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Stephen Richardson
Chief Strategy Officer & Head of Banking
Fireblocks
View LinkedIn profileStephen Richardson is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Banking at Fireblocks, an enterprise platform to manage digital asset operations and build innovative businesses on the blockchain, Stephen’s role at Fireblocks involves structuring, developing, and evaluating strategic opportunities with traditional financial institutions, as well as helping them drive digital asset innovation.
Prior to Fireblocks, he was Senior Manager in the Financial Services practice of Accenture Strategy, focused on transforming customer experience and digital enablement programs for leading Financial Services firms.
Stephen previously worked as Head of Strategy and Vice President of Product (Business) for Noble Markets, a next-generation banking platform that focuses on enabling clients to clear, net and settle FX & OTC transactions in real-time. While at Noble, Stephen was responsible for the development of Noble’s banking and trade settlement products. He also completed various stints with BNP Paribas, Goldman Sachs and Teach for America.
Speaking at SFF 2026
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1:10–1:40pmThu 19 NovFutureMatters StageHall 5, Singapore EXPOPremium
Technology Rewiring
Money is programmable. Can Tokenized Markets follow?
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Gracie LinRegional Chief Executive Officer, Singapore & AustraliaOKX
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Stephen RichardsonChief Strategy Officer & Head of BankingFireblocks
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Carolyn WeinbergChief Product & Innovation OfficerBNY
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Dr. Tara RiceHead of Secretariat, Committee on Payments & Market InfrastructuresBank for International Settlements (BIS)
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Emma JoyceChief Revenue OfficerGlobal Blockchain Business Council (GBBC)Moderator
About this session
For decades, financial innovation meant new products on old rails. That lens no longer explains where control is concentrating. Money 1.0 digitised value. Money 2.0 networked it. Money 3.0 makes it programmable — value that carries its own logic, constraints and compliance, settling toward atomic, with AI agents as first-class transactors. But is this a structural shift, or digitisation in new clothes? This opening session looks to separate architecture from hype and asks the question that matters: How far can programmable money along with tokenized financial products go?
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