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165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2DY
8.30 – 11.00am
In this breakfast briefing, a selection of key industry leaders drawn from previous Blockchain Breakfasts take a look back at the key developments of last year and ask what’s on the cards for 2025?
Key themes for discussion will include:
The Regulatory Landscape
In the wake of recent UK and US elections and other current events, what’s coming over the horizon for the policy and regulatory landscape this year?
Future of Digital Money and Payments
Speakers will flag up likely themes and developments in the world of digital money including CBDCs, stablecoins, the UK National Payments Vision and the next phase of the Regulated Liability Network.
Real World Asset Tokenisation
Tokenisation of Real World Assets such as property, money market funds, bonds, equities and gold were hot topics in 2024 – where will the market shift over the upcoming year?
Join us for this forward looking session which will also give attendees a chance to provide their content and ideas for subject areas they would like to see covered in our 2025 event series.
To register, click here.
Hosts:
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Helen Disney, CEO, Unblocked
Speakers:
Jonny Fry, Head of Digital Assets Strategy, ClearBank (Moderator)
Akber Datoo, Founder and CEO, D2 Legal Technology
Contributors:
Archax, Deloitte, Digital Pound Foundation, Global Digital Finance, Jacobi Asset Management, Tokenovate
Past Events
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165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2DY
8.30 – 11.00am
The institutional market for crypto assets has taken huge strides in 2024. Staking has emerged as a popular yield-generation tool for investors with wider availability of staking-as-a-service, pooled staking and the growth of liquid re-staking. As awareness of the benefits of different types of staking has grown, more institutional investors are now seeking to explore its possibilities.
This year several new Proof of Stake blockchains are also launching, including chains that facilitate restaking. Restaking enables staked cryptocurrency from one network to be used as security on other protocols, in exchange for protocol fees and rewards. In future, staking will increasingly become integrated with decentralised finance (DeFi) applications, allowing for more complex financial products and services.
Likewise in 2024, the launch of multiple spot Bitcoin Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) in the US and other cryptocurrency ETFs and ETPs in Europe has attracted enormous interest in the industry from financial institutions and professional investors. Crypto has arguably become more mainstream than ever before, as TradFi and DeFi continue to converge. Now staked ETH ETFs are also on the cards adding another attractive element to the ETF marketplace.
In this breakfast briefing, our speakers explore the rise of staking, re-staking and its impact on cryptocurrency ETPs. They ask what’s at stake and what’s next for investors in crypto?
Host
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Moderator
Jonny Fry, Group Head of Digital Assets Strategy, ClearBank
Speakers
Eva Lawrence, Head of EMEA, Figment
Helen Disney, Founder, Unblocked
Peter Lane, Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer, Jacobi Asset Management
Elise Soucie Watts, Executive Director, Global Digital Finance
Registrations for this event are now closed.
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165 Fleet Street, London, EC4A 2DY
6.00 – 8.30pm
Our Autumn event brings you three innovators working in the arena of Impact tech who will each give rapid pitches to a panel of investors and business growth experts.
Impact tech addresses global social and environmental challenges through entrepreneurial thinking and innovative technologies. Often known as ‘tech for good’, these businesses make a positive impact by embedding social values into their business model and ethos. Impact technology drives business growth by creating shared value for stakeholders, fostering innovation, and enhancing brand reputation. Examples might include renewable energy solutions, sustainable agriculture practices, ethical supply chain management tools, or social impact initiatives.
Attendees of this event will have the opportunity to learn more about the latest developments in impact tech, engage with pioneers in the field and connect with the founders shaping the companies of tomorrow. The showcase will be followed by networking and a drinks reception.
Hosts:
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Helen Disney, CEO, Unblocked
Expert Panel
James Kellerman – CTO, ImpactX Capital Partner
Noleen Marriappen – Founder and CEO, Impactoverse
Eva Dobrzanska – Managing Director, Fundraising Playbooks & Angel Investor
Companies
Tokenovate – Richard Baker, Founder & CEO
PlantSea – Rhiannon Rees, CEO
Albotherm – Molly Allington, CEO
To register, click here.
*All registered delegates will need to be pre-approved before the event.
Latest arrival: 7pm
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Many institutions have been conducting pilots into how to tokenize assets and some have started to actually issue such instruments. We have seen Money market funds being tokenized in US, UK and EU.
Another asset class to use DLTs and blockchain technology is cash as according to The Bank of International Settlement, over 90% of central banks are looking at Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). However the very essence of the Future of Money is being questioned by new digital payment tools such as CBDC, tokenized deposits and stablecoins.
We will be unpicking some of the opportunities and challenges of tokenization and the Future of money.
Speakers
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Matthew Hunt, Strategic Adviser, payments
Elliot Hentov, Head of Macro Policy Research, State Street Global Advisors
Breige Tinnelly, Head of Market Development,Archax
Gilbert Verdian, Founder & CEO, Quant
Moderator: Johnny Fry, Group Head of Digital Assets Strategy, ClearBank
To find out more and register click here.
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Our 14 May event showcases 3 innovators working in the arena of femtech who will each give rapid pitches to a panel of investors and business growth experts.
