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Sophia Lopez shared thisThe countdown to @Consensus2026 in Miami is on! Looking forward to connecting with friends and colleagues there! https://lnkd.in/eDnzSA4u #Consensus26 CoinDesk #Kaleido
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Sophia Lopez reposted thisEnglish Below. La 28ª Asamblea General de ACSDA incluyó un exitoso panel de discusión sobre el tema crucial de la tokenización, la digitalización de activos, las stablecoins y las criptomonedas. Esta sesión analizó en profundidad cómo los activos digitales están transformando fundamentalmente la infraestructura del mercado, generando nuevas eficiencias y ventajas estratégicas para los depositarios centrales de valores (DCV). Se hizo especial hincapié en la necesidad de adaptarse al entorno regulatorio y operativo en constante evolución para conectar eficazmente las finanzas tradicionales con la tecnología descentralizada. Extendemos nuestra sincera gratitud a nuestro moderador, Fabio Silva (MD de Tecnología en B3), y a los panelistas por compartir su valiosa experiencia: Nathalia Teofilo, Vicepresidenta de Ventas y Gestión de Relaciones-Américas, Clearstream Banking S.A. Jørgen Ouaknine, Director Global de Innovación y Activos Digitales, Euroclear Thomas J. Trépanier, Director de Desarrollo de Negocios, Américas, B2C2 USA Jorge Antolinez Ruiz, Director de Negocios, IoBuilders Bruno Almeida, Director de Activos Digitales e IA, IntellectEU Sophia Lopez, Presidenta y fundadora, Kaleido ------ The 28th ACSDA General Assembly featured a highly successful panel discussion on the crucial topic of Tokenization, Digitization of Assets, Stablecoins, and Cryptocurrencies. This session explored in depth how digital assets are fundamentally transforming market infrastructure, creating new efficiencies and strategic advantages for Central Securities Depositories (CSDs). A key focus was placed on the necessity of navigating the evolving regulatory and operational environment to effectively connect traditional finance with decentralized technology. We extend our sincere gratitude to our moderator, Fabio Silva (MD Technology at B3), and to the panelists for sharing their valuable expertise: Nathalia Teofilo, Vice President Sales & Relationship Management-Americas, Clearstream Banking S.A. Jørgen Ouaknine, Global Head of Innovation and Digital Assets, Euroclear Thomas J. Trépanier, Head of Business Development, Americas, B2C2 USA Jorge Antolinez Ruiz, Chief Business Officer, IOBuilders Bruno Almeida, Head of Digital Assets and AI, IntellectEU Sophia Lopez, President and Founder, Kaleido Gracias a nuestros patrocinadores | Thanks to our sponsors Socios Patrocinadores / Partner Sponsors: B2C2 | Citi | Clearstream | Euroclear | Kaleido | Montran | Nasdaq | Swift Patrocinadores Asociados / Associate Sponsors: Amazon Web Services (AWS) | BNP Paribas | EVoting Global | GIINTAX | IntellectEU | ioBuilders | Percival Software | RTM | Thomas Murray | Vermiculus Financial Technology Thanks to our host B3 and the World Forum of Central Securities Depositories (WFC) for sharing this worldwide #ACSDA #Tokenization #DigitalAssets #Stablecoins #CryptoFinance #CSD #DCV #MarketInfrastructure #FinTech #CapitalMarkets #DigitalTransformation #SaoPaulo #Brazil #2026 -
Sophia Lopez shared thisLooking forward to connecting at SFF this year!
