Raghuram Rajan, former governor of the Reserve Bank of India, will headline the opening of Ripple’s Swell 2026 conference at an Institutional Summit on Oct. 27. The event will run through Oct. 29 at The Shed in New York City, with Swell describing the weeklong program as its largest conference yet. Rajan is currently a finance professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a co-leader of the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Policy task force. For the first time, Ripple will combine Swell with XRPL Apex, its developer-focused event centered on the XRP Ledger (Ripple’s blockchain network). The company expects more than 1,500 attendees, at least 75 speakers and more than 50 sessions across three stages, spanning banking, digital assets, payments, capital markets, academia and the XRP Ledger ecosystem. Featured speakers include Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse, President Monica Long, CTO Emeritus David Schwartz, Matt Damon, co-founder of Water.org, Tom Farley, chairman and CEO of crypto exchange Bullish, and Johann Kerbrat, Robinhood’s senior vice president and general manager of crypto. The program also includes executives from PEAK6, Susquehanna Crypto, Tradeweb, BNY and Intercontinental Exchange, as well as representatives of the XRP Ledger Foundation, Rothera, XRPL Commons and universities including Columbia, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, the University of Luxembourg, the University of San Francisco, the University of Trento and the University of Birmingham.