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Privacy for Financial Services Workshop

July 1-2 - London

Hosted by Howden Insurance Group

 

The Workshop took place July 1-2 2026, at Howden Insurance Group HQ. This invite-only event convened leaders from banking and financial institutions, including Citi, JP Morgan, Bank of England, Mastercard, Swift, Vanguard, TD Securities, Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Fnality International, Deutsche Bank, and more, alongside developers and researchers of cutting-edge decentralized privacy technologies. Together, we explored real-world use cases, share institutional requirements, and surface opportunities for collaboration to strengthen privacy across digital currency and broader financial implementations.

 

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The agenda  included technical deep dives and roadmap updates from both LFDT projects and others advancing privacy in decentralized systems.

Our workshops foster open and candid dialogue in support of building secure, privacy-respecting financial infrastructure through open collaboration and decentralized trust.


Contact ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org if you’re interested in attending or speaking at future workshops.

 

Sessions

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Sessions

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Welcome

Hart Montgomery , CTO LFDT and ED, PQCA

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Opening Remarks

Karen Knox, SVP, Emerging Technology & Infrastructure, Howden

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Privacy for Tokenized Finance: Options, Tradeoffs, and Standards for Financial Institutions

Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZeppelin

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Privacy and Compliance on Public Blockchains: A Path to Institutional Adoption

Stefano De Angelis, Lead Researcher, Nethermind

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Private finance through the lens of MPC and CoSNARKs

Aisling Connolly, CSO, TACEO

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Enabling Institutional-Grade Privacy for Digital Assets at Scale with LFDT Panurus and Fabric-X

Elli Androulaki, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

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Longfellow ZK and MPC

Abhi Shelat, Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern, and Engineer, Google

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Privacy in RWA: A Real Case, Not a Theory

Alberto Molina, Team Lead, Blockchain Protocol Architect, IoBuilders

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Proof-Based Private Interoperability: Extending Besu Networks to Public Ethereum

Alex Gluchowski, Co-Founder & CEO, Matter Labs

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Building a One-Way Mirror: Achieving Vendor-Neutral Privacy for Regulated Finance

Igor Mandrigin, Co-Founder & CTPO, gateway.fm 

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Verifiable Privacy: Proving Without Revealing for Financial Market Infrastructure

Declan Fox, VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

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Verifiable AI Agents: Privacy-Preserving Oversight and the Future of Institutional Trading

Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO, Shielded Technologies

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AP3: Confidential Collective Intelligence: How Agents Think Together Without Data Exposure

Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories

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Mapping Institutional Privacy: What FIs Need from Ethereum Infrastructure

Mo Jalil, Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

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Achieving Privacy and Sovereignty via Cross-Ledger Protocols

Kash Balhotra, Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

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Confidential and Accountable: Privacy Requirements and Open Questions from Europe's First Qualified DLT

Miguel Angel Calero Fernández, Executive Director ISBE, Alastria

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Announcing the next generation of Paladin

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder, Head of Engineering, Kaleido

Matthew Whitehead, Principal Engineer, Kaleido

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Rethinking the Public/Private Distinction: How Layer 2 Architecture Across a Shared Consensus Layer Enables Configurable, Interoperable Privacy

Ellie Davidson, Chief Product Officer, Espresso Systems

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Multi-Layer, Multi-Tenant Privacy Modeling for Finance: From ZK Proofs to New Protocols and Infrastructure

Sankalp Sharma, Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Zeeve

FIRESIDE CHAT

A Conversation with Joe Lubin, Consensys and Hart Montgomery, LFDT CTO

Joe Lubin, CEO and Founder, Consensys

Hart Montgomery, CTO, LFDT

Panel

Open Forum: Bank Requirements for Privacy

Sabih Behzad, Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank

Karen Knox, SVP, Emerging Technology & Infrastructure , Howden

Mintoo Bhandari, Founder of Monument Bank Limited

Moderator: Shyam Nagarajan, Chief Partnership Officer, Hashgraph

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Open Forum: Privacy for Financial Institutions

Burim Bivolaku, Business Information Security Officer, ICE Trading & Clearing

Simone Cortese, Chief Product Officer, Fnality International

Soumyajit Mitra, Independent Contributor/Expert - Blockchain and Digital Assets

Edward Budd, Chief Product Officer, Partior

Moderator: David Cunningham, Global Head of Institutional Business, Consensys

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Open Forum: Cryptography for Privacy Technologies

Stefano De Angelis, Lead Researcher, Nethermind

Jonathan Alexander, CTO, OpenZeppelin

Aisling Connolly, CSO, TACEO

Elli Androulaki, Distinguished Engineer, IBM

Ellie Davidson, Chief Product Officer,  Espresso Systems

Abhi Shelat, Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern, and Engineer, Google

Moderator: Hart Montgomery, CTO, LFDT

 

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Open Forum: Privacy Tools

Kash Balhotra, Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

Bob Blessing-Hartley, CTO, Shielded Technologies

Declan Fox, VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

Mo Jalil, Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

Peter Broadhurst, Co-Founder, Head of Engineering, Kaleido

Moderator: Nitin Gaur, Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions, Nethermind

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Open Forum: Building the Privacy Infrastructure

Igor Mandrigin, Co-Founder & CTPO, gateway.fm

Jay Prakash, Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories

Miguel Angel Calero Fernández, Executive Director ISBE, Alastria

Sankalp Sharma, Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Zeeve

Moderator: Daniela Barbosa, Executive Director, LFDT

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Speakers

Mo Jalil

Mo Jalil

Institutional Privacy Lead, Ethereum Foundation

 

