Taft FinTech Chair to Speak at the WTS Global Shaping Tomorrow’s Capital Markets Conference in Frankfurt

Richard B. Levin, the Chair of Taft's FinTech Practice will be a speaker on a panel discussion titled "Tokenisation, DLT, and the Digitisation of Financial Markets" at the WTS Global Shaping Tomorrow's Capital Markets conference on October 9 in Frankfurt, Germany. The session will focus on the current state of efforts to tokenize of assets, including financial instruments, the evolution of regulated settlement, transfer, and collateral mobility via distributed ledger (blockchain) technology, the risks and challenges of market rail modernization, the role of programmable assets and smart contracts, and key barriers to the broader adoption blockchain technology.

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Levin's practice focuses on the representation of companies in the FinTech industry, including broker-dealers, hedge funds, alternative trading systems (ATSs), exchanges, and digital asset trading platforms. He represents these firms before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, and Congress. Levin has also represented clients before regulators around the world. Chambers and Partners has recognized him as a trusted adviser in the FinTech, blockchain, and cryptocurrency space.