2022 Agenda

Take a look at the full agenda of 2022's Peer-to-Peer Financial Systems Workshop held at the University College London (UCL) including invited talks, panels, paper sessions, keynotes, and welcome addresses by an incredible global network of top-tier speakers.

Opening Remarks

9:00 am

9:15 am

Taolo Tasca (UCL CBT), Jiahua (Java) Xu (UCL CBT), and Juan Ignacio Ibañez (UCL CBT)

Keynote Speech: Is Software Eating Finance?

9:15 am

9:45 am

Daniel Heller (Fnality)

First Invited Talk: Telco Tokenization and Stablecoin Development an Industry Opportunity

9:45 am

10:15 am

Monique Morrow (Ex-Cisco)

Second Invited Talk: Decentralised Finance (DeFi) Attacks

10:30 am

11:10 am

Arthur Gervais (UCL) and Liyi Zhou (Imperial College London)

First Paper Session: Battle of the Bots: Miner Extractable Value and Efficient Settlement

11:30 am

12:10 pm

Alfred Lehar (Haskayne School of Business, Calgary) and Christine Parlour (Haas School of Business and University of California, Berkeley)

Panel Discussion: Digital Assets and ESG

12:10 pm

1:10 pm

John Shawe-Taylor (UCL), Silvia Bartolucci (UCL), Betsabe Botaitis (Hedera), Maxime Nicolas (UCL), and moderated by Tomaso Aste (UCL)

Second Invited Talk

2:10 pm

2:40 pm

Leemon Baird (Swirlds)

Second Paper Session: Governance Challenges of Decentralised Finance

2:40 pm

3:10 pm

Karsten Paetzmann (Frankfurt School of Finance and Management)

Third Paper Session: Discussing Blockchain Implications on bond Issuance

3:10 pm

3:50 pm

Veni Arkelian, Vangelis Malamas, Thomas Dasaklis, and Gregory Chondrokoukis

Panel Discussion: Decentralised Finance

4:10 pm

5:10 pm

Gaspard Pedruzzi (APWine), Daniel Perez (Mero), Hugo Philion (Flare), Niall Roche (UCL), and Kristina Lucrezia Cornèr (Cointelegraph)

Closing Remarks

5:10 pm

Jiahua (Java) Xu (UCL CBT)

Opening Remarks

9:30 am

9:45 am

Paolo Tasca (UCL CBT)

Keynote Speech: Disruption in Embedded Banking and New Cross-Border Payment Models

9:45 am

10:30 am

Marcus Treacher (ClearBank)

First Session Paper: The Demand for Programmable Payments

10:30 am

11:10 am

Charles Kahn (University of Illinois) and Maarten van Oordt (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Second Paper Session: Anatomy of a Stablecoin's Failure: The Terra-Luna Case

11:30 am

12:10 pm

Antonio Briola (UCL), David Vidal-Tomás (UCL), Yuanrong Wang (UCL), and Tomaso Aste (UCL)

Invited Talk: Discovering a Global Carbon Price

12:10 pm

12:40 pm

Hania Othman (The HBAR Foundation) and Wes Geisenberger (The HBAR Foundation)

Third Paper Session: Market Depth and Liquidity Provision Profitability Uniswap

1:40 pm

2:20 pm

Mark Woelders (Warwick Business School)

Fourth Paper Session: Can a Currency Be Stable in Itself? An Economic Law Analysis of the Concept of Stability in the Case of Stablecoins

2:20 pm

3:00 pm

Filippo Zati (BABEL, University of Florence) and Rosa Giovanna Barresi (BABEL, University of Florence)

Panel Discussion: Stablecoins and Financial Stability

3:30 pm

4:30 pm

Jane Moore (Cinancial Conduct Authority), Teana Baker-Taylor (Circle), Geoffrey Goodell (UCL), Andrea Filtri (Mediobanca), and Tom Wilson (Thomson Reuters)

Keynote Speech: Detection of High Risk in DeFi Protocols

4:30 pm

5:10 pm

Claudio Tessone (UZH Blockchain Centre)

Closing Remarks

5:10 pm

Tomaso Aste (UCL)