public vs. Private: Regulatory Insights on Connectivity and Control. This session aims to enhance understanding of key regulations, highlighting the mandate for a blockchain network that proficiently manages connectivity and control to comply with Basel requirements for effective tokenization. We explore approaches to maximize the benefits of tokenization while avoiding capital charges on tokenized assets.

Speakers:  
Manoj Ramia, General Counsel, Digital Asset 
Diego Ballon Ossio, Partner, Clifford Chance
Barnaby Nelson, CEO, The ValueExchange

Decoding Public vs. Private: Regulatory Insights on Connectivity and Control

Digital Asset and industry research firm, Celent, hosted a webinar on "Blockchain and Capital Markets: A Roadmap for Responsible Innovation."

As the U.S. Congress actively engages in discussions around digital assets and blockchain regulations, the landscape for blockchain implementation in capital markets is more dynamic than ever. This webinar provided key insights into these unfolding regulatory developments while exploring how to drive responsible innovation, ensure compliance, and highlight real-world case studies in blockchain.

This webinar explored:

The State of Play with Regulations: Latest Developments in the US.
Innovating Responsibly: Best Practices in Blockchain.
The Future Outlook: Where Are We Headed?
The session featured:

Moderator: Monica Summerville, Head of Capital Markets, Celent.
Speakers: Manoj Ramia, General Counsel, Digital Asset, and Julia Bronson, Managing Director, Securities Business, Paxos.
Watch the recording in as our panel of experts analyzed the evolving role of blockchain in capital markets. We discussed the critical steps needed for market participants and regulators alike to seize the commercial opportunities and networks of value that blockchain technology promises.

Blockchain and Capital Markets: A Roadmap for Responsible Innovation

Explore how asset tokenization brings unprecedented operational efficiency and risk reduction to regulated financial markets. Our focused webinar breaks down how our out-of-the-box tokenization toolkit can speed up the innovation cycle and shorten time-to-market. 

In addition, the Digital Asset product leadership team showcases: 
1. Uniform modeling of existing asset classes 
2. The reduction in the risks associated with complex movements
3. The improvement of straight-through processing of complex lifecycle events 

For more information on Daml Finance please visit: www.digitalasset.com/daml-finance

Daml Finance: Accelerate Asset Tokenization with a Purpose-Built Toolkit

Andres Wolverg-Stok, Global Head of Strategy at Citi, explored the pivotal role of technology in shaping complexity and interoperability in the digital currency landscape. Emphasizing the balance between innovation and functionality, he identified crucial aspects for addressing in the architectural design of digital currency infrastructure.

These key design considerations, integral to the Canton Network underlying technology, are also featured in the latest web3 Gartner Report.

 To learn more, you can access the Gartner report here > https://www2.digitalasset.com/gartner-emerging-tech-web3-ecosystem-bt

Andres Wolverg-Stok at The Atlantic Council and Digital Dollar Project GC 2023

Cecilia Skingsley, Head of Innovation at BIS Hub, speaks about the challenges of global alignment and what is needed for digital transformation and innovation.

Cecilia Skingsley at The Atlantic Council and Digital Dollar Project GC 2023

Paul Ryan, Chairman at Teneo and Former Speaker of the House, at his views on the convergence that needs to happen between the public policy space and private sector space to move digital currency innovation forward.

Paul Ryan at The Atlantic Council and Digital Dollar Project GC 2023

Yuval Rooz of Digital Asset talks about the importance of the private sector educating stakeholders to eliminate the confusion around the realities and potential of digital currency technology.

Yuval Rooz at The Atlantic Council and Digital Dollar Project GC 2023

How does Broadridge stay ahead in the #DLT and #smartcontracts space? Paul Chiappetta addresses this question in our 'Conversations from the Edge' series, highlighting the journey beyond the POC stage. He shares his experience on the importance of simple, efficient technology integration with existing financial processes.

