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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

Jump Crypto


Richard Patel



Jump Crypto's Richard Patel talks to Karl Loomes about Firedancer, and why its rollout could power Solana to support tokenised securities, real‑time price feeds, and high‑frequency trading, helping shift institutional capital markets onto open blockchains

DeFi Technologie


Andrew Forson



With restricted repo rails and daily NAV mismatches, coupled with AI agents propelling autonomous settlement, Andrew Forson, president of DeFi Technologies, talks to Matthew Challis about the execution hurdles tokenised capital must overcome

B2PRIME Group


Alex Tsepaev



With continuous markets, fragmented liquidity, and risk systems designed for a five-day work week, Alex Tsepaev, chief strategy officer at B2PRIME Group, talks to Matthew Challis about the operational gaps institutions still have to close

SCRYPT


Norman Wooding



Norman Wooding, founder and CEO of SCRYPT, sits down with Matthew Challis to discuss the operational realities of stablecoin adoption, non-negotiables for risk committees, and why programmable money is the missing layer between AI intelligence and institutional treasury execution