Digital Assets Realised Agenda

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  • DA Realised 20 Oct - Summit 1 - Digital Assets in Listed Securities Markets


  • MODERATED BY: Abradat Kamalpour
    - The future of exchanges
    - Alternatives to AIM/Aquis
    - Adjunct alternative for VCs/FOs/PE

  • MODERATED BY: Chris Thomas
    - Real world applications of token based digital assets
    - Key learnings from successful early implementation in financial services
    - The future of digital assets
    - What are the drivers behind blockchain based digital securities
    - Public and private blockchains
    - Legal considerations

  • MODERATED BY: Leanne Bassett
    - Making the right decisions
    - What is the investor sentiment?
    - Taking the right advice - - what structure will work for you?
    - Reality check

  • DA Realised 20 Oct - Summit 2 - Investing in Digital Securities in Private Markets


  • - Digital securities can represent all types of assets including equity, debt, investment contracts and even a fractionalized interest in a physical asset such as a hotel or a wind farm
    - The size of the opportunity
    - The scale of private markets
    - Ability to start secondary markets
    - Digital securities in private markets vs. IPOs/SPACs etc.
    - FinP2P
    - Digital shares

  • MODERATED BY: Ami Ben David
    - Global private equity net asset value grew twice as fast as public markets capitalisation and with less liquidity
    - Companies are staying private long and investors are looking for exposure and diversified participation in global growth
    - The management and trade of private securities needs to go through the same digitisation process that we have seen in public markets
    - Investment in unicorns, improving liquidity
    - Once a private company lists on a secondary market there is an argument they are no longer private

  • INTERVIEWED BY: Anthony Woolley

  • MODERATED BY: Anthony Woolley
    - Technology, business model and culture changes required
    - Accessing institutional investors

  • MODERATED BY: Naeem Aslam - The evolving landscape of venture capital in digital assets and DeFi
    - Digital asset fund management
    - Private companies initial fundraise (primary) via tokens from the brokers/investors point of view:
    - When is issuing tokens not necessarily right for a private company
    - Best approach to introducing a private company’s token sale to investors with limited ‘token’ knowledge
    - Coordinating a fund raise globally

  • DA Realised 21 Oct - Summit 3 - Digitisation of Capital Markets


  • MODERATED BY: Daniel Coheur
    - The digital asset evolution
    - Custody - the key to institutional adoption
    - Banking and blockchain

  • MODERATED BY: Ruth Wandhöfer
    INTRODUCTORY PRESENTATION BY: Goncalo Lima

  • MODERATED BY: Lavan Thasarathakumar

  • MODERATED BY: Martha Reyes
    - Sustainable investing continues to expand at a rapid pace
    - Has the asset management industry been too reactive on ESG? ESG has been mainstream for the last 5 years
    - Creating challenges and opportunities for wealth and asset management businesses
    - Digital assets are one of the newest financial opportunities to be appraised for their ESG footprint
    - The crypto and ESG intersection - driven industry leaders
    - Regulation in ESG - new EU directive on showing ESG credentials
    - Can digital assets shine on the social angle of ESG?
    - Governance in DeFi

  • MODERATED BY: Nick Wittek
    - What is missing in the ecosystem currently?
    - How can we further facilitate the market?
    - Trading, custody, issuance

  • DA Realised 21 Oct - Summit 4 - Realising Institutional Crypto


  • MODERATED BY: Jeff Bandman
    - How mainstream can crypto go? Overcoming the stigma
    - Traditional investment vs. crypto
    - The convergence of finance and crypto
    - Bitcoin as a tool for financial inclusion
    - Legal considerations

  • MODERATED BY: Jonny Fry - The crypto regulatory landscape
    - Investing in the crypto ecosystem
    - The plethora of options - where to start
    - Decentralised finance and the future of financial markets

  • MODERATED BY: Neil Staunton

  • - The role of institutional DeFi
    - How can institutions benefit from DeFi