DC Fintech Week 2021 | The Institute for Financial Markets | 18 October 2021 | Virtual Event

Ever since kicking off on the campus of Georgetown University Law Center in 2017, DC Fintech Week has had a simple objective: democratize information and allow everyone–from nonprofits and technologists to entrepreneurs and regulators–to engage one another in a meaningful dialogue about fintech and the future of finance.

On each day, on every panel, the conference brings the best and the brightest to Washington DC for discussions spanning the fintech ecosystem: crowdfunding, online lending, cryptocurrencies, cybersecurity, AI, open banking and more. As such, it is one of the few panels open to the public where top officers from the BIS, US Treasury Department, and SEC are able to dialogue collectively with economists, Bitcoin traders, academics, civil rights activists, and digital infrastructure providers.

2021 Speakers

Chris Brummer
Director, Institute of International Economic Law; Founder, DC Fintech Week, Georgetown University Law Center

Agustín Carstens
General Manager, Bank for International Settlements

Douglas Arner
Kerry Holdings Professor in Law, University of Hong Kong

Sopnendu Mohanty
Chief Fintech Officer, Monetary Authority of Singapore

Val Yap
Founder & CEO, PolicyPal

Quan Yu
VP, head of Credit Risk Management, Ant Group

Mu Changchun
People's Bank of China, on the e-CNY

Jon Frost
Senior Economist, Innovation and the Digital Economy, Bank for International Settlements

Andrew McCormack
Head of Centre, Bank Of International Settlement - Innovation Hub - Singapore Centre

Vachira Arromdee
Deputy Governor, Corporate Strategy, Bank of Thailand

Gottfried Leibbrandt
Non Executive Director, CLS Group

Herco Steyn
Acting Head of Fintech, South African Reserve Bank

Steven Schwarcz
Stanley A. Star Distinguished Professor of Law & Business, Duke University // CIGI

Carmelle Cadet
Founder and Chief Executive Officer, EMTECH

Carolyn Rogers
Senior Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Per von Zelowitz
Director, New York Innovation Center at Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Lukasz Kubicki
Head of SupTech, Technology and Innovation, European Central Bank

Helen Packard
FinTech Digital Transformation, Bank of England

Jan Cuonz
Adviser, Bank for International Settlements

Timothy N. J. Antoine
Governor, Eastern Caribbean Central Bank

Benoit Coeure
Head of BIS Innovation Hub, BIS

Benjamin Diokno
Governor, Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas

Timothy Lane
Deputy Governor, Bank of Canada

Elvira Nabiullina
Governor, Bank of Russia

Hyun Shin
Economic Adviser & Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

Dante Disparte
Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Global Policy, Circle

Saumya Bhavsar
General Counsel, Diem Networks

Jose Fernandez da Ponte
SVP & GM, Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies, PayPal

Tony Mclaughlin
Managing Director, Emerging Payments and Business Development, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citi

Hyun Shin
Economic Adviser & Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

Laura Loh
Director - Investments, Temasek International

James Prestwich
Protocol Engineer, CLabs

Ali Yahya
GP, a16z

David Mills
Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board

Martin Moloney
Member of the Bord, IOSCO

Tara Rice
Head of Secretariat, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, Bank for International Settlements

Cecilia Skingsley
First Deputy Governor, Sveriges Riksbank

Kristalina Georgieva
Managing Director, International Monetary Fund

Siddharth Tiwari
Chief Representative for Asia and the Pacific, Bank for International Settlements

Nandan Nilekani
Chairman and Co-founder, Infosys and Founding Chairman UIDAI (Aadhaar), Infosys

Kay Turner
Senior Director to the Counselor, FinCEN

Jim Cunha
Executive Vice President of Secure Payments and FinTech, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Olivia White
Senior Partner, Bay Area, McKinsey & Company

Pramod Varma
Chief architect of Aadhaar and the India Stack, CTO EkStep Foundation, Cofounder of Beckn.org, Volunteer at iSPIRT, EkStep Foundation

Pam Dixon
Executive Director, World Privacy Forum

Paula Arregui
Product Senior Vice President, Mercado Pago

Jesse Maniff
Payments System Research Specialist, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City

Arif Ismail
Head of Fintech, South African Reserve Bank, IMF

Nana Yaa Boakye-Adjei
Secondee to Financial Stability Institute, BIS, World Bank

Reza Baqir
Governor, State Bank of Pakistan

Heather Hughes
Professor, American University

Michal Nowakowski
Head of NewTech, NGL Advisory @ NGL Advisory

Kimberly Johnson
Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Fannie Mae

Maria Adamjee
Head of Partnerships and Alliances, Beacon Platform

Adeyemi Ajao
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Base10

Jimmy Chen
CEO, Propel

Kabir Kumar
Director, Flourish Ventures

Jelena McWilliams
Chairman, Member of the Board of Directors, U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Michael Hsu
Acting Comptroller of the Currency, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency

John W. Davis, II
VP of Data & Innovation, and CDC Entrepreneur-in-Residencem The Harbor Bank of Maryland

Nicole Elam
President & CEOm National Bankers Association

Robert James
Chairman, Carver State Bank

Javier Saade
Partner, Fenway Summer

Jon Frost
Senior Economist, Innovation and the Digital Economy, Bank for International Settlements

