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The Rise of Digital Currencies: Reshaping the Landscape of Banking

March 19, 2025 6:00 PM | London, UK Chapter | In-Person

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March 19, 2025
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM |

In-Person

America Square Conference Centre, One America Square 17 Crosswall, London, EC3N 2LB

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London: The adoption of digital currencies will reshape the global economy and create significant changes in the banking landscape. Financial institutions are poised to realize myriad benefits from blockchain technology including increased efficiency, reduced costs, and innovation, among others. However, the risks associated with such change, disintermediation, liquidity, regulatory, market, and more, must be proactively addressed for financial institutions to remain instrumental in the global financial landscape. 

Join the GARP London Chapter as our panel of leading risk managers cover: 

  • The impact of Central Bank Digital Currencies on the global economy 
  • The risks associated with integrating tokenized assets into core banking activities 
  • Blockchain technology as an immutable ledger  
  • Deployment of risk-based security strategies 

 

Registration is required as seats are limited. Priority will be given to GARP Individual Members.

Agenda

6:00 – 6:30 PM: Registration

6:30 – 6:35 PM: Welcome remarks

6:35 – 7:30 PM: Presentation/panel discussion with audience Q&A

7:30 – 9:00 PM: Networking reception. Drinks and light refreshments will be served.

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Speakers

Peter Left

Peter Left

Head of Digital and Markets Innovation, Lloyds Bank
Peter Left

Peter Left

Head of Digital and Markets Innovation, Lloyds Bank

Peter Left has over 19 years of Financial Markets experience in Treasury & Trading at Lloyds Banking Group. Peter started his career structuring and trading derivative solutions. Recognising the increasing costs of derivatives on the balance sheet Peter moved to managing the balance sheet costs of derivatives. 

Peter then ran Money Market and Repo Sales and Trading eventually moving to Treasury where he managed the Funding and Liquidity of the Ring-fenced Bank group. From this role Peter led the thinking on Digital Money & Assets. Peter is now Head of Digital & Markets Innovation at Lloyds Banking Group where he works to ensure regulated money and assets benefit from the latest technologies. 
Vincent Di Giambattista

Vincent Di Giambattista

Chief Information Security Officer, Parity Technologies
Vincent Di Giambattista

Vincent Di Giambattista

Chief Information Security Officer, Parity Technologies

Vincent Di Giambattista is CISO at Parity Technologies, a Blockchain code development company where he defines and deploys risk-based security strategy to support the development of the Polkadot ecosystem in a continuously evolving cyber threat landscape. 

He has served in industries including government, e-commerce, retail, healthcare, insurance, banking and financial services and has worked on critical national infrastructure and systematically important payment systems. 

He has experience in the three lines of defense and deployed large scale, international, complex projects including technical, functional and organizational solutions in alignment with the Board’s risk appetite and in partnership with regulators. 

Moderators

Anna Millar

Anna Millar

Audit, Lloyds Banking Group

Chapter Directors

Maurizio Garro
Model Risk Manager - Quantitative Research Lloyds Banking Group

Lan Luan
Manager in Finance & Risk Oliver Wyman

Committee Members

Svetlana Kardan
Senior Treasury Manager

Florent Grundeler
Head of Reporting Development and Solutions Lloyds Banking Group

Alpesh Jani
Program Lead Bailrigg

Carlos Balula
Counterparty Credit Risk Manager Nomura

Anna Millar
Audit Lloyds Banking Group

Jurate Brazaityte
Market Risk & Regulation Specialist Standard Chartered

Stuart Kingham
Senior Risk Quant Galaxy Digital

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