AI & Tokenisation: Coincidence or Convergence?
6/10/202630 min
Two defining tech trends of 2026 - AI-driven decision-making and the tokenisation of financial infrastructure - are already reshaping finance. But what happens when they converge?
From near real-time settlement to systems that act on our behalf, the potential is huge. So is the challenge: ensuring everything remains safe, secure, reliable and trusted.
Lloyds Banking Group COO Ron van Kemenade is joined by Michelle Neal, CEO, Fnality, Graham Rodford, CEO, Archax, and Jess Houlgrave, CEO, WalletConnect, to explore what comes next for finance.
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First 90 secondsRon van Kemenade· Host0:00
[on-hold music] Welcome, everybody, to the second episode of our miniseries about digital assets. And today, we have a really interesting topic about the potential convergence of AI. Is this now just a coincidence because of two technologies kind of in parallel were, uh, gaining maturity? Or is there true value in combining the two, so a true convergence? And to deal with this very challenging question, today I have three distinguished guests. We have Jas Holgrave from WalletConnect, um, truly the expert on how the user interface for our customers will change. Then we have Michelle Neal. She is the CEO of Finality, a relatively young company who plays a pivotal role in the new infrastructure for settling payments. And then from Archax, we have Graeme Rodford. As said in the introduction, this is a really cool topic. We are talking today about what may be one of the most interesting and challenging, uh, developments, um, in the world of finance, which is kind of the convergence between AI and tokenization. Whether this is a hype, uh, is it a coincidence, or is there true convergence? And maybe,