Emma Landriault
Head of Labs, Kinexys, J.P. Morgan
Emma Landriault’s documented work concerns the controls and infrastructure required for regulated payment tokens and institutional activity on public blockchains.
Why the room needs them.
Emma Landriault is Head of Labs at Kinexys and focuses on public-blockchain infrastructure for regulated financial institutions. Landriault is a co-author of MIT DCI and J.P. Morgan research on payment tokens.
The full account.
Emma Landriault is Head of Labs at Kinexys, J.P. Morgan’s blockchain business. In a J.P. Morgan podcast published on 2 June 2026 and recorded on 19 May 2026, Landriault introduced themself as Head of Labs at Kinexys and said the role covers the firm’s public-blockchain efforts. This dated first-party source provides the strongest evidence for the current title.
Proof of Talk’s Paris 2026 programme used the edition title Global Executive Director, JPM Coin, JP Morgan. The event database records the equivalent wording JPM Coin Global Executive Director, JPMorgan. That historical billing should remain attached to the edition, but it should not replace the later current title supplied directly by J.P. Morgan.
In May 2025, Landriault was named as a co-author of Designing Payment Tokens for Safety, Integrity, Interoperability and Usability, research published by the MIT Digital Currency Initiative and Kinexys Digital Payments at J.P. Morgan. The paper identified Landriault at that time as Vice President, Product Manager for Digital Payments. It examined the capabilities regulated payment tokens may require on Ethereum-compatible blockchains, including payment controls, regulatory information, transaction suspension and asset recovery. MIT DCI also published companion demonstrator code and explicitly warned that it had not received a security audit and was not production-ready.
During the J.P. Morgan podcast, Landriault identified compliance, legal and technical finality, and privacy as important considerations in institutional infrastructure decisions. Landriault also discussed the need to connect token-based instruments with established treasury operations and described atomic settlement as the simultaneous and immediate movement of assets and cash, which can reduce counterparty risk.
Proof of Talk listed Landriault for The New Architecture of Digital Cash: Stablecoins, Tokenised Deposits and Money Market Funds on 3 June 2026. The programme also named Tero Reuna of Paxos and Kim Hochfeld of State Street as speakers, with Ben Schiller of Miden as moderator. The available Proof of Talk records conflict over the scheduled time, so no session time is stated in this profile.
What Emma believes about the next ten years.
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Lines that keep proving correct.
“I'm Emma Landriault, head of Labs at Kinexys, which is J.P. Morgan's blockchain business, where I look after our public blockchain efforts.”
“So for institutional users, compliance, so ensuring they're meeting AML obligations, KYC obligations, sanction obligations, finality, both legal finality and a new thing to navigate in this world, technical finality, right? And privacy are three really key drivers for any infrastructure decisions.”
“It's such an exciting time. And I think the key word for those listening is atomicity, right? This idea that assets and cash will move simultaneously and instantly because that will reduce, if not completely remove counterparty risk.”
What they have built, written, and backed.
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- Payment-token research and prototypeLandriault co-authored the May 2025 MIT Digital Currency Initiative and Kinexys by J.P. Morgan research on regulated payment-token design. MIT DCI states that the joint team researched and developed a prototype. The companion code is a demonstrator that has not received a security audit and is not production-ready.
The next Proof of Talk is in Abu Dhabi.
Louvre Abu Dhabi, 3–4 December 2026. Admission is by application, and the room is capped at 2,000.
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