Online Conference: A new EU framework for crypto-assets: implications for Europe’s financial services industry

02 October 2020
10:00  - 13:30

The conference will focus on the Commission’s proposals for an EU framework for crypto-assets (including the Digital Finance Strategy, the Regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) and the Regulation on a pilot regime for DLT-based market infrastructures) as well as related issues such as Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) and national developments such as the German draft law for electronic securities. We will discuss how best to ensure that the EU regulatory framework can contribute to a safe and reliable digital infrastructure while at the same time being as innovation-friendly as possible. Attendance is free of charge.

 

Please find the presentations below:
Jan Ceyssens – A new EU framework for crypto assets – the European Commission perspective
Georg Ringe – Spotlight on European and German legislative proposals to advance a market in crypto assets
Fiona van Echelpoel – A central bank perspective on crypto assets
Ines Cieslok – New level playing field and asset safety in a digital asset world

You can access a recording of the conference here.

 

Agenda:

 

10.00–10.15




 

10.15–11.00





 

11.00–11.20



 

11:20–11:30

11.30 –11.50

 

11.50–12.10


 

12.10–12.15

12.15–13.30

Welcome
Matthias Goldmann, Junior Professor for International Public Law and Financial Law, Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main
Markus Benzing, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Keynote speech:
A new EU framework for crypto-assets – the European Commission perspective
Jan Ceyssens, Head of Unit for Digital Finance, Directorate?General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union (FISMA), European Commission 

Spotlight on European and German legislative proposals to advance a market in crypto assets
Georg Ringe, Professor and Director of the Institute of Law & Economics at the University of Hamburg, Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Law

Short break

A central bank perspective on crypto assets
Fiona van Echelpoel, Deputy Director General, Market Infrastructure and Payments, European Central Bank

New level playing field and asset safety in a digital asset world
Ines Cieslok, Managing Director & Global Head of Recovery & Resolution Legal, State Street Bank International GmbH

Short break

Panel discussion
Moderators: Mark Wahrenburg (Professor and Chair of Banking and Finance) and Matthias Goldmann, Goethe-University of Frankfurt am Main
Jan Ceyssens, European Commission
Fiona van Echelpoel, European Central Bank
Swen Werner, State Street Bank International GmbH
Georg Ringe, University of Hamburg
Janina Heinz and Markus Benzing, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

 

 

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