The Third New York Fed Conference on FinTech: Wholesale Digital Assets

by James · August 17, 2022

Overview

The third New York Fed Conference on FinTech will bring together leading academics, policymakers and industry leaders to advance our understanding of the impact, implications and direction of FinTech. The conference will cover recent developments in FinTech, including the dangers and promises of stablecoins, the rise of decentralized finance, implications for cross-border payments, and countries’ experience with open banking and open finance.

Audience

This event is by invitation only for personal participants, but is practically open to the public.

Media

All comments will be recorded, with a recording made available afterwards. Media wishing to register or attend in person should contact Mariah Measey at [email protected].

Organizers

Pablo Azar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Asani Sarkar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Program Committee

Hampton Veneer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Sishush Maru, Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Per von Zelowitz, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Event details

placement
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
33 Liberty Street
New York, NY 10045

Agenda

8:30	Continental breakfast
08:45	Welcome comments
9:00 in the morning	Panel 1: Stablecoins: Perils and Promises Moderator: Pablo Azar, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Austin CampbellPaxos Marco Di MaggioHarvard Business School Cesare FracassiCoinbase
10:00	Coffee break
10:15	Academic Session 1: Stablecoins and DeFi Moderator: Julapa Jagtiani, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia What keeps Stablecoins stable? Richard K. Lyons, University of California, Berkeley Ganesh Viswanath-Natraj, Warwick Business School *Discuss:* Uday Rajan, Michigan Ross School of Business Make Money Gary B. Gorton, Yale School of Management Chase P. Ross, Federal Reserve Board of Governors Sharon Y. Ross, US Treasury, Office of Financial Research *Discuss:* Antoine Martin, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Inclusion and democratization through Web3 and DeFi? Initial evidence from the Ethereum ecosystem Will Cong, Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management Ke Tang, Tsinghua University Yanxin Wang, Xi’an Jiaotong University Xi Zhao, Xi’an Jiaotong University *Discuss:* Agostino Capponi, Columbia University
11:45	Lunch
12:45 p.m	Panel 2: Improved cross-border payments Moderator: Hampton Veneer, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Ross LeckowBank for International Settlements Scott ShaySignature bank Ryan ZagoneWise
14:00	Coffee break
14:15	Academic session 2: Open banking Moderator: Nicola Cetorelli, Federal Reserve Bank of New York Customer Data Access and Fintech Entry: Early Evidence from Open Banking Tania Babina, Columbia Business School Greg Buchak, Stanford Graduate School of Business Will Gornall, University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business *Discuss:* Yao Zeng, University of Pennsylvania Open banking with deposit monitoring Itay Goldstein, Wharton Finance, University of Pennsylvania Chong Huang, University of California, Irvine, Paul Merage School of Business Liyan Yang, University of Toronto Rotman School of Management *Discuss:* Todd Keister, Rutgers University Open banking: Credit market competition when borrowers own the data Zhiguo He, University of Chicago, Booth School of Business Jing Huang, Texas A&M University, Mays Business School Jidong Zhou, Yale School of Management *Discuss:* Charles Kahn, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	Panel 3: Open economy Moderator: Joseph Cox, Federal Reserve Board Umar FarooqOnyx by JP Morgan Chuck MountsS&P Global XXXgrayscale investments (TBC) Charles WoodsBank of England
17:30	Exhibition and reception, 13th floor before function area