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How to (and not to) Regulate Crypto

Date: Friday, September 29, 2023
The Donald E. Armstrong Building, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, 3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 0E2, Canada

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How to (and not to) Regulate Crypto

Save the date to join GIC in Montréal on September 29, 2023! The Global Interdependence Center is partnering with the Desmarais Global Finance Research Centre at the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University for the upcoming Desmarais Global Finance Lecture.

This conference aims to bring together thought leaders and decision-makers from academia, public policy circles, and the business world, with the goal to promote thought exchange, dialogue, and the exploration of solutions to global challenges in finance and economics. For this year, Professor Christine Parlour, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas, is confirmed as a Keynote speaker. Watch this page for updates as GIC is building an exciting one-day program that includes additional speakers from academia, the policy/regulatory environment, as well as the business community.

 

We are pleased to offer Continuing Education (CE) credits for this program. Please email [email protected] for more information on how attendees can receive credit from the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc. (4.5 CE credit hours).

 

8:30 | Registration and Coffee 

9:00 | Welcoming Remarks

9:15 | Opening Presentations

“The State of Crypto Regulations Around The World”

“Systemic Risk and Financial Stability in the Age of Crypto”

  • Nobuyasu Sugimoto, Deputy Division Chief, Financial Supervision and Regulation Division, IMF

10:00 | Coffee Break

10:15 | Paper Session 1: “On the Fragility of DeFi Lending”

  • Presenter: Kathy Yuan, London School of Economics and Political Science
  • Discussant: Thomas Rivera, Desautels Faculty of Management
  • Moderator: Katrin Tinn, Desautels Faculty of Management

11:00| Paper Session 2: “Learning from DeFi: Would Automated Market Makers Improve Equity Trading?”

11:45 | Lunch at the McGill Faculty Club

1:00: Keynote Address: “The Future of Tokenization”

  • Christine Parlour, Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting, University of California at Berkeley

1:45 | Coffee Break

2:00 | Panel Session: Approaches in Canada & Beyond

2:45 | Coffee Break

3:00 | Panel Session: Global Perspectives on Regulating Crypto

3:30 | Closing Remarks

Event Location

Date: Friday, September 29, 2023 City: Montréal, Quebec The Donald E. Armstrong Building, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Address:
The Donald E. Armstrong Building, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University, Room 370
3420 Rue McTavish, Montréal, QC H3A 0E2, Canada

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Speakers

David Adler

David Adler

Partner, McCarter & English, LLP

David Adler’s practice encompasses bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings. He represents a broad range of clients, including debtors, creditors’ committees, trustees, secured creditors, indenture trustees, unsecured trade creditors, equipment lessors, landlords and purchasers of assets.

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Yolande E. Chan, Ph.D.

Yolande E. Chan, Ph.D.

Dean of the Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Dr. Yolande E. Chan joined McGill University’s Desautels Faculty of Management as Dean and James McGill Professor in August 2021.

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Franca Ciambella

Franca Ciambella

Desautels International Advisory and Advancement Board; CEO-Riau (Canada) Inc. and Lawyer/Advisor, Global Law Alliance

Franca is a highly qualified lawyer, mediator and advisor with an excellent business background and acumen, and a solid track record operating at top levels in large global firms and multinational organizations. She has held prestigious board, committee and other leadership positions in business, social, government and private institutions. Able to easily navigate between sophisticated and developing economic ecosystems worldwide, she is a personable, passionate, and effective individual who is driven by values, contribution, innovation, entrepreneurship and a sense of duty.

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Elizabeth Côté

Elizabeth Côté

Elizabeth Côté is the acting Managing Director of the Digital Innovation Impact Hub at the Office of Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI). Working in close collaboration with other Canadian and international regulators, she leads a team responsible to develop a regulatory and supervisory response to potential risks posed by digital innovations, including cryptocurrencies, open banking, […]

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Miguel Díaz, Ph.D.

Miguel Díaz, Ph.D.

Head of Toronto Centre, BIS Innovation Hub

Mr. Díaz has guided the development, operation, analysis and regulation of financial market infrastructures in Mexico, including the modernisation of the country's primary payments system.

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Laurent Féral-Pierssens

Laurent Féral-Pierssens

Managing Partner at BlockZero Advisors, Founding Partner at True Global Ventures

Laurent Féral-Pierssens is Managing Partner at BlockZero Advisors, Founding Partner at True Global Ventures, a business leader specializing in the evolution of financial and payment infrastructure. He has focused on blockchain innovation, digital assets and crypto-economy since 2016. Laurent helps organizations, financial institutions and governments design and build products and services based on digital asset […]

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Peter Guay

Peter Guay

Peter joined PWL Capital in 2004 to learn the business from the ground up. Eighteen years and many designations later, he is now a seasoned Portfolio Manager and Financial Planner working with families across the country. Peter’s approach to wealth management begins and ends with the client. From finding out what is important, to developing […]

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Ananya Kumar

Ananya Kumar

Ananya Kumar, Associate Director, Digital Currencies, GeoEconomics Center, Atlantic Council

Ananya Kumar is the associate director of digital currencies at the GeoEconomics Center. She manages the Center’s work on the future of money and coordinates research on central bank digital currencies, stablecoins, cryptocurrencies, and other digital assets.

