Future of capital markets conference and report launch

Capital markets infrastructure has languished relatively unchanged for many years, but the digitalisation revolution is accelerating and the drain on time and resources caused by antique securities settlement infrastructure is becoming more and more obvious. Banks, technology companies, issuers and regulators are working swiftly on improving the settlement architecture across asset classes.

The flagship ‘Future of capital markets’ conference brings together key financial market actors, regulators and multilateral institutions to explore the benefits and risks of the application of new technologies, such as distributed ledger technology, to financial assets and capital market infrastructures.

The conference marks the launch of the ‘Future of capital markets’. The report includes a survey of public sector funding teams on their plans for and expectations of digital assets. Digital Monetary Institute partners will have the opportunity to contribute their expertise and thought leadership both within the report and at the conference.

Topics of discussion:

• Review of the process to digitalise the bond issuance process.
• Examination of the advantages of potential improvements to trading infrastructure (includes automated market-making and liquidity provision, tokenisation of non-blockchain native instruments and payment flows)
• Exploration of the degree to which blockchain has been adopted as cap table tracking software
• Investigation into the impact of digitalisation on capital markets (e.g. improving participation in local currencies and digitalisation for FX)
• Consideration of how technology is generating improvements in liquidity management
• Examination of the potential of a use case for blockchain to improve the governance and oversight of both green finance instruments, including green bonds, social bonds and sustainability-linked bonds.

Building on the success of the inaugural central banks and digital currencies symposium, OMFIF’s DMI is uniquely positioned to bring key stakeholders together to move the modernisation effort forward.

See the latest DMI report here: Future of cross-border payments

Denis Beau
Deputy Governor
Banque de France

Charlie Berman
Co-founder and CEO
agora

Xavier Leroy
Senior Funding Officer
European Investment Bank

Mattias Levin
Deputy Head of Unit for Digital Finance
DG for Financial Stability
Financial Services and Capital Markets
European Commission

Massamba Thioye
Manager, Regulatory Framework Implementation
Mitigation Division
UNFCCC Secretariat

Benedicte Nolens
Head of Hong Kong Innovation Hub
Bank for International Settlements

Julian Reischle
Director General, Payments and Settlement Systems
Deutsche Bundesbank

Alexander Ruf
Director
Funding and Investor Relations
Nordic Investment Bank

Cyril Rousseau
Chief Executive
Agence France Trésor

Cecilia Repinski
Founder and CEO
Green Assets Wallet

Vijak Sethaput
Assistant Managing Director
Architecture and Engineering
National ITMX Thailand

Bill Kentrup
Co-founder and Head of Origination
Allinfra

Timings: 
09:00-13:00 (London)
04:00-08:00 (New York)
16:00-20:00 (Singapore)

This virtual discussion is part of the OMFIF Sovereign Debt Institute. The SDI brings together DMOs, supranational agencies, public investors and capital market banks to promote high-level strategic dialogue and co-operation to help sovereign borrowers meet the challenges they face. Please contact melissa.roache@omfif.org directly for membership details.

This virtual discussion is part of the OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute. The OMFIF Digital Monetary Institute is a high-level forum which convenes key policy-makers, technology experts, investors and regulators to explore the challenges, opportunities and implications of digital finance in the 2020s. See more information on OMFIF’s DMI here. Please contact folusho.olutosin@omfif.org directly for membership details or register your interest below and we’ll be in touch.