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Sophia Lopez reposted thisSophia Lopez reposted this🚨 Happening now at the Global Finance & Technology Network (GFTN) Insights Forum! Inside the Institutional Shift: Breaking News in Digital Assets — Powered by Kaleido As digital assets go mainstream, institutions are racing to modernize the rails of finance. Join industry leaders for a deep dive into the technologies and standards driving the next wave of tokenized deposits, programmable payments, and interoperable networks transforming market infrastructure across the globe. Speakers: • Sophia Lopez — Founder & President, Kaleido • Javier Garcia Nonay — Head of Digital Assets & Tokenisation, Kaleido • Conan French — Director, Digital Finance, Institute of International Finance (IIF) • Parag Monteiro — Head of Digital Assets Platforms, Standard Chartered 📍 Workshop Room 1 | GFTN Insights Forum 📅 November 11 | 10:30 – 11:30 AM SGT See you soon: https://lnkd.in/gYji24kD #DigitalAssets #Tokenization #Blockchain #GFTN #Kaleido #SFF2025
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Sophia Lopez shared thisLooking forward to meeting up with friends and colleagues at #Money20/20 Middle East Sept 15. #Digital Assets #Blockchain #Tokenization
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Sophia Lopez shared thisJoin us for a great session next Tuesday at Point Zero Forum! Looking forward to connecting with the digital assets community in Zurich next week.Sophia Lopez shared thisInstitutional DeFi is here—and programmable privacy is the key to unlocking its full potential. At Point Zero Forum 2025, Kaleido’s Head of Digital Assets & Tokenization, Javier Garcia Nonay, will host a powerhouse panel: “Institutional DeFi with Programmable Privacy.” Join leading voices in finance and blockchain to explore: 1️⃣ The state of Stablecoins, Tokenized Deposits, and Tokenized Money Market Funds 2️⃣ Enterprise requirements for Digital Market Infrastructure 3️⃣ How Composable Finance creates value for Institutional Digital Assets 4️⃣ How institutions are unlocking new liquidity with compliant, privacy-preserving DeFi Panelists will include: Darko Hajdukovic, LSEG (London Stock Exchange Group) Stephanie Lheureux, Euroclear Nadine Teychenne, Citi Steve Cerveny, Kaleido The session will also dive deeper to share: - Real-world initiatives like the Guardian Wholesale Network demonstrate compostable finance with programmable privacy - The role of technologies such as Paladin, an open-source LF Decentralized Trust lab, in scaling institutional DeFi in Project Guardian, RLN UK use cases, and other leading industry initiatives. 📍 Workshop Room 2 (Level 3) 🗓️ Tuesday, May 6 🕐 2:30–3:30 PM CET Learn more about the session and add it to your calendar here: https://lnkd.in/guh4imiN #ProgrammablePrivacy #InstitutionalDeFi #DigitalAssets #Tokenization #Ethereum #Kaleido #PointZeroForum #EnterpriseBlockchain
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Sophia Lopez shared thisStablecoins, tokenized funds, and tokenized cash were hot topics at the Digital Assets Summit in NYC this week. Looking forward to diving deeper in the opportunities and risks in this engaging roundtable with key industry leaders next week in Frankfurt, including Deutsche Börse, Circle, Clearstream, Kaleido, J.P. Morgan, Partior, and Standard Chartered. Hope to see you there! The signup link is in the post below.Sophia Lopez shared thisWe’re excited to sponsor this year's Digital Euro Conference in Frankfurt, where industry leaders, central banks, and financial institutions will discuss the next chapter of our digital economy. At the event, we’ll be hosting a roundtable discussion, titled "Tokenized Deposits, Tokenized MMFs, and Stablecoins: Risks and Opportunities." Moderated by Javier Garcia Nonay, this discussion will feature insights from key experts, including: John Ho, Head, Legal, Financial Markets at Standard Chartered Basak Toprak, EMEA Head of Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan Vic Arulchandran, Director, Head of Digital Product and Market Design at Deutsche Börse | Clearstream Humphrey Valenbreder, CEO at Partior Patrick Hansen, Senior Director, EU Strategy & Policy at Circle Space is limited—so reserve your seat here: https://lnkd.in/eUTkz6NF. Please note that once you're registered, a conference pass is not required to attend this roundtable. We hope to see you there! #DigitalEuro #DEC25 #Tokenization #Stablecoins #CBDC #DigitalAssets #Web3 #FutureOfFinance Kaleido
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Sophia Lopez shared thisLooking forward to #LEAP 2025! Stay tuned for some exciting announcements at the LEAP stages from Kaleido
