Agostino Guarino

Agostino Guarino is Vice President, Product Manager Digital Assets at Intesa Sanpaolo, sitting within the Financial Institutions Products team of the Global Transaction Banking unit, IMI Corporate & Investment Banking Division. In this role, which he has held since January 2021, he leads a cross-functional internal working group focused on Digital Assets strategy, covering new business models based on distributed ledger technology, settlement solutions including Delivery versus Payment for security tokens, tokenisation benefits, and both private and public DLTs. He serves as one of the operational leaders of the bank's Digital Assets program, coordinating internal functions and managing a network of fintech companies, startups, and subject matter experts at other banks. Alongside the digital assets mandate, he is responsible for managing the lifecycle of Securities Services products across the Intesa Sanpaolo Group, including coordination of programs for regulatory changes, participation in working groups organised by market infrastructure bodies and associations such as ABI, ASSOSIM, and AFME, and oversight of capital and annual budget processes.

Prior to his current role, Guarino served as Project Manager within the Cash Products office at Intesa Sanpaolo from February 2017 to January 2021, where he managed market, settlement, and regulation projects, including Target2-Securities releases and SWIFT ISO 20022 and ISO 15022 releases in Intesa Sanpaolo's capacity as a direct connected participant of the ECB platform. His total experience in financial services spans over eleven years. His academic background includes studies at Imperial College London.