AFB Seminar: The Evolution of Digital Assets and Their Regulation

AFB members are invited to attend an in-person seminar covering updates in the regulation of Digital Assets. This update, provided by CMS, follows their introductory seminar to the topic given in February 2025.  Attendees will learn about the latest legal, regulatory, and market developments in crypto and digital assets, including the legal recognition of digital assets as property and their implications for banks.

Why attend?

The session will cover the following:

• Regulatory approaches – how are the regulators’ approaches evolving?
• How is the market for digital assets and its infrastructure developing?

Who should attend?

This session is aimed at those working in Legal, Business, Compliance, and Risk.

Speakers

Charles Kerrigan, Partner, CMS

Charles Kerrigan is a partner in the Finance Team and part of the specialist Emerging Technologies Group at CMS in London.  He specialises in fintech, including crypto, digital assets, and AI.  

In the last 10 years he has worked for banks and investment firms on many of the landmark UK and European crypto and tokenisation projects in payments, securities, and alternative assets.  He specialises in launching new digital products in regulated financial firms.

He has advised governments and trade bodies on policy relating to digitalisation in markets and written legal and regulatory sections of the UK Finance, Investment Association, and AFME member publications on tokenisation.

He is the author of Crypto and Digital Assets Law and Regulation (Sweet & Maxwell, 2022). 

The Blockchain Industry Landscape Overview 2018 names Charles as “one of the UK’s leading influencers on blockchain”. He is the UK’s “recommended lawyer” for blockchain and digital technology in the UK Parliament Hub.  He is a board member of a number of fintech firms and accelerators.

Please note: you will receive a confirmation of your booking via email within 24 hours. Should you not receive a confirmation, please contact AFB to double-check if your booking was successful.

Logistics

Fee:          Included in AFB membership

Date:        Tuesday 24 March 2026

Time:        09:00 – 10:30 (registration & refreshments from 08:30 – 09.00)

Location:   CMS, Cannon Place, 78 Cannon Street, EC4N 6AF

There will be ample opportunity for questions throughout the session; however, if you would like to submit a question before or have any specific questions or areas that you would like the session to address, please send them to the AFB at secretariat@foreignbanks.org.uk as soon as practicable. You will receive details on how to join this in-person session a week before the event.