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K&L Gates and BayPay Forum a re delighted to invite you to an event addressing the current regulatory en vironment for ICO's. Topics covered at the session will include:
- An update on recent SEC announcements and enforce ment actions in the US, and potential impact on ICOs outside the US.
- An overview on UK regulatory guidance regarding ICO s
- Practical advice for companies that have al ready held an ICO or are planning one in the future.
Meet a panel of entrepreneurs involved in the Blockchain and ICO area s to discuss Use Cases and answer your questions
We hope you can make it to this event and feel free to sprea d the word.
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AGENDA
5:30 PM | Registration span> |
6:00 PM | Introdu ction by Daniel Chatelain, Managing Director at The BayPay Forum |
6:05 PM | Presentations |
From Londo n: Background about the ICO boom and transactions by Rizwan Qayyum, Law Cle rk, K&L Gates | |
From NYC & London: Overvie w of US regulatory responses to ICOs by Judith Rinearson and Derek Steingar ten, Partners at K&L Gates | |
6:45 PM | Panel discussion |
Panel and Q&A moderated by Daniel Cha telain, Managing Director at The BayPay Forum | |
Tommy Jamet, Founder of TheGrape.tech , President at The Government Blockchain Association - London | tr>|
7:15 PM | Q&A |
7:30 PM | Networking< /td> |
8:00 PM | End of Sessio n |
SPEAKERS
Rizwan Qayyum
Law Clerk, K&L Gates
Rizwan Qayyum is a member of the Investment Management team based in the London office. Mr Qayyum has particular experience with commercial and pay ments industries, advising on EU and UK law and regulation, products, trans actions and commercial contracts. He also works with European clients and t ransactions involving investment managers, and fund service providers, with strong regulatory experience. He has a special focus on innovation within financial services, including mobile payments, cryptocurrencies and token o fferings. He has written extensively on the area and has had speaking engag ements.
Mr Qayyum is US qualified lawyer.
Rodney Sm yth
Consultant at K&L Gates
Rodney Smyth is a consultant in the K &L Gates London office where he offers advice to the Investment Managem ent, Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments group. He advises on financial services law and regulation and has broad experience in the investment man agement industry. His practice area includes crowdfunding, regulated and un regulated funds and the marketing of financial products.
Judith Rinearson
Partner a t K&L Gates
Judith Rinearson is a partner in the firm’s New York and London offices. Ms. Rinearson concentr ates her practice in prepaid and emerging payment systems, electronic payme nts, crypto/virtual currencies, reward programs, ACH and check processing. She has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry , including 18 years at American Express’s General Counsel’s Office. Her ex pertise focuses particularly in the areas of emerging payments and complian ce with state and federal consumer protection laws, anti-money laundering l aws, state money transmitter licensing laws and abandoned property laws.
Fully experienced in both the “issuing” and “acquiring” side of the pay ments business, Ms. Rinearson has drafted and negotiated complex agreements with strategic co-branded partners, processors and Independent Sales Organ izations (ISOs), ATM networks, major retailers and service providers, prepa id card issuers and program managers, international remittance companies, v irtual and mobile payment providers, as well as the Terms and Conditions an d disclosures that usually accompany such products. She has hands-on experi ence in all legal aspects of launching and managing a range of payment prod ucts, from prepaid cards of all kinds, to Bitcoin exchanges and miners, wir e transfer services, ACH, electronic banking, money orders and credit cards . Her practice includes advising on fraud avoidance and compliance with fed eral banking and anti-money laundering laws, as well as state money transmi tter licensing laws, consumer protection laws and abandoned property laws. On the international level, Ms. Rinearson has supervised the launch of a ra nge of payment and foreign currency products in Europe, Asia and Latin Amer ica; met with international regulators; and spoken on the issue of payment regulation.
Ms. Rinearson currently serves on the Advisory Board of t he UK’s Emerging Payments Association (EPA), and previously served on the B oard of the UK’s Prepaid International Forum (PIF) where she is still an ac tive contributor. She has also served for 8 years as Regulatory Counsel for the Network Branded Prepaid Card Association (NBPCA) in the U.S., and as C hair of the NBPCA’s Government Relations Working Group, and in that role re presented the NBPCA at the Bank Secrecy Act Advisory Group (BSAAG) in Washi ngton DC.
