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Bringing thought leaders and VIP speakers across the world to LATAM.
Modern digital economy has developed in isolation. By bringing global ecosystem design thinking and customer experience to policy development and regulation, we enable a market where innovation can thrive within a collaborative, as well as competitive, space in Latin America.
Finance of Tomorrow is an opportunity to learn, share experiences and perspectives and develop ideas on cohesive solutions, with clear opportunities for networking. FoT is brought to you by Potion, in collaboration with InvestRio and policy makers.
2 venues
Museu do Amanhã & Maravalley, Rio de Janeiro
32 hours
Of content in more than 20 sessions and panels
60 speakers
Regulators and private sector leaders
400 VIP guests
Senior participants from across LATAM
3 days
12-14th August 2024
The best minds from industry, financial sector regulation and policy to discuss themes that unlock transformation.
Participants from public, private and academic sectors from across Latin America and the Caribbean, gather with international domain specialists ready to engage and discuss and drive the creation of a vibrant market.
Senior Regulators
Policy Makers
Key Decision Makers
Thought Leaders
Investors
Multilateral Agencies
Topics
Financial Regulation in LATAM and Caribbean
Social Impact and Financial Inclusion
Open Finance Technology, Security and Implementation
Banking as a Service Regulatory Development
Interoperable and Cross Border Payment Systems
Regulatory Conditions for Promoting Investment
Embedded Finance Use Cases and Regulatory Approach
Regulation of Decentralised Finance and Tokenisation
Privacy Law and Financial Sector Regulation
Digital Identity and Customer Data Rights
Managing AI in Financial Services
Liability Frameworks and Customer Protections
Sandbox Development and Innovation Support
Accounting for Climate Change
Regulation of International Carbon Markets
Investment Flows for Climate Change Reversal
System Design for Combating Financial Crime
Organizers
Partner at Potion
Gavin Littlejohn
Gavin has been a fintech entrepreneur and is a pioneer of open finance and open data. He has promoted customer data rights and innovation in financial services across the globe. Through Potion, Gavin works with regulators and companies to drive better outcomes for people, small businesses and the environment. This includes raising capital, marketing, strategy, proposition development, regulatory engagement, data science delivery and scaling propositions into new markets.
UNESCO Business Impact Council Member
Bianca Lopes
Bianca is an independent investor, business builder, and identity expert. She focuses on driving meaningful impact through technology and business, and she has supported over 50 financial institutions, 9 governments, and many corporations in reshaping and rethinking their approach to technology and how to use that in their innovation agenda. She is a global thought leader on foundational digital identity, and her central focus is how to rewire finance, data and ESG in the world, using the power hereof, and by founding, leading and investing in leading technology companies across LATAM, US and Europe. Bianca has founded, funded and exited 5 technology companies during the last 10 years. She serves as an Independent Director on several advisory boards within finance, identity, AI and web3, and she is on the Board of UNESCO's International Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence and ESG where she facilitates cooperation between developing brands and organisations to build v
Potion Global, partner
Marco Araujo
Marco is an established Chief Legal Officer from the banking and fintech sector. He spent his career leading legal, public policy, compliance and data privacy teams in major global institutions. He held senior executive positions at Nubank, HSBC, Santander, and ABN-AMRO where he led legislative and regulatory teams, whilst spearheading product development in several regions of the globe. Marco has been directly involved in implementing a wide range of fintech products utilising new payments, crypto, and AI market enablers.
Partner Potion, NED, Author & Speaker, Professor
Ruth Wandhofer
Highly experienced financial services, technology and regulatory expert working as consultant, investor, independent non-executive director as well as Professor at CASS Business School in London. Author of various books, keynote speaker and innovation enthusiast working across Fintech, payments, digital identity, cyber security and AI.
