Blockchain for Financial Services: Beyond the Hype, September 2021

Blockchain for Financial Services: Beyond the Hype
Conceptual tools for practical understanding, strategic decision making, and policy implementation
A Two-Part Online Training Program

Date: 22^nd & 23^rd September 2021

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

WHY THIS COURSE?

Blockchain is widely heralded as a game changing, disruptive technology—poised to transform banking, capital markets, financial services, and even operations of regulators and government. But what can blockchain actually do, and where can the real value be harnessed?

Harnessing the true value of blockchain requires conceptual tools to understand the challenges and opportunities unique to this domain. This interactive workshop equips participants with an essential understanding of the blockchain sphere of technology, its processes, and applications.

The goal of this workshop is to enable senior regulators and financial industry stakeholders to make informed planning and strategic decisions with regards to policies and regulation surrounding the blockchain industry.

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand what is blockchain and what are its potential applications to financial services, from a non-technical perspective
- Analyse crypto-assets, blockchain services and Shariah compliance
- Undertake effective strategic decision making for blockchain products and policy
- Assessing blockchain tokenization for Islamic banks and asset managers, for various product structures and uses

Fee

1 participant: RM1,450/$375
2 participants: RM2,900/$750
3 participants: RM4,350/$1,125
4 participants: RM5,800/$1,500
5 participants: RM7,250/$1,875

Early Payment Discount: Payments made on or before 15^th September 2021 will receive a 7.5% discount. Payments received after this date will be re-invoiced for the full amount.

In-house/group training

If you are looking for an in-house training program or wish to send a group to an existing public program, kindly please contact Andrew Tebbutt at [email protected] or +603 2162 7802.
Learn More

For enquiries please contact:

Mathias Sosovele
Account Manager, REDmoney Seminars
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 25

Normariya Sariman
Account Manager, REDmoney Seminars
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 44

Ramesh Kalimuthu
Events Sales Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 65
Fax: +603 2162 7810

For sponsorship & speaking opportunities:

Andrew Tebbutt
Managing Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7802

For marketing and media enquiries

Anna Rozana Ramli
Marketing Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 22

Who Will Benