Where Digital Finance

Meets Traditional Markets

Interviews

FIS

Julia Demidova

Julia Demidova, head of CBDC and digital currencies product and strategy at FIS, sits down with Karl Loomes to examine how regulatory certainty is enabling production-scale services, discuss the evolving roles of stablecoins and tokenised deposits, and explore why the next phase of adoption will be driven by operational readiness

Linework

Noel Damien Foti

Noel Damien Foti, CEO of Linework, talks to Karl Loomes about why trust, regulation, custody, and governance — not the token itself — will determine whether tokenisation becomes a permanent feature of capital markets

Adaptive

Matt Barrett

Matt Barrett, CEO and co-founder of Adaptive, talks to Karl Loomes about the architectural shift towards modular, resilient platforms, the growing role of cloud-native infrastructure, and why firms are prioritising technology ownership

Neo

Laurent Descout

As digital assets reshape financial infrastructure, Laurent Descout, CEO and co-founder at Neo, explores why stablecoins are becoming part of a multi-rail treasury world and why treasurers should focus on use cases that add value, not complexity

DLA Piper

Sophie Lessar and Paul Landless

Sophie Lessar and Paul Landless, partners at DLA Piper, discuss the FCA and Bank of England's call for input, why the DIGIT gilt pilot matters, and what fixed income and derivatives desks should be doing about it right now

Komainu

Darren Jordan

With a growing interest in digital assets, Darren Jordan, chief commercial officer, Komainu, speaks with Carmella Haswell on how this market fits into the securities finance world and its impact on the collateral landscape

Ownera

Natasha Benson

Natasha Benson, chief operating officer at Ownera, speaks to Matthew Challis about the firm’s recent tokenised real estate fund, the differences between single and multi-chain environments, and the next barrier that tokenisation technologies have to break through for adoption at scale

Apex Group

Agnes Mazurek

Agnes Mazurek, global head of product, Digital Assets at Apex Group, looks at the growing market for tokenised funds, and the rapid pace of expansion the market is seeing

Where Digital Finance

Meets Traditional Markets