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Keynote: The Future of Money
The Future of Money: Crypto Currencies’ Impact on Consumers
The attempt to modernize oversight of America’s financial markets and the simultaneous rise of bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, and the digital dollar are disrupting financial services as we know them. This roundtable will examine the potential for crypto/blockchain networks to transform the financial sector and what that means for consumers and institutions.
We’ll hear from Christopher Giancarlo, former chairman of the CFTC, who led the call to Congress to respect the new generation’s interest in cryptocurrency. He’ll be joined by Maureen O’Hara, Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance and Professor of Economics at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, who is an economist; an expert in market microstructure, financial markets, and cryptocurrencies/blockchain; and the first woman to serve as president of the American Finance Association. The panel will be moderated by Rob Krugman, chief digital officer of Broadridge, a global fintech leader providing critical infrastructure that powers investing, corporate governance, and communications.
Speaker Bio
Christopher Giancarlo – Senior Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
The Honorable J. Christopher Giancarlo served as 13th Chairman of the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission from 2014 to 2019. Considered one of “the most influential individuals in financial regulation,” Mr. Giancarlo also served as a member of the U.S. Financial Stability Oversight Committee, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, and the Executive Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions. Based on his celebrated call on the U.S. Congress to respect a new generation’s interest in cryptocurrency, Mr. Giancarlo authored the book “CryptoDad: The Fight for the Future of Money,” an account of his oversight of the world’s first regulated market for bitcoin derivatives and the coming transformation of financial services, including the most valuable thing of all: money.
In addition to serving as Senior Counsel to the international law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher, Mr. Giancarlo is also a board director, advisor, and angel investor in numerous technology and financial services companies. He is also a co-founder of the Digital Dollar Project, a not-for-profit initiative to advance exploration of a U.S. Central Bank digital currency.
Maureen O’Hara – Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance, Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
Maureen O’Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; she also holds a professorship at the University of Technology Sydney. Professor O’Hara’s research focuses on issues in market microstructure, recently examining how ETFs affect market stability, liquidity issues in corporate bond markets, and transaction costs in bitcoin. She publishes widely on a broad range of topics, including banking and financial intermediaries, law and finance, experimental economics, and finance and ethics (her book “Something for Nothing: Arbitrage and Ethics on Wall Street” was published by Norton in 2016). Professor O’Hara is the author of numerous journal articles as well as the text “Market Microstructure Theory” (Blackwell: 1995).
Rob Krugman – Chief Digital Officer, Broadridge
As Chief Digital Officer for Broadridge, Rob Krugman leads digital strategy and innovation. His team works to define and iterate transformative digital strategies, research and incubate new products, and create disruptive client experiences. By leveraging new technologies and supplementing traditional channels with new and emerging digital approaches towards execution and engagement, Mr. Krugman’s team helps businesses disrupt business models, reduce costs, improve customer relationships, and pursue meaningful interactions. For over 25 years, he has focused on creating new companies and defining business models that enable organizations to get the most out of emerging digital technologies.