Name: Distributed Systems, the Fintech Revolution and the Public Sector
Start: 2019-10-29T13:00:00Z
End: 2019-10-29T13:56:12.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4

GDF is an industry membership body that promotes the adoption of best practices for cryptoassets and digital finance technologies, through the development of conduct standards, in a shared engagement forum with market participants, policymakers and regulators.

As regulations tighten, good risk assessment in the digital asset sector is more important than ever.  The advent of blockchain technology presents new and challenging compliance requirements for VASPs who are being asked to deploy unique processes to meet AML obligations.  Henry Burrows, the co-founder of crypto due diligence firm Alaco Analytics, discusses how lessons drawn from the financial sector, and the marriage of blockchain analytics with traditional investigative techniques, can simplify and enhance counterparty risk assessment.

Reputation is Everything: Due Diligence in the Age of Cryptocurrency

Travel Rule Information Sharing Alliance (TRISA) enables virtual asset service providers to meet critical compliance obligations. TRISA is an open-source, industry initiative to reliably and confidentially share sensitive transaction details between trusted VASPs.

Learn how TRISA’s close collaboration with GDF, InterVASP, and OpenVASP enables a solution that satisfies both FinCEN and FATF travel rules. Discover how TRISA’s Verified VASP directory overcomes the “sunrise problem” with a secure foundation for global adoption.

Travel Rule Information Sharing Alliance Webinar

Chen Arad, COO of crypto-native Market Surveillance provider Solidus Labs, will discuss:
What is crypto market surveillance (and how is it different from KYC/AML and onchain analytics)
Why is more than 90% of crypto trading volume considered potentially manipulative
How Solidus helps crypto exchanges and regulators detect and prevent manipulation
Why is crypto market surveillance so different from traditional asset surveillance
What are crypto-specific manipulation schemes and why machine learning is so critical
How are regulators globally making market surveillance a licensing requirement
Last but not least - why is crypto market surveillance the next stage for crypto growth

Crypto Market Surveillance: Next Stage in Crypto Compliance, Integrity & Growth

Francesco Roda, Chief Risk Officer at Koine, will discuss Digital Identity with us and take questions from the Community.

Digital Identity

Global Digital Finance (GDF) and Global Business Blockchain Council (GBBC) have partnered to co-host a weekly global town hall with Policymakers and Business Leaders to hear their insights into the emerging COVID-19 crisis and field questions from members of the community.

Abdul Haseeb Basit, GDF Board member will host this town hall in the series “Global Leaders” from London with special guest Jemilah Mahmood.

Global Leaders Town Hall with special guest Dr Jemilah Mahmood

Lawrence Wintermeyer, Board Member & Exec. Co-chair at GDF will be talking to Veronica McGregor Chief Legal Officer at Shapeshift; Elsa Madrolle General Manager International at CoolBitX; Diego Ballon Ossio, Senior Associate at Clifford Chance and Oliver Tonkin Co-Founder and Director at BCB Group on the effect AMLD5 has had since it came into force earlier this year, and what we should anticipate as FATF guidance comes into enforcement later in 2020. Questions from the audience will be welcome.

AMLD5 & FATF: A New Regulatory Era - Panel Discussion Webinar

Malcolm Wright, Chief Compliance Officer at Diginex will talk about the JWG interVASP Messaging Standard, and take questions from the community.

JWG interVASP Messaging Standard Webinar

GDF Board Member Abdul Haseeb Basit will host this edition of our "Global Leaders" town hall, where Tarek El Diwany will discuss the role of debt in the financial system, and the implications that creates in a time of economic shock like we are currently experiencing.

