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Trends and Investment Summit Luxembourg 2020
2020-10-02 12:00 - 17:00 UTC
Description

Trends and Investment Summit Luxembourg 2020

Wealth & Investment Management after Covid-19
Exclusive Insights from Luxembourg’s renown specialists
5 Days digital conference during lunch hours
5 Themes that dominate the Wealth & Investment Management after Covid-19.
5 Live keynotes from Luxembourg experts and partners’ specialists
As nothing in our lives will ever be the same after Covid-19, also our generally accepted approach and fundamentals of investing and asset management will have to be reviewed. One thing remains certain anyhow. The Luxembourg community will remain the financial center for all investments and investment professionals, the place where all investment types and flavors are developed.
How do Luxembourg’s experts react and act to a finance world after Covid-19?
What can we, Benelux finance professionals, learn from their insights in how to invest and how to organize investing and asset management in post-Corona times?
The second edition of Trends Investment Summit Luxembourg brings together Luxembourg experts and partners’ specialists in a digital conference around 5 themes that will dominate the Wealth and Investment Management Industry, from Monday, September 28th until Friday, October 2nd during lunch hours.
Check the Full Programm HERE

6th Luxembourg Fintech Conference
2020-10-07 09:00 - 17:00
Description
6th Luxembourg Fintech Conference
Supported by BIL and the LHoFT

AGENDA
9.00: Log in and Welcome: Dirk A. ZETZSCHE, University of Luxembourg
1st Session: Digital Finance Platforms
Moderator: Mark D. COLE, University of Luxembourg
09:15 – 09:35 – Presentation 1: Digital Finance Platforms in Asset Management – Towards a new regulatory paradigm
Ross P. BUCKLEY, UNSW Sydney – Working Paper
09:35 – 09:55 – Presentation 2: Responsible A.I. Credit Scoring
Katja LANGENBUCHER, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M. – Working Paper
09:55 – 10:15 – Presentation 3: Open Banking – the initiatives of the Basel Committee & future trends
Linda JENG, Georgetown University Law Center, Institute for International Economic Law – Report available at https://www.bis.org/bcbs/publ/d486.pdf
10:15 – 10:45: Discussion
Break
11:00: Log in and Welcome, Dirk A. ZETZSCHE, University of Luxembourg
2nd Session: Blockchain, Private and Public Cryptocurrencies – CBDCs
Moderator: Jean-Louis SCHILTZ, University of Luxembourg and Schiltz & Schiltz
11:15 – 11:35 – Presentation 1: From Bitcoin via Libra to the Digital Yuan
Douglas W. ARNER, University of Hong Kong – Working Paper
11:35 – 11:55 – Presentation 2: Central Bank Digital Currencies – the European Perspective Linn C. ANKER-SØRENSEN, University of Oslo and Ernst & Young Norway
11:55 – 12:15 – Presentation 3: Regulating Global Stable Coins Dirk A. ZETZSCHE, University of Luxembourg
12:15 – 12:45 – Discussion
12:45 – 13:00 – Summary and Closing Remarks: Mark D. COLE, University of Luxembourg
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ONLINE CONFERENCE – Free of charge Registration is compulsory
Email to: fintech@uni.lu
More information: meike.philipp-ries@uni.lu

The Art of Digital Recruitment: How to hire the right talent, online
2020-10-07 12:00
Description
Since social distancing, self-isolating, and working from home has become the new norm, recruiting and hiring has brought new make-or-break challenges. The steps HR and hiring managers take today to avoid losing out on top talent and bolstering their employer brand will determine the future of most businesses.
During an exceptional panel with three different employers’ perspectives, you will learn about the recruitment best-practices and some unique strategies to run online hiring. This will give you a hedge in the war for talent and will help you recruit the right people for your organization.
Agenda
In less than 60 minutes, we’ll discuss how companies need to pivot their recruitment strategies, from the initial job advertising, processing application, candidate pre-selection, interviews to the final hiring-processes.

