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PANEL - Digital Asset Trading and Investment: Understanding the new asset class and its risk management strategies from the perspective of market players and regulatory advisory firms.
Panelists: ❖ Suzanne Ley, Credit Agricole ❖ Sean Anderson, Shearman & Sterling ❖ Ksenia Sussman, BitOoda ❖ Mike McGlone, Bloomberg Intelligence ❖ Adil Abdulali, MOV37 and Protege Partners
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Digital assets are effectively a digital representation of a particular set of values that are recorded on a blockchain. Blockchain uses cryptography to effectively create an almost immutable proof of record of a particular transfer. There are different types of digital assets, such as Bitcoin which is a particular sort of currency that has a store of value and was created in 2008 with the notion of disintermediating traditional central trusted actors being the government’s banks. There are other asset classes as well and some of them are utilities. You can also have a securities product. Initial Coin Offerings (ICO) sounds like IPO but those products were considered to be securities under SEC so they fall within that jurisdiction. You can have the digital representation of value that could be a commodity, utility or security. Bitcoin is just one version of a blockchain and one-use case of blockchain. There are also features of blockchain that make it very useful for other thoughts of activities involve networks of people agreeing on things. When the financial crisis happened in 2008 and Lehman Brothers failed, regulators who contemplated about the Lehman bailout were lead to believe that derivative swap notional value was $400 billion. Five years later after going through all the details, the actual net amount at risk between all the counterparties was only $9 billion. That information was stored bilaterally between all the different players in the swap market and there was no transparency. If that swap contracts had been on a blockchain where everyone can look into it and see what’s going on instantly, it would be much clear that the exposures were much less than previously thought. So that’s another very useful financial use case of a blockchain. The entire cryptocurrency market is $300 billion, several large institutions could acquire that entire market easily. It really isn’t an institutional type of market yet but rather private. There are 3,100 cryptocurrencies and most of them are copycats. There is one Bitcoin and it is one battle of store value in a digital way. The cryptocurrency arbitrage hedge fund running five to ten million dollars at the most. There is 35 or 40 million wallets and there are 7 billion people in the world. Once it becomes in the billions then it will become institutionalized and be able to support that type of activity. The volatility will shrink a lot at that point and large networks is what is required to become stable.
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