April 17: The Great Debate: How to Modernize Financial Regulation and Create Economic Stability in a Digital Age
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Join George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center (Center), GMU’s School of Business, and a host of experts for a wide ranging discussion of what a financial regulatory structure equipped to deal with the realities of today’s financial services sector should look like.
The Great Debate: How to Modernize Financial Regulation and Create Economic Stability in a Digital Age
Co-Chairs:
Dr. Jean-Pierre Auffret
Director, Research Partnerships, Costello College of Business, George Mason University; Director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), College of Engineering & Computing, George Mason
Thomas P. Vartanian
Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
Author, 200 Years of American Financial Panics, Crashes, Recessions and Depressions, And the Technology That Will Change It All; The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse
Agenda:
8:30 – 8:40 a.m. Welcome and Overview
8:40 – 9:10 a.m. Why Don’t We See Financial Sector Crises Coming & How Do We Make Supervision Work Better?
Keynote Remarks:
Elizabeth McCaul
Former Member Supervisory Board, European Central Bank
Former Chair, New York State Banking Board and Superintendent of Banks
9:10 – 10:10 a.m. Panel:
Greg Baer
President & CEO, Bank Policy Institute
Gary Gorton
Professor Emeritus of Management & Finance
Yale School of Management
Author, Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why we don’t see them coming
Elizabeth McCaul
Alex Pollock
Senior Fellow, Mises Institute
10:10 – 10:35 a.m. In Person Exclusive: Faculty Donut Networking Break
featuring Elizabeth McCaul, William Isaac, Randal Quarles
10:35 – 11:25 a.m. Time to Regulate Cryptocurrency? Investments, Money or Both?
John Reed Stark
John Reed Stark Consulting LLC
Former Chief, SEC Office of Internet Enforcement
Coy Garrison
Partner, Steptoe LLP
Former Counsel to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce
11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. Regulation of Nonbank Financial Institutions and FinTechs
Michele Alt
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Klaros Group
Dan Swislow
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Mercury
Caitlin Long
Founder & CEO, Custodia Bank
12:25 – 1:40 p.m. Buffet Lunch
12:40 – 1:20 p.m. Fireside Chat
Randal Quarles
Chairman & Founder, The Cynosure Group
Former Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve Board
Thomas Vartanian
1:40 – 2:40 p.m. Building a New Regulatory Model
Elizabeth McCaul
Todd Zywicki
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
[Additional panelist to be announced]
2:40 – 3:05 p.m. In Person Exclusive: Faculty Donut Networking Break
featuring Robert Ledig, Elizabeth McCaul, Todd Zywicki
3:05 – 3:40 p.m. Rethinking Deposit Insurance – Uninsured Deposits and other Threats to Financial Stability
Keynote Remarks:
William Isaac
Chairman, Secura/Isaac Group
Former Chairman FDIC
3:40 – 4:30 p.m. Panel:
Robert Ledig
Managing Director, Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
Alison Touhey
SVP, Bank Funding Policy, American Bankers Association
Richard Wald
Vice Chairman, Emigrant Bank
4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Leveraging AI to Improve Financial Regulation
Jo Ann Barefoot
CEO & Cofounder at Alliance for Innovative Regulation
Author, The case for placing AI at the heart of digitally robust financial regulation
Dr. Jon Danielsson
Director of the Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics
Author, The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
[Additional panelist to be announced]
5:15 – 5:30 pm Wrap Up