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What it takes to build real trading depth in capital markets. Depth of book, on/off-ramps, spreads. The liquidity problem is not volume, it’s resilience. Can capital markets deliver the stability treasurers and asset allocators require, and who provides the credible counterparties?
The boundaries between TradFi and DeFi are dissolving, creating a new market architecture for capital flows. This panel looks at how banks, asset managers, and crypto platforms are re-engineering liquidity, credit and collateral in ways that could redefine market structure itself.
From storage to integration into real institutional workflows. Custody is only step one. The real challenge is how money moves across internal systems: instant settlement vs. legacy rails, reconciling balance sheets, and plugging into payment flows. What are the working models today?
Tokenised MMFs are emerging as the clearest case for institutional adoption. But are they truly more efficient than traditional wrappers? Panelists dig into liquidity windows, risk, and why tMMFs might become the real driver of stablecoin demand.
This session focuses on putting digital assets on the balance sheet as a treasury reserve: why a company might do it, the upside vs. volatility, and the governance it demands. We’ll cover board-level policy, custody and accounting, risk limits, and how Hong Kong’s regulatory and banking setup can make this strategy executable.
How Hong Kong’s regulatory roadmap is shaping real activity. We will cover SFC-regulated virtual asset and tokenisation topics such as VA dealing, custody and the treatment of tokenised securities and funds. We will also address HKMA’s stablecoin work where it intersects with capital markets and settlement. The focus is on what firms need to do now to operate, distribute and scale products in Hong Kong.
Reconciliation, settlement and the unseen (billion dollar!) opportunity. The quiet transformation: tokenisation isn’t just about assets, it’s about shaving costs from post-trade plumbing. CIOs and COOs want case studies, not theory. Who has actually delivered efficiency gains?
Since major banks and asset managers have gone live on public blockchains, what have been the outcomes; from cost reduction to interoperability and market access? What performance metrics justify public chains, and how do firms measure the return on decentralisation?
The marketplace for tokenised assets is expanding fast, but liquidity still depends on where and how assets are listed. This discussion compares regulated exchanges, private networks and public venues to identify where issuers and investors are finding the most real-world traction.
Cross-border FX, repo, trade finance - these are the use-cases being tested in Hong Kong today. Which ones have real commercial traction, and which are distractions? Expect candid views on what investors should back.
Hong Kong has aligned regulation, sellside engagement, and product demand. Leaders reflect on what it will take for Asia’s institutional markets to convert interest into sustained capital flows and which product categories are driving adoption.
How digital asset records connect with core banking, treasury, risk and finance. The discussion covers lessons from early rollouts.
What’s changing in reconciliations, settlement cycles, data lineage and reporting. Panellists might touch on operating models, vendor choices, KPIs that show progress, controls that satisfied audit and regulators, and lessons they would apply next time.
A product-focused discussion on how cash instruments on chain may be used for treasury, collateral and settlement. Topics could include liquidity windows and cut-offs, distribution and transfer-agency models, counterparty options, interoperability with bank rails, and how firms measure adoption.
