Fernando is the President, Capital Markets, of Chainlink. Fernando started his journey in academia, where he first became deeply involved with the budding Linux community in the early 90s. This led him to the corporate world with a number of roles at the NTT Group starting in 2003, where he contributed to the mainstreaming of open source. He transitioned into the FinTech world, joining Japanese financial conglomerate SBI in 2016 where he held several roles including CEO of SBI Digital Asset Holdings, a pioneer in digital capital markets and founding member of Project Guardian. He also serves on the boards of regulated financial institutions and foundations globally and is a member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore's International Technology Advisory Panel.
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For the first time, the industry has what it spent years demanding - regulatory clarity, with MiCA enforced, the GENIUS Act signed, and market structure reform unlocking institutional tokenisation at scale. Yet the tailwinds arrive alongside real headwinds: a fractured macroeconomic order, geopolitical realignments reshaping capital flows, and AI competing for the infrastructure investment and boardroom attention once directed squarely at digital assets. This gathering of industry CEOs takes an honest look at where the industry truly stands.