12:00 Introduction
12:05 Online Job Advertisement and Employer Branding
12:20 Application process and pre-selection
12:30 Onboarding and Online interview
12:45 Q&A

During the interactive discussion, all participants are encouraged to drop their questions in the chat box.
Andy currently leads bitFlyer in Europe, Japan’s No.1 cryptocurrency exchange. His career and education has spanned many aspects of finance and technology, including roles as the COO for a global M&A advisory firm and as the CEO of his own A.I. tech start-up. Andy is a Japanese speaker and has a passion for all things crypto and blockchain-related, regularly writing on the topic. He studied robotics in Japan and authored prize-winning research relating to decentralization.
DO Recruitment Advisors is an undisputed award-winning Recruitment boutique lead by both Nathalie Delebois and Sinéad O‘Donnell. The company was created back in 2008 in the midst of the financial services crisis. Sinead O’Donnell is an expert in identifying and attracting the finest candidate talent available from both local and international sources by using her extensive and detailed knowledge of the Luxembourg employment market, knowledge that she has built up from working in the Grand Duchy for over two decades. Nathalie experience resumes in holding leading positions in hiring and recruitment and also acts as co-President of the Federation for Recruitment, Search & Selection (fr2s), an entitiy that she co-founded in 2017.
Hande Gungor is the leader of Executive Recruitment for Amazon Web Services for EMEA since September 2019, based out of Luxembourg. Previously, she was responsible for executive recruitment efforts across all Amazon businesses ranging from Consumer and Ops to AWS, Device and Digital in the region. Throughout her five year in the company, she also headed critical diversity initiatives, trainings and organizational structuring efforts. Prior to joining Amazon, Hande was one of the three founding consultants of Spencer Stuart in Turkey. She delivered Executive Search and Leadership Advisory services to a variety of clients from Tech, Consumer, Pharma and Financial services industries across Turkey, CEE and Middle East. Hande started her career at Heidrick & Struggles where she worked for 13 years based out of Turkey, Switzerland and UAE. Hande earned a Master’s degree in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oxford – Said Business School, an MBA and Bachelor’s in Psychology degrees from Bogazici University in Istanbul.

Game Of Code 2020 - Open Banking Hackathon
2020-10-09 - 2020-10-11
Description
Game of Code 2020 goes online
Join us for this unique hackathon in Luxembourg. Create your team, choose among the 3 challenges proposed to develop an innovative digital product in 36 hours and exchange with other coding enthusiasts.

Open Banking Challenge by LuxHub
Take on our Open Banking challenge?
Our Open Banking challenge provides competitors with the unique opportunity to test their skills within a real and functional environment.
Hackathon participants will have access to the LUXHUB One API, which enables payment initiation and the retrieval of bank account information from multiple banks via a single integration.
For the purpose of the hackathon, LUXHUB will create mock bank accounts to enable each team to ideate and develop apps that will be of real benefit to the end user.
What’s in it for me?
Participating in this hackathon enables teams to showcase their abilities to our highly esteemed judging panel, while gaining visibility across our extensive European network.
We also have some great prizes on offer for the Top 3 teams.
Register your team here and join the coders NOW
The Awards

1st place team: 5 Samsung Note 20s (courtesy of POST)
2nd place team: 5 Apple Watches (from System Solutions)
3rd place team: 5 tickets to the Fintech Entrepreneurship Program (powered by LHoFT and CFTE)

The dos and don't when dealing with journalists
2020-10-09 13:00 - 14:00
Description
In a world where news turned into a consumer good, the distinction between journalism, news, communication, information, and opinion has become blurred.
Internet, social media, and other platforms give people access to a wider range of sources but also “alternative facts”, some of which are at odds with official advice, misleading, or simply false.
During this session, we will discuss with Thierry:

about the difference between communication and journalism,
about information processing,
but also how to speak to a journalist,
and how do you stand out in the media as a Fintech company in this very busy world

The objective of the session is to create interaction between you and Thierry to answer all your questions and help you be more effective and assertive with your PR actions. Please prepare and ask all your questions!
Agenda

Introduction to today’s media world
What is a journalist?
Learn about Thierry’s day to day
Dos and Don’ts : How to stand out to be noticed by journalists & what fintech journalists are looking out for?
Q&A

Speaker’s Biography
Currently a journalist for Paperjam covering mainly, but not only, technology subjects, Thierry Labro started with RFM radio before joining the Republican Lorrain to serve as a sports journalist for seven years. In 2000, he moved from sport to international and European politics, then to economics for the Luxemburger Wort, before joining Paperjam. Curious about all subjects, Thierry always tries to find new ways to tell.
More on Paperjam Business Guide
Upcoming Sessions

Wednesday, 14 October 2020 at 10:00: LinkedIn Lead Generation To Exceed Your Sales and Marketing Goals
Friday, 16 October 2020 at 12:00: Global Leaders Series with Nigel Verdon, CEO of Railsbank
Wednesday, 21 October 2020 at 12:00: The Bulletproof Elevator Pitch: Get an Investor’s Meeting in 30 Seconds

