24 March 2024 – 2 pm (CET)
The increasing use of cryptoassets is expected to bring many opportunities and benefits through greater competition and efficiency in financial services. At the same time, the volatility of crypto markets has fueled significant concerns for investors and consumers. In particular, the recent collapse of leading digital asset exchange FTX has spurred questions about ethical risks, including comingling of customer assets, lack of transparency, and conflicts of interest, while reigniting the debate around the regulation of crypto-assets globally. Our roundtable aims to identify and evaluate the ethical challenges and opportunities that crypto-assets pose to business and society.
Panelists
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Jan De Schepper Jan De Schepper joined Swissquote Bank to head the marketing department in 2015. Jan was awarded “Publicitaire de l’année 2019”, the same year that he was promoted to Chief Sales and Marketing Officer. In his current role, he is steering the Sales, Marketing, Product Management, Customer Care and Investment Products departments at Swissquote. Jan is further a board member of the Association of Swiss Advertisers (SWA/ASA). |
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Olivier Fines Olivier Fines, CFA, is Head of Advocacy and Capital Markets Policy Research for EMEA at CFA Institute. With teams based in London and Brussels, Olivier leads the effort in researching, and commenting on, the major trends that affect the investment management industry, changes to the profession, policy and regulatory developments. Olivier has joined CFA Institute in March 2019 after a 15-year career in investment management, spanning research, portfolio management, product management and regulatory compliance work at firms based in Paris and London. |
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Eelco Fiole Dr Eelco Fiole, CFA is co-founder (2015) and the managing partner of Alpha Governance Partners (alpha-gp.com), which is focused on governance for sustainable and digital investment management globally. Dr. Fiole is also adjunct professor finance ethics at the Universities of Neuchâtel and Lausanne. He is a risk governance expert with current board mandates in sustainability, social impact, fintech, tokenisation, Web3 and private equity. |
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Anne Haubo Dyhrberg Anne Haubo Dyhrberg is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Lazaridis School of Business & Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. She researches liquidity on centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges as well as the frictions involved when trading between crypto and traditional assets. She also studies retail trading on stock exchanges and many other topics. Her research aims to understand if the market structure functions optimally to the benefit of society. |