Digital Assets 2024

14 - 15 May, 2024

Business Design Centre, London

Anton Katz

Co-founder & CEO Talos 

Anton Katz is the co-founder and CEO of Talos, the premier provider of institutional digital asset technology. At Talos, he is responsible for leading the firm’s overall operations and driving its strategic initiatives around the world. Before co-founding Talos, Anton served as Head of Trading Technology for AQR Capital Management, one of the world’s most prominent quantitative investment firms. Prior to that he spent six years at Broadway Technology, most recently serving as Director of Software, where he led trading technology development projects for dozens of leading banks, asset managers, and vendors. He began his technology career at Microsoft. Anton was born in Ukraine and is a veteran of the Israel Defense Forces. Prior to that, Anton was a member of the Israeli National Shooting Team where he won a gold medal in the 1998 World Championships. He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Day 2 | 15th May

9:45 AM Market Infrastructure Panel **Hosted under Chatham House Rule**- Improving market infrastructure efficiencies: How is the industry addressing connectivity issues, standardization and counterparty risk to improve interoperability and market efficiencies?

  • What progress has been made to drive common standards across custodians and to enable settlement interoperability?
  • How is industry and regulators collaborating to develop similar guidelines to the CASS custody rules to improve best practice in digital asset custody?
  • Will we see greater connectivity between exchanges, clearing houses and custodians to improve access to liquidity and reduce market fragmentation?
  • How can you leverage new solutions that remove the need to integrate with multiple blockchains and platforms for settlement and custody, providing one point of access?

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Anton.

Download The Latest Agenda