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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host a symposium on the tokenization of real-world assets and liabilities February 8, 2024, at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The agenda follows:
Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024
Location: OCC Headquarters, Constitution Center, Washington, D.C.
8:00-9:00 a.m.
Registration
N/A
9:00-9:15 a.m.
Opening Remarks by Michael J. Hsu, Acting Comptroller of the Currency
9:15-10:15 a.m.
Panel 1: Legal Foundations for Digital Asset Tokens
Moderator: Jonathan Fink, Associate Chief Counsel, OCC
Panelists: Juliet M. Moringiello, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School (also worked on the Uniform Commercial Code project)
Edwin E. Smith, Uniform Law Commission representative; Partner, Morgan Lewis; Chair of the Uniform Commercial Code project
Andrea Tosato, Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the School of Law of the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code; the Chair of the Sub-Committee for the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies of the American Bar Association Business Law Section
10:15-10:45 a.m.
Coffee Break
10:45-12:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Academic Papers on Tokenization
Moderator: Chau Do, Ph.D., Deputy Comptroller for the Economics and Risk Analysis Division, OCC
Panelists: Bob Chakravorti, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Chakra Advisors
Gordon Y. Liao, Ph.D., Chief Economist for Circle, a Research Fellow at the Cornell Fintech Initiative and a co-chair of the National Association for Business Economics Finance Roundtable
Yukun Liu, Ph.D., William Meckling, Associate Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Lunch
1:00 – 1:45 p.m.
Panel 3: Regulator Panel
Moderator: Chris Brummer, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Financial Technology; Faculty Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law
Panelists: Luke Brown, Associate Director, Supervisory Policy Branch, Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Sonja Danburg, Deputy Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board
Jorge Herrada, Director, Office of Technology Innovation, Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Donna M. Murphy, Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Risk Policy and Acting Deputy Comptroller for the Office of Financial Technology, OCC
Valerie A. Szczepanik, Director, Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
2:00 to 3:00 p.m.
Panel 4: Tokenization Use Cases
Moderator: Jay Gallagher, Senior Deputy Comptroller, Supervision Risk and Analysis, OCC
Panelists: Robert Bench, Senior Advisor to the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT
Jesse McWaters, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Mastercard
Jennifer C. Peve, Managing Director, Global Head of Strategy and Innovation, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation
3:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Coffee/snacks break
3:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Panel 5: Risk Management and Control Considerations
Moderator: Beth Dugan, Deputy Comptroller, Large Bank Supervision, OCC
Panelists: Morten Bech, Centre Head- Switzerland, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub
Aaron Klein, Miriam K. Carliner Chair, Economic Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on Regulation and Markets, at the Brookings Institution
Jessica Renier, Managing Director for Digital Finance, Institute of International Finance
4:30 to 4:45 p.m.
Break
4:45 to 5:30 p.m.
Keynote
Hyun Song Shin, Economic Advisor and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements
5:30 to 5:45 p.m.
Closing remarks
Benjamin W. McDonough, Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel, OCC