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Sophia Lopez shared thisLooking forward to spending time tomorrow with many of the leading #digitalassets and #blockchain practitioners driving the most interesting projects in the #financialservices space and beyond! Key topics like #privacy for #production enterprise projects, as well as walk-throughs of some key industry initiatives, are on the agenda. Space is almost filled up so please register if you're in town and would like to join.Sophia Lopez shared thisLAST CHANCE: Register to join Citi, BNY, J.P. Morgan, Broadridge, and The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) for a Digital Assets and Tokenization Event at Citibank in NYC. Time is running out to secure your spot at this exclusive, in-person gathering focused on cutting-edge innovations and strategies in digital assets, tokenization and privacy. The event, hosted by Citi and Kaleido will include a deep dive on programmable privacy for composable finance, including an overview of Paladin, a new open source privacy framework that is maintained as part of LF Decentralized Trust. 🗓️ Date: Wednesday, December 4 🏢 Location: New York City ⏲️ Time: 9am - 5pm EST, followed by happy hour 5pm -7pm This is your chance to: 1️⃣ Network with top industry leaders and visionaries 2️⃣ Gain actionable insights to drive success 3️⃣ Participate in hands-on sessions and discussions 4️⃣ Explore emerging trends that will shape the future Registration closes soon and there is limited availability remaining, sign up now to apply to attend! https://lnkd.in/eHzKzVx2 Let’s connect, collaborate, and lead the way forward. See you in New York! #Digitalassets #Tokenization #Blockchain #Paladin #Networking #Innovation #Leadership #LastChance #RegisterNow #NYC
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisSOFI BANK IS CHEATING. AND IT'S GENIUS. One Federal charter. Two instruments. Fully regulated. Distribution to tens of millions. On May 27, SoFi launched SoFiUSD (ticker: SOFID), the first stablecoin ever issued by a U.S. nationally chartered bank inside a consumer banking app. Live on Ethereum and Solana. Rolling out to 14.7M SoFi members. Redeemable 1:1 by a Fed chartered bank, ull picture some are not pricing in. SoFi has confirmed yield-bearing tokenized deposits are coming in weeks. Not a stablecoin. Bank money on a blockchain. FDIC-insured. Pays interest. Same wallet. Same app. Same charter. A “stablecoin” with yield? THE INSTITITIONAL FRAMEWORK AND DISTRIBUTION NETWORK. SoFi owns SoFi Bank N.A. (national charter and issuer), Galileo Financial Technologies (BaaS platform processing 133M+ enabled accounts), and Technisys (the cloud-native core banking software running banks and fintechs globally). Bullish (NYSE: BLSH), the institutional crypto exchange led by Tom Farley, was announced as a listing partner. May 5, Bullish announced a $4.2B acquisition of Equiniti, the transfer agent serving 70M+ shareholders and roughly half the FTSE 100. Issuance. Processing. Core banking software. An institutional crypto rail. On-chain shareholder registry post-close. Nobody else has it under one orbit. WHY THIS IS STRUCTURALLY SOUND. The GENIUS Act says a Permitted Payment Stablecoin Issuer (PPSI) cannot pay yield, cannot lend, cannot trade. By design. But the statute leaves tokenized bank deposits untouched. Banks can issue them. Non-banks cannot. Circle, Tether, and PayPal cannot ship the second product. They are not banks (yet). THE CLARITY ACT CONUNDRUM. The Tillis-Alsobrooks compromise bans yield “solely for holding” a stablecoin but allows narrow activity-based rewards. Issuers (Circle, SoFi) cannot pay yield. Unbundled platforms (Coinbase and Kraken) can pay activity-based rewards only, IF ADOPTED, and even the existing USDC rewards model is being legally contested. SoFi can't pay rewards on SoFiUSD because SoFi Bank and the SoFi app are affiliates. But they don’t need to. The tokenized deposit is real yield, real FDIC insurance, real interest. No contested legal theory required. THE MARKETS ARE STARTING TO SEE IT. SOFI literally was hammered this year, trading down 50% peak-to-trough. They report record quarterly net revenue of $1.1 Billion, record member and product growth at the end of April. Skeptics abound. Earlier last week it traded below $16. Then SoFiUSD launched. Three days later the stock rallied 22% off the May lows on volume 2.3x the average. Sometimes the news is the move. Sometimes the move is the news catching up. WHERE IS THE INDUSTRY GOING? JPM Coin. BlackRock BUIDL. Fidelity tokenized Treasury fund. NYSE building a 24/7/365 global tokenized exchange. Every major U.S. institution is moving toward tokenized money, tokenized securities, and on-chain settlement. Can you pick a Winner?
