American Banker Introduces Conference Focused on Implications of Digital Currencies
American Banker will host a one-day conference in July that will bring financial services executives up to speed on how digital currencies like Bitcoin stand to reshape the payments landscape in the not-so-distant future.
The aim of the conference is to ensure that U.S. financial services executives — whose companies are deeply invested in traditional transaction accounts and payment devices — have the knowledge they need to understand and anticipate how digital currencies will change key markets like foreign exchange, remittances, online payments and more.
"Bitcoin, Ripple and other crypto-currencies, while in their infancy, have significant implications for all walks of financial services, from payments to securities trading to the recording of property titles,” says Marc Hochstein, Executive Editor, American Banker and conference chairman. “Our conference will cut through the sensationalism and rhetoric that have clouded the conversation around this technology and home in on the business possibilities opened up by decentralized electronic ledgers.”
Keynote speakers include Chris Larsen, Founder and CEO of Ripple Labs, and Jeremy Allaire, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Circle Internet Financial. Also on the agenda are banking industry leaders and thinkers including Lester Joseph, manager of Wells Fargo & Co.’s financial crimes intelligence group; Jordan Modell, CEO, Internet Archive Federal Credit Union; David Cotney, Commissioner of Banks, Massachusetts Division of Banks; George Peabody, senior partner, Glenbrook Partners; and David Potterton, research director, Cornerstone Advisors.
Perianne Boring, a financial industry consultant who blogs about Bitcoin for Forbes, will moderate a panel entitled, “The Nexus Between Bank and Bitcoin Companies.”
"Bitcoin is a disruptive technology with the potential to transform the payments industry. Without a bitcoin strategy, you run the risk of being left behind," says Boring.
The event will be held July 29, 2014 at Convene, 730 Third Ave in New York City.
To see the full agenda, please visit: http://www.americanbanker.com/conferences/digitalcurrencies/
About American Banker
American Banker is the banking industry's most trusted resource for news, analysis, opinion and perspective about financial institutions, regulation, risk management, bank technology and market trends. American Banker Magazine is a monthly publication of American Banker, focusing on the ideas the people, and the companies that are changing the way bankers do business.
American Banker
http://www.americanbanker.com/
About SourceMedia
SourceMedia, an Investcorp company, is a business to business media and marketing solutions company serving the financial industry and the related fields of professional services and technology. SourceMedia offers its clients and subscribers professional information services, industry-standard research, data applications, in-depth seminars and conferences, and specialized marketing services.
SourceMedia
http://www.sourcemedia.com/
Related News
New York-based daily financial services newspaper American Banker has announced that it will hold a one-day conference this July aimed at bringing the traditional financial services industry up to speed with developments in the bitcoin and digital currency ecosystem. American Banker has been one of the more vocal mainstream publications on the subject of bitcoin, with Executive Editor Marc Hochstein even serving as MC and panel speaker at April's Inside Bitcoins NY conference. The event, to be held on 29th July in New York City, will focus on how bitcoin and digital currencies are....
American Banker's second annual digital currencies conference was also its first to put an equal emphasis on the emerging opportunities posed by bitcoin's distributed ledger, the blockchain. The idea that conversation around the technology has altered drastically in the last year was first noted by American Banker editor in chief Marc Hochstein in the event's opening address. The talk proved forward-thinking in its praise for the promise of more expansive and experimental use cases for the blockchain while acknowledging that bitcoin, as its first application, had kickstarted a new wave of....
Former BitInstant CEO and noted bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem is set to give a talk at the upcoming American Banker Digital Currencies conference in New York on 29th July. His discussion, entitled "Bitcoin Pitfalls - And How To Avoid Them", will focus on Shrem's colorful history with bitcoin, while putting a special emphasis on the challenges facing innovators. Shrem's appearance at the conference in New York is notable considering his exit from Bitcoin in the Beltway late last month. Rumors that he was banned from the Washington, DC conference owing to legal problems were later....
Former New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) superintendent Benjamin M Lawsky issued his first public statements on the BitLicense today following his stepping down from the position in June. The comments came during an interview with American Banker editor in chief Marc Hochstein at the second annual American Banker Digital Currencies + the Blockchain Conference in New York City, which also featured Digital Asset Holdings CEO Blythe Masters and Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert, among others. Overall, the conversation stuck more broadly to areas of interest for....
Former New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) superintendent Benjamin Lawsky denied allegations from the Bitcoin community suggesting he created the BitLicense as a setup for his newly established legal firm, The Lawsky Group. Lawsky said he is not allowed to work on anything related to the BitLicense for the rest of his life. Lawsky countered the criticism during an interview with American Banker editor in chief Marc Hochstein. The interview, held at the American Banker Digital Currencies + the Blockchain Conference in New York City, was Lawsky's first public appearance....