The promise of blockchain settlement has always been atomicity - simultaneous exchange of asset and payment, with finality in seconds rather than days. Live pilots from major exchanges, custodians, and correspondent banks are proving the technology works; the harder challenge is rebuilding the legal frameworks, operational workflows, and legacy infrastructure that surround it. This session examines what it genuinely takes to move from today's T+1 standard to a world where settlement is instantaneous, global, and always on.

As digital assets and tokenized financial market infrastructures gain ground, ensuring future-proof money is essential – from a monetary policy, financial stability and payments perspective.

In this fireside chat, Antoine Martin will elaborate on SNB’s perspective on money, tokenization, and liquidity fragmentation in an increasingly digitalized world.

As money and financial assets become increasingly tokenised and move onto digital platforms, preserving trust is a central challenge. This speech by Andréa Maechler, Deputy General Manager, Bank for International Settlements (BIS), explores how trust in money is sustained, and how these foundations can be extended to emerging tokenised ecosystems.