Building on EBF Digital Thursdays 2020, this year’s edition will bring together experts from industry, policymakers and supervisors to share their insights on key developments in digital finance, driven by regulatory initiatives and industry priorities. On 28 October, we will explore digital operational resilience, third-party relationships and risk management, and cybersecurity in light of ongoing European legislative harmonization. This discussion will take place against the backdrop of the European Cybersecurity Month.
We will analyse the significance of access to data and infrastructure on 4 November. This is crucial for innovation in the financial industry within a landscape heavily influenced by tech firms and non-financial global actors. On this day, we will also examine digital tools such as eID and discuss open finance from a holistic perspective. Payments are at the heart of the financial industry and at the same time Central Bank Digital Currencies and the digital euro are raising important questions. We will delve into the evolution of the financial ecosystem, the phenomenon of CBDCs and the aspiration for ‘homegrown’ pan-European payment solutions on 18 November.
Jose-Manuel Campa, EBA Chair José Manuel Campa, is the Chairperson of the European Banking Authority (EBA). He was appointed in March 2019 and is serving a renewable five-year term. He represents the Authority and by chairing the meetings of the Board of Supervisors and of the Management Board, he steers the strategic direction of the Authority.
From 2015 and prior to this appointment, Campa served as Global Head of Regulatory Affairs, for the Grupo Santander. Prior to that, he was Professor of Finance and Economics at IESE Business School.
Between 2009 and 2011 Campa served as Secretary of State for the Economy in the Ministry of Economy and Finances of Spain. He was a member of the Financial Stability Board, the board of the European Financial Stability Facility, the Economic and Financial Committee and alternate governor in multilateral financial institutions. He has served in the Expert Group, chair by Mr. Erkki Liikanen, evaluating policy recommendations on structural reforms for the European Banking industry.
He has also taught at the Stern School of Business of New York University and at Columbia University. He has been Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research. Mr. Campa has also been a consultant to a large number of international organizations, including the International Monetary Fund, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Bank of International Settlements in Basel, and the European Commission.
He has served on the boards of Prime Collateralised Securities (PCS) Europe, Bruegel, and General de Alquiler de Maquinaria.
José Manuel Campa holds a Ph.D. and a master degree in economics from Harvard University and a Licenciatura in law and in economics from the Universidad de Oviedo.
Chairperson, European Banking Authority
Olivier Guersent, Director-General, DG Competition Olivier Guersent is as of 1st January 2020 the Director-General of the Directorate General for Competition.
He joined the European Commission in 1992, initially with the “Merger Task Force” in the Directorate-General for Competition. Since then, he has alternated between the private offices of a number of European Commissioners (Karel Van Miert, Michel Barnier and Neelie Kroes) and DG Competition (successively Deputy Head of Unit in charge of cartels, Head of Unit in charge of policy and coordination of cases, Head of Unit in charge of merger control, Acting Director “Transport, postal and other services” and, from 2009, Director responsible for the fight against cartels. From 2010 to 2014 he was the head of the private office of Michel Barnier, Commissioner for Internal Market and Services. Having held the position of Deputy Director-General since July 2014, Olivier Guersent has been Director-General of the Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union from 1 September 2015 to 31 December 2019.
He graduated with distinction from the “Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux” in 1983. He joined the French Ministry of Economy and Finance in 1984, where he carried out many investigations for the French Competition Authority.
Married and a father of three children, Olivier Guersent is a member of the board of of the non-profit organisation Aremis that provides medical care in the home, primarily to cancer patients in the Brussels area. He is a regular lecturer to postgraduate university students.
Director-General, European Commission,
DG Competition
Prof. Christopher Brummer, Georgetown University Law Center, Institute of Int’l Economic Law Chris Brummer is a Georgetown law professor and author. He also lectures widely on financial inclusion and equity, financial regulation and global governance. His views regularly inform a wide array of conversations, from diversity in regulatory agencies and corporate boards to cutting edge issues in financial technology and international regulatory and monetary diplomacy. His work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Marketwatch, Fast Company, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Yahoo Money, Roll Call, Cointelegraph, and Coin Desk, among others.
Chris started his career at Cravath Swaine and Moore LLP, and now serves as the Faculty Director of the Institute of International Economic Law. For more than a decade, he has lent his expertise to industry leaders, nonprofits and policymakers, and offered his insights as to how firms and governments can best understand and react to new developments and challenges in the financial system.
Aside from working as a professor and spearheading multiple initiatives related to financial regulation, he also served as both a member of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s Subcommittee on Virtual Currencies and the Consultative Working Group for the European Securities and Markets Authority’s Financial Innovation Standing Committee. Chris also concluded a three-year term as a member of the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA.
Chris served most recently as a member of the Biden-Harris Transition team, assisting in leading work streams relating to financial technology, racial equity and systemic risk for the Treasury ART.
Chris holds multiple degrees, including a J.D. with honors from Columbia Law School and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is also the author or editor of several books, including Soft Law and the Global Financial System, Minilateralism, Cryptoassets: Legal, Regulatory and Monetary Perspectives, and Fintech Law in a Nutshell.
Chris is the host of CQ Roll Call’s Fintech Beat podcast, and founder of Washington DC’s Fintech Week, an annual free event for the public.
Georgetown University Law Center,
Institute of Int’l Economic Law
The Digital Thursdays 2021: Close-up on Digital Euro tried to investigate what a digital euro could look like, what could be its features and how it could be best designed to benefit European businesses and citizens. Discussions also focused on the role that banks can play in a digital euro ecosystem and how they would participate in the design phase.
The first day of EBF’s Digital Thursdays 2020 was devoted to cyber security and resilience. Taking place during the European Cyber Security Month and building upon the previous annual editions of the EBF Cybersecurity Conference, this event explored the rapidly evolving cyber trends and challenges for banks.
The second day of EBF’s Digital Thursdays 2020 was dedicated to the European Data Economy and Open Finance. The discussions focused on the role policymakers and stakeholders can play to increase data sharing in Europe, particularly across sectors. Particular emphasis was paid to the challenges and opportunities an EU open finance framework could bring for firms and consumers, and to the possible foundation for such a framework.
This event is organized by the European Banking Federation (EBF) with the technical support of Forum Europe.
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