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisIn case you missed it 👀 Anthropic have released all the recordings from Claude Code London so you can binge to your heart's content. There are 24 talks to get you skilled up with Claude Code - and lots of it is useful and applicable across other coding agents like ChatGPT's Codex. Here are 5 talks to get you started: - Beyond the basics with Claude Code https://lnkd.in/efvyMKMx - The prompting playbook https://lnkd.in/eM5eCbcs - Using Lovable to vibecode at scale https://lnkd.in/egareq4v - Claude Design: from prompt to production https://lnkd.in/eEGyJNWr - Stop babysitting your agents https://lnkd.in/eHmFmtwN Good for a Sunday watch, or save it to come back to later!
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisThe S&P Global team just published a report on vaults. Especially timely as they are co-hosting Vault Summit with us next week at the NYSE. S&P frames vaults as future infrastructure capable of performing the roles of private credit funds, money market funds, and hedge funds. They're also calling out established players from traditional finance and crypto entering the vault market, including Wintermute, and Bitwise. Both are curators on Morpho. Seeing S&P making this case to their institutional audience is a great signal that the transition is truly underway!
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisEurope just told its own stablecoin issuers to stand down. On May 15 the ECB Governing Council rejected a proposal to ease liquidity-reserve requirements for private euro-stablecoins... citing risk that "stablecoin issuance could divert deposits from commercial banks and undermine monetary policy transmission." Instead the ECB is steering capital toward tokenised commercial-bank deposits — instruments that keep assets inside the regulated banking system and firmly under central oversight. The data shows why this matters: → Euro-stablecoins represent 0.3% of global supply but 38% of transaction volume → Circle's EURC sits at rank 20 globally with $2.1bn circulating supply → €13bn in euro-stablecoin-linked payments processed in Q1 2024... almost entirely on US-issued tokens For family offices and institutional allocators building exposure in GCC markets this creates a structural dependency. Private euro-stablecoins now face a regulatory glass ceiling... while MiCA still obliges 1:1 fiat reserves and cross-border issuance. The Commission's own paper from May 10 flagged the conflict. The ECB's stance wins. What this guarantees: dollar-stablecoins will continue to dominate European crypto-asset portfolios. Any private euro alternative will carry higher compliance costs, longer regulatory latency, and narrower liquidity windows. The digital euro pilots slated for 2029 won't fill the gap for years. If you're managing treasury operations or structuring venture exposure across Europe and the Gulf... your liquidity planning now has to assume continued FX exposure, regulatory drift risk, and a central-bank preference for instruments they can throttle. Are you building stablecoin exposure assuming policy continuity or preparing for jurisdictional fragmentation? 🏦 #stablecoins #digitalassets #blockchain #GCC #institutionalcapital #MiCA
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisIf we want real financial inclusion, we must design for it. The Women Regulators Network is launching a new Financial Inclusion Perspectives webinar series - creating space for regulators, public sector leaders and industry to engage, learn and lead progress together. This two-part series draws inspiration from the Women's World Banking Policy Handbook for Women’s Financial Inclusion 2026. The WRN will bring to life the 7 policy principles critical to enabling gender inclusive policies, exploring these principles through the lens of the Women Regulators Network Council members, who will bring their real-life experiences to the panels, while also presenting a number of case studies showing measurable results in gender-intentional policy making. Register to be part of the conversation on 9 June: https://lnkd.in/eus9Ye8eWelcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Perspectives on Financial Inclusion – Part 1: The Foundations. