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15.11.2019
FinTech Week 2019: SKW Schwarz participates in discussions about the key developments associated with financial sector digitization
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SKW Schwarz and more than 2,000 players from the financial engineering and banking sectors took part in a week-long discussion about the key developments in the digitization of the financial sector. Topics included “data-driven banking,” “ID technology as a barrier to internationalization,” and “digital Identity.”
This year’s FinTech Week was headlined by the FinForward conference, where lectures and discussions addressed future-oriented topics such as “PSD2/open banking” or “STO/Bitcoin.” Yvonne Schäfer, Lawyer and Head of SKW’s FinTech focus group, joined the panel discussion with André M. Bajorat (Founder & Publisher, Payment & Banking), Martin Schmid (Chief Market Officer, FinTecSystems GmbH), Steffen von Blumröder (Head of Regulatory Management, DKB AG), Felicia Meyerowitz Singh (Founder & CEO, AkoniHub), and Marina Zubrod (Founder & CEO, ZM Advisory) on
PSD2/open banking – has the promise of open banking been fulfilled?”
FinTech Week was held in Hamburg for the fourth time from November 4 to 9, 2019 with SKW Schwarz Rechtsanwälte being one of the main event sponsors again. The law firm deals closely with future-oriented topics and bundles its FinTech expertise in the FinTech Focus Group, consisting of 16 lawyers from various legal fields.