BVI Finance will host Fintech on the Seas: the BVI’s Digital Assets Summit, beginning today, Wednesday, June 25, 2025. Photo: BVI Finance

Fintech on the Seas 2025 will be held on Neckers Islands on June 25 and 26, 2025. Photo: Internet Source

Junior Minister for Financial Services, Trade and Economic Development, Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL), has described the three-day Digital Assets Summit as 'ground-breaking'. Photo: GIS

The last day of Fintech on the Seas will be held on June 27, 2025, at Oil Nut Bay on Virgin Gorda. Photo: Internet Source

Over 15o global leaders in Fintech, blockchain and digital assets are currently in the Virgin Islands for the 2025 VI Digital Assets Summit. Photo: Internet Source

Junior Minister for Financial Services, Trade and Economic Development, Hon Lorna G. Smith, OBE (AL), described the three-day event as “ground-breaking” during a press conference on Monday, June 23, 2025. 

The high-level summit will be held on Necker Island on June 25 and June 26, 2025, while the final day, June 27, 2025, will be held at Oil Nut Bay, Virgin Gorda. 

Over 150 global leaders in VI

Over 150 global leaders in Fintech, blockchain, and digital assets are currently in the VI for this summit.

These individuals from Costa Rica, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Singapore, Cayman Islands, the Bahamas, the USA, Canada, Luxembourg, Panama, and Ireland will join their VI counterparts over the three days.

During the summit, they will “address key issues including tokenised funds, decentralised autonomous organisations, stable coins and decentralised finance…AI and cryptoassets as well, AML compliance and crisis management,” Hon Smith explained. 

Strategic discussions and collaboration in a focused environment will also be facilitated. 

Hon Smith said, “I’m very much looking forward to attending this conference.”

Forty speakers over three days 

According to its website, BVI Fintech on the Seas is described as “a first-of-its-kind experience—uniting global innovators, policymakers, and industry leaders aboard an immersive, agenda-driven voyage through the future of finance”.

Attendees are promised access that money cannot buy, meet regulators in the room, curated deal-flow and paradise productivity. 

The three-day summit will have forty speakers, including Hon Smith, and Premier and Minister of Finance Dr the Hon Natalio D. Wheatley (R7).

The main programme highlights include:

• Tokenised Funds & Assets: Structuring advantages of the BVI Business Companies Act and beyond.
• DAOs & Legal Wrappers: From CLBGs to BORGs governance that scales.
• Stablecoins & CBDCs: The new liquidity layer for global trade.
• Next-Gen DeFi: Risk, regulation and the path to institutional adoption.
• AI-Driven Crypto Markets: How machine learning is remaking market-making, asset management and governance.
• AML in a Borderless World: Meeting FATF standards while building frictionless user journeys.
• When Things Go Wrong: Case-study deep-dives on hacks, insolvencies and dispute-resolution in offshore courts.