GW’s Center for Law, Economics & Finance presents: FinTech Forum: The Convergence of Finance, Technology, and the Law.
Financial Technology or fintech refers to a spectrum of technology innovations and start-ups that demonstrate disruptive potential in applications, processes, products, or business models in the financial industry. The GW Center for Law, Economics, & Finance is holding its first FinTech Forum to bring together industry leaders, academic experts, government regulators, and legal scholars to discuss the future of these financial technologies and what it means for the law.
Agenda
9:15 – 9:20 am: Welcome Remarks
Neil Ruiz, Executive Director, GW Center for Law, Economics, & Finance
9:20 – 9:25 am: Dean’s Welcome
Blake D. Morant, Dean and Robert Kramer Research Professor of Law, GW Law
9:25 – 9:45 am: Introductory Dialogue
Kevin Petrasic, Partner, White & Case LLP
Philippe Gelis, CEO, Kantox
9:45 – 11 am: Panel 1 - Banks as Incubators of Innovation
Moderator:
David Wessel, Senior Fellow and Director of The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, The Brookings Institution
Panelists:
Garry Reeder, Director, BlackRock
Adam Shapiro, Managing Director, Promontory
Benjamin Saul, Partner, White & Case LLP
Seth Wheeler, Managing Director, Strategy, JPMorgan Chase
11:15 am – 12:30 pm: Panel 2 - Blockchain Banking and Digital Finance
Moderator:
Sigrid Inken Seibold, Partner, KPMG
Panelists:
Michael Abramowicz, Professor of Law, GW Law
Jerry Brito, Executive Director, Coin Center
Patrick Murck, Fellow, Berkman Center at Harvard University
Helen Wong, Attorney, Federal Trade Commission
1:15 – 2 pm: Keynote Address
Suresh Ramamurthi, Chairman and CTO, CBW Bank
American Banker’s Innovator of the Year for 2015
2 – 3:15 pm: Panel 3 - Will “FinTech Banks” Rule the World?
Moderator
Jason Oxman, CEO, Electronic Transactions Association
Panelists
Cherian Abraham, Senior Business Consultant, Experian
Philippe Gelis, CEO, Kantox
Mamta Rodrigues, Senior Vice President, Synchrony Financial
Jeanine Wright, General Counsel, ZestFinance
3:30 – 4:45 pm: Panel 4 - The Role of Regulation: Benefit vs. Burden
Moderator
Marc Hochstein, Editor in Chief, American Banker
Panelists
Lawrence Baxter, William B. McGuire Professor of the Practice of Law, Duke School of Law
Jacob Farber, General Counsel, R3CEV
Amy S. Friend, Chief Counsel, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Kevin Petrasic, Partner, White & Case LLP
4:45 – 5 pm: Closing Remarks
Neil Ruiz, Executive Director, GW Center for Law, Economics, & Finance
Note
This event is presented by the GW Center for Law, Economics & Finance.
RSVP
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Background
GW Law, long recognized as one of the top law schools in the country, pursues a distinctive research and learning mission that engages the leading law and policy questions of our time and provides students with an education that will position them to help change the world. Accredited by the American Bar Association and a charter member of the Association of American Law Schools, GW Law was founded in 1865 and was the first law school in the District of Columbia.
The GW Center for Law, Economics & Finance brings together diverse perspectives from the academic community, Main Street, Wall Street, and Washington to address important issues affecting the economy and financial markets.