CV Summit Zurich, Underscoring Institutional Readiness in the New Financial & the Wealth³ Era

CV Summit announces Franklin Templeton and Unblock as presenting partners for 2025, highlighting the institutionalization and utility of blockchain and AI in driving the future of global finance.

Franklin Templeton, one of the world’s largest asset managers, managing over $1.6 trillion in assets, and Unblock, a rising infrastructure layer for digital consumer and merchant payments, represent the convergence of two forces long seen as parallel—institutional trust and frontier technology—now coming together and formulating the financial wealth and payment systems of the future.

“The participation of Franklin Templeton and Unblock reflects the full arc of financial transformation: from the tokenization of institutional assets to the seamless use of blockchain in everyday finance. CV Summit 2025 is where these once-separate worlds meet to define the new generation of financial infrastructure and offerings: efficient, compliant, and accessible,” said Olaf Hannemann, CIO and Co-Founder of CV VC, which is a co-organizer of CV Summit.

Institutional Scale Meets Blockchain Innovation

Franklin Templeton has moved well beyond blockchain experimentation and is now leading global deployment. Their Benji^® Technology Platform powers tokenized mutual funds, intraday yield, and instant settlement across 9 public blockchains, with live products in the USA, Luxembourg, and Singapore, now scaling globally for institutional and retail use.

“We’ve been building blockchain-integrated solutions since 2017,” said Roger Bayston, Head of Digital Assets at Franklin Templeton. “Our presence at CV Summit reflects our belief that tokenized products, composable infrastructure, and tools like intraday yield are the future of finance. The world is changing, but we’re ready for it at Franklin Templeton. We’re proud to be leading the world to a new financial infrastructure. CV Summit is the right place to engage with the Swiss and European financial community on this evolution.”

Franklin Templeton will feature in multiple summit sessions. Sandy Kaul, EVP, Head of Innovation, will deliver a keynote on “The Future of Wealth Management,” while Bayston will lead a workshop on tokenized fund infrastructure.

Complementing Franklin Templeton’s institutional leadership, Unblock is building the consumer and merchant rails that make digital assets usable in everyday financial life. Founded by fintech veteran Oscar Flores and former Visa executive Jonathan Palacios, Unblock enables users to receive salaries, spend with crypto cards, and remit globally while providing merchants and financial institutions with frictionless, compliant digital payment infrastructure.

“Stablecoins are at the core of the shift to a more useful, user-friendly financial future,” said Oscar Flores, CEO of Unblock. “We’re not just building new rails, we’re making blockchain invisible but indispensable. CV Summit is the right forum to show how far crypto has come in terms of usability, compliance, and real-world impact.”

Unblock’s participation marks its strategic entry into the European market, via Switzerland, with a focus on regulatory alignment. 

A Turning Point for Finance, Banking, Wealth Generation & Management in Switzerland and Beyond

Held in Zurich, one of the world’s leading financial centers, adjacent to Crypto Valley, one of the world’s most mature digital asset hubs with over 1,800 active blockchain entities, CV Summit convenes the pioneers shaping the incoming phase of financial evolution. According to the University of St. Gallen’s Centre for Financial Services Innovation, over 80% of Swiss banks plan to develop or expand blockchain offerings, underscoring Switzerland’s distinct role in driving not just Banking 3.0 but also the rise of blockchain and AI in the new world of Wealth management. Many of these will also participate as event partners, including PostFinance and Luzerner Kantonal Bank.

Taking place on September 23–24, 2025, at the Kongresshaus Zurich, CV Summit brings together 3,000 global decision-makers, investors, financial institutions, asset managers, and technology leaders. The agenda spans four tracks: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, Institutions & Digital Assets, and a dedicated Wealth³ stream focused on wealth and investment in this evolutionary era of blockchain and AI technology.

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