Join George Mason University’s (GMU) Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center (Center), the Center for Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC), the Donald G. Costello College of Business, and a host of experts for a wide ranging discussion of what a financial regulatory structure equipped to deal with the realities of today’s financial services sector should look like.

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The Great Debate:  How to Modernize Financial Regulation and Create Economic Stability in a Digital Age

Co-Chairs:

Dr. Jean-Pierre Auffret
Director, Research Partnerships, Costello College of Business, George Mason University; Director, Center for Assurance Research and Engineering (CARE), College of Engineering & Computing, George Mason

Thomas P. Vartanian
Executive Director of the Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
Author, 200 Years of American Financial Panics, Crashes, Recessions and Depressions, And the Technology That Will Change It All; The Unhackable Internet: How Rebuilding Cyberspace Can Create Real Security and Prevent Financial Collapse

Agenda:

8:30 – 8:40 a.m. Welcome and Overview

8:40 – 9:10 a.m. Why Don’t We See Financial Sector Crises Coming & How Do We Make Supervision Work Better?

Keynote Remarks:
Elizabeth McCaul
Former Member Supervisory Board, European Central Bank
Former Chair, New York State Banking Board and Superintendent of Banks

9:10 – 10:10 a.m. Panel:

Greg Baer
President & CEO, Bank Policy Institute
Gary Gorton
Professor Emeritus of Management & Finance
Yale School of Management
Author, Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why we don’t see them coming
Elizabeth McCaul
Alex Pollock
Senior Fellow, Mises Institute
Author, Finance and Philosophy--Why We're Always Surprised

10:10 – 10:35 a.m. In Person Exclusive: Faculty Donut Networking Break
featuring Elizabeth McCaul, William Isaac, Randal Quarles

10:35 – 11:25 a.m. Time to Regulate Cryptocurrency? Investments, Money or Both?

John Reed Stark
John Reed Stark Consulting LLC
Former Chief, SEC Office of Internet Enforcement
Coy Garrison
Partner, Steptoe LLP
Former Counsel to SEC Commissioner Hester Peirce

11:25 a.m. – 12:25 p.m. Regulation of Nonbank Financial Institutions and FinTechs

Michele Alt
Co-Founder and Managing Director, Klaros Group
Caitlin Long
Founder & CEO, Custodia Bank
Dan Swislow
Director of Policy and Government Affairs, Mercury
Margaret E. Tahyar
Partner and Head of Financial Institutions, Davis Polk

12:25 – 1:40 p.m. Buffet Lunch

12:40 - 1:20 p.m. Fireside Chat

Randal Quarles
Chairman & Founder, The Cynosure Group
Former Vice Chair for Supervision, Federal Reserve Board
Thomas Vartanian

1:30 – 2:40 p.m. Building a New Regulatory Model

Michael Hsu
Former Acting Comptroller of the Currency
Elizabeth McCaul
Jelena McWilliams
Managing Partner and Head of the Financial Institutions Group (FIG) Practice, Cravath
Former Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Todd Zywicki
George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law
George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School

2:40 – 3:05 p.m. In Person Exclusive: Faculty Donut Networking Break
featuring Robert Ledig, Elizabeth McCaul, Alison Touhey, Todd Zywicki

3:05 – 3:40 p.m. Rethinking Deposit Insurance – Uninsured Deposits and other Threats to Financial Stability

Keynote Remarks:
William Isaac
Chairman, Secura/Isaac Group
Former Chairman FDIC

3:40 – 4:30 p.m. Panel:

Robert Ledig
Managing Director, Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center
Alison Touhey
SVP, Bank Funding Policy, American Bankers Association
Richard Wald
Vice Chairman, Emigrant Bank

4:30 – 5:15 p.m. Leveraging AI to Improve Financial Regulation

Jo Ann Barefoot
CEO & Cofounder at Alliance for Innovative Regulation
Author, The case for placing AI at the heart of digitally robust financial regulation
Dr. Jon Danielsson
Director of the Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics
Author, The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It
Michael Hsu

5:15 – 5:30 p.m. Wrap Up

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There is no charge to attend the program either in person or via webinar. Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues.

The College of Engineering and Computing at George Mason University hosts the Center for Assurance Research & Engineering (CARE).  CARE’s multidisciplinary approach to cybersecurity encompasses the fields of technology, policy, business and leadership. Through partnerships with government and private industry, innovative research is translated into practices and policies used in real-world settings. Research includes security for distributed systems, mobile apps/devices, industrial control systems, and new technologies such as networked medical devices, as well as policies development for securing critical infrastructure and guidance for cybersecurity leadership/governance. For more information, please visit care.gmu.edu

The Financial Technology & Cybersecurity Center is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that brings together financial services professionals, regulators, trade association representatives, consumer group representatives, counsel and advisors to discuss, debate, and advocate in regard to financial technology and cybersecurity issues and their regulation. For more information about the Center and to sign up to hear about future events and projects visit 

fintsc.org

George Mason’s Center of Excellence in Government Cybersecurity Risk Management and Resilience (CRC) was founded in November 2023. The Center of Excellence serves as a strategic partner in federal, state and local government cybersecurity and IT modernization efforts. CRC translates state-of-the-art research into practice, provides executive education and convenes workshops and conferences on current government cybersecurity and IT modernization challenges, disseminates best practices, and fosters cybersecurity and IT modernization organizational capacity within federal, state and local governments. Fore more information, please visit crc.gmu.edu