Digital Assets and Institutional Finance: The Sustainability Reporting Challenge
Many crypto and digital assets firms are not yet fully prepared for the growing importance of sustainability disclosures, creating potential risks for future business growth, supplier relationships, and integration with traditional financial services infrastructure.
As digital asset firms increasingly engage with traditional financial institutions, enterprise clients, and regulated market infrastructure, sustainability reporting is becoming part of the operational and reporting expectations increasingly applied by banks, investors, infrastructure providers, and procurement teams. These requirements are already well established across traditional financial services organisations and are increasingly appearing within RFP processes, supplier onboarding, and due diligence frameworks.
However, many firms across the digital assets ecosystem are still navigating how sustainability disclosure expectations apply to crypto and blockchain business models, particularly where decentralised infrastructure, governance structures, and complex operational dependencies do not align neatly with traditional reporting frameworks.
Without greater industry readiness, this gap risks creating growing friction around institutional integration, commercial partnerships, and long-term market growth.
What attendees will gain from this session
In this webinar, we will explore the emerging challenges, practical considerations, and approaches firms should consider as they build sustainability reporting readiness.
Key discussion areas will include:
why sustainability disclosures are becoming increasingly important across institutional finance, enterprise procurement, and supplier due diligence processes
the lack of clear sustainability reporting guidance tailored to crypto and blockchain-related products and services
the operational and resource challenges digital asset firms face compared to larger incumbents in traditional financial services
uncertainty around material sustainability issues, including how energy usage, governance, decentralised operations, and supply chains should be assessed and reported within digital asset ecosystems
practical considerations for implementing sustainability reporting capabilities within decentralised and rapidly evolving technology environments
Speakers
Kirsteen Harrison — Sustainability Director, Zumo
Chrislyn Pereira — Chief of Staff, Eunice
Elena Tzvetinova — Founder, Antiparos Advisory
Su Carpenter — Executive Director, CryptoUK
Nick Brooks — Policy Director, CryptoUK
This session is designed for digital asset firms, infrastructure providers, operational leaders, compliance teams, policymakers, and organisations preparing for greater institutional engagement across the digital assets ecosystem.