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U.S. (Federal)
Not publicly listed, but known: SEC Oversight Hearings in HFSC, Senate Banking w/ Chair Gensler testifying (Sept 23 & 25, respectively). HFSC markup on several to-be-determined bills on September 26
- November 21-22: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland – Office of Financial Research – 12th Annual Financial Stability Conference: Emerging Risks in a Time of Interconnectedness and Innovation. (read more)
- TBD
- TBD
- Oct 22-23: Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia – 8th Annual FinTech Conference (read more)
- Topics: real-world asset tokenization, tokenized deposits, BaaS, FinTech in shaping the future of finance
- Topics: real-world asset tokenization, tokenized deposits, BaaS, FinTech in shaping the future of finance
- October 9-10: Chicago Fed Payments Symposium (read more)
- Panel Session: Digital Currency, Digital Assets and Settlement
- Panel Session: Digital Currency, Digital Assets and Settlement
- October 9: NYU – Fireside chat w/ SEC Chair Gary Gensler (read more)
- October 1-2: Fed Banks of Atlanta, Boston, and Richmond – Technology Enabled Disruption: Implications of AI, Big Data, and Remote Work (read more)
- Evening Keynote: A Conversation with the Federal Reserve Presidents
- Evening Keynote: A Conversation with the Federal Reserve Presidents
- September 26: 2024 U.S. Treasury Market Conference (read more)
- Panel: Treasury Market Structure: Past, Present, and Future
- Panel: Treasury Market Structure: Past, Present, and Future
- September 25: NIST – Unleashing AI Innovation, Enabling Trust: A Symposium to Discuss Recent Progress and Next Steps in AI measurements and standards (read more)
- September 19: SEC Investor Advisory Committee meeting (read more)
- September 18: Federal Reserve Board FOMC Press Conference
- September 18: HFSC Hearing – Protecting Americans’ Savings: Examining the Economics of the Multi-Billion Dollar Romance Confidence Scam Industry(read more)
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- September 18: HFSC hearing – Dazed and Confused: Breaking Down the SEC’s Politicized Approach to Digital Assets (read more)
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- TBD
- September 17: Senate Judiciary Committee – Oversight of AI: Insiders’ Perspectives (read more)
- Georgetown University, Google AI, OpenAI, UC Berkeley
U.S. (State)
Uniform Law Commission
- October 30: Virtual Currency Customer Protection – Drafting Committee meeting (read more)
New York
- September 20: Assembly Standing Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection & Assembly Standing Committee on Science and Technology – Ensuring Consumer Protection & Safety Relating to the Use of Artificial Intelligence (read more)
- The Committees would like to hear testimony on existing laws and regulations in New York State, other states, or new initiatives being discussed at the state and federal levels regarding the use of AI related to consumer safety and protections.
Texas
- October 1:Senate Business and Commerce Committee meeting (read more)
- Innovative Power Generation: Explore emerging technologies with the potential to add new dispatchable power to our electric grid including, but not limited, to small modular nuclear reactors, advanced batteries, and new developments in hydrogen and geothermal resources. Identify and recommend regulatory and policy actions required to deploy emerging technologies within the state’s electric grid.
- Innovative Power Generation: Explore emerging technologies with the potential to add new dispatchable power to our electric grid including, but not limited, to small modular nuclear reactors, advanced batteries, and new developments in hydrogen and geothermal resources. Identify and recommend regulatory and policy actions required to deploy emerging technologies within the state’s electric grid.
- September 19: House Committee on Pensions, Investments & Financial Services (read more)
- HB 1666 – Relating to the Commingling of funds by digital asset service providers; providing an administrative penalty
- September 17: IT Caucus Emerging Technologies Lunch & Learn (read more)
Wyoming
- September 19: WY Stable Token Commission meeting (read more)
- September 16-17: Select Committee on Blockchain, Financial Technology and Digital Innovation Technology meeting (read more)
- WY Stable Token Commission Update
- Federal legislative update w/ U.S. Sen Cynthia Lummis (R-WY)
- Cryptocurrency Mining Update
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) Governance – info session re: AI liability, data provenance, and automated decision-making issues
- Bill draft – Defense of state banking
- Review of Select Cmte on Blockchain Enabling Legislation
- Special Purpose Depository Institutions (SPDIs)
UK
House of Commons & House of Lords in recess. Return October 7, 2024.