She has long been a member of the American Bar Association’ s Cyberspace Law Committee, where she has previously chaired the Payment Ca rd Fraud Task Force.
Over the years, Ms. Rinearson has garnered many honors. In 2015, she was named one of the Top 10 Payment Lawyers, by Paybef ore magazine and in the same year was voted as one of the most Influential Women in Payments at the same publication. In March 2008, she was honored w ith an Industry Achievement Award from the 2008 Prepaid Card Expo for her c ontributions as a pioneer in the prepaid card industry and her particular i nfluence in the regulation of prepaid cards.
She has also given numer ous presentations about payment regulations at meetings held by the Federal Reserve Banks of Philadelphia and Chicago, the Conference of State Bank Su pervisors (CSBS), the Electronic Funds Transfer Association, Forum Europe, NACHA, and at annual meetings of the Money Transmitter Regulators Associati on, American Bar Association and the National Association of Unclaimed Prop erty Administrators. In 2015 and 2016, among other things, Ms. Rinearson pr esented at the Prepaid International Forum in London regarding U.S. payment laws; moderated a panel at Money2020 regarding state money transmitter lic ensing issues; and trained bank examiners regarding prepaid cards and emerg ing payments including crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin, Etherium and Ripp le. She also testified at the January 2014 Virtual Currency Hearings before the New York State Department of Financial Services regarding regulation o f virtual and crypto currencies.
Derek Steingarten< /p>
Partner at K&L Gates
Derek Steingarten is a partner based in the firm’s New Y ork and Boston offices who specializes in the fund industry, including a fo cus on regulations, fund launches and transactions. He maintains an active practice representing investment advisers and fund sponsors with new fund l aunches, ongoing regulatory issues and strategic transactions involving hed ge funds, mutual funds, private equity funds, collective investment trusts and other traditional and ‘alternative’ vehicles.
Derek’s industry kn owledge and regulatory expertise covers the securities, corporate, transact ional and business combination issues faced by financial firms as they mana ge and grow their businesses and address regulatory enforcement concerns. H is clients include seasoned and startup fund managers and consultants, bank s and other financial services firms, hedge and private equity funds, funds -of-funds, open and closed-end registered mutual funds, and fund boards of directors. He works regularly in an outside general counsel or client conci erge role, coordinating the firm’s specialty practices in tax, ERISA, emplo yment and litigation to provide high touch service to asset management firm s with offices and operations in the United States and other jurisdictions.
PANELIST
Tommy Jamet
Founder of TheGrape.te ch, President at The Government Blockchain Association - London
Tommy holds a master’s degree in f inance and a BSc in Accounting. He started to get involved in Blockchain by opening the first Government Blockchain Association Chapter in Europe in e arly 2017. The Association aims to facilitate the discussion between govern ments and the blockchain industry. It has rapidly grown to 50 chapters and counts more than 3,000 members across the globe today.
He founded in 2017 TheGrape.tech, a pre-ICO audit and crypto-assets accounting company to fill the great need of finance professional in the blockchain industry.
MODERATOR
Daniel Chatelain
Managing Director at The BayP ay Forum
Daniel Chatelain is a seri al entrepreneur focused on innovation in payments, commerce and Fintech. He sits on the board of directors or advisors of emerging companies and is a mentor at 500 Startups. He started The BayPay Forum to help foster innovati on in payment and commerce.
The BayPay Forum is a member based organi zation that gathers today over 14,000 executives from thousands of companie s and that organizes events for its members to understand the new trends in innovation in payments and commerce in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Ang eles, Atlanta, Toronto, New York, Paris, London and Luxembourg. Prior to th at, Daniel was CEO, President & COO of companies he started as an entre preneur or within the Lagardere (Elle, Woman’s Day, Car & Driver, Hache tte, Canal Satellite) and Airbus Industries group (Airbus, Ariane, Eurocopt er) and Vice President of a VC backed companies giving him a wide experienc e of growing companies domestically and internationally in the banking, tel ecom and interactive media industries as an entrepreneur, corporate or VC b acked senior executive.
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