Liquidity Is a Product: Designing Markets That Actually Work

Name: Liquidity Is a Product: Designing Markets That Actually Work
Start: 2026-10-28T10:20:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-28T10:50:00+01:00
Location: MERGE Stage

Date: 28/10/2026

10:20h. - 10:50h.

Place: MERGE Stage

Institutional liquidity does not appear on its own. It is engineered. This panel brings together regulated exchanges, market makers and bank-side trading desks to look at how the market microstructure that institutional flow actually needs is being built, what a well-designed venue really looks like, and why product design has become one of the real competitive edges in 2026.

Speakers

Abel Peña

CSO at Bit2Me

Francisco Maroto

Head of Blockchain and Digital Assets at BBVA

Joaquin Sastre Ibañez

VP, Head of European Business Development at Bullish

Jorge Soriano

Co-founder & CEO at Criptan

Where banks, regulators and the crypto ecosystem sit at the same table.

Twice a year, MERGE brings together 5,000+ attendees and 250+ speakers. A private Institutional Summit at the Madrid Stock Exchange, two days at the Palacio de Cibeles, and the networking that moves the industry.

Next edition → MADRID

October 27–29, 2026 Institutional summit · Main conference · Palacio de Cibeles

Liquidity Is a Product: Designing Markets That Actually Work

Abel Peña

Francisco Maroto

Joaquin Sastre Ibañez

Jorge Soriano

Where banks, regulators and the crypto ecosystem sit at the same table.

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