Digital money may be ready for take-off, but is the financial ecosystem ready to support it safely?

Moving from pilots to large-scale deployment takes more than working technology. New digital money systems must connect with existing payment and banking infrastructure, meet regulatory requirements and maintain trust without compromising financial stability.

This session will explore the risks and decisions involved in that transition:

• Connecting systems: How can emerging technologies work together and integrate with existing infrastructure?
• Maintaining stability and compliance: How can institutions modernise while meeting regulatory requirements and protecting financial and payment systems?
• Encouraging participation: What roles should stakeholders play, and what incentives will support lasting adoption?
• Protecting digital money: How can institutions address cyber risks, including threats from advances in quantum computing?

Attendees will gain practical perspectives on the safeguards, coordination and strategic choices needed to move digital money from pilot projects to wider deployment.

Public blockchains are fundamentally changing how financial markets operate, bringing money, assets, liquidity and settlement onto shared, programmable infrastructure. The opportunity? To create more open and fairer financial markets, with broader access to liquidity, more competitive pricing and better outcomes for participants.

But the ambition goes beyond moving existing financial products onchain. It's about creating productive economies where assets can be traded, financed and put to work across connected markets. Getting there requires more than speed and efficiency. Institutions need security, operational resilience, confidentiality, fair and predictable execution, and regulatory clarity, without sacrificing the openness and connectivity that make public blockchains valuable.

Bringing together leaders across finance, technology and policy, this programme explores what it takes to bring financial services onchain and build the infrastructure for open, connected global markets.

Tokenized bond and fund issuance is growing quickly, but secondary-market liquidity hasn't kept pace — largely because issuance still sits on separate, platform-specific systems that don't connect to each other.

Interoperability standards exist, but adoption remains voluntary, and what should carry the cash leg (stablecoins, tokenized deposits, or central bank money) is still unresolved. This session brings together issuance platforms, interoperability infrastructure, and standard-setters to discuss what it would take to converge on shared rails, so liquidity can catch up to issuance.