Partner at Potion
Sonya Cunningham
"Sonya is a highly experienced delivery partner specializing in the execution of cutting-edge fintech strategies and visions. She has worked closely with regulators to change the way alternative fintechs are licensed and governed and has pioneered alternative approaches to offering financial services in large global banks. Sonya specialises in the delivery of, and migration to alternative banking platforms. She has also led high-profile programmes to incubate and/or integrate emerging fintechs into global financial service organisations. Sonya has also held senior roles in EY, FIS and RBS. "
Key Speakers
Director of Monetary Policy at the Central Bank of Brazil
Gabriel Muricca Galípolo
Graduated in Economics and holds a Master's degree in Political Economy from PUC-SP. He has been the Director of Monetary Policy at the Central Bank of Brazil since July 2023, with a term ending in February 2027. He served as Executive Secretary of the Ministry of Finance from January to June 2023, CEO of Banco Fator from 2017 to 2021, Advisor to FIESP in 2022, and held positions in the Government of São Paulo between 2007 and 2008.
Executive Director of Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK
Sheldon Mills
Sheldon Mills is the Executive Director of Consumers and Competition at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK. Previously, he served as Senior Director at the Competition and Markets Authority. He chairs the board of Stonewall.
Director of Regulation at the Central Bank of Brazil
Otávio Ribeiro Damaso
Otávio Ribeiro Damaso is the Director of Regulation at the Central Bank of Brazil. He has previously held positions as Chief of Staff to the President of the Central Bank and Deputy Secretary of Economic Policy at the Ministry of Finance. He chaired the Boards of Directors of Caixa Econômica Federal, IRB Brasil RE, and Banco do Estado do Ceará. A graduate in Economics from the University of Brasília, he has been a career employee at the Central Bank since 1998.
Director of Financial System Organization and Resolution at the Central Bank of Brazil
Renato Gomes
Director of Financial System Organization and Resolution at the Central Bank of Brazil. Among other responsibilities, he is in charge of the Central Bank's competition and innovation policies. A native of Rio de Janeiro, Renato holds a bachelor's and a master's degree in Economics from PUC-RJ, a PhD from Northwestern University, and a habilitation from the University of Toulouse. Before joining the Central Bank, he was a Professor at the Toulouse School of Economics and a senior researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (France). An expert in Public Sector Economics and Industrial Economics, he has written articles on auction design, competition policy, and payment system regulation.
CVM - Securities and Exchange Commission
João Pedro Nascimento
João Pedro Nascimento is the President of the CVM (Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission) and a Professor at FGV Direito Rio. He holds a Ph.D. and a Master's degree in Commercial Law from USP, a Postgraduate degree in Business Law with a focus on Corporate Law and Capital Markets from FGV Direito Rio, and has completed Extension Courses at Harvard Law School. Currently, João Pedro is a Member of the Corporate Governance Committee of the OECD.
Superintendent of SUSEP
Alessandro Octaviani
Octaviani holds a Bachelor's degree in Law, a Master's degree in Political Science, and a Ph.D. in Economic and Financial Law from the University of São Paulo (USP). He has extensive experience in legal practice, particularly in economic law topics such as Competition Economic Law and Insurance Economic Law. He served as a Board Member of the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) and is an Associate Professor of Economic Law and Political Economy at the USP Law School.
CEO - BMP
Carlos Benitez
Entrepreneur with over 25 years in the credit market, he created Brazil's first fintech, an online vehicle financing platform, Credicarro.com.br. Currently, he is in the financial technology market as CEO of BMP, a leading financial institution in the market, processing credit operations for its own platforms, various fintechs, non-bank companies, and the largest marketplaces in the market.
CEO PagBank
Alexandre Magnani
Since 2015, Alexandre Magnani leads PagBank, a complete digital bank in financial services and payments solution and one of the largest digital banks in Brazil. Magnani initially managed the acquiring division of the company, later becoming the COO, and currently serves as PagBank´s CEO. Before that, for more than 15 years, Magnani led MasterCard's initiatives with retailers and fintech’s and had relevant contributions to the companies RedeCard and CrediCard. Magnani has a degree in administration from FGV-SP and an MBA from the same institution.
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