LinkedIn Lead Generation To Exceed Your Sales and Marketing Goals
2020-10-14 10:00 - 12:00
Description
MasterClass for LinkedIn Lead Generation
To exceed your sales and marketing goals
Do you know over 78% B2B leads are coming from LinkedIn? From branding awareness to nurturing to lead generation, LinkedIn is the B2B marketing powerhouse. That being said, you’re not guaranteed leads by virtue of just being on the platform.
Join us for an on-demand LinkedIn Masterclass where LinkedIn Coach Salina will share a combined set of winning strategies to capture leads on LinkedIn – poise your personal and company profiles to maximize visibility and get in front of the audience that matters to your business.
After attending this Masterclass, you’ll understand:

How to optimize your professional profile and company page for sales
LinkedIn InMail Best Practices
How to leverage LinkedIn Analytics and Lead Gen Forms

Speaker’s bio
Salina Yeung – LinkedIn Certified Coach, TEDx Keynote Speaker, 2018 LinkedIn Power Profile and Chairperson for several International Women@Tech Groups. Over 8 years of experience in B2B marketing and sales, specializing in solving complex business problems via marketing and sales alignment, innovative sales strategies, and breakthrough content marketing. Her true passion lies in connecting with people and her best work comes from helping clients express their best selves and really letting them shine. During her tenure at LinkedIn these past few years, she has trained over 8,000 execs from around the world and consulted for Fortune 500 brands in multiple markets (UK, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Hong Kong, and Singapore) about the power of digital marketing and personal branding.
Her recent venture, LinkedIn-Pro, a go-to platform empowering brands and individuals to maximize their results on LinkedIn.
Follow her profile and #InItWithSalina to stay abreast of the latest marketing innovations and LinkedIn updates.
Connect with Salina on Linkedin and everywhere else. Check below
LinkedIn (LinkedIn-Pro.com) ; Facebook ; Youtube ; Twitter ; Pinterest

LuxCMA Webinar | Blockchain (Part 2) - Digitalization vs. tokenization
2020-10-14 14:00 - 15:00
Description
LuxCMA invites you to join on Wednesday, October 14th from 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. CET for its second webinar dedicated to Blockchain.
This webinar will focus on practical aspects of digitalization and tokenization in the public capital market landscape.
We will:

Look at what digitalization and tokenization can bring to capital markets;
Look whether they should be considered as compatible or, on the contrary, competing tools to make financial markets more efficient, and
Look at what are the opportunities on which the Luxembourg capital market should focus on.

If you have any questions that you would like to see answered during the session, feel free to send your questions to events@luxcma.lu in the lead up to the event.
Please note that this session will be recorded. The recording will be used for the LuxCMA YouTube channel.

LuxFLAG Sustainable Investment Week 2020
2020-10-16
Description
LuxFLAG Sustainable Investment Week 2020
12 Oct 2020 – 16 Oct 2020, Luxembourg
Putting sustainability at the forefront of finance
LuxFLAG is pleased to invite you to the second edition of LuxFLAG Sustainable Investment Week (#LSIW20), which will be taking place digitally over the course of five days – 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th of October.
#LSIW20 is a series of 21 standalone events which will cover a wide range of topics such as Climate Finance, ESG, Impact Investing and Sustainable Development Goals.
All events are free to attend and mostly open to the participants of the financial industry and general public.
However, registration is mandatory for all attendees.
Check out the FULL AGENDA here
Register here

Global Leaders Series with Nigel Verdon, CEO of Railsbank
2020-10-16 12:00 - 17:00
Description
Global Leaders Series with Nigel Verdon, CEO of Railsbank
“Bringing you the biggest names in Fintech”
Join us on Friday, October 16th at 12h00, to learn about Nigel’s journey on becoming one of the world’s most influential Fintech entrepreneurs.

