Editor’s note: The following press release marks a pivotal moment for institutional dialogue at the intersection of traditional markets and digital asset innovation. As asset managers, banks, and regulators increasingly navigate tokenization, real-time settlement, and cross-border compliance, this year’s Digital Assets Week in New York promises to highlight concrete milestones, shared standards, and practical risk management. Deutsche Bank’s hosting underscores the role of established financial institutions in shaping scalable, regulated markets for tokenized assets. The insights below set the stage for informed conversations and future collaboration among market participants.

Key points

Digital Assets Week returns to New York on May 13-14, hosted by Deutsche Bank.
Event focuses on tokenization, market structure, settlement, custody, liquidity, and regulatory alignment.
Audience comprises 400-500 senior institutional participants from banks, asset managers, policymakers, and infrastructure providers.
Registration offers an earlybird rate through March 20 with potential complimentary access for qualifying senior executives.

Why this matters

As digital assets increasingly intersect with traditional capital markets, this conference offers a platform for regulators and market participants to discuss risk management, interoperability, and standards. It signals ongoing institutional interest in regulated tokenization and real-time settlement and may influence policy and market structure.

What to watch next

Registration status and earlybird deadline (Mar 20) and final agenda release.
Announcements of speakers and panel topics.
Participation by major banks, asset managers, and regulatory authorities.

Digital Assets Week Returns to New York with Deutsche Bank

The world’s leading institutional conference is back in the heart of New York on 13-14 May, where capital markets transformation will be examined in depth, from issuance and market structure to settlement, custody, liquidity and regulatory alignment.

This year’s event will be hosted by Deutsche Bank with the underlying foundation of Global Asset Digitization projects. It is the only venue where the commercialization of tokenizing assets is discussed comprehensively and at scale.

Digital Assets Week is institution led and designed to support substantive dialogue between market participants and regulators on implementation, risk management and market structure as digital assets increasingly intersect with traditional capital markets.

The New York conference typically gathers 400 to 500 participants, with the audience highly curated to ensure senior institutional representation. Participants across the series include the majority of large banks and asset managers, alongside policymakers, supervisory authorities and infrastructure providers actively engaged in regulated market development.

This year’s action packed agenda includes a range of panel discussions and roundtables covering topics such as:

● Moving Public Markets ‘On Chain’ – Is This ‘Hype’ or ‘Reality’? (What Does This Mean in Reality?)

● Tokenized Private Markets and Secondary Liquidity – Where Have We Really Got To?

● The Vision of 24/7 Markets and Real-Time Settlement – Challenges and Opportunities?

● Tokenized ‘Yield’, ‘Deposits’, ‘MMFs’, ‘CBDCs’, ‘Rolling Contracts’… – Where is Product Innovation Taking Us? And where do stablecoins really fit?

● Tokenized Private Markets – Which Assets Are Moving On-Chain First and Why?

● Interoperability, Standards, Legacy Systems, Regional Boundaries – The Challenges for Tokenization Scale?

● Institutional Blockchain Adoption – Is It Re-Engineering the Post-Trade and Back-Office Space?

● Making ‘Dumb’ Assets ‘Smart’ – Is Tokenization Finally Delivering?

● The Global Roll-Out of Regulation – What’s the Current State for Stablecoins and Tokenized Assets?

● TradFi Custody vs. Token/Crypto Custody – Are The Two Worlds Now Merging?

● Defining the DeFi Boundary: How Institutions Can Access Innovation, Without Importing Risk

and many more crucial topics for the industry.

Past attendees of DA Week include senior executives from Bank of America, BlackRock, BNP Paribas, Citi, Franklin Templeton, Societe Generale Corporate and Investment Banking (SGCIB), State Street, J.P. Morgan, HSBC, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, BNY, DTCC, Fidelity Investments, WisdomTree, Morgan Stanley, Bank Julius Baer, Coinbase Asset Management, Bank Frick, Pantera Capital, SEI Investments, Wells Fargo Bank, New York Life Ventures, Outerlands Capital, U.S. Bank, Arta Global Markets, ClearBank, TD Bank & many more.

Registration for the event is open, offering the competitive earlybird rate until 20th March and the possibility to apply for complimentary access for certain senior executives from Institutional Banks, Fund Managers, Asset Managers and Hedge Funds whose primary business is investment management, with a minimum of $50m AUM.

Tickets can be accessed here: DIGITAL ASSETS WEEK NEW YORK TICKETS

For sponsorship and speaking enquiries, or to request the agenda and attendee sample please contact: Julia Simonova julia@daweek.org