The State of Digital Money 2018
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The State of Digital Money 2018
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Saturday, May 5th, 2018; Cross Campus DTLA
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The State of Digital Money is the premier professional event and conference focused on the conversation of the evolving trends and emerging technologies disrupting the global financial system and worldwide transactions. This established event will address the trends shaping the digital money landscape in 2018. As Fintech adoption builds momentum, considerable shifts are being witnessed across the entire financial services landscape.
In addition to showcasing some of the most pioneering Fintech success stories, The State of Digital Money will explore future Fintech design, start-up opportunities, innovation and entrepreneurship. There are two tracks of panels throughout the day covering topics ranging from blockchain
“Digital money can really be a variety of things but in essence, it is a monetary value that exists in electronic form. The obvious example is a digital wallet or a payment method — like PayPal or Apple Pay, which has revolutionized the way people shop online or even at the point-of-sale inside a physical store. Digital money can also mean a peer-to-peer (P2P) experience like Venmo in the US. P2P allows the free movement of money between people without the hassle of needing banking numbers or other sensitive information to make the transaction possible — its convenience has really changed the relationship that consumers have with money. The definition of digital money has changed even more recently with the immersion of cryptocurrency such as bitcoin, which is less prevalent but definitely a trend.” - Klas Bäck, GM of International & Payment Strategy at Braintree, a Paypal Service & Panelist on “The Growth in Innovative Payment Platforms”
Consumer banking continues to be the central driver in digital transformation with recent high profile Fintech partnerships hitting the headlines. Consumer banks are also the pioneers in adopting Blockchain technology and this trend looks set to increase in 2018. They are closely followed by payments companies with Blockchain investment looking set to double by 2020.
The State of Digital Money will deep-dive into the following topics:
Asset and wealth management companies are increasingly investing in digitally-driven technologies across the Fintech spectrum to yield smarter decision-making by increasing end-to-end efficiency, improving the research process and enhancing analytical capabilities.
“If you look at the money supply today, most of it (like over 90%) is “digital”. Only a small portion of the money supply is cash. So money is already “digital” insomuch as it’s represented by numbers in bank ledgers that we see in our browsers when we log on to internet banking. But when I think of digital money, I think of a new denomination— a new species of money— a tech-enabled currency that moves freely and without friction. One that can be safely stored in places other than traditional bank accounts. Again, Bitcoin has already demonstrated this is feasible. So I think of a future where banks and/or central banks begin issuing “tokens” that represent a claim on fiat reserves, which can be freely exchanged on open interoperable networks, enabling all sorts of efficiencies and new applications, operating on a global, rather than a national scale.” - Jesse Lund, Vice President at IBM Blockchain & Panelist on “The Evolution of Blockchain”
Speakers include:
“We have been interacting with money digitally for almost 25 years. Traditional on-line banking or trading stocks on-line set the stage for what has happened in the last 10 years with the innovation of Bitcoin and all the subsequent iterations. I loosely equate adoption of digital money to the digitalization of trust. Or thought of another way it’s the commoditization of trust.” - Christian Martin, CEO of TeraGroup & Executive Director for the Wallstreet Blockchain Alliance
& Panelist on “The Current State of Cryptocurrency”
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Visit stateofdigitalmoney.com for conference news and updates on speakers and agenda.
For further information, please contact:
Nicholas McCay, Media/Marketing
Email: Nicholas@cureativ.com
Telephone: (424) 326-3107