London Blockchain Finance Summit: Payments & Digital Currencies

Tokenised Money. Real Use Cases. Clear Compliance

12 March 2026, Clifford Chance, Canary Wharf

Summit Highlights

The London Blockchain Finance Summit delivered a focused and high-impact day of insights for leaders across banking, fintech, payments, regulation and enterprise. Bringing together voices from across the financial ecosystem, the event created space for informed discussion on the technologies, frameworks and market developments shaping the future of finance.

Through a full day of live sessions, the summit highlighted how stablecoins, CBDCs and tokenised cash are already influencing payments, treasury and real-time settlement. Attendees heard practical lessons from those working closest to implementation, with the programme underscoring where digital finance is gaining traction, what challenges remain, and where the strongest opportunities are emerging.

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Speakers

Who Attended

  • Group Treasurers, Heads of Payments, Digital Asset Leads
  • Compliance, Risk, Policy, Legal & Regulatory Affairs
  • CIOs, CFOs, CTOs from enterprise and public institutions

Topics which defined the Summit

  • Tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins at scale
  • Programmable settlement in real treasury workflows
  • AI driven agents for payments, controls and audit
  • Cybersecurity expectations in the new UK and EU landscape
  • Legal certainty for settlement finality on DLT
  • Interoperability standards connecting banks and new ledgers

Some key sessions from across the day

Institutional DeFi that matters: repurchase agreements, collateral and liquidity on chain

DeFi ideas are landing in regulated markets. We focus on the parts institutions actually use: tokenised collateral, repurchase agreements and permissioned liquidity.

The discussion focused on:

  • What is at scale in on chain repurchase agreements and who uses it.
  • How banks integrate these rails with risk, KYC and settlement stacks.

Speakers:
Ciarán McGonagle, Chief Legal & Product Officer, Tokenovate.
Tom Rhodes, Chief Legal Officer, Agant.
Bruno Sousa, Partner & Chief External Affairs Officer, Hashdex.

Moderator: Michael Brown, Partner, Clifford Chance

Unlocking Mobile Collateral

This session addressed the gap which currently exists between many smart assets & current rails for currency exchange, in particular with respect to mobile collateral.

  • Identify where tokenised settlement money (tokenised deposits, regulated stablecoins, and central-bank interoperability) can remove reconciliation and intraday credit friction in tokenised markets.
  • Learn how multi-party operating models (banks, custodians, CSDs etc.) can enable collateral optimisation.
  • How to unlock the promise of truly mobile collateral

Speakers:
Previn Singh, Head of Tokenisation, Fidelity International.
Ollie Carew, Digital Assets Lead, NatWest.

Moderator: Larisa Yarovaya, Professor & Advisor, University of Southampton & TheBritish Blockchain Association

Stablecoins and tokenised money in production

Banks and corporates compare live deployments of tokenised deposits and regulated stablecoins. What worked, what needed a rethink, and how ROI is measured.

The discussion focused on:

  • Key design choices under UK and EU regimes for issuance and custody.
  • How firms choose between tokenised deposits, regulated stablecoins and settlement links to central bank money for different production use cases.
  • Operating playbooks for programmability and controls in production

Speakers:
Joy Adams, COO Digital Assets, Deutsche Bank.
Thomas Giacomo, Head of Fintech, Teranode Group.
Alex Buelau, Co-Founder & CEO, Rayls.
Mykolas Majauskas, Senior Director of Policy, ByBit.

Moderator: Larisa Yarovaya, Professor & Advisor, University of Southampton & TheBritish Blockchain Association