Financial Regulation in the Blockchain Era

Thursday, July 21st 2022, at Haifa University, Eshkol Lookout Hall

When?	What?
9:00-9:25	Gathering and reception
9:25-9:35	Greetings: Prof. Tal Zharsky, Incoming Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Dr. Nizan Geslevich Packin, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, and Baruch College, CUNY
09:35-09:45	Opening remarks: Adv. Amir Schneider, Chief of Staff, Ministry of Finance
09:45-10:15	Panel: Financial Regulation and the Crypto Industry Chair: Dr. Moran Ofir, Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University Ms. Ilit Ostrowitz-Levy, Head of the Israel Money Laundering and Terror Financing Prohibition Authorit Mr. Eran Yaakov, Director of the Tax Authority
10:15-10:25	The Technology Behind the Crypto World, Prof. Orr Dunkelman, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa
10:25-10:35	The Israeli FinTech Industry, Shmuel Ben Tovim, Director, Fintech IL Innovation Community
10:35-11:25	Panel: Crypto Asset Regulation – A Global Perspective Chair: Dr. Nizan Geslevich Packin, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, and Baruch College, CUNY Dr. Julia von Buttlar, Deputy Head, BaFin’s Securities Supervision Directorate Prof. Greg Day, University of Georgia Prof. Sebastian Omlor, University of Marburg Prof. Casimiro A Nigro, Goethe University – House of Finance Prof. Sean Stein Smith, Lehman College, CUNY
11:25-11:40	Coffee Break
11:40-12:00	Digital Shekel – Yoav Sofer, Head of the Digital Shekel Project, Bank of Israel
12:00-12:15	Monitoring and Identifying Cryptocurrency Manipulations Chen Arad, Founder and COO, Solidus Labs
12:15-13:00	Panel: Crypto and the Capital Market – An Overview from the Industry Chair: Prof. Ruth Plato-Shinar, School of Law at Netanya Academic College and Head of the Center for Banking Law Adv. & CPA Ron Tzarfati, CFO and Regulation, Bit2C Tal Raz, VP Business Development, Horizon (by Altshuler Shaham) Gal Tal-Hochberg, CTO, Team8 Adv. Ariel Rosenberg, Head of Banking and Financial Regulation Group, Goldfarb Seligman
13:00-13:30	Lunch
13:30-14:00	Panel: Crypto and User Protection – FOMO, Risk Management, Legal Difficulties and Technological Failures Chair: Dr. Omer Kimhi, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Adv. Esti Hadar, a partner in Herzog Fox & Neeman’s Banking & Finance Department Adv. Michael Perl, COO, Kirobo Adv. Amit Ashkenazi, Former Legal Advisor of The Israel National Cyber Directorate (the National Cyber Bureau & the National Cyber Security) Adv. Lirom Sende, L.S. Law Firm Dr. Hadar Yohana Jabotinsky, Hadar Jabotinsky Institute for Interdisciplinary Research of Capital Markets, Crises and Technologies
14:00-14:15	Guest Lecture: The Metaverse Operators As De Facto Regulators – Shaul Zohar, Founder and CEO of Meidata
14:15-14:45	Panel: Regulation of Web3.0 — NFTs, Metaverse, Digital Property and More Chair: Prof. Amnon Riechman, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa Dr. Millie Perry, Chair of the Center of Excellence in the Blockchain of the Israel Bureau of Information Technology Yaniv Finkelstein, Sealance Corp. CPA Jaguar-Adva Gal, Jaguar Law Offices Regulation Prof. Shelley Kreitzer Levy, College of Law and Business
14:45-15:00	Coffee Break
15:00-15:30	Fireside Chat – Hester Pierce, SEC Commissioner.
15:30-16:00	Panel: Future Direction & International Cooperation Chair: Dr. Roy Shapira, Harry Radzyner Law School, Reichman University Dr. Roy Stein, Head of Financial Institutions and Markets Unit in the Finance Division, Bank of Israel Mr. Ilan Gildin, Chief Economist & Director of Research and Economist Strategic Consulting, Israel Securities Authority Adv. Tal Hefling, Senior Advisor to Director General, Israel Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Authority
16:00-16:30	A Networking Session, led by Prof. Anat Alon Beck, School of Law, Case Western University and Liat Maidler, Chair of Regulation- Capital Markets and Securities.