Caitlin Long
Founder & CEO, Custodia Bank
Caitlin Long is Founder & CEO of Custodia Bank. She became involved with Bitcoin in 2012 while she was a managing director at Morgan Stanley in New York (2007-16). Before that she worked at Credit Suisse (1997-2007) and Salomon Brothers (1994-97). From 2016-18 she jointly spearheaded a blockchain project for delivering market index data to Vanguard as chairman and president of Symbiont, an enterprise blockchain start-up. In 2017, after a flaw in a Wyoming law blocked her from donating appreciated bitcoin to endow a scholarship for female engineers at the University of Wyoming, she volunteered to help fix the statute. That led to her helping spearhead a multi-year initiative to make Wyoming, her native state, an oasis for blockchain companies in the US. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School (JD, 1994), the Kennedy School of Government (MPP, 1994) and the University of Wyoming (BA, 1990).
All Sessions by Caitlin Long
Keynote: How Banks Can “Press the Easy Button” for Tokenized Deposits and Stablecoins
This session explains why community banks might get the last laugh in the tokenized deposits and stablecoins arena, as the two parties behind the first issuance of tokenized deposits by a U.S. bank explain how banks can offer this technology to their customers in a manner that is likely accretive in year 1, is turnkey and requires very low technology integration lift, and solves real-world customer problems.