During the virtual fireside chat with Nasir Zubairi, CEO of The LHoFT, Nigel will share his experiences from the early start as a serial entrepreneur after leaving investment banking to founding Railsbank, the pioneer in the global Banking as a service sector.
We’ll learn about some of the challenges he’s faced, what drove him to overcome those and the opportunities he has taken to setting up and running Railsbank.
We’ll also receive his unique perspective on how he sees Banking as a Service evolving in the coming months and years.
Questions from the audience will be taken live.
Nigel Verdon Biography
Nigel Verdon knows more about payments and foreign exchange than is healthy. He was an investment banker but decided to jump ship and use his expertise to build financial start up firms. Nigel founded Evolution Consulting Group, a technology advisory firm to banks and private equity firms; RabbitFX, a foreign exchange specialist for private clients; FX Capital Group, a foreign exchange specialist for corporates; and, of course, The Currency Cloud. While on the dark side, Nigel was instrumental in the hugely successful electronification strategy at Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Bank, the digital market electronic trading business. Nigel splits his time between the UK and the south of France, where he is known as England’s premier wine bore.
Railsbank, Become the Future of Finance
Railsbank is the pioneer and innovator in the global Banking as a Platform (BaaP) sector, enabling banks, businesses and brands to define the future of consumer and SME finance. Currently, Railsbank is live and enabling customers in the UK, Europe, SE Asia and the US. It is the only global BaaP player. The Railsbank platform enables marketers, product managers, developers to take their financial product vision and rapidly prototype, launch and scale their vision using its open finance platform, financial operations, regulatory licensing and rich set of APIs. Using Railsbank’s super simple APIs as building blocks, customers can build pretty much any financial use-case they can imagine, freeing up Railsbank customers to focus on delivering delightful finance experiences to consumers and businesses. Railsbank’s unique ability to innovate at speed was recently highlighted with the launch and implementation of LightningAid.org (helping people and businesses survive financially through the pandemic), which went from “idea to Apple app store” in just eight days. We spoke with their CEO Nigel Verdon

Sign up to the Global Leaders Series with Henri Arslanian
Sign up to the Global Leaders Series with Nick Ogden

Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg 2020
2020-10-19 - 2020-10-29
Description

The Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg is the national advocacy campaign involving a wide range of partners.
The 2020 edition will take place in October, from 19 to 29, in the frame of the European Cybersecurity Month.
In just four years, the campaign became the unmissable event of the year for information security experts, innovators, investors and decision makers. As a fast-paced growing campaign, the Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg counted more than 40 events and 50 partners last year.
Do you want to be part of the next success?

Become a sponsor – SIGN UP
Apply for Awards – APPLY
Organise your Event – SIGN IN

Cybersecurity Luxembourg Startup Pathway
2020-10-21 - 2020-10-22
Description
Cybersecurity Luxembourg – Startup Pathway

Where innovators meet investors
Luxembourg’s startup ecosystem proposes a unique project to educate investors on cybersecurity trends and practices, to organise meetings for startups looking for Business Angels or Venture Capitalists, and to present these solutions to the local cybersecurity, startup and ICT ecosystems.
The Cybersecurity Luxembourg Startup Pathway is intended to serve as a base to promote funding, networking and growth! This event is part of the Cybersecurity Week Luxembourg and it is free of charge.

AGENDA

From July 1st to October 5th: Registration
October 14th: Announcement of the selected startups
October 21th morning: Investor discussion with local stakeholders.
October 21th afternoon: Business angels meeting with startups
October 22th morning: Inside Startup Luxembourg – A unique opportunity to discover Luxembourg’s start-up ecosystem!
October 22th afternoon: Venture Capitalists meeting with startups

Are you looking for investors? HERE is your pathway
Are you looking for innovators? HERE is your pathway

The Bulletproof Elevator Pitch: Get an Investor's Meeting in 30 Seconds
2020-10-21 12:00
Description
“The bulletproof Elevator Pitch: Get an investor meeting in 30 seconds.”
Learn how to craft a short introduction that will attract VC interest and get you a meeting.
We will cover:

What investors are looking for when they first meet you
The 3 sections of the Elevator Pitch
Practice your pitch live!

Meet Aram:
Aram leverages his experience of realizing 40 transactions across VC, LBO, and M&A to train entrepreneurs, investors, executives, and students.
In 2018, Aram founded the TytchMe Academy, the premier e-mentoring platform for Startup Funding and Venture Capital.
TytchMe Academy: Website, LinkedIn, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube
La Folie d’Entreprendre: Website

Digital Finance and Payments: New Opportunities for Payments and the Financial Sector
2020-10-22 16:00 - 18:00
Description
DIGITAL FINANCE AND PAYMENTS: NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR PAYMENTS AND THE FINANCIAL SECTOR
Hot summer for Digital Finance

The European Commission adopts its Digital finance package including a digital finance strategy and legislative proposals on crypto-assets and digital resilience.
The European Council adopts new rules for Crowdfunding platforms to improve the way crowdfunding platforms operate across the EU.
The Luxembourg Government submits a draft “Blockchain Law II” to the Luxembourg parliament to complete its legislative framework to enable the issuance of crypto-securities using decentralised ledger technology (“DLT”).

