LHoFT

DIA AMSTERDAM 2020
2020-10-28 - 2020-10-29
Description
DIA AMSTERDAM 2020
What is DIA Amsterdam 2020?

Two days jam packed with inspiration and new industry insights.
1,300+ attendees – 50+ countries – all 6 continents.
75 presenting companies from all over the globe.
Learn from live use cases that generate real value.
The most effective way to enhance your digital strategies, improve current processes and accelerate innovation.

What you’ll be taking home?

A full update on ‘the State of Insurtech’, handed on a plate.
A whole year of inspiration, in just 3 days.
Concrete solutions to start right away.
Loads of new valuable and inspiring contacts.

To know more check HERE or ask the LHoFT Team

SUSTAINABLE FINANCE FORUM 2020
2020-10-27 11:00 - 2020-10-29 00:00 UTC
Description
SUSTAINABLE FINANCE FORUM 2020
The third edition of the Sustainable Finance Forum will take place on three consecutive mornings on 27-29 October from 11h to 12h30.
It will give insights from experts on the need for sustainability in a post-Covid-19 world, the data behind sustainable finance, and will also provide the audience an update on the EU Green Deal, and on the transition to a more sustainable global future.
The Forum targets policy makers, practitioners, public stakeholders, corporate and retail investors active or interested in the field of sustainable finance.
AGENDA
Tuesday, 27 October 2020 – DAY 1: The need for sustainability in a post Covid-19 world
The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our economies severely. It forced a lockdown in many commercial activities and the economic consequences will be felt for years to come. The financial sector is essential to support the economic recovery through investments in healthcare, social programmes, and support packages. But finance must do more. We will discuss whether the pandemic has caused a change in the way we see the global and interconnected economy, and the role that financial services play in shaping a long-term resilient economy.
11:00: Welcome Address and Introduction, Judith Bogner
11:10: Sustainable Finance in the broader context; BAN Ki-moon, President & Chair, Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI)
11:20: Keynote, HE Pierre Gramegna, Luxembourg Minister of Finance
11:30: Financing Sustainability: What the data shows, Nicolas Mackel, CEO, Luxembourg for Finance
11:40: A view from the industry after Covid-19

Julie Becker, Deputy CEO, Luxembourg Stock Exchange
Elena Philippova, Global Head ESG Proposition, Refinitiv
Michaela Seimen Howat, Sustainable Investing Strategist, UBS Global Wealth Management

​12:15: End of Day 1 – The need for sustainability in a post Covid-19 world

Wednesday, 28 October 2020 – DAY 2: The European Green Deal: What next?
The European Union has released its plans and first regulations under the Green Deal which aim for the Union to become climate neutral by 2050. Whether these new regulations are enough to push the financial sector into advancing long-termism and to accelerate the market uptake of sustainable finance remains to be seen. The discussion will focus on what the next steps in the European Green Deal are since the EU taxonomy legislation has passed in 2020, if and how investors and asset managers will use the new framework, and if there are other tools that also help them make their investment decisions.
11:00: Welcome Address and Introduction, Judith Bogner
11:05: What comes after EU Taxonomy?, Martin Spolc, Head of the Sustainable Finance, European Commission’s Directorate General for Financial Services
11:15: What do asset managers need to invest into sustainable assets?, Christian Staub, Managing Director Europe, Fidelity International
11:25: The Investment Environment: Does the EU taxonomy framework help the financial markets become more sustainable?

Simon Bond, Director of RI Portfolio Management, Columbia Threadneedle Investments
Ingrid Holmes, Director and Head of Sustainability, Federated Hermes International
Danae Kyriakopoulou, Chief Economist and Director of Research, The Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF)
Hilde Veelaert, Head of Equities, ACTIAM

12:00: End of Day 2 – The European Green Deal: what next?

