Digital Assets 2024

14 - 15 May, 2024

Business Design Centre, London

David Reed

Director, Emerging Technology Innovation Invesco

David has spent the last 26 years in the asset management sector across a wide range of roles and organisations, he has been involved with programs focused on the distribution arena, specifically, the establishment of effective client relationship platforms and driving innovation to engage customers and clients. David co-founded a specialist consultancy that focused on the emerging platform distribution market in EMEA and worked with many financial institutions to integrate this capability into their organizations. Recently, David At Invesco, as part of the Technology Strategy & Innovation team he has been involved in driving an innovation mindset to enable asset management firms to leverage new and emerging technology to demonstrate the art of the possible. He is currently is focussed on Digital Assets, where he is part of a cross functional group looking at the application of Digital Assets from Crypto products, through Tokenization and leveraging DLT technology to help asset managers transform their business and operating models. David holds a B.Eng. in electronics and electrical engineering from the University of Plymouth.

Day 1 | 14th May

11:05 AM Tokenization Panel: Unlocking the Potential of Tokenization: How can our industry best collaborate to build a connected blockchain ecosystem that enables seamless issuance, trading, reconciliation and settlement?

  • How are banks and market infrastructure providers working together to allow interoperability across blockchains to enable the next stage of digital asset adoption?
  • What are the latest developments and results with the UK and EU’s sandbox experiments for tokenised securities and what does it mean for the industry’s future?
  • How will capital market infrastructure need to adapt to support the issuance, trading, and post trade activities of tokenised securities?
  • How are regulatory regimes looking to address the custody of tokenised assets?
  • What are the pros and cons of permissioned vs permissionless blockchains?


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