Online Masterclass: The Role of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Changing the Financial Sector

We would love for you to join us online – ‘The Role of Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies in Changing the Financial Sector’ by Professor Paolo Giancane.

Blockchain will significantly change the financial services industry by eliminating intermediaries, moving towards what experts suggest as machine-to-machine payments.

This masterclass offers an inspiring look at blockchain and how this technology will disrupt many faces of business activity. While facing relevant regulatory scrutiny and more time and investments are needed to develop and foster commercial applications, blockchain is not a temporary trend.

Moreover, a discussion on cryptocurrencies and their inclusion as a new investment asset class will help understand the potential of blockchain. We will finally look at Libra, Facebook’s glamourous crypto, as an interesting attempt to “stable coins” acceptance.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Paolo Giancane, CFA, is a partner for Mount Flag Limited, a Chinese merchant bank active in cross-border M&A and private equity investing. Paolo has been exposed to the Chinese market since 2005 and has participated in several equity financings on behalf of Chinese clients and advised European clients in prospective investments in China as well as divestitures of European assets to Chinese buyers. He worked at Lehman Brothers in New York and London from 1997 through 2002 in the corporate finance and leverage finance teams. He was a Director at UniCredit Investment Banking in Milan, Beijing and Hong Kong from 2002 through 2009.

He is also an investor in Vesenda, an Italian cutting-edge software house designing data collection and data integration B2B solutions, and Letsell, an e-commerce platform start-up.

Paolo holds a MSc in Finance from London Business School and a BA Degree from Bocconi University in Milan. He teaches “Investment Banking in the APAC Region” at the IE Master in Finance, also giving on-the-ground master classes throughout Asia and Australia. He also teaches executive programs for IE School of Architecture.