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  • 22 March, San Francisco - Digitising Private Markets


  • - What are the main drivers behind the move to private?
    - The evolution of Private Equity
    - Why is digitization going to revolutionize this?

  • - Global private equity net asset value grew twice as fast as public markets capitalization and with less liquidity
    - Companies are staying private longer and investors are looking for exposure and diversified participation in global growth
    - What level of demand is there from clients for access to private companies?
    - What are the benefits to a private company of issuing digital securities rather than going public through to, IPO, SPAC, or PE?

  • - What problem is this solving?
    - How close is this to reality for institutions?

  • - What is the opportunity?
    - Can this be automated?
    - What will the ecosystem look like?

  • - Traditional exchanges are embracing decentralization, what is the vision?
    - Will centralized and decentralized structures coexist?
    - What happens to liquidity? Is it getting fragmented?
    - What legal challenges do decentralized structures raise?
    - New financial institutions being successful without the participation of traditional market participants banks?
    - Is participating in decentralized structures an existential decision for traditional market participants?

  • - Traditional exchanges, new purpose built digital exchanges, existing crypto trading platforms, P2P?

  • 23 March, San Fransisco - Institutional Digital Assets


  • - Offering crypto as an institutional-grade asset class
    - What are the biggest challenges to institutional adoption of digital assets (technology, regulatory, cultural)?
    - What will a Digital Asset Product Portfolio look like in 12 months?

  • - How mainstream can crypto go?
    - Traditional investment vs. crypto
    - The convergence of finance and crypto
    - Why would institutions be interested in acting in these markets? What would give them pause?

  • - DeFi and CiFi
    - Staking: predicted to be one of the largest products for retail, institutions and investment banks to earn yield
    - Relevance to institutions

  • - Different geographical perspectives - what differences are there regionally that we need to consider?
    - Impact of regulation on DeFi
    - How technology opportunities from DeFi could be extended to CeFi?
    - How do institutions make money? What other opportunities does DeFi create?

  • 25 March, Palo Alto - Investing in Digital Asset Businesses


  • - The evolving landscape of capital in digital assets and DeFi
    - Digital asset fund management
    - Coordinating a fund raise globally

  • - Where are the biggest returns and risks?
    - What are the profiles of the hot infrastructure companies?