BEF Davos 2019

BEF Davos 2019 gathers 100+ high profile economists, regulators, government officials, investors and bankers to discuss 

opportunities of the technological and potential structural change in the financial system, capital markets and states.

AGENDA

24 January

Capital Markets Night

18:00 – 18:30

Networking Coffee and Opening Remarks

18:30 – 19:00

Key Note

19:00 – 19:30

Round Table Capital Markets 2020: Security Token Offering and Retail Exchanges?

- How the capital market structure will change?

- Will blockchain turn exchanges into retail assets shops and banks?

- Can tokenization bring $200 tn assets to a secondary market and make them available for a billion traders?

Is the era of 24/7 T+0 worldwide trading coming?

Anthony Scaramucci, SkyBridge Capital

Jeff Schumacher, BCG Digital Ventures

Rana Foroohar, Financial Times 

Rohit Chopra, Lazard Asset Management (TBC)

19:30 – 20:00

Round Table Regulation for the New Capital Markets

What are the key regulation goals for sustainable money and securities markets on blockchain?

How regulation may change for:

- corporate governance and reporting

- trading

- marketing 

Should qualified investors have privileged access to unregulated securities?

20:00 – 21:30

World Model Reception I

Guests keynotes (unexpected interdisciplinary stories)

Nouriel Roubini

25 January

Board of Governors for The New Financial System

14:00 – 14:30

Networking Coffee and Opening Remarks

14:30 – 15:15

Keynote Central Bank Digital Currencies: monetary policy, banks and financial systems

Nouriel Roubini will present his views on the topics:

- Central Bank Digital Currencies and how they will affect and change monetary policy, cryptocurrencies, banks and traditional financial systems

- Enterprise blockchain and enterprise DLT and its limits in finance and business

based on recent researches: 

- Why Central Bank Digital Currencies Will Destroy Cryptocurrencies

- The Blockchain Pipe Dream

The presentation will be followed with QA and discussion.

15:15 – 16:00

Keynotes

16:00 – 16:45

Round Table The New Financial System: Decentralized?

- Is decentralized currency and financial system viable?

- Who will benefit and who will lose out from decentralized currencies?

- Could independent currencies help emerging economies to overcome inflation and weak financial institutions? 

- How can decentralized currencies increase transparency and accountability? 

- How would international trade benefit from the new system? 

Alex Cukierman, Bank of Israel's Monetary Committee, Prof. Emeritus at Tel-Aviv University

Ashish Dev, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System

Gauti Eggertsson, ex IMF and FED New York

David Andolfatto, Federal Reserve Bank St. Louis

Nouriel Roubini, New York University Stern School of Business

Gary Gensler, Chairman of the CFTC (president Obama term) (TBC), 

Ken Rogoff, Former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund (TBC)

17:00 – 17:30

Round Table Toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

How access to credit, global currency and payment system help SDG: No poverty, hunger, and diseases. Education. Equality. Work. Water and Energy. Communities. Peace and Institutions. Immigration.

Keynote Sergei Guriev, Chief Economist EBRD

Kate Roberts, PSI, Maverick Collective

Elen Agler, The End Fund

Dr Keyu Jin, Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science

Jason Hsu, Taiwanese at-large Legislator and Member of the 9th Legislative Yuan

Luigi Zingales, Author Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists: Unleashing the Power of Financial Markets (TBC)

17:30 – 18:00

Round Table The Board and Monetary Policy for Decentralized Currency

- How should a global central bank and monetary policy be designed and governed?

- How independent currency supply could be regulated to mitigate volatility and inflation?

- How credit multiplier will work there: P2P loans vs banks?

- What is the roadmap for "stable" independent currency?

Belke Ansgar, Author Monetary Economics in Globalized Financial Markets 

Joshua Aizenman, National Bureau of Economic Research, co-editor Journal of International Money and Finance

Fahad Saleh, Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University

Stephen Murchison, Advisor to the Governor of the Bank of Canada (TBC)

18:00 – 18:45

Round Table State on Blockchain as a Service

What is the potential to automate state services consuming $20+ trillion in taxes each year?

Elections, State Finance, Identity, Registry, Courts

19:00 – 21:30

World Model Reception II

Guests keynotes (unexpected interdisciplinary stories)

Sergei Guriev

Luigi Zingales (TBC)

26 January

21:00

LATOKEN Networking Reception

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Link: BEF Davos 2019