Digital assets and the blockchain that underpins them is having an impact on institutional investors and their portfolios.
Join CPBI Ontario for a discussion on emerging and evolving technologies, and see how they are impacting the way we do business.
Learn how financial institutions are defining digital assets, the technology being developed to support them and what financial institutions should be aware of and investing in to keep up with growing demand.

Key Take-aways:

• Learn how financial institutions define digital assets
• Learn about the technology being developed to support digital assets, including Web 3.0
• Learn about what capabilities your financial institution should be aware of and investing in as it relates to digital assets

Arijit will define digital assets, discuss the acceleration of technology, and offer his perspective on the strategic considerations for institutional investors. He will touch on the complexities of current systems as well as the potential for a collaborative blockchain structure that is efficient, secure and transparent. 

Presented by:

Arijit Das

Senior Vice President, Digital Asset Innovation Technology

Northern Trust

Head of Digital Asset Innovation Technology, responsible for driving digitalization of assets by leveraging innovative emerging technologies with a focus on distributed ledgers, machine learning and artificial intelligence. 
Led the effort to implement the world’s first blockchain based, private equity solution and custody for the world’s first DLT (distributed ledger technology) based fractional bond exchange. Arijit is co-inventor on 7 blockchain related patents.
He has been with Northern Trust for 11 years and in the industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining Northern Trust, worked at US Bank, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of Montreal, managing both development and infrastructure teams. Arijit holds a Master’s degree in Physics from the Indian Institute of Technology.