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Alfred Lehar, Ph.D.

Alfred Lehar, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance, University of Calgary Haskayne School of Business

Alfred is associate professor in the finance area. He has been teaching at the Haskayne School of Business since 2005. He received an undergraduate degree and a PhD from the University of Vienna. Prior to Joining Haskayne, Alfred held positions at the University of Vienna and the University of British Columbia.

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Katya Malinova

Katya Malinova

Mackenzie Investments Chair in Evidence-Based Investment Management, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University

Katya Malinova, a leading researcher in blockchain and fintech, is the DeGroote School of Business as the Mackenzie Investments Chair in Evidence-Based Investment Management at McMaster University. Professor Malinova specializes in financial market microstructure, with her empirical work focused on Canadian equity markets. Professor Malinova received her Ph.D. in Economics from University of Michigan. She […]

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Shaun Martinak

Shaun Martinak

Shaun Martinak is a Portfolio Manager at Coinbase Asset Management and leads the blockchain engineering team which is developing Onebridge, a  set  of  connected  smart  contract  applications  for  regulated  institutional  users.  He  has  contributed to  the  creation  of  CBAM’s  Ethereum  staking  fund,  digital  indices,  token  classification system,  credit and opportunistic strategies. He serves as a […]

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Christine A. Parlour

Christine A. Parlour

Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting, Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley

Christine A. Parlour is the Sylvan C. Coleman Chair of Finance and Accounting at Berkeley Haas. Most of her work is in institutionally complex areas, such as market microstructure and banking.

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Thomas J Riviera

Thomas J Riviera

Assistant Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

Thomas J Rivera is Assistant Professor of Finance at the Desautels Faculty of Management of McGill University. His research focuses on blockchain economics, decentralized finance, and topics in corporate finance. Professor Riviera received his PhD in Economics and Decision Sciences Department from HEC Paris.

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David Schumacher, Ph.D.

David Schumacher, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Finance, Desautels Faculty Scholar, Director, Desmarais Global Finance Research Center, Desautels Faculty of Management, McGill University

David Schumacher is an Associate Professor in the Finance Area at the Desautels Faculty of Management. His research is primarily concerned with themes in global investment management, including the portfolio choice and performance of international institutional investors, the financial market implications of the rise of large asset management firms as well as the overall industrial organization of the global investment management industry.

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Kathleen Stephansen

Kathleen Stephansen

GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds

Kathleen Stephansen is GIC Chair Emerita, Senior Economist for Haver Analytics and Trustee of EQAT Trust Funds. She is the former Chief Economist of Huawei Technologies, Chief Economist of the American International Group (AIG) and AIG Asset Management’s Senior Strategist and Global Head of Sovereign Research. Prior to joining AIG in 2010, Kathleen was Chief Economist at Aladdin Capital Holdings, Credit Suisse’s Head of Global Economic Research, and Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation’s co-head of Fixed Income economic research and Chief International Economist.

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Nobuyasu Sugimoto

Nobuyasu Sugimoto

Deputy Division Chief, Financial Supervision and Regulation Division, IMF

Nobuyasu Sugimoto is a Financial Sector Expert in the IMF’s Monetary & Capital Markets Department. He contributed the insurance section of the recent Global Financial Stability Report. His recent work covers regulatory and supervisory issues for both insurance and securities. Before joining the IMF in October 2012, he worked for the Japan Financial Services Agency […]

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Katrin Tinn, Ph.D.

Katrin Tinn, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Finance, McGill University, Desautels Faculty of Management

Katrin Tinn's research focuses on theoretical modelling, technological innovation, financial economics, information economics. Her most recent work is on FinTech: the role of crowdfunding and distributed ledger technologies (blockchain) in raising external capital and facilitating learning about future demand, and on central bank digital currency design.

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Pascale Toupin

Pascale Toupin

Director, Supervision of Financial Intermediaries, AMF

Pascale Toupin is Director of Supervision of Financial Intermediaries at AMF. The Autorité des marchés financiers, the AMF, regulates Québec’s financial markets and assist consumers of financial products and services. The AMF oversees areas of insurance, securities, derivatives, deposit institutions—other than banks—and the distribution of financial products and services.

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Kathy Yuan

Kathy Yuan

Professor of Finance, London School of Economics and Political Science

Professor Yuan has been Professor of Finance at London School of Economics and Political Science since 2009. Professor Yuan received her Ph.D. in Economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Professor Yuan’s research is in the area of developing new asset pricing theories with heterogeneous information and market frictions and testing their empirical implications. Her articles have […]

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