London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit

7 July 2026, DLA Piper, London

Summit Highlights

Real-world asset tokenisation is moving from experimentation to infrastructure.

The London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit brings together the financial institutions, fintech innovators, infrastructure providers, legal experts and regulators shaping how real-world assets move on-chain and what that means for issuance, investment, trading, collateral and post-trade infrastructure.

This senior-level event focuses on the practical realities of institutional products including funds, bonds, precious metals and other real-world assets. The agenda examines where tokenisation is already delivering measurable improvements in market access, settlement efficiency and asset control, and where important questions around liquidity, ownership structures, legal frameworks and interoperability still need to be resolved.

From product strategy through to settlement and custody, the summit is designed for organisations evaluating how tokenised assets can move from pilot projects into scalable institutional infrastructure.

Speakers

Who Attended

This is a senior-level event for financial leaders driving innovation, compliance, and transformation across digital assets and programmable money

Asset managers, fund leaders and buy-side strategy teams
Treasury, liquidity and collateral management professionals
Digital asset, innovation and tokenisation leads
Capital markets, trading and product development teams
Custody, settlement and market infrastructure leaders
Legal, compliance, risk and regulatory affairs professionals
CIOs, CTOs, CFOs and transformation leads across financial institutions and fintechs

Enterprise leaders assessing tokenised products, digital issuance and on-chain financial infrastructure

Hot Topics Shaping Payments and Digital Money in 2026

The shift from pilots to production is accelerating, and these are the themes defining the next phase of digital finance:

Tokenised funds and the shift beyond cosmetic digital wrappers
Digital gold and other tokenised products seeking institutional liquidity
Tokenised bonds and derivatives in real trading and post-trade workflows
Legal certainty, ownership models and settlement finality on DLT
Cross-border models linking UK, EU and US market infrastructure

Some key sessions from across the day

Tokenised Funds: From Wrapper to Operating Model

Key takeaways were:

How tokenised funds can move beyond superficial wrappers and sit credibly within an authorised fund structure without simply creating a cosmetic digital twin
Where tokenisation can deliver genuine operational change across fund administration, transfer, servicing and investor workflows, rather than just changing the packaging
Why tokenised cash-like funds and money market funds are an important first step toward collateral mobility, and how that could support atomic settlement once tokenised deposits become usable at institutional scale.

Speakers:
Theo Golden, Head of Digital Assets, Baillie Gifford
Brian McNulty, General Partner, Lingfeng Capital
Stephen Whyman, Director, Mole Advisory

‘Future of Trading’ – Market Structure, Liquidity and execution in Tokenised Markets

Key takeaways were:

How tokenised markets may reshape trading dynamics, from venue design and liquidity formation to price discovery, execution quality and the role of perpetual futures in 24/7 market access
How market makers, exchanges, banks and infrastructure providers will need to support liquidity, tighter spreads and more reliable execution as tokenised instruments scale
What a more mature tokenised market structure could look like in practice, including interoperability, collateral mobility, settlement design and the balance between on-chain and off-chain execution.

Speakers:
Juan Mendieta, Co-Founder, Keyrock
Matthias Wyss, CEO, Obligate
Satjeet Sahota, Partner & General Counsel, Fasanara Capital

Confidential Assets and the Next Phase of Institutional Tokenisation

Key takeaways were:

Why full market visibility of balances, trades and counter parties creates a structural barrier for institutional adoption of tokenised assets
How the role of confidentiality in regulated financial markets, particularly where privacy, compliance and market integrity must operate together
How confidential assets offers a more practical, institution-ready framework for tokenisation by combining on-chain asset functionality with controlled disclosure.

Speaker:
Martin Halford, Chief Executive Officer & Chief Technology Officer, Polymath Network

Building the Tokenised Issuance Stack: Issuer, Administrator, Legal, Custodian, Platform

Key takeaways were:

How issuers, administrators, legal advisers, custodians and platforms must work together to take a tokenised product from structuring and issuance through to service, transfer and reporting
How the operational pressure points across onboarding, record-keeping, ownership control, cash settlement and integration with existing market infrastructure
What is required to turn tokenised issuance from a pilot exercise into a scalable institutional model with credible governance, legal certainty and coordinated delivery across the stack.

Speakers:
Myles Harrison, Chief Product Officer, AMINA Bank
Satjeet Sahota, Partner & General Counsel, Fasanara Capital
Shrey Rastogi, CEO, KAIO
Sophie Lessar, Partner, DLA Piper

London Blockchain Institutional Tokenisation Summit

Summit Highlights

Speakers

Who Attended

Hot Topics Shaping Payments and Digital Money in 2026

Some key sessions from across the day

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