Roxana Mihet
Tenure-Track Professor of Finance, HEC Lausanne & Swiss Finance Institute

Huy Nguyen Trieu
Co-founder, CFTE - Centre for Finance, Technology and Entrepreneurship

Lisa Quest
Senior Partner, Head of Public Sector, Europe, Oliver Wyman

Johnny Ryan
Senior Fellow, Irish Council for Civil Liberties, and Senior Fellow, Open Markets Institute

Al Kelly
Chairman and CEO, Visa

Elizabeth Cronan
VP, Government Relations, GeoComply

Karen Croxson
Head of Research, UK Financial Conduct Authority

Jon Frost
Senior Economist, Innovation and the Digital Economy, Bank for International Settlements

Leonardo Gambacorta
Head of Innovation and the Digital Economy, Bank for International Settlements

Francis Kariuki
Law Lecturer, Competition Authority of Kenya

Marianne Verdier
Professor of Economics, University Paris 2 Pantheon Assas

Luigi Zingales
Director, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Charles Delingpole
Founder and CEO, ComplyAdvantage

Yaya Fanusie
Adjunct Senior Fellow, CNAS

Julia Friedlander
C. Boyden Gray Senior Fellow, GeoEconomics Center, Atlantic Council

Joshua Prober
Senior Content Developer, Chainalysis

Stephen Wink
Partner, Latham & Watkins

Gail Fuller
Managing Director, K2 Integrity

Ben Gray
Chief Compliance Officer, Square, Inc.

Grant Rabenn
Associate General, CounselCoinbase

Rebecca Rettig
General Counsel, Aave

Himamauli "Him" Das
Acting Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)

Miles Kellerman
Associate Director, University of Oxford

Chris Inglis
National Cyber Director, Office of the National Cyber Director, White House

Nadine Schwartz
Senior Counsel, IMF

Esteban Castaño
Co Founder & CEO, TRM Labs

Janet Ho
Policy Analyst, FATF

Caroline Horres
Policy Advisor, US Department of the Treasury

J. Christopher Giancarlo
Senior Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher

Jamie Chapman
Green Lead, Gemini

Michel Rauchs
Digital Assets Lead, Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance

Marco Santoro
Kraken Ventures

Yvette Valdez
Partner, Latham & Watkins LLP

Tanya Woods
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary , Hut 8 Mining Corp.

Damilola Arowolaju
O’Melveny Supreme Court & Appellate Secondee, Roderick & Solange MacArthur Justice Center

Devron Brown
Business Owner, Circle

Steve Bunnell
Chief Legal Officer, Diem Association

Conan French
Senior Advisor, Institute of International Finance

Ronit Ghose
Global Head, Citi

Linda Jeng
Georgetown Law / Transparent Financial Systems

John Pitts
Head of Policy, Plaid

Stefano Vaccino
Founder, Yapily

Dan Awrey
Professor of Law, Cornell Law School

Michael Barr
Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy, University of Michigan

Todd H Baker
Senior Fellow, Richman Center for Business, Law & Public Policy at Columbia University

Ginny Chappell
SVP Digital Payments, Realnet North America, FIS

Jai R. Massari
Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Robert Le
Fintech Analyst, PitchBook

Gary Gensler
Chair, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

Emma Butterworth
Officer, Bank of England

Peter Kerstens
Advisor, European Commission

Caitlin Long
Chairman & CEO, Avanti Bank & Trust

Tomicah Tillemann
Global Head of Policy and Partner, a16z

Dan Schulman
President and CEO, PayPal

Christian Catalini
Chief Economist and Co-Creator, Diem Association

Nic Carter
General Partner, Castle Island VC

Meltem Demirors
Chief Strategy Officer, CoinShares

Patrick Murck
President and Chief Legal Officer, Transparent Financial Systems

Colleen Sullivan
Director, Silvergate Bank

Chris Matturri
MBA Student, Georgetown University

Raphael Auer
Principal Economist, Bank for International Settlements

Michelle Bond
CEO, Association for Digital Asset Markets (ADAM)

Camille Busette
Senior Fellow - Economic Studies, Governance Studies, Metropolitan Policy Program Director - Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative, Brookings Institution

Yesha Yadav
Panelist, Vanderbilt Law School

Melissa Koide
CEO, FinRegLab

Theodore ("Teddy") Flo
Chief Legal Officer, Zest AI

Dominique Harrison
Director, Technology Policy, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies

Nat Hoopes
Vice President - Head of Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs, Upstart

Julapa Jagtiani
Senior Economic Advisor and Economist, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Petal Walker
Special Counsel, WilmerHale

Ping-Kuei Chen
National Chengchi University

Cheng-Yun Tsang
Associate Professor, National Chengchi University

Nakita Cuttino
Moderator, Georgetown University Law Center

Brendan Carroll
Senior Partner & Co-Founder, Victory Park Capital Advisors

Steven Davidoff Solomon
Alexander F. and May T. Morrison Professor of Law, U.C. Berkeley Law School

Keir Gumbs
Chief Legal Officer, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc.

Robert Jackson
Professor at NYU School of Law, former Commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), New York University

Amir Yaron
Governor, Bank of Israel

Nellie Liang
Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, US Department of the Treasury

2021 Sponsors

• Visa
• PayPal
• Latham & Watkins
• Chainalysis