From Digital Assets to Decentralized Finance – survival playbook for institutions

UBS Bank for Banks livestream, Tuesday, June 15th, 2021, 16.00-17.00 CEST

New York: 10.00-11.00 EDT
Zurich: 16.00-17.00 CEST
Hong Kong: 22.00-23.00 HKT

Please note: The webcast does not contain any advisory or product placement.

As trusted financial market intermediaries we need to keep innovating and shaping the future of investing. In this session, we will be sharing the “lessons learned” in exploring opportunities across digital assets and decentralized finance over recent years. How should institutions be thinking about this space? And what are the pitfalls to avoid going forward?

Join us, as we cut through the hype and jargon with our panel of experts, to discuss the institutional roadmap ahead.

See below the UBS speaker details for this interactive livestream session.

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Sam Chadwick

Sam Chadwick

Head of Emerging Tech Group Technology

Sam works in the Chief Technology Office where he leads the organization’s innovation initiatives across emerging technology.

He joined UBS in February 2019 as the Head of the Distributed Ledger Technology Center of Excellence, before which he led the blockchain strategy for Refinitiv.

Sam has a background in product strategy and product management having worked in New York, Hong Kong and Switzerland. He has a Master in Financial Strategy from the University of Oxford and currently lives in Zug, Switzerland.

Sam was a founding board member of the Crypto Valley Association.
Outside work, Sam represents Switzerland in the national Senior Touch Rugby team.

Chetan Tolia

Chetan Tolia

Digital Business Transformation, Strategic Development Lab (IB)

Chetan is the Head of the Strategic Development Lab within the Investment Bank's Digital Platforms unit.

Focussed on the IB of the future, SDL is responsible for enabling the firm to innovate it's business model in order to remain relevant in a digital disruptive age.
This includes running innovation pilots with clients, strategic partnerships with external firms and external direct investment with a long term horizon investment perspective.

Some of Chetan's current areas of focus include:

  1. Tokenisation: how blockchain technology enables digital assets, digital cash and digital custody in financial markets
  2. Innovation mindset - how large established firms can innovate their approach and culture to remain competitive and relevant in a rapidly changing environment where FinTechs and BigTechs have are increasing prominence

Joining UBS as an intern in 1997 he has held several change management and transformation roles in both business and technology divisions out of London and Zurich.

Chetan is a UBS Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Ambassador and co-chairs the IB DE&I council in Switzerland.

He's an active member of the MOSAIC network that focuses on ethnicity DE&I, and leads the Refugee Engagement Stream as part of that network.

He holds a 1st class honours degree in Software Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science & Technology.

Originally from Nairobi, Kenya he lives with his wife and son in Zurich.

Christian Stolcke

Christian Stolcke

Global Head Banks and Head of Corporate & Institutional Clients, Americas

Christian is a Capital Markets and Transaction Banking veteran who spent his career successfully growing service businesses and implementing large scale performance improvement programs across Shared Services, Operations and Technology.

Christian holds a dual role at UBS as Global Head of Banks and Head of Corporate Subsidiary Banking in the Americas, both within the Corporate and Institutional Client Business.

He is responsible for managing relationships with global banks and regulated broker from a coverage, risk and strategic perspective. Furthermore, he oversees the Transaction Banking business serviced out of Switzerland, which encompasses Cash, Securities and Trade & Export finance for Financial Institutions. Additionally, Christian manages UBS's fast growing Corporate Subsidiary Banking franchise in the Americas.

If you have any questions about this live webcast, please contact your client advisor or send us an email.