Global Leaders Town Hall with with special guest Tarek El Diwany

The role of a prime broker is not simple and there are a lot of moving parts that need to operate seamlessly, for the platform to achieve desired benefits. The end goal is to provide a one-stop shop solution for clients to execute trade, offer custodial and lending services, and act as an intermediary between hedge funds and other counterparties. The traditional financial sector has been well accustomed to such an offering for many years but in the world of digital assets, provision of such a platform has been constrained by a flurry of factors. 
BEQUANT CEO George Zarya discusses the role of prime brokerage in digital assets management and how the solution by BEQUANT is aimed at bridging the gap between the traditional financial markets and the new, fast growing digital assets.

Prime Brokerage in Digital Assets Management

Global Digital Finance (GDF) and Global Business Blockchain Council (GBBC) have partnered to co-host a weekly global town hall with Policymakers and Business Leaders to hear their insights into the emerging COVID-19 crisis and field questions from members of the community.

Lawrence Wintermeyer Executive Co-Chair of GDF and GBBC UK Regional Ambassador will host the first town hall in the series “Global Leaders” from London with special guest Professor Michael Mainelli, City of London Alderman and Sheriff, focused on the government and city’s response to the crisis. 

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI (Hon) FBCS, Executive Chairman, Z/Yen Group is a qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist, and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin.  Michael gained his PhD at the London School of Economics where he was also a visiting professor.  Michael founded and chairs Z/Yen, the City of London's leading commercial think-tank, famous for instrumental factor indices, including the Global Financial Centres Index and the Global Green Finance Index and the Global Green Finance Index
Michael has the honour of being Sheriff of the City of London 2019/2020.

GDF and GBBC present Global Leaders Town Hall with Michael Mainelli

Adrien Treccani, CEO of Metaco, a GDF Advisory Council member, will give an overview of Self-Custody for Banks.

Institutional Self Custody for Banks and FIs

Join GDF for a knowledge sharing webinar in which we will discuss Third Party Custody.
Alexandre Kech, the co-chair of GDF's Custody working group will provide an overview of third-party digital asset custody, what problems it solves, why institutional players and qualified investors should seriously consider using one, and how the industry is collaborating through Global Digital Finance.

How Third-Party Custody is Enabling the Growth of the Digital Asset Industry

Join GDF for a knowledge sharing webinar in which we will discuss 
Privacy Coins.
Jack Gavigan, the co-chair of GDF's AML working group will provide an overview of privacy technologies in the cryptocurrency sector, and their implications for regulatory compliance.

Privacy Coins

Open to GDF Members, working group community and Digital Asset industry participants  

Join GDF for a knowledge sharing webinar in which we will discuss the new FATF 2019 Guidelines, how they impact the industry, and to provide an update on how industry is collaborating to address the requirement for a global solution to Recommendation 16 (Wire Transfers). 

Malcolm Wright, the co-chair of GDF’s AML working group and Chair of GDF’s FATF R16 Steering Committee will expand on how the new FATF and EU AMLD5 guidelines will impact both regulators and industry participants involved in virtual assets.

We will also talk about the industry’s effort to define a supranational set of standards and best practices as detailed in the new GDF Principles for AML & KYC, due to be ratified by the GDF community in October.

FATF Guidelines and developing industry led AML & KYC best practices

Technology will enable very different models for the exchange of data, trust, identity and value in the near future. There will be more reliance on algorithmic and cryptographic assurance and consensus and less on received authority and fiat. This raises some fundamental questions for government about what distributed systems mean for the delivery of monetary, fiscal, welfare and other major policy strands and how the state can play a role in ensuring that the tech develops in ways that protect the rights of citizens and deliver as much public, utility benefit as possible to the polity.

We will also be joined by a panel of experts to discuss how government, academia, established industry and the open source community can work together to better to prove concepts and value for both the public and private sectors.

Panel:
Simon Taylor, Co-Chair, Global Digital Finance 
Nick Davies, Innovation Lead, HMRC 
Jody Cleworth, CEO, Machine Transport International 
Helen Disney, Co-founder, British Blockchain & Frontier Technologies Association

Distributed Systems, the Fintech Revolution and the Public Sector

Fintech

digital economy

distributed systems

Blockchain

decentralisation

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