Financial Services Essentials: The Latest in Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrencies
WEB213N61: PayPal has announced it is set to offer users the option to buy, hold and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Is Bitcoin a speculative commodity or a revolutionary approach to payments? What about the more than 1000 other cryptocurrencies? Analyse what it all means for credit law, the financial services sector, and your clients or organisation. Get up to date on what you need to know in this increasingly important area.
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Bitcoin & Other Cryptocurrencies Update: What's Going On?
- Analysing cryptocurrencies as speculative commodity or revolutionary payment system
- High profile backers and government involvement: the impact and what it all means
- Bitcoin mining and energy consumption
Presented by Andrea Beatty, Partner, Piper Alderman; Accredited Specialist in Credit Law, in conversation with Michael Bacina, Partner, Piper Alderman
Presenters
Andrea Beatty
Andrea Beatty is a commercial Partner at Piper Alderman focusing on financial services. She is a leading financial services lawyer who has been listed in Australia's Best Lawyers every year since 2012 in the areas of financial institutions and regulatory practice. She has written six editions of the leading consumer law text ‘Annotated National Code’ published by LexisNexis. Andrea advises and represents clients including start-ups, Australian financial services licensees (AFSL) and Australian credit licensees (ACL) on all aspects of financial services regulation and corporate finance including licence applications, regulatory compliance projects and audits, regulatory enforcement defences, and regulator investigations and disputes.
Michael Bacina
Michael advises companies dealing with Digital Law: the intersection of cutting edge technology, automation and innovation. As a former software developer, Michael has a rare combination of technical, regulatory and legal skills which he leverages to assist his clients. Michael works with Fintech, Regtech, Blockchain, digital asset projects from enterprise level deployments bringing technology to existing business models, scale-ups , start-up ventures, cryptocurrency payment providers, crypto-asset exchanges, RegTech, InsurTech, PropTech and compliance for other technology deployments. Since founding and exiting a successful IT business in the early 2000s, Michael has maintained an active involvement in software development. He is knowledgeable in the workings of (and legal issues surrounding) digital currencies and digital assets, blockchain projects, smart contract issues as well as FinTech and RegTech projects.