Danny Russell

Head of Payment Innovation Product and Technology

Bank of England

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Danny Russell is the Head of Payments Innovation Product & Technology at the Bank of England, where he leads the product & technology workstream on retail payments innovation as part of the National Payment Vision, the Digital Pound and DLT/tokenisation . He leads the Bank’s work on the Digital Pound Lab, driving experimentation and industry collaboration, and he has also led work on the DLT Innovation Challenge, advancing the Bank’s
exploration of distributed ledger technologies. Danny previously served as Principal Architect for the Digital Pound, overseeing the technology workstream, contributing to the Technology Working Paper (February 2023), and co-leading Project Rosalind with the BIS Innovation Hub.

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9:00–10:30amTue 17 NovPublic-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
Sovereignty & Resilience

Designing for Resilience in Digital Money Infrastructure

Public-Private RoundtableRoundtable Room 1Invite-Only
About this session

As digital money infrastructure matures, more institutions are converging on the same handful of providers for custody, reserves, and connectivity. This concentration brings real efficiency and security benefits but it also creates correlated risk: a single provider's failure, outage, or reserve issue can propagate across multiple institutions at once, often in ways that aren't visible until it happens.

This session brings regulators and industry together to examine what resilient design actually requires as tokenization scales and the market consolidates, across technical redundancy, structural safeguards, transparency of dependency chains, and governance during a shared-provider failure. This roundtable aims to produce a set of principles on where responsibility should sit across the chain(s).

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Danny Russell

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Designing for Resilience in Digital Money Infrastructure