Peter Mintzberg

Bending the Curve: Innovation in Asset Management | Global Conference 2025

Leon Kalvaria, Eric Anziani, Sandy Kaul, John Koudounis, Peter Mintzberg, Dan Morehead

A panel of industry leaders from BlackRock, Franklin Templeton, and Grayscale confirmed that the approval of Spot Bitcoin ETFs and the 2024 US election have triggered a regulatory inflection point where $100 billion in institutional assets now flow into the space. Key executives from Kalamos Investments, Pantera Capital, and Crypto.com outlined a strategic shift toward principal-protected products and real-world asset tokenization, projecting exponential growth over the next 18 months. Despite lingering debates on regulatory granularity, the consensus predicts that within a decade, every major financial institution will integrate blockchain into its core strategic benchmarks and asset allocation models.