Tokenize: LDN 2026 at FinTech Connect, London, 1-2 December: the tokenisation agenda, passes and speakers

London’s tokenisation event no longer has a show of its own. Tokenize: LDN 2026 runs as the Digital Assets & Tokenisation track of FinTech Connect 2026, at ExCeL London on Tuesday 1 and Wednesday 2 December 2026. There is no separate sign-up: the Tokenize: LDN site is still online, does not redirect, and sends visitors to FinTech Connect’s registration. IQPC Exhibitions, the company behind FinTech Connect, delivers it, the Tokenize: LDN site says.

ExCeL’s own listing gives opening hours of 9:30 to 16:30 on 1 December and 9:30 to 16:00 on 2 December, London time (GMT, the same as UTC in winter). The organiser’s agenda starts at 9:30 too but runs a little later on the first day, with an “end of exhibition” slot at 16:45.

Tokenize: LDN 2026 is one track out of seven

Digital assets is one of seven content tracks at FinTech Connect. The others cover payments, business banking (new for 2026), financial security and compliance, digital transformation, applied AI and fintech marketing. On the track overview, applied AI and digital transformation claim 40+ sessions each, payments 35+ and digital assets 30+.

The organiser’s line for the digital assets track is “from innovation to institutional adoption”. Its published themes are how far institutions have got with real-world asset tokenisation, the UK and EU rules (MiCA, the FCA sandbox and the Digital Securities Sandbox, listed as DRGF), the points where traditional finance and DeFi really connect, and central bank digital currencies, including what a digital pound would mean for banks. The Tokenize: LDN site adds tokenised treasuries, funds, credit and real estate, custody and settlement, DLT pilot regimes, and the move from pilot to production.

The tokenisation agenda: about 16 sessions over two days

The 2026 agenda is now online. On 7 November it listed 24 slots on the Digital Assets & Tokenization Stage, breaks and welcomes included. About 16 of them are talks, panels or start-up pitches, fewer than the 30+ sessions the overview page promises. The stage runs on both days: from 10:00 to 16:30 on 1 December and from 10:15 to 15:30 on 2 December.

Day one opens with a report on whether banks and insurers are ready for tokenisation in 2027, then moves to institutional money flowing into digital assets and tokenised capital markets. The afternoon has a fireside chat between Kraken and Fireblocks, a session on automated trading and 24/7 exchanges, and a 40-minute panel at 15:00 on stablecoins against tokenised deposits for liquidity and settlement in capital markets.

Day two leans towards compliance. One panel takes on money laundering, sanctions evasion and control gaps; others cover tokenised identities linked to AI agents, business openings for banks and insurers, and how the UK and EU keep crypto talent through regulation and tax. At 15:00 a session on the FCA’s crypto-asset regime carries the title “The Window is Closing!”, a nod to the FCA application window that closes on 28 February 2027.

Who is on the 2026 speaker list

The digital assets track page shows about 30 names and says more are coming. Banks are well represented: Ryan Hayward (Head of Digital Assets, Barclays, who also sits on the 2026 advisory board), Austin Elwood (Digital Assets Industry Lead, NatWest), Emma Lovett (Executive Director, J.P. Morgan), Laurent Marochini (CEO, Luxembourg, Standard Chartered), Prab Bajwa (Senior Digital Asset Risk Officer, State Street), Jacek Wieclaski (Rabobank) and Sophie Wadsworth (BNY).

From the crypto side come Bivu Das (General Manager, UK and Payward Services, Kraken), Andrew Price (xStocks and Tokenised Equities, Payward), Richard Astle (Fireblocks), Dr. Ian Hunt (Chainlink Labs), Lewis Nurcombe (WalletConnect) and Ludovico Rossi (Brickken). Pablo Campos, a senior legal counsel at Revolut, and Dr. Lisa Cameron, a former MP who founded the UK/US Crypto Alliance, are listed as well. So is Giacomo Vella, head of research at the Web3Hub of the Politecnico di Milano.

Coinbase’s Océane Codjia and Scorechain’s Pierre Gérard appear on the general 2026 speakers page but not on the track page. The list is not final.

Tickets: free only for bank staff

Prices on the registration page, read on 7 November, are in pounds and exclude VAT, which is added at the UK rate at checkout:

• The Executive Pass is free, but only for people working at banks (retail, commercial, corporate, investment, private, challenger and digital banks). Every application is checked weekly; insurers, asset managers, fintechs, vendors and consultants are not approved and are emailed to buy a paid pass instead.
• Full Access is shown at £649, labelled the standard rate. The page also says the price rises over four booking windows and lists £395, £495, £575 and £649, without dates.
• General Access, for the exhibition floor and open stages only, costs £99 and rises to £149.
• Startup Access costs £325, with eligibility checked, and gives the same access as Full Access.

The homepage still says registration is free “for qualifying financial services professionals”, which sounds wider. The register page is the stricter one, and a crypto firm or fund manager will pay. Full Access, Startup Access and the Executive Pass include the evening reception on 1 December; General Access does not, and it leaves out the theatres.

Getting to ExCeL London

The organiser gives the address as Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, London E16 1XL. ExCeL names Custom House, on the Elizabeth line and the DLR, as the nearest station, and its event listing points visitors to the West entrance. Prince Regent and Royal Victoria DLR stations also serve the site. The organiser’s venue page, oddly, tells Elizabeth line riders to change at Canary Wharf for the DLR.

By the organiser’s count, the venue is about 15 minutes from central London, 35 from the Eurostar terminal at St Pancras and 43 from Heathrow; London City Airport is five minutes away by DLR. Its official hotel partner is Event Express, and it warns that it never appoints third-party rooming services.

From a first Tokenize: LDN in 2025 to a track in 2026

FinTech Connect has run since 2014, the organiser says. Tokenize: LDN is far younger. Its first edition was held on 2 and 3 December 2025, co-located with FinTech Connect at ExCeL, with an RWA tokenisation stage and a blockchain and Web3 stage, CoinGeek reported in January. Event director Chris Comer told the outlet: “It’s basically DeFi meets TradFi, and it’s for the acceleration of real-world assets and tokenisation in the UK.”

For 2026 the organiser expects 6,000+ professionals and says 8,500+ have already registered, which it puts at 141% of its target. It also claims 250+ speakers, 150+ exhibitors and attendees from 59 countries. These are its own figures, not audited. It says banks and financial institutions made up 42% of the 2025 audience, and names HSBC, Barclays, JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank and BlackRock among organisations sending teams this year. No separate figures exist for the tokenisation track.

Why a French or Italian reader might go

London sits outside the EU, but firms selling tokenised products on both sides of the Channel answer to two sets of rules. The UK is building its own crypto regime around that FCA window. EU firms work under the MiCA regulation and the DLT Pilot Regime, and the track’s pages name both MiCA and DLT pilot regimes among its subjects.

Market plumbing is moving as well: the DTCC tokenisation service went live in October on Canton and Besu. Italian readers will find a Milan academic on the stage. Prices are in pounds; add 20% UK VAT, and no euro price is published.

Those who cannot make December have another London date soon after: the Digital Assets Forum London on 1 and 2 February 2027.

What is still open before 1 December

The dates of the four Full Access booking windows are not published, and the organiser says rates are not applied retrospectively, so the price can only go up. The closing time on 1 December differs between ExCeL (16:30) and the organiser’s agenda (16:45). The track page still says more speakers are coming, and the agenda can change before the doors open.