Founder and CEO
LiquidFi
Ian Ferreira is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of LiquidFi, a provider of loan tokenization and payment infrastructure for institutional lending. The platform maintains a shared, permissioned record for each loan, used by investors, servicers, trustees, and issuers, and has supported whole loan and securitized portfolios in fixed income markets since 2018.
Prior to founding LiquidFi, Ian was a Portfolio Manager at Pine River Capital Management, where he managed non-agency mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities portfolios. He previously held credit analysis and trading roles at Ivy Square Limited and Ceres Capital Partners and began his career at Wells Fargo.
Ian holds an MBA from the University of Notre Dame and a B.S. in Finance from Iowa State University.
Tokenizing an asset is the easy part. Integrating it into the bank is where the real work begins. To scale tokenization, banks must connect digital assets to core systems—treasury, risk, compliance, and client platforms—while operating across both on-chain and off-chain environments.
This session focuses on the operational and architectural challenges of integration. Learn how institutions are modernizing infrastructure to support programmable assets, real-time settlement, and continuous liquidity management—and what capabilities must be built now to support the next generation of financial products.