- September 17: UK Regulated Liability Network (RLN) experimentation phase – Final Report Launch (read more)
- BoE Executive Director of Payments, Victoria Cleland, to speak
Europe
- October 16: First-ever EU-GCC Summit
- September 26-27: ESRB – New Frontiers in Macroprudential Policy conference (read more)
- Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk w/ Google, S&P, American University, University of Luxembourg
- Panel Discussion: Artificial Intelligence and Systemic Risk w/ Google, S&P, American University, University of Luxembourg
- September 26: ECroundtable on consolidation of market infrastructure in the EU (read more)
- September 26: BdF Seminar – Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Wholesale component (wCBDC) (read more)
- This webinar in English, simultaneously translated into French, details what an interbank central bank digital currency (known as “wholesale”) could look like: why? how? where do we stand? what are the next steps?
- This webinar in English, simultaneously translated into French, details what an interbank central bank digital currency (known as “wholesale”) could look like: why? how? where do we stand? what are the next steps?
- September 25: EC Working Party – Financial Services and Banking Union (Digital Euro) (read more)
- Continued examination of the Digital Euro proposals
- Continued examination of the Digital Euro proposals
- September 23: ESMA/ EBA – Hearing on the Guidelines under MICA establishing templates for explanations and legal opinions regarding the classification of crypto assets (read more)
- September 20: EBA – Public Hearing on Guidelines on templates to assist competent authorities in performing their supervisory duties regarding issuers’ compliance under MiCAR (read more)
- September 19: EC Working Party on Competition meeting (read more)
- Presidency priorities
- Presidency priorities
- September 18-19: ECB – Supervision Innovators Conference 2024: Technology and Banking Supervision Connected (Invite only & Online) (read more)
- September 18: EC Financial Services Committee meeting (read more)
- Follow-up on the future of CMU
- ESMA update on the latest MiCA developments
- Update on ESMA’s supervisory approach and new mandates
- September 17: EC Working Party – Financial Services and Banking Union (Payment Services) meeting (read more)
- Continued examination of legislative proposals on the Payment Services Directive and Regulation
- Continued examination of legislative proposals on the Payment Services Directive and Regulation
- September 16-19: European Parliament Plenary Session (read more)
- Address by Mario Draghi – Presentation of the report on the Future of European competitiveness
- Debate – The future of European competitiveness
- Presentation of the program of activities of the Hungarian Presidency
Australia
- September 20: Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services – Financial Services Regulatory Framework in Relation to Financial Abuse (read more)
- September 19: Select Committee on Adopting Artificial Intelligence (AI) expected to produce a report to the Parliament on/before this date
UAE
- September 18: US-UAE Business Council: Webinar on U.A.E.’s Enhanced AML/CFT Framework(read more)
- Lara Murad, US Treasury Attaché to the UAE and Oman
- Lara Murad, US Treasury Attaché to the UAE and Oman
- September 17: EU – UAE bilateral meetings
Asia
- November 6-8: Singapore FinTech Festival (read more)
- October 28 – November 1: Hong Kong FinTech Week (read more)
- September 20-21: Solana Breakpoint (read more)
- September 18-19: Token 2049 Singapore (read more)
Multilateral
- October 25: 10th BdF-BoE-BdI International Macroeconomics Workshop: Structural factors in the global economy (read more)
- Financial fragmentation and the changing structure of the international monetary system
- Financial fragmentation and the changing structure of the international monetary system
- October 21-25: IMF-World Bank Group 2024 Annual Meeting (Fall) (read more)
- October 4: BoE – Banque de France – Banca d’Italia – IMF – OECD – 5th International Capital Flows and Financial Policies Workshop (read more) (Invite-only)
- The role of non-bank financial intermediation in the propagation of global shocks
- Capital flows in a digital age: international spillovers of crypto activities, stablecoins, and central bank digital currencies (CBDC)
- September 24-30: 79th session of the UN General Assembly – High-level general debate begins.