 

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Stefano De Angelis

Stefano De Angelis

Lead Researcher, Nethermind

 

 

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Hart Montgomery

CTO, Linux Foundation Decentralized Trust

 

 

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Declan Fox

Declan Fox

VP & Head of Linea, Consensys

 

 

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Ellie

Ellie Davidson

Chief Product Officer,  Espresso Systems

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Jay Prakash

Founder & CEO, Silence Laboratories

 

 

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Igor

Igor Mandrigin

Co-Founder & CTPO, gateway.fm 

 

 

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Shyam Nagarajan

Chief Partnership Officer, Hashgraph

 

 

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Hendrik

Hendrik Ebbers

Director of Open Source, Hashgraph

 

 

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Jonathan Alexander

Jonathan Alexander

CTO, OpenZeppelin

 

 

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Matt Whitehead

Matthew Whitehead

Principal Engineer, Kaleido

 

 

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Peter Broadhurst

Co-Founder, Head of Engineering, Kaleido

 

 

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Elli

Elli Androulaki

Distinguished Engineer, IBM

 

 

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Bob

Bob Blessing-Hartley

CTO, Shielded Technologies

 

 

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Henrique

Henrique De Carvalho Videira

Auditor at Central Bank of Brazil

 

 

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Miguel Calero

Miguel Angel Calero Fernández

Executive Director ISBE, Alastria

 

 

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Daniela

Daniela Barbosa

Executive Director, LF Decentralized Trust

 

 

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Ais

Aisling Connolly

CSO, TACEO

 

 

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Alberto Molina

Alberto Molina

Team Lead, Blockchain Protocol Architect, IoBuilders

 

 

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Alex Gluchowski

Co-Founder & CEO, Matter Labs

 

 

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Kash

Kshitish 'Kash' Balhotra

Institutional Digital Assets Lead, Hashgraph

 

 

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Prashant-Malik

Prashant Malik

Head of Digital Assets and Currencies Technology, HSBC

 

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Sabih

Sabih Behzad

Head of Digital Assets & Currencies Transformation, Deutsche Bank

 

 

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Abhi

Abhi Shelat

Professor at the Khoury College of Computer Sciences, Northeastern, and Engineer, Google

 

 

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Burim

Burim Bivolaku

Business Information Security Officer, ICE Trading & Clearing

 

 

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Simone Cortese 2

Simone Cortese

Chief Product Officer, Fnality International

 

 

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Nitin

Nitin Gaur

Senior Advisor, Financial Institutions, Nethermind

 

 

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Omar

Omar Azhar

VP, Business Development, Matter Labs

 

 

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Ellie

Ellie Davidson

Chief Product Officer at Espresso Systems

 

 

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Sankalp

Sankalp Sharma

Co-Founder & VP Engineering, Zeeve

 

 

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Soumyajit Mitra

Soumyajit Mitra

Independent Contributor/Expert - Blockchain and Digital Assets

 

 

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David Cunningham

David Cunningham

Global Head of Institutional Business, Consensys

 

 

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Karen Knox

Karen Knox

SVP, Emerging Technology & Infrastructure 
Howden 

 

 

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Ed Budd

Edward Budd

Chief Product Officer, Partior

 

 

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Mintoo Bhandari

Mintoo Bhandari

Founder of Monument Bank Limited

 

 

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Joe

Joseph Lubin

CEO and Founder, Consensys

 

 

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Thank you to our Event Sponsors!

 


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Interested in presenting on a topic?

please reach out to us at

ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org

(Please note: LF Decentralized Trust members are pre-approved to attend. Attendance is by invitation only.)

 

DAY 1 - Wednesday July 1

8:30-9:30am - Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:30am-1:15pm - Cryptography for Privacy Technologies Sessions

1:15-2:15pm - Lunch

2:15-5:30pm - Privacy Tools Sessions

5:30-7:30pm - Happy Hour

DAY 2 - Thursday July 2

8:30-9:30am - Registration & Networking Breakfast

9:30am-1:15pm - Privacy for Financial Institutions Sessions

1:15-2:15pm - Lunch

2:15-5:30pm - Bank Requirements for Privacy Sessions

5:30-7:30pm - Happy Hour

Why attend? 

 

  • Collaborative Development: This workshop aims to bring industry experts together to debate, discuss, and share the latest developments in privacy-preserving technologies. This is a golden opportunity to collaboratively define the requirements of privacy in enterprise.

  • Open Development & Governance: As part of the Linux Foundation, LF Decentralized Trust brings proven open development and governance practices to the workshop, supporting transparent, vendor-neutral collaboration and a clear path for ideas to move into actionable community work.

  • Anti-trust & Chatham House Rules: To ensure a conducive and non-competitive environment for genuine discussions, the workshop will strictly adhere to the Linux Foundation anti-trust policy guidelines and code of conduct. Some sessions will operate under Chatham house rules.

Invite-only Event

Tickets are first come, first served. 

If you have not received an invitation to attend please contact us for approval. 

Email ecosystem@lfdecentralizedtrust.org for assistance

 

Code of Conduct

By attending or participating in this event, you agree to abide by the Linux Foundation Code of Conduct. Part of this event is held under Chatham House Rule. No media.

Please contact Angela Brown, SVP & GM of Events, at angela@linuxfoundation.org if you believe you’ve observed or experienced a violation of the Code of Conduct.