Sasha Mills

Sasha Mills was listed in the Proof of Talk Paris 2026 Stable Day programme for “Beyond USD: The Future of Euro, Sterling and Swiss Franc Stablecoins”. The panel was scheduled on 3 June from 14:00 to 14:40 on the Hecto Main Stage. Her fellow panellists were Arnaud Caudoux, Elliot Hentov and Johannes Kern, with Lisa Cameron moderating. The programme billed Mills as Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, Bank of England.

The Bank's speech published on 1 October 2026 continued to identify Mills by that title. Her work concerns the infrastructure supporting financial markets and payments. A separate CFTC release identifies her in the same financial-market-infrastructure role and records her participation in international work on centrally cleared margin.

Her public work since the Paris edition provides a substantive update to that June record. In “New horizons: the legal and commercial frontier of digital assets”, delivered at the Hogan Lovells and Global Digital Finance summit, Mills examined the conditions under which digital-finance experiments could become commercially useful market infrastructure. She discussed connections between issuers, investors, trading venues, custodians and technology providers, and the need for compatible operational arrangements across firms.

Mills set out five commitments for the Bank: focusing on outcomes, supporting testing and growth, making its processes clearer, convening industry and working with authorities overseas. She also stressed that commercial users would determine which technologies and business models succeeded. These remarks came from the October speech, rather than an inferred account of what she said in Paris.

The speech also considered the connections between tokenised assets, settlement arrangements and the infrastructure required to pay for them.