11th Fintech Conference

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The Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance is pleased to invite you to the 11th Fintech Conference.

Language

English.

This is a free hybrid conference. Registration is mandatory.

Programme

• 09.00 – 09.15

  Words of Welcome

  • BIL
  • LHoFT (Video)
  • University of Luxembourg

• 09.15 – 09.50

  Morning Keynote: “Digital Treasury Instruments – Experiences from Luxembourg”

  Professor Bob Kieffer, Ministry of Finance and University of Luxembourg

• 09.50 – 11.00

  Session 1: Regulating Financial Technologies

  Chair: Professor Mark Cole, University of Luxembourg

  Discussants:

  • Professor Caroline Kleiner, Université Paris Cité, topic: “The Law on Cross-border Financial Technologies: issues, challenges and perspectives”
  • Professor Iris Chiu, University College London, topic: “FinTech and Sustainability: Synergies and Challenges”
  • Professor Ross Buckley (UNSW Sydney), Professor Dirk Zetzsche & Marian Unterstell (University of Luxembourg), topic: “Regulating BigTech: The Case for Regulatory Coordination”

• 11.00 – 11.20

  Coffee break

• 11.20 – 12.50

  Session 2: Money, Payments and Crypto

  Chair: Honorary Professor Jean-Louis Schiltz, University of Luxembourg & Schiltz & Schiltz

  Discussants:

  • Professor Sebastian Omlor, Philipps-University Marburg, topic: “Tokenized deposits and tokenized commercial papers”
  • Professor Nizlan Geslevich Packin, City University of New York, topic: “Regulating Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)”
  • Dr. Jannik Woxholth & Professor Dirk Zetzsche, University of Luxembourg, topic: “Digital Automous Organizations between Democracy and Autocracy: a view on terms and voting behaviour”

• 12.50 – 14.00

  Lunch Break

• 14.00 – 14.45

  Afternoon Keynote: “The US Crypto Regulation”

  Lawrence Trautman, University of Texas

  Moderator: Professor Dirk Zetzsche, University of Luxembourg

• 14.45 – 15.35

  Session 3: EU Financial Law under MiCA’s Influence

  Chair: Professor Gilbert Fridgen, University of Luxembourg

  Discussants:

  • Professor Christos Gortsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, topic: “Challenges and Issues of today’s Central Banking Laws”
  • Professor Dirk Zetzsche & Diletta Blangero, University of Luxembourg, topic: “An Empirical View on Crypto Investment Products: Crypto Funds, ETPs, ETFs, ETNs, ETCs and beyond”

• 15.35 – 15.50

  Coffee break

• 15.50 – 16.40

  Session 4: MiCA in Motion

  Chair: Professor Christos Gortsos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

  Discussants:

  • Marc Mouton, Arend & Medernach, topic: “Recent Developments in Crypto Custody”
  • Professor Dirk Zetzsche, University of Luxembourg, topic: “Multi-Issuer Tokens under MiCA”

• 16.40 – 17.00

  Closing Keynote: “Designing partitioned digital asset infrastructure”

  Professor Geoffrey Goodell, University College London

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