Panel: Digital Currency, Crypto Assets, and Sovereign Investment Funds

A special event for the Sovereign Finance, Capital Markets, and Global Regulatory Challenges Seminar.

Who drives the global capital markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds that are often in the media's spotlight. But more and more a new group of public investment funds (SWF and Pension Funds), such as NBIM (Norway), PIF (Saudi Arabia), CPPIB (Canada), and Temasek (Singapore), have become the most influential capital markets players and investment asset owners, with $30 trillion in assets under management.

In recent years, the global markets have seen public investment funds become a dominant force in the alternative asset fields. The most active ones are expanding into new — and perhaps unexpected — territories, such as crypto assets and Web3 ventures. Why do blockchain networks and token assets matter for the world’s largest investors? How do cryptocurrency and Web3 assets, potentially a new asset class, fit into an institutional investment allocation? What legal and regulatory hurdles have been overcome so far, and what are the challenges that lie ahead?

Speakers:

Dan Gibbons  Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Sebastian Bea  President, Coinbase Asset Management
Winston Ma, CFA  Executive Director, Global Public Investment Funds Forum (GPIFF); Adjunct Professor, NYU School of Law (DPW ‘98-‘01)

Conveners:

Asia Law Society, NYU School of Law
Graduate Finance Association, NYU Stern Business School
Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society, NYU School of Law
Law & Business Association, NYU School of Law
Stern Technology Association, NYU Stern Business School

There will be a networking reception at The Malt House afterwards from 6:30-8:30, at 206 Thompson Street in the West Village near NYU Law School. If you would like to attend the reception, please RSVP here.