14.30-15.00 Registration and welcome coffee
15.00-16.15 Panel 1: Digital transformation of EU’s financial services: AI, Cloud and Financial Infrastructure: Building the Next Generation Financial System
16.15-16.30 Coffee break
16.30-17.45 Panel 2: The future of European financial regulation: Simplification, Supervision and Innovation
Vice President, Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy, EMEA, S&P Global
David Henry Doyle is Global Head of Policy & Strategy for S&P Global's Government Affairs & Public Policy team and Head of Government Affairs & Public Policy for Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. He leads the development of the company's global policy strategy and advises senior leadership on emerging regulatory, geopolitical, technological, and market developments. He also serves on the Steering Committee of the S&P Global Institute. Prior to joining S&P Global, David was Head of Financial Services at an international consulting firm focused on financial services regulation, commodity markets, and investor relations. He has also worked for a financial software company, a leading European security and defence think tank, and an international organisation. David was named a 40 Under 40 Rising Star of Trading and Technology by Financial News and an Emerging Leader in Geopolitics and Business by the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds degrees from Trinity College Dublin and the University of Cambridge.
Adviser, European Commission, DG FISMA
Peter advises on Technological Innovation, Digital Transformation and Cybersecurity at the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union. He has led work on the European Commission’s Fintech Action Plan and Co-chairs the European Commission’s Fintech Taskforce. He has extensive experience and expertise in EU policy and regulation covering financial services, digitalisation, security and consumer protection. Earlier in his career, Peter was Finance Counsellor at the EU Embassy in Washington DC. He has also been a member of the private offices of the commissioner for the internal market and services and the commissioner for health and consumer protection. Before joining the European Commission, Peter advised major financial services companies on EU regulatory affairs. He is a Dutch national and holds master degrees in European affairs and political science from the College of Europe in Bruges and the University of Leuven, Belgium.
Head of Financial Services, BEUC
Anna Martin is the head of Financial Services at BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation. She is in charge of retail banking, working among other files on the review of the Payment Service Directive 2, Instant Payments and the digital euro. Before joining BEUC, she worked for the German Foreign Office in the team coordinating the German EU Council Presidency. Anna holds a Master in European Affairs from the College of Europe, Sciences Po Lille and the University of Münster.
Head of EMEA Regulatory Affairs, J.P.Morgan
Claudia joined J.P.Morgan’s Office of Regulatory Affairs in August 2013. Claudia specialises in EU Financial Markets Policy initiatives and she is responsible for analyzing and determining the firm's views on regulatory proposals and identifying the appropriate mechanism for advocacy for the firm. Prior to joining J.P. Morgan, Claudia spent five years working at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the United Kingdom as the EU Policy Liaison in the Markets Monitoring Department. Among her many responsibilities, she represented the FCA on two of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) task forces. Claudia also worked at the European Central Bank (ECB) in Frankfurt, Germany in the Directorate General Statistics as well as the European Commission in Brussels in the Directorate General for Development. She holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the Université Libre of Brussels (ULB), an MSc in Development Economics from Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium and an MSc in Economics from University College London (UCL).
Head of European Policy, FIA
Adeshini Naidoo is Head of European Policy at FIA, where she leads the association's engagement with European policymakers, regulators and market participants on policy and regulatory issues affecting global derivatives markets. Prior to joining FIA, Adeshini held policy and regulatory roles at the Bank of England, the Financial Conduct Authority and the European Commission, working across a broad range of financial services regulatory and policy issues.
Head of Department Markets and Digital Innovation Department, European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
Carsten joined ESMA in 2012, became Team Leader for Secondary Markets in 2014 and Head of the Trading Unit in 2019. Currently he is the Head of the newly established Markets and Digital Innovation Department. The Department is responsible for developing implementing measures and supervisory convergence in the EU for secondary markets, market integrity, short selling, post-trading and settlement and commodity derivative issues. The Department is also covering implementation and convergence in the EU for crypto markets and digital operational resilience plus other files in the area of digital innovation. Prior to joining ESMA, Carsten was a seconded expert at the European Commission. He also served as a policy officer in the German Ministry of Finance and Germany’s financial regulator BaFin. Before joining the public sector, Carsten was a consultant for a consultancy in London. He holds a German law degree and an LL.M. in international law and is qualified as a lawyer in Germany and as a solicitor in England and Wales.
Head of the Securities Markets Unit, DG FISMA
Tanya Panova is the Head of the Securities Markets Unit in DG FISMA. Previously, she has been developing the capital markets strategy as the Head of the Capital Markets Union Unit and served in the private office of Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis where she was responsible for Capital Markets Union, securities markets, asset management, insurance, free movement of capital and competition. In her previous job, Tanya worked on aviation antitrust cases in DG COMP. Tanya is a trained economist with specialization in financial services.
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Managing Director, Meade Davis Communications
