Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Digital Assets for Banks and Asset Managers“

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Digital Assets for Banks and Asset Managers“

Industry Insights: Panel Discussion: “Digital Assets for Banks and Asset Managers“

Recently, some major progress has been made in regulation and policy relating to the issuance, registration, custody, and ownership of digital assets. Increasingly, financial authorities and lawmakers around the world are seriously discussing digital assets and their implications. Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner (Frankfurt School Blockchain Center), Carsten Hahn  (Capco), Volker Braunberger (INTAS.tech), Seamus Donoghue (Metaco), Matthias Hirtschulz (d-fine) and Sarah Rentschler-Gerloff (SettleMint) discussed the significance of digital assets for banks and asset managers, and the future developments thereof.

Watch this video on YouTube (ca. 61 min.).

About the panelists

Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner has founded the Frankfurt School Blockchain Center (FSBC). In 2018 and in 2019, he wasP ranked as one of the “top 30” economists by the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a major newspaper in Germany. Further, he belonged to the “Top 40 under 40” — a ranking by the German business magazine Capital. Since 2017, he is a member of the FinTech Council of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Germany. The expertise of Prof. Sandner includes blockchain technology in general, crypto assets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum, the digital programmable Euro, tokenization of assets and rights, and digital identity. You can contact him via mail (email@philipp-sandner.de), or via:

LinkedIn profile of Prof. Dr. Philipp Sandner

Seamus Donoghue is the Vice President of Sales & Business Development at METACO. Seamus has deep domain expertise in financial markets, commodities, wealth management, and the crypto & blockchain market structure, regulation, and technology.

LinkedIn profile of Seamus Donoghue

Dr. Matthias Hirtschulz is a theoretical physicist by education and Partner and Managing Director at d-fine. He leads d-fine's blockchain and digital asset activities and in this role supports blockchain related projects in various industries. Examples are the implementation of a Debt Capital Markets platform, the secure custody of digital assets or the tokenization of real estate.

LinkedIn profile of Dr. Matthias Hirtschulz

Carsten Hahn has more than 22 years of consulting experience in the financial services industry in the areas of Banking and Capital Markets. His focus is on supporting clients in their change and transformation agenda to enable business models and to adapt to changing market environments. He has extensive experience in the areas of banking, payments and capital markets. He leads the RegTech and DLT/Digital Assets practice in Capco AGS.

LinkedIn profile of Carsten Hahn

Volker Braunberger has successfully implemented numerous projects for national and international banks and asset managers during his 25 year career. His professional focus was and still is on the "securities business" and "asset management". In the last 3-4 years, Mr. Braunberger has used his profound technical and regulatory knowledge to investigate the application areas of new technologies for banks and asset managers and has increasingly focused on blockchain (DLT)-based technologies. He is now CEO of INTAS.tech. 

LinkedIn profile of Volker Braunberger

Sarah Rentschler-Gerloff has profound experience creating and executing digitization strategies in various industries. Before joining SettleMint, she spent time at renowned IT consultancy DXC Technology and can look back at over 30 years of experience in IT and telecommunications.

LinkedIn profile of Sarah Rentschler-Gerloff

 

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