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Sasha Mills
Speaker · Proof of Talk 2026
Bank of England

Sasha Mills

Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England

The Bank of England official responsible for financial market infrastructure brings a regulatory and operational perspective to sterling stablecoins, tokenised settlement and resilient digital markets.

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The Significance

Why the room needs them.

Mills works at the intersection of financial stability, payments infrastructure and digital-asset regulation. Her remit is directly relevant to discussion of non-dollar stablecoins because the Bank of England is developing the regime for sterling-denominated systemic stablecoins while examining their use in wholesale settlement and the Digital Securities Sandbox.

The Numbers
2018
Year Mills began leading the Bank of England Resolution Directorate
September 2022
Start of appointment as Executive Director for Financial Market Infrastructure
October 2022
Start of recorded CPMI representation for the Bank of England
3
Bank innovation priorities identified for 2026: systemic stablecoins, tokenised collateral and the Digital Securities Sandbox
40 minutes
Scheduled duration of Mills’s Proof of Talk Paris session
The Thesis · on the record

What Sasha believes about the next ten years.

01
Stablecoins can improve retail and wholesale payments, but systemic stablecoins must meet standards appropriate to money used in the real economy.
Explicitly stated in a Bank of England speech published on 29 January 2026.
02
Digital financial infrastructure should support innovation while remaining interoperable with existing systems and preserving financial stability.
Explicitly stated in a Bank of England speech published on 2 July 2025.
03
Regulation should avoid mandating or prohibiting particular technologies and should instead address the risks of the overall arrangement.
Explicitly stated in a Bank of England speech published on 29 January 2026.
The Timeline

Years of shipping.

2016-02-05
Identified by the Bank of England as Director, Cross Cutting Policy, when it published her speech delivered on 3 February 2016.
2018
Began leading the Bank of England Resolution Directorate. The Bank’s biography does not provide a month.
2022-09
Commenced her appointment as Executive Director for Financial Market Infrastructure, according to the Bank of England’s 2022/23 annual report.
2022-10
Became the recorded Bank of England representative on the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures.
2024-10-02
Published a Bank of England speech on digital assets, payments, the Digital Securities Sandbox and wholesale-payment experiments.
2025-07-02
Published a Bank of England speech on tokenisation, stablecoins, tokenised deposits and wholesale settlement.
2026-01-29
Published a Bank of England speech identifying systemic stablecoins, tokenised collateral and the Digital Securities Sandbox as three innovation priorities for 2026.
2026-03-11
Gave evidence to the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee during its stablecoin inquiry.
2026-06-03
Listed in the Proof of Talk Stable Day programme for “Beyond USD: The Future of Euro, Sterling and Swiss Franc Stablecoins”, scheduled from 14:00 to 14:40 on the Main Stage.
In Their Words

Lines that keep proving correct.

“Stablecoins have the potential to modernise retail and wholesale payments, enabling faster, cheaper and more efficient transactions.”

2026-01-29

“We want to continue working with industry to start building on the foundations we, and others, have put in place.”

2025-07-02

“Also, this crucial point about no co-mingling of those backing assets is an important part of the regimes across the world, because the coin holder is the beneficial owner of those and that needs to be legally separate.”

2026-03-11

Sasha at Proof of Talk

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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