Unlocking the Future of Capital Markets with Broadridge

Digital Asset’s Kelly Mathieson, Cynthia Sachs from Versana, and Ellen Hefferan sit down for an in-depth conversation uncovering key insights into today's loan market landscape and digital transformation trends. This installment of ‘Conversations from the Edge’ highlights Versana’s Syndicated Loan platform, which is rapidly reshaping the debt capital markets and capturing the attention of leading agent banks.

What you can expect:
- Versana’s Impact: An overview of Versana's transformative role in the corporate credit market, focusing on benefits 
   for agent banks and the buy-side.
- Current Loan Market Landscape: A snapshot of today's loan market operations.
- Data Privacy Among Agent Banks: Strategies for ensuring data privacy in a competitive banking environment.
- Digital Transformation: Insights into how digitization is reshaping loan operations.

‘Conversations from the Edge’ emphasizes crucial themes that drive digital ecosystem growth across the financial industry. Our guests are selected to share their experiences, challenges, and successes, painting a comprehensive picture of the rapidly evolving landscape.

Revolutionizing syndicated loan market with DLT

In an ever-evolving financial landscape, digital issuance is revolutionizing the way we think about capital raising and debt servicing.  In our latest Conversations from the Edge with Digital Asset’s Kelly Mathieson, Thomas Sullivan (Societe Generale) delves into how the world of finance is ready to step into a new era.

Innovations in Tokenization Platforms and Corporate Issuances

Access the webinar for a panel discussion with Digital Asset, industry research firm, The ValueExchange, and management consulting firm, Bain & Company. This fireside conversation explores the current position of asset tokenization in the marketplace and educates the market on the main drivers for creating digital assets today - from eliminating risk to reduced costs, seamless post-trade services, and increased product innovation and security. Gain insight into the current market themes surrounding the case for large-scale digitization, powered by key data points from a recent factsheet by The ValueExchange, The numbers behind tokenization, to drive the dialogue.

Conversations on the Edge is a series of opportunities to get exclusive, high-impact insight into the value of tokenization and blockchain on asset issuances. 

This session includes discussions on:

- The market themes we are seeing as a result of the widespread creation of digitally native assets
- Current opportunities for the creation of new assets, steps the market must take to realize risk reduction and cost 
   savings, and the requirements to enable transformation
- The business use case for the private alts market and uncover what matters to managers and investors

The session features:

- Kelly Mathieson, Chief Business Development Officer, Digital Asset
- Barnaby Nelson, Chief Executive Officer, The ValueExchange
- Richard Walker, Partner, Bain

Digital Asset Creation

Explore the evolution of tokenised financial instruments over their lifetime and discover how Daml Finance can help your business optimise processes and simplify systems. This 45-minute webinar is ideal for technical decision-makers, executives, product owners, product managers, enterprise architects, solution architects, and senior executives in finance or blockchain looking to gain the latest insights into industry trends and best practices.

Simplify Financial Instrument Management Lifecycling with Daml-Finance

Blockchain technology has driven experimentation with new assets and organizational models. So, why haven’t we yet seen traditional finance adopt many of these networks at scale yet?

Listen in as Dharmendra Kapadia, Associate Director, Equilend 1Source, and Bernhard Elsner, Chief Product Officer at Digital Asset, explore the hard truths and new realities of blockchain privacy, smart contract interoperability, and what control needs to look like in networks built for traditional finance players. In this webinar, see how the criteria for evaluating blockchain platforms have evolved to address the constraints of existing public and private blockchain networks.

This webinar explores:

Why organizations are turning to Canton to balance privacy, composability, control, and decentralization—without the trade-offs experienced on other networks.
Why challenges with cost, complexity, upgrade, and cross-network connectivity mean application builders are (re)evaluating their platform and network choices.
How leading financial market infrastructure players are making decisions in line with three blockchain imperatives for TradFi.

TradFis Blockchain Imperatives - Hard Truths for Financial Services

Smart Contracts

Daml

Interoperability

Blockchain

Digital Assets

Canton Network

Tokenization

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