Future of Finance Digital Money

Future of Finance Digital Money is a single-day London conference produced annually by Future of Finance Ltd, hosted at the Visa Europe offices in Paddington. The event focuses on the post-Wholesale CBDC payments landscape and how stablecoins, tokenised deposits and traditional payment rails interact. Now in its sixth annual edition, the 2026 theme - Letdowns, Bubbles and No-shows - reflects the growing difficulty of forecasting digital-money winners after CBDC delays, stablecoin regulatory shifts and the slow rollout of tokenised deposits.

What happens at Future of Finance Digital Money

• Single-day intensive conference with five thematic sessions covering Wholesale CBDC retreat, stablecoin regulation, retail-tier dynamics, tokenised deposit progress, and the long-term futures of digital money
• Chatham-House-style senior dialogue with curated attendee approval - all tickets are subject to organiser sign-off to maintain seniority
• Hosted at Visa Europe with networking spanning the conference day and evening
• Part of a Future of Finance event series running in parallel through 2026: Digital Money (Jun), Awards (Jun), Carbon Credits (Sep), Tokenisation (Oct), Custody (Dec)

Who attends

The audience is concentrated in the digital-money policy and infrastructure ecosystem: senior representatives from central banks (Bank of England, ECB, Federal Reserve, BIS Innovation Hub observers), Tier-1 banks active in tokenised deposits (HSBC, Lloyds, Barclays, NatWest, JPMorgan, Citi, Standard Chartered, Santander), regulated stablecoin issuers (Circle, Paxos, BUSD successors, FV Bank, AllUnity), payment infrastructure operators (Visa, Mastercard, Swift, EBA Clearing), securities settlement firms, FX market participants, and senior treasury professionals. Future of Finance Digital Money is not a crypto-trading conference and not a startup pitch event - it is the policy-meets-infrastructure forum where regulated digital money decisions get debated.

Dominant themes at Future of Finance Digital Money 2026

• Why Wholesale CBDC programmes have stalled in major Western jurisdictions
• Stablecoin regulation diverging between MiCA, the UK FCA framework and the US GENIUS Act
• Whether stablecoins can break out of the cryptocurrency niche into mainstream B2B payments
• Tokenised deposit pilots - HSBC Orion, JPM Coin, Project Agora and the role of commercial bank money
• Settlement-asset competition between tokenised deposits, regulated stablecoins and wholesale CBDC
• The role of Visa, Mastercard and Swift in routing digital-money flows
• Securities settlement on DLT and its dependency on cash-on-ledger choices
• FX market plumbing and the cross-border stablecoin remittance corridors

Planning to attend

The Visa Europe offices sit at Sheldon Square in Paddington Basin, a two-minute walk from Paddington station served by the Elizabeth line, Heathrow Express and four Underground lines. London City Airport (LCY) at 35 minutes is the closest gateway; Heathrow (LHR) is 15 minutes by Heathrow Express. Paddington and Bayswater hotels (The Pilgrm, Hyatt Regency Churchill, the Hilton Paddington) are the natural pick, and June is peak-season for London hotel demand so book three to four weeks ahead. For B2B vendors, time outreach with London Tech Week which runs the same week.

Use the expense calculator below to estimate the total cost of attending - registration, flights, hotels, meals, and ground transport - based on your origin city.