Symposium on the Tokenization of Real-World Assets and Liabilities

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will host a symposium on the tokenization of real-world assets and liabilities February 8, 2024, at its headquarters in Washington, D.C. The agenda follows:

Date: Thursday, February 8, 2024

Location: OCC Headquarters, Constitution Center, Washington, D.C.

TIME	PANEL NAME	PANELISTS/SPEAKERS
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