Roman Regelman

Senior Executive Vice President and Global Head of Securities Services & Digital, Bny Mellon

Search every verified Roman Regelman interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Roman Regelman, Senior Executive Vice President and Global Head of Securities Services & Digital at BNY Mellon, discussed the bank's approach to digital assets in an August 2021 interview. He stated that BNY Mellon is responsible for custody of $45 trillion of assets, which he described as more than double U.S. GDP and roughly 20 percent of all assets in the world. Regelman defined custody as "safekeeping: making sure that what you have is sound, secure, kept and protected." He noted that assets are becoming more digital, including cryptocurrencies, stablecoins, central-bank issued digital currency, and tokenized assets. He described a stablecoin as "a digital representation of some underlying asset" and said tokenization allows fractional ownership of assets like real estate or art, with the promise of decreasing transaction costs. Regelman said BNY Mellon has "an opportunity but also an imperative to provide custody to all the assets" and must play a similar role in digital asset custody as it does for stocks and bonds. He characterized the shift as "evolution" and "normal," stating that as an asset becomes part of the mainstream, the bank needs to be there. He also said that "innovation and trust have been part of our DNA since Alexander Hamilton founded the Bank of New York."