Symposium on the Tokenization of Real-World Assets and Liabilities

8:00-9:00 a.m.

Registration

N/A

9:00-9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks by Michael J. Hsu, Acting Comptroller of the Currency

N/A

9:15-10:15 a.m.

Panel 1:
Legal Foundations for Digital Asset Tokens

Moderator:
Jonathan Fink, Associate Chief Counsel, OCC

Panelists:
Juliet M. Moringiello, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law, Widener University Commonwealth Law School (also worked on the Uniform Commercial Code project)

Edwin E. Smith, Uniform Law Commission representative; Partner, Morgan Lewis; Chair of the Uniform Commercial Code project

Andrea Tosato, Associate Professor in Commercial Law at the School of Law of the University of Nottingham and a Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School; Associate Research Director of the Permanent Editorial Board of the Uniform Commercial Code; the Chair of the Sub-Committee for the Uniform Commercial Code and Emerging Technologies of the American Bar Association Business Law Section

10:15-10:45 a.m.

Coffee Break

10:45-12:00 p.m.

Panel 2:
Academic Papers on Tokenization

Moderator:
Chau Do, Ph.D., Deputy Comptroller for the Economics and Risk Analysis Division, OCC

Panelists:
Bob Chakravorti, Ph.D., founder and CEO of Chakra Advisors

Gordon Y. Liao, Ph.D., Chief Economist for Circle, a Research Fellow at the Cornell Fintech Initiative and a co-chair of the National Association for Business Economics Finance Roundtable

Yukun Liu, Ph.D., William Meckling, Associate Professor of Finance at the Simon Business School, University of Rochester

12:00-1:00 p.m.

Lunch

1:00 – 1:45 p.m.

Panel 3:
Regulator Panel

Moderator:
Chris Brummer, Agnes Williams Sesquicentennial Professor of Financial Technology; Faculty Director, Institute of International Economic Law, Georgetown Law

Panelists:
Luke Brown, Associate Director, Supervisory Policy Branch, Division of Depositor and Consumer Protection, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

Sonja Danburg, Deputy Associate Director, Federal Reserve Board

Jorge Herrada, Director, Office of Technology Innovation, Commodity Futures Trading Commission

Donna M. Murphy, Deputy Comptroller for Compliance Risk Policy and Acting Deputy Comptroller for the Office of Financial Technology, OCC

Valerie A. Szczepanik, Director, Strategic Hub for Innovation and Financial Technology, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

2:00 to 3:00 p.m.

Panel 4:
Tokenization Use Cases

Moderator:
Jay Gallagher, Senior Deputy Comptroller, Supervision Risk and Analysis, OCC

Panelists:
Robert Bench, Senior Advisor to the Digital Currency Initiative at MIT

Jesse McWaters, Senior Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Mastercard

Jennifer C. Peve, Managing Director, Global Head of Strategy and Innovation, Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation

3:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Coffee/snacks break

3:30 to 4:30 p.m.

Panel 5:
Risk Management and Control Considerations

Moderator:
Beth Dugan, Deputy Comptroller, Large Bank Supervision, OCC

Panelists:
Morten Bech, Centre Head- Switzerland, Bank for International Settlements Innovation Hub

Aaron Klein, Miriam K. Carliner Chair, Economic Studies and Senior Fellow, Center on Regulation and Markets, at the Brookings Institution

Jessica Renier, Managing Director for Digital Finance, Institute of International Finance

4:30 to 4:45 p.m.

Break

4:45 to 5:30 p.m.

Keynote

Hyun Song Shin, Economic Advisor and Head of Research, Bank for International Settlements

5:30 to 5:45 p.m.

Closing remarks

Benjamin W. McDonough, Senior Deputy Comptroller and Chief Counsel, OCC