Over the past ten years, cross-border distributed ledger technology (DLT) has emerged as a viable next-generation solution for financial market infrastructure (FMI), offering advancements in real-time settlement, improved efficiencies and cost-savings, global integration, and financial innovation. Yet, despite its promise, DLT has yet to fundamentally transform today’s financial markets, and has remained limited to niche pilots and production deployments.

Following a roundtable identifying the key hurdles DLT faces today at the Point Zero Forum 2025, this session aims to move the conversation forward by developing shared roadmaps for the systemic adoption of DLT as FMI across major European financial centres. The conversation could cover:

• The roles that public and private financial institutions as well as technology providers will play in a DLT-world
• The institutional arrangements that could drive coordinated adoption of DLT, from collective governance bodies, à la Swift, to the development of shared, cross-border sandboxes
• The interoperability standards and approaches to DLT that can achieve industry-wide buy-in and enable collective movement towards FMI
• The technical playbooks and roadmaps that will support financial institutions in progressing along their DLT journeys, from identifying low-hanging use cases to scaling successful pilots and partnering with other institutions