MMFs Heading to Las Vegas for AFP'26
Money market mutual fund distributors and cash managers will be travelling to Las Vegas early next month for AFP 2026, the Association for Financial Professionals' big annual gathering of corporate treasurers, which takes place November 8-11. AFP is the largest gathering of corporate investors in the country, attracting over 5,000 treasury management professionals, as well as a host of large banks and institutional money fund managers. Though the exhibit hall and parties are where the action is (for the cash world anyway), there are a number of sessions that involve money funds and cash investing (and now of course the hot topic, tokenization). (See the Session Explorer here.) On Sunday, Nov. 8, a session of interest is: "Yield in Motion: Tokenized MMFs for Treasury Liquidity," run by Charlie Uchill of CERES Coin LLC. On Monday, November 9, sessions include: "The Rise of Tokenized Real-World Assets (RWAs) in Treasury Management," which features Gabe Bonfield of Equifax, Tanner Taddeo of Stable Sea, and Will Peck of WisdomTree; "Macro Market Impacts for Liquidity Investors," which features Allison Rossi of Anthropic, Patrick O'Callaghan and John Olivo of Goldman Sachs, and Kyle McNealy of Meta; "Stablecoins in Treasury: Practical Use Cases, Risks, and Readiness," which features Christine Jensen of Cloudflare, Joseph Neu of NeuGroup, Leland Roger of Stripe, and Kammy Tsang of Paypal; "Cash Segmentation: It's Not a Gamble, It's a Framework," which features Jeff Weaver of Allspring Global Investments, Brandon Hillstead of Autodesk, Tyler Cone of Palo Alto Networks, and Vanessa McMichael of Wells Fargo Securities; "How AI is Changing the Investment Landscape for Corporate Treasurers," which features Donald Norris of HSBC AM, Alexander Custodio-Garcia of Okta, and Linda Kalocsay of WME Group. On Tuesday, Nov. 10, the session of interest is: "On-Chain Liquidity: The Coming Wave of Stablecoins and Distributed Ledger Technology", which features Justin Skaria of Edward Lifesciences, Skip Stallings of Franklin Templeton, Bob Stark of Kyriba, and Matt Jones of Western Asset Management. Come visit Crane Data at Booth #734, and we look forward to seeing you all in Las Vegas! Finally, thank you once more to those who supported last month's European Money Fund Symposium, which took place Sept. 24-25 in Paris, France. Mark your calendars for our next live event, our "basic training" Money Fund University, which will take place December 17-18 at The Hyatt Regency in Greenwich, Conn. Crane Data is also preparing the preliminary agenda for our next Bond Fund Symposium, which will be held March 22-23, 2027, at the Lowes Philadelphia Hotel in Philadelphia, Pa. We'll also soon be making plans for our next "big show," Money Fund Symposium, which will be held June 23-25, 2027, at the Philadelphia Marriott in Philadelphia, Pa., and for next year's European Money Fund Symposium, which will be held Sept. 24-25 in London, England. Watch for details on these shows in coming weeks and months.
