Mainstreaming Digital Assets: Institutional Adoption and Integration in SA

🚀Mainstreaming Digital Assets: Institutional Adoption in South Africa🚀

Dear Crypto Cape Town Members,

Join us for the second edition of this exclusive, executive-level forum focused on how digital assets are moving into the regulated financial system and becoming embedded within institutional frameworks across South Africa.

As local regulatory clarity advances and global markets mature, South African institutions are engaging with digital assets through compliant access points such as ETFs, OTC markets, stablecoins, and tokenized real-world assets. The event highlights how banks, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers are addressing compliance, custody, security, scalability, interoperability, and risk, while unlocking efficiencies in payments, settlement, and capital markets.

With a strong focus on regulation, institutional-grade infrastructure, and real-world use cases, this forum positions South Africa at a critical inflection point in the mainstream adoption of digital assets.

🔹 Key Discussions:
✅ Compliance and regulatory frameworks for institutional digital asset adoption
✅ Institutional access via ETFs, CFDs, and OTC markets
✅ Stablecoin adoption and banking use cases
✅ Institutional adoption of digital assets across financial markets

Agenda:

• 17:30 –18:30pm: Arrival and networking
• 18:30 –18:35pm: Welcome Address: -Devon Krantz: CEO at Lumina Engine
• 18:35 – 18:50pm: Introduction:
  -Chris Vermaak- Regional Business Development Lead at Turlov Family Office Securities (TFOS)
• 19:05 – 19:35pm: Fireside Chat: ZARU: What it means for SA financial institutions
  - Jacques Le Roux: CEO at Sanlam Financial Markets
  - Christo de Wit: Country Manager at Luno
• 19:35 – 20:05pm: Panel-Regulatory & Compliance Readiness for Institutional Digital Asset Adoption in SA
  - Wiehaan Olivier: Partner at Forvis Mazars South Africa
  - Juanetta Furusa-Matelakengisa: Senior Digital Product Manager, Carbon Banking at Absa CIB at Absa CIB
  - Thembi Baloyi: Senior Researcher: Market Research at Krutham
  - Moderator: Brent Petersen: Director at Petersen Attorneys Inc and Chairperson of Crypto Asset Association of South Africa (CAASA)
• 20:05 – 20:35pm: Panel - The Next Phase of Institutional Digital Assets Adoption in South Africa
  - Graeme Tennant: CEO at Nottingham Road Asset Management
  - Simon Dingle: Founder of Zarp Stablecoin
  - Rikki Barnes: Head - Blockchain Enabler at FirstRand
  - Moderator: Leon Kowalski: CEO of Cape Crypto
• 20:35 – 20:45 pm: Networking

🎫 Grab your ticket here.

Please note: All registrations are subject to approval by the event host. Attendance will not be permitted at the door without prior approval.

​Don’t miss this chance to engage with industry leaders, policymakers, and financial innovators as we shape the future of digital assets in South Africa!