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Programme BAI InnovationsDay 2025
9:00 - 9:10 a.m.
Welcome and opening remarks
Frank Dornseifer, Managing Director, BAI e.V.
9:10 - 9:35 a.m.
Keynote speech: ‘Germany as a fintech location: Quo vadis?’
Dr Sebastian Schäfer, Managing Director of House of Finance and Tech Berlin
9:35 - 10:15 a.m.
Keynote speech: ‘Financing breakthrough innovations – how SPRIND works with the investment community’
How can we make more capital available in Germany for groundbreaking deep tech innovations? SPRIND offers instruments that enable crowding in of private investors. However, significantly more investment will be necessary to remain internationally competitive.
Prof Dr Andreas Zaby, Innovation Manager, Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen (SPRIND)
10:15 - 10:40 a.m.
Presentation: ‘Regulatory pitfalls in the expansion and digitisation of the business model of private equity funds’
- Investment advice and brokerage under MiFID II/WpIG
- Challenges of digital outsourcing
- Facility agent/security agent under PSD 2 (PSD3) / ZAG
- Distressed loans and challenges under the Credit Market Act
Dr Kati Beckmann, Partner, and Carsten Kociok, Partner, Greenberg Traurig
10:40 - 11:10 a.m.
coffee break
11:10 - 11:35 a.m.
Presentation: ‘Insights from the issuance of blockchain-based digital bonds’
- Insights into the use of DLT in KfW's treasury
- Presentation and lessons learned from KfW's first two blockchain-based digital bonds
- Analysis of the maturity of the DLT-based capital market
Tim Meirer, Senior Manager Kapitalmarktinnovation, KfW Bankengruppe
Bert Staufenbiel, Senior Manager, KfW Bankengruppe
11:35 - 11:50 a.m.
Keynote speech: ‘From trend to transformation: Crypto in your portfolio’
- (Crypto) market outlook
- Portfolio allocation with Bitcoin
- Transformation of the financial centre
Oliver Schäfer, Head of Germany, 21shares
11.50 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
From the BaFin's Point of View: ‘DORA: Initial experiences from the new old world of digital operational resilience’
- Implementation at national level
- DORA in practice
- Initial experiences and next steps
Dr Sibel Kocatepe, Head of Unit, National and European Monitoring of ICT Service Providers and Third-Party Relationships, BaFin
12:30 - 1:45 p.m.
Lunch
1:45 - 2:10 p.m.
Presentation: ‘Blockchain meets portfolio: How digital assets are creating new asset classes.’
Digital assets go beyond cryptocurrencies – they open up new forms of investment for institutional portfolios. The presentation highlights how blockchain-based digital securities can represent real estate, private debt or company investments, for example.
Dr. Robert Oppenheim, Partner, Osborne Clarke, and Robert Jeggle, CO-Founder, AQUATY
2:10 - 2:55 p.m.
Panel „Digital Assets & DLT Market Infrastructure”
- Genius Act – the new era of stable coins?
- MiCAR 2.0
- PSD3 – Where is the journey headed?
Sebastian Becker, Managing Director, Blockchain Bundesverband
Michael F. Spitz, Founder and Co-CEO, 360X AG
Christoph Hock, Head of Tokenisation and Digital Assets, Union Investment
Moderation: Dr Nick Wittek, Partner, JonesDay
2:55 - 3:40 p.m.
Keynote speech: ‘Regulation as a catalyst for the digitalisation of capital markets?’
- What role(s) does regulation play in the transformation of capital markets?
- What were the weaknesses of the ‘old’ regulation and how were they addressed?
- Where do we stand and what still needs to be done?
Prof Dr Philipp Maume, Professor of Law, TUM School of Management
3:40 p.m.
Closing remarks
Frank Dornseifer, Managing Director, BAI e.V.