Digital Asset Custody 2025

Topics:

• What explains the lack of institutional confidence in existing digital asset custody services?
• Are the differences between digital asset custody and traditional securities custody real or illusory?
• Are shorter settlement timetables (T+1 to T+0 to real-time “atomic settlement”?) a competitor to, an accelerator for or an enabler of digital assets?
• What is the path of digital asset custody in the United States after SAB 121 and the Safeguarding Rule?
• What part can custodians (and central securities depositories (CSDs)) play in the integration of the markets in digital assets and traditional assets?
• What role can custodians play in accelerating the scale of digital asset markets by creating and facilitating distribution networks?
• Is the power of digital identities to transform customer due diligence and on-boarding exaggerated?
• Is consolidation the only way to de-fragment the digital asset custody industry?

Audience: Pension Funds; Foundations and Endowments; Insurers; Pension Consultants; Custody Banks; Sub-Custodian Banks; Digital Asset Custodians; Asset Managers; Wealth Managers; Regulators and Policy Makers

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Hear from Speakers and an Esteemed Panel of Experts (Many more to be announced):

CEO of GLEIF (Global Legal Entity Indentifier Foundation)

- Legal, Governance and Regulatory (Innovation, Data and Cyber) at Euroclear

Info: Topics and Questions:
Are the differences between digital asset custodians greater than the differences between traditional custodians?
What are the material differences between custodying digital assets and custodying traditional assets?
Is a bank-owned digital asset custodian with a history in traditional custody well-equipped (e.g., knowledge of traditional techniques, lack of knowledge of digital assets, governance and operational procedures) to provide digital asset custody?
Do digital asset custodians enjoy a technological superiority over traditional custodians?

Info: Topics and Questions:
Many digital asset custodians claim to be offering a “prime brokerage” service. What do they mean by “prime brokerage”?
Is off-exchange settlement of trades on closed networks, with assets remaining in third party custody, a work-around pending a depository/central bank money solution or a permanent solution?
What contribution do cryptocurrency “lending” and “staking” services make to levels of trading activity on cryptocurrency exchanges?
How important is the ability to re-use customer assets to the revenues of digital asset custodians?

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Info: Topics and Questions:
- “Digital identity” means more than one thing (e.g. self-sovereign Decentralised Identifiers (DIDs), verified credentials issued by banks to customers, complete data sets controlled by individuals, complete data sets about individuals maintained by third party specialists, government issued IDs etc.). Is a definition of “digital identity” – or the components of “digital identity” – necessary? - The obvious use-case for digital identity in custody is customer on-boarding, which currently involves multiple document exchanges, multiple parties, duplication and repetition of processes, different processes for different businesses and asset classes, and often takes months. Are custodians persuaded digital identities are the key to a more efficient process?

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Info: Topics and Questions:
- How important is the legal and regulatory jurisdiction in determining what happens to client assets if a digital asset custodian fails?
- How important is the legal and regulatory status of digital asset custodians in attracting digital assets to a particular jurisdiction?
- How important is the jurisdiction that registers or licenses digital asset custodians to the credibility of a digital asset custodian?

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Info: Topics and Questions:
The number of non-bank cryptocurrency custodians is declining and the number of traditional banks offering digital asset custody services is rising. Does that tell us that institutional interest in digital assets is rising or that traditional custodians are looking to expand into a new segment?
Is the entry of traditional custodian banks into digital asset custody an existential challenge for the incumbent, non-bank digital asset custodians, i.e., must new entrants to custody rise to standards set by traditional custodians?
Will digital asset custodians specialise by asset class (e.g., cryptocurrency, security tokens, fund tokens, RWAs, digital money) or will digital asset custodians have to be able to look after all asset classes?

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