- September 20: IMF 2024 Michel Camdessus Central Banking Lecture w/ ECB President Christine Lagarde (read more)
- September 20: OMFIF – William Dudley on the Monetary Policy Outlook for the US (read more)
- September 17: OMFIF – Digital Assets 2024 Report: A Long Awaited Revolution (read more)
Third-Party / Academic
- November 5: LSE – AI in public policy: opportunities and challenges (read more)
- October 22: City & Financial Global – Data, AI and the Future of Financial Services Summit 2024 (read more)
- FCA’s Data Strategy and pro-innovation regulatory approach w/ FCA’s Jagpal Singh Jheeta, Chief Digital Product Officer
- Digital ID in the context of privacy and financial services w/ Rob Kotiarz, Co-Founder & President, OneID
- Digital Assets and Privacy w/ Dr Ruth Wandhöfer, Global Fintech 50 Influencer, International Keynote Speaker; Non-Executive Board Member, Aquis Exchange; Dr Ian Hunt, Industry Consultant and Author on Digital assets, Advisor on Tokenisation at Schroders
- The UK Government’s initiatives on enabling trustworthy innovation using data and AI. Understanding artificial intelligence ethics and safety
- October 21-24: DC FinTech Week (read more)
- October 21: SIFMA Annual Meeting in NYC (read more) ($$$)
- Speakers include: CFTC Chair Behnam, SEC Chair Gensler, Fed Bank (Dallas) Lorie Logan, BlackRock’s Larry Fink,
- Program: TBD
- October 21: PIIE – Geopolitics and International Trade and Finance – Knowns and Unknowns (read more)
- Impacts of geopolitics on international finance
- Policy implications and solutions
- October 15-17: Meridian 2024: Transformation (read more)
- September 26: ETA FinTech Policy Forum (read more)
- FinTech – a view from Capitol Hill
- Identity and fraud in a digital world
- Regulators views on FinTech
- Digital Assets
- September 26: Atlantic Council – 2024 Transatlantic Forum on GeoEconomics (read more)
- Securing the Global Financial System; Enabling Technology Innovation; Driving Energy Transition
- Speakers include: Dept of State, Dept of Commerce, Dept of Treasury, Nasdaq, Atlantik-Brucke, Stellar Development Foundation, White House National Security Council, Amazon Web Services, Dept of Justice, Goldman Sachs, European Parliament
- September 25: EBF-S&P Global Market Intelligence: The Future of Instant Payments: Challenges & Strategies in Europe (read more)
- Dutch Payment Association, Italian Banking Association, European Banking Federation, Bizum
- Dutch Payment Association, Italian Banking Association, European Banking Federation, Bizum
- September 24: Securities Enforcement Forum Central 2024 (read more)
- Keynote Q&A Discussion with Tina Diamantopoulos, the new Director for the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office, as well as eight other panels
- Keynote Q&A Discussion with Tina Diamantopoulos, the new Director for the SEC’s Chicago Regional Office, as well as eight other panels
- September 24-26: Currency Research – The Central Bank AI Conference (read more)
- September 23: FPRI – How do Technological Revolutions Affect the Rise and Fall of Great Powers? (read more)
- September 20: CNAS – Confronting the Axis of Upheavel (read more)
- House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA)
- Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services Committee Rob Wittman (R-VA)
- September 19: Program on International Financial Systems – Roundtable on the Future of Digital Assets (read more)
- September 19: CEPS – The rise of the far-right in the EU: what, why and how? (read more)
- September 19: Axios – The State of Play for Crypto on Capitol Hill (read more)
- Sen. Gillibrand; Rep. Emmer; Better Markets; Consensys
- September 17: ForumGlobal – 6th Annual Data Privacy Conference – Washington, DC (read more)
- September 17: GDF Tokenization Forum (Hybrid) in NYC
- September 17: Brookings Institute: Global Conference on Frontier AI (read more)
- Fireside chat: Nat Sec & AI w/ Jason Matheny, President & CEO, RAND
- Regulatory Foundations for AI Governance
- Cybersecurity and Systemic Risk (CFTC’s Pham speaking on a panel)
- Privacy
- September 17: Georgetown University – Financial Markets Quality Conference 2024 (read more)
- Market structure w/ Morgan Stanley, WFE, Cboe, Nasdaq
- Innovation in ETFs w/ SEC, Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, BlackRock
- Crypto & financial Markets w/ Robinhood, Bullish, Grayscale, Ripple, WEF
- Regulatory Roundtable w/ US SEC (Uyeda), CFTC (Pham), Treasury (Sandra Lee)
- Keynotes: CFTC’s Behnam, Rep. Patrick McHenry, Sen. Cynthia Lummis, CME CEO Terry Duffy; LSEG CEO David Schwimmer, Treasury’s Nellie Liang; JPM CEO Jamie Dimon
- September 17: OMFIF – Digital Assets 2024: A Long-Awaited Revolution (read more) – R3 & Stellar sponsoring
- The report will explore:
- Which asset classes will be tokenized
- Where tokenised cash will come from – central banks? Commercial banks? A stablecoin provider?
- How the roles of financial market infrastructure providers will change with DLT
- Whether regulators should re-examine the oversight of digital asset custodians
- The report will explore:
- September 17: Politico: AI & Tech Summit – American Leadership, Security and Democracy (read more)
- September 16: Atlantic Council – Can Europe Get Competitive? Insights from Mario Draghi’s Competitiveness Report (read more)