Seamus Donoghue has extensive domain expertise in investment banking, wealth management, commodities, and crypto markets, spanning business models, market structure, regulations, and technology. After two decades of building and managing trading operations, developing new derivative markets and spearheading electronic trading and distribution across all the global financial centers with the likes of JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Seamus has spent the last decade as an active founder, leader, and investor in the fintech and digital asset sectors.
In 2018, Seamus joined Metaco, a market-leading technology company providing software infrastructure to financial and non-financial institutions looking to integrate digital assets into their business model. He currently serves as Chief Growth Officer, responsible for driving non-linear growth and oversight of the firm’s corporate strategy. He is also the host of the company’s flagship podcast, Metaco Talks, interviewing the professionals operating at the frontier of institutional digital asset innovation: entrepreneurs, bankers, investors, fund administrators, traders, analysts and other market participants.
Seamus is a regular keynote and panel speaker at notable industry conferences, podcasts and webinars, able to cover broad themes around the relationship between institutional use cases of cryptocurrencies and digital assets (custody, tokenization, payments, DeFi), and traditional finance and capital markets infrastructure, regulations, and operating models.
Roundtable 6
Invite-Only
Discussions on the regulation of decentralised finance (“DeFi”) have picked up pace over the past year. In the vein of the Financial Stability Board’s “same risk, same activity, same regulation” framework for regulating digital assets, many regulators have turned to the concept of activity-based regulation when looking at DeFi, stating that obligations apply to regulated activities even if they are decentralized.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has offered more specific recommendations on how supervisory oversight could be applied in its proposed policy recommendations for decentralized finance. The recommendations centre around the concept of ‘responsible persons’, who may be subject to regulation for DeFi arrangements, and applying risk management, disclosures and other obligations onto such persons.
In this roundtable, we bring together policymakers and industry participants to discuss possible frameworks for DeFi regulation, covering:
- “Same risk, same activity, same regulation”: How can we bring practical clarity of this concept to the DeFi space?
- Responsible person: Possible models for attributing responsibility in a decentralised environment
- Compliance, decentralised: What do good governance and controls look like for DeFi?
The Festival
Global Platforms
Copyright © 2024 Elevandi Limited and Constellar Exhibitions Ventures Pte Ltd.