14^th Annual
FinTech Summit

Bridging the Divide Between TradFi and DeFi

May 17-18, 2022
(Virtual)

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4 sessions

15 companies

15 CEOs

12 unicorns

$50bn+
total
valuation

About the Summit

FTS 2022 will be a virtual event.

Rosenblatt’s Annual FinTech Summit provides an excellent opportunity to hear CEOs of leading FinTech and Tech companies that are transforming the financial industry while making a profound difference in our lives.

This is the 14th consecutive year we are hosting our invitation-only FinTech Summit, which we began in 2009, well before FinTech was even an established term. Over these years, by featuring the most innovative FinTech companies, the program has attracted the world’s biggest financial institutions and top investors as its audience.
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There is no fee to attend our Summit and we don’t accept sponsorships – there is no pay for play. Our event is carefully curated to facilitate discussion of the most cutting-edge issues impacting finance, with CEOs of some of the most disruptive companies in the marketplace.

2009

First Annual FinTech Summit Hosted

250+

FinTechs Showcased at our Conference

1,200+

1x1 Meetings Held

FTS 2022 Panels

What’s this DeFi Brouhaha?

Deconstructing the Opportunities, Challenges, and Risks

DeFi involves offering traditional financial services (Payments, Lending, etc.) using Blockchain-based software and Smart Contracts, instead of intermediaries that provide trust and execute transactions in Traditional Finance.

Key Discussion Questions

What is DeFi all about? How big is it, how fast is it evolving, and who are the leading players in it?
What implications does DeFi have for the financial services industry and for business in general?
What does the DeFi stack look like, and how is it different than the TradFi stack?

Bridging the TradFi/DeFi Divide

How will Traditional Finance and DeFi come together?

Market participants are grappling with two seemingly parallel universes of Traditional Finance and the fast-evolving DeFi world. The question is whether these two worlds will collide, coexist, or converge at some point, and how will that happen.

Key Discussion Questions

What does the convergence of TradFi/DeFi mean, and what are examples of this today?
What will be the onramps/offramps between TradFi and DeFi?
What are the technological and regulatory challenges in implementing DeFi within the TradFi world?

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Building a Better, Fairer World

How will Blockchain, DeFi solve financial inclusion and ESG issues?

DeFi promises to eliminate 5 major shortcomings of TradFi: inefficiency (costly, insecure, slow), limited access (1.2bn unbanked), governance (centralized control), opacity (systemic risk), and interoperability (friction in moving funds). It could also help meet ESG objectives.

Key Discussion Questions

How can Blockchain, Crypto and DeFi solve ESG issues? What are the most promising opportunities?
What are examples of innovative companies addressing these challenges?
What is the low hanging fruit, and what are issues that will be much tougher to address?

Key Questions for Discussion

What is DeFi all about? How big is it, how fast is it evolving, and who are the leading players in it?
What implications does DeFi have for the financial services industry and for business in general?
What does the DeFi stack look like, and how is it different than the TradFi stack?

Key Questions for Discussion

What does the convergence of TradFi/DeFi mean, and what are examples of this today?
What will be the onramps/offramps between TradFi and DeFi?
What are the technological and regulatory challenges in implementing DeFi within the TradFi world?

Key Questions for Discussion

How can Blockchain, Crypto and DeFi solve ESG issues? What are the most promising opportunities?
What are examples of innovative companies addressing these challenges?
What is the low hanging fruit, and what are issues that will be much tougher to address?

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Featured FinTechs

Asiff Hirji

President

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Fireside Chat
With Asiff Hirji

Asiff will share his vision of the most compelling issues in Blockchain and DeFi and how they can transform financial services, and present real-life case studies of companies driving this change. He will also provide an unvarnished view of the risks, challenges, and unintended consequences of these new technologies. This is an opportunity to hear from a renowned investor, operator, and advisor who has worked for three decades across TradFi and DeFi.