Objective

This year’s conference will provide participants with a comprehensive overview of the supervisory framework concerning FinTech, with a focus on virtual currencies. It will update  them on the challenges for the EU banking sector due to the upcoming Basel IV rules, Brexit and the influx of innovation affecting the sector.

Key topics

• Review of the European Supervisory Authorities
• The Commission’s Action Plan on FinTech
• The money-laundering risks of cryptos
• Practical risk management steps taken by national supervisory authorities: sharing of good practices
• State of play of Basel IV
• New legislation for retail banks and its implications for supervisors
• Brexit

Who should attend?

National supervisors, legal officers working for central banks, supervisors working for the EU supervisory authorities, lawyers in private practice dealing with banking and virtual currencies

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Language: English

Organiser: ERA (Maria Todorof)

Event number: 218R12

Speakers

Marco Bodellini, Associate Lecturer in Banking and Financial Law, Centre for Commercial Law Studies, Queen Mary University of London

Lorenzo di Bona de Sarzana, Legal Officer, European Banking Authority (EBA), London

Kostas Botopoulos, Legal Counsel, Bank of Greece, Athens; Former President of the Greek Capital Markets Commission

Christopher Buttigieg, Lecturer, University of Malta

Stéphanie Cabossioras, Counsellor to the Director of Legal Affairs, Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), Paris

Christos Gortsos, Professor of Public Economic Law, Law School of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Misa Labarile, Policy officer,  Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union, European Commission, Brussels

Jakub Michalik, Senior Officer, Corporate Affairs, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), Paris

Anton Moiseienko, Research Analyst, Centre for Financial Crime & Security Studies, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, Whitehall, London

Dirk Andreas Zetzsche, Professor in financial law, ADA Chair in Financial Law & Inclusive Finance, University of Luxembourg