Thursday, 29 October 2020 – DAY 3: Financing the transition towards a sustainable future
For the global economy to reach a sustainable and resilient future, change is needed everywhere: technology improvements, economic adjustments, infrastructure ventures, social changes and more. How will these sweeping transitions be financed? The realities of transforming low-carbon ambitions into real solutions for businesses are a question of balancing risks, opportunities, and collective responsibility, while maintaining sound financial decision making.
11:00: Welcome Address and Introduction, Judith Bogner, Master of ceremony
11:05: Lessons from a pioneer, Emma Navarro, Vice President, European Investment Bank (EIB)
11:15: Financing the transition towards a sustainable future, Frank Schulz, Chairman of the Management Board, Arcelor Mittal
11:45: Human rights in financial services, Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly, Director, University of Geneva
11:55: The green transition in light of Covid-19, Fiona Reynolds, CEO, Principles of Responsible Investment
12:15: Concluding Remarks, Nicolas Mackel, CEO, Luxembourg for Finance
For sponsorship opportunities, please contact: Aurélie Zambeaux

PwC Cybersecurity Days
2020-10-26 09:00 - 2020-10-29 17:00 UTC
Description
From IT security to digital trust: how to help CISOs, DPOs and CEOs ensure they keep the organisation secure in a digital society.
Now you have even more time to gain insights from the latest international trends in Cyber & Privacy!
After having worked hard over the last weeks to adapt the event to the continued uncertainty around physical gathering, PwC have decided to turn the PwC Cybersecurity Day one-day phygital event into a 100% digital event spread over 4 days, from 26 to 29 October 2020.
An innovative 4-day programme of webinars will include but not only: interactive workshops tailored to our audience, distinguished speakers from all over the world representing a rich panel of thought leaders sharing the stage with companies engaging in a pitch competition of their innovative solutions and presenting how they meet cybersecurity challenges.
A dedicated programme has been built for each of our audience:

CISO Corner for information security and IT experts
DPO Corner for persons in charge of data protection and privacy, including legal, risk and compliance fonctions
CEO Corner for executives.

View the agenda here.
It will allow participants to exchange ideas, learn and connect with their peers virtually.

2020 AFI Inclusive FinTech Showcase
2020-10-26 - 2020-10-28
Description
Recognizing the power of FinTech and RegTech in creating transformative solutions that support and scale quality financial services, AFI is holding an open virtual competition for FinTech and RegTech innovators from 26 to 28 October 2020 to showcase solutions that target low-income populations and contribute to effective COVID-19 crisis response, or building towards the recovery.
FinTech and RegTech innovators selected as finalists will:

have the opportunity to present and discuss their groundbreaking solutions through a virtual showcase with AFI’s membership of central banks, ministries of finance and financial regulators from more than 80 developing and emerging countries;
be featured in a special AFI report highlighting how their solutions contribute to financial inclusion and COVID-19 response, which will be disseminated across the AFI network, the wider financial inclusion community, and beyond;
be invited to a special dialogue session with AFI members hosting the Pacific Regional Regulatory Sandbox, the world’s first regional sandbox;
have access to a mentoring training on pitching to investors and presenting business models provided by the Luxembourg House of Financial Technology (LHoFT).

In addition, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd placed finalists, as selected by an audience of AFI members and a panel of expert judges, will be offered a complimentary one-year membership at LHoFT.

Failures and triumphs in the quest for corporate innovation
2020-10-23 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
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.

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

Digital Finance and Payments: New Opportunities for Payments and the Financial Sector
2020-10-22 16:00 - 18:00 UTC
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

The Bulletproof Elevator Pitch: Get an Investor's Meeting in 30 Seconds
2020-10-21 12:00 UTC
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

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

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

Global Leaders Series with Nigel Verdon, CEO of Railsbank
2020-10-16 12:00 - 17:00 UTC
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

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LuxFLAG Sustainable Investment Week 2020
2020-10-16, 2020-10-16 00:00 (Europe/Paris)
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

LuxCMA Webinar | Blockchain (Part 2) - Digitalization vs. tokenization
2020-10-14 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
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.

LinkedIn Lead Generation To Exceed Your Sales and Marketing Goals
2020-10-14 10:00 - 12:00 UTC
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

The dos and don't when dealing with journalists
2020-10-09 13:00 - 14:00 UTC
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
