Keynote: "Financing leap innovations - how SPRIND works with the investment community"
How can we make more capital available in Germany for ground-breaking deep-tech innovations? SPRIND offers instruments that enable crowding-in by private investors. However, significantly more investment will be needed to remain internationally competitive.
Prof Dr Andreas Zaby, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation (SPRIND)
Keynote: ‘Regulation as a catalyst for the digitization of capital markets?’
- What role(s) does regulation play in the transformation of the 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, TUM School of Management
‘Regulatory pitfalls in the expansion and digitalisation 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 Secondary Credit Market Act
Dr Kati Beckmann, Partner, and Carsten Kociok, Partner, Greenberg Traurig
‘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 will shed light on how digital securities based on blockchain can map e.g. real estate, private debt or corporate investments.
Dr. Robert Oppenheim, Partner, Osborne Clarke, and Robert Jeggle, CO-Founder, AQUATY
‘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 Capital Market Innovation, KfW Bankengruppe
Panel ‘Digital Assets & DLT Market Infrastructure’
- Genius Act - the new era of stable coins?
- MiCar 2.0
- PSD3 - Where is the journey going?
Sebastian Becker, Managing Director, Blockchain Bundesverband
Dr. Nick Wittek, Partner, JonesDay