EPA EU and Schiltz & Schiltz have the pleasure to invite you on 22 October 2020 from 4 PM to 6 PM at the LHoFT* to debate on the new opportunities included in the various initiatives for the financial sector.
Agenda
04:00 Welcome Speech

Nasir Zubairi, CEO at the LHoFT

04:05 Introduction

Thibault de Barsy, Vice-Chairman & General Manager at the Emerging Payments Association EU

04:10 EU Proposal for a framework on Crypto-assets

Nadia Manzari, Partner at Schiltz & Schiltz S.A.

04:30 EU Proposal for a pilot regime for Market Infrastructures based on DLT

Zoé Wagner, Lawyer at Schiltz & Schiltz S.A.

04:50 European Crowdfunding Service Providers (ECSP) for Business

Maxime Llerena, Lawyer at Schiltz & Schiltz S.A.

05:10 Luxembourg Blockchain Law II

Jean-Louis Schiltz, Professor (hon.) at the University of Luxembourg

05:30 Q&A Session
Open panel
Closing Remarks

Jean-Louis Schiltz, Professor (hon.) at the University of Luxembourg

For physical attendance please register by sending an email to Mandy.Lallemand@schiltz.lu, or
thibault.de.barsy@emergingpayments.eu (limited seats available)
Attendance via webinar register HERE
*All participants are required to wear a mask before being seated

Deloitte's Art & Finance Panels | ArtCity 2020
2020-10-23 - 2020-10-28
Description
This year, we will organize a series of virtual “Art & Finance Panels” in collaboration with ArtCity*, a novel interactive platform that replicates as closely as possible the in-person experience of a live art fair.
Through this unique art market online event, Deloitte will lead every day, from 23 to 28 October, 6 online conference sessions – our “Art & Finance Panels”, with renowned speakers from the Art & Finance ecosystem who will provide insights on:

Art & Collectibles: which wealth management service offerings meet UHWNIs’ needs?
Culture & Sustainable Impact Investment. With the Covid-19 crisis, financing culture has become even more problematic hence should we consider new creative financing approaches?
Culture & Smart cities. As a result of the current sanitary crisis and the digitalization of culture, does it make sense to include Culture in the concept of Smart cities?
Hong Kong Art Market: A look into the future
Trust – Transparency – Responsibility trends in the Art market: benefits and challenges for Collectors
Digital transformation in the Art Market: what does this actually mean?

Every day from 15:30 to 17:00 (Central European Time Zone)
Except the Hong Kong Art Market panel on 25 October from 11:00 to 12:30 (Central European Time Zone)
Stay tuned for a more detailed agenda coming up soon
For more information and/or to receive an invitation, please contact us at luevents@deloitte.lu

Failures and triumphs in the quest for corporate innovation
2020-10-23 12:00 - 13:00
Description
The Scandinavian fintech ecosystem has been amongst the most innovative in Europe. Beyond the huge tech companies, Scandinavian banks managed to digitalized their process and provide cutting edge technology to their clients.
DNB ASA, “The Norwegian Bank”, is perceived as the top in class regarding innovation and digitalization. In order to understand how they’ve done it, we have invited their Head of Innovation, Vegard Hansen and Dan Toma, an innovation thought leader, to share their experiences and advises to professionals in the Financial Industry.
Innovation is hard. They will share the challenges they faced, how they’ve overcome them and where they are right now.
It’s not going the be a fairy tale, but a fascinating journey about deploying innovation in a challenging environment.
Agenda:
12:00 pm – Introduction
12:05 pm – The Journey
12:20 pm – The DNB Way of Innovation
12:30 pm – The Challenges
12:40 pm – Q&A

About Vegard Dypås Hansen
Vegard is the Group Innovation Manager at DNB. For the last 8 years he has devoted his efforts to solve the key challenge of how large corporates can innovate successfully. With industry experience from the IT, health and financial sector, Vegard have several failures and triumphs in the quest for innovation. With a long-term commitment to innovation, he is happy to share his experience so other professionals can avoid traditional pitfalls and succeed more in new value creation.
About Dan Toma
Dan is an innovation thought leader and the award winning author of ‘The Corporate Startup’. Dan started his career in entrepreneurship, being involved with technology startups across the world. He focuses on enterprise innovation strategy – specifically on the changes blue-chip organizations need to make to allow for new ventures to be built in a corporate setting. A big proponent of the ecosystem approach to innovation, Dan has also worked with various government bodies, in Asia and Europe, helping developing national innovation ecosystems and implement national innovation strategies.