The global femtech market accounted for $47 billion in 2022 and is expected to surpass around $108 billion by 2032. The growing recognition and importance given to solutions for female health and wellbeing as a priority area for research and innovation not only provides an excellent opportunity for investors but will also benefit the economy as a whole, ensuring that women can play an active part in the workforce whether as entrepreneurs or employees.
Attendees of this event will have the opportunity to learn more about the latest developments in femtech, engage with pioneers in the field and connect with the founders shaping the companies of tomorrow. The showcase will be followed by networking and a drinks reception.
FemTech is relevant for our whole society and all are welcome to register.
Hosts:
Laura Clatworthy, Partner, Rosenblatt
Helen Disney, CEO, Unblocked
Speakers:
Katia Lang, Co-Founder & CMO, FemTech Labs
Rachel Murphy, Founder, The Grafter
Dominnique Karetsos, Founder, Healthy Pleasure Group, Co-Founder & Investor, Minthub, General Partner, Amboy Street Ventures
Lavinia Roma, Founder, Wellmatch
Lyndsay Mason, Founder, For The Creators
To find out more and register, click here.
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In this roundtable we will be looking at the lifecycle of a token issuance project from initial planning through to implementation. We will be examining the legal and tax implications and requirements any business considering a token issuance will need to understand and factor in to its key strategic decisions on structuring their token issuance. We will then discuss how you run the structure and the requirements of an offshore director. We will be looking at these questions from the perspective of both a UK Development Company and if you are or wish to be offshore.
Topics to be covered include tax planning, regulatory frameworks, SAFEs and SAFTs, choice of jurisdiction, corporate offshore requirements and trends in token issuance.
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In this series of evening events, we will introduce you to innovative scaleups and startups working with a range of frontier technologies.
Our inaugural event has identified three innovators working at the cutting edge of Artificial Intelligence who will each give rapid pitches to a panel of investors and business growth experts.
Attendees will have the opportunity to hear from and engage with pioneers in the field, understand more about the new business models being developed and connect with the founders shaping the companies of tomorrow.
The showcase will be followed by networking and a drinks reception.
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In this breakfast roundtable hosted by Laura Clatworthy (Partner, Rosenblatt) and moderated by Jonny Fry (Co-Founder & CEO, TeamBlockchain), our panel of experts discussed the wider significance of the Electronic Trade Documents Act 2023 (ETDA) for international trade finance. They considered the barriers to adoption and will explore the gateways and implications arising beyond shipping, such as the potential to digitise other instruments including physical share certificates and deeds.
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In this breakfast roundtable hosted by Laura Clatworthy (Partner, Rosenblatt) and moderated by Helen Disney (Director of Blockchain and Digital Assets, The Realization Group), our panel of experts unpacked key aspects of CBDCs and their wider implications on the future of finance.
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In this breakfast briefing hosted by Laura Clatworthy (Partner, Rosenblatt), our panel of pioneers and experts discuss market trends in digital ESG and how blockchain technology can support and enable sustainability initiatives.
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The digital asset market is rapidly evolving – and converging with traditional finance – in a host of new ways. While media headlines tend to focus on investing in cryptocurrencies or musicians creating NFTs, businesses and traditional financial institutions are also looking at this new asset class as a means of tokenising and trading real-world assets such as bonds, real-estate and equities. Thoughts turn to how and when crypto assets will be traded on regular markets in the same way as traditional stocks and shares.
In this blockchain breakfast briefing hosted by Partner Laura Clatworthy, we have a panel of pioneers and experts discussing exciting new trends in tokenisation and its impending arrival in the mainstream of financial markets.
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The advent of blockchain technology has spawned many new innovations including the possibility of creating a new form of corporate structure, known as a Decentralised Autonomous Organisation (DAO).
DAOs are self-governing bodies with no centralised board of directors or corporate management. Instead DAOs are based on using blockchain and smart contracts to execute tasks at the instigation of a community of voting members involved in the organisation. Often DAO members have never physically met the other participants in the organisation. However other DAO structures seem to retain some form of reserved management functions.
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Rosenblatt along with sister brand Memery Crystal, in association with The Realization Group, are launching a series of breakfast briefings around frontier technology trends affecting the UK business landscape. Our December breakfast seminar will take place at our Fleet Street offices and will explore the key priorities and challenges in 2023 for business builders in the crypto, blockchain and Web3 industries.
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Rosenblatt along with sister brand Memery Crystal, in association with The Realization Group, are launching a series of breakfast briefings around frontier technology trends affecting the UK business landscape. Our September breakfast seminar will take place at our Fleet Street offices and will explore what a Non-Fungible Token is, what the legal implications are and how NFTs, tokenisation and the metaverse are combining to produce new innovations that were not possible before.
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Rosenblatt along with sister brand Memery Crystal, in association with The Realization Group, are launching a series of breakfast briefings around frontier technology trends affecting the UK business landscape. Our kick-off meeting will take place at our Fleet Street offices and will examine the issue of Building Blockchain Britain, with an opening keynote from Lord Holmes of Richmond MBE.