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Perspectives on Financial Inclusion – Part 1: The Foundations. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisCongratulations to everyone at the Reserve Bank of Australia, the Digital Finance CRC, Commonwealth Treasury, ASIC and Australian Prudential Regulation Authority, and all the stakeholders and project participants for the release of the Project Acacia report! This Project was, in my view, world leading and it was a pleasure to be involved during my time at Treasury. If you're interested in tokenisation and the future of financial markets, I highly recommend reading the final report closely - together with the Digital Assets Framework Act 2026 it will form an instrumental part of Australia's fast acceleration to a tokenised world. Muhammad Hasnain Dosani Percy Bell Joshua Gonzalez Jack Hillier Kylie Stewart Chris Thompson Elizabeth Reed Talis Putnins Tony Richards Dr Rhys Bollen David Halperin Daniel Chippeck Millicent Watt Hannah Glass Hong-Viet Nguyen Max Allan Urszula McCormack Dale Rayner Robert Porter Sophie Gilder Anurag Soin Rene Michau Drew Bradford Delia Burrage Alan Burt Arturo R. https://lnkd.in/gH2n7VX4RBA and DFCRC Release Findings From Project Acacia | Media ReleasesRBA and DFCRC Release Findings From Project Acacia | Media Releases
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisAs Fnality continues to scale, we’re pleased to announce a number of senior promotions to support the next phase of the company’s growth. • Simone Cortese has been appointed Chief Product Officer, Fnality • Teresa Leitão has been appointed Chief Risk Officer, Fnality • Mark Goree has been appointed Managing Director, Fnality UK • Charitha Shashiraj has been appointed Head of Risk, Fnality UK These appointments reflect the depth of expertise across the business as we continue building regulated wholesale settlement infrastructure for digital financial markets. An exciting step forward for Fnality and the broader digital asset ecosystem we’re helping to build. Explore open roles at Fnality: https://lnkd.in/euVj-FVF
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Sophia Lopez liked thisExcited to be speaking at Stablecoin Conference in Mexico City this June. Hope to see you down there!Sophia Lopez liked thisWe’re excited to welcome Christian Crowley, Partner at a16z crypto to the Stablecoin Conference 2026! Christian will enrich the discussion in a panel exploring how tokenization is transforming financial markets, connecting payments, investments, and global liquidity through stablecoin-powered infrastructure. See how capital markets are evolving in real time. 🔗 Join the event: https://lnkd.in/dh3NPycX #StablecoinConference #Tokenization #Stablecoins #CapitalMarkets #Fintech
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Sophia Lopez liked thisSophia Lopez liked thisJust concluded a week and a half on the US West Coast and in Silicon Valley, meeting with our strategic partners and the ecosystem at the frontier of #AI. What stood out is how quickly this moment is evolving. The last six months have arguably been more transformational than the first two years after GPT. Model advancement is compounding, developer and colleague velocity is accelerating through intelligent tooling, and the gap between an idea and a deployed product is shrinking at a remarkable speed. AI agents are no longer a future concept - they are shaping the present. Also happened to be my first #Waymo ride - a fitting reminder of how quickly the future is arriving. In financial services the question is no longer whether AI will transform how we live, work and do banking. It’s whether we are moving with enough speed, clarity and courage to shape that transformation, rather than just respond to it. Exciting times ahead. #SiliconValley #Innovation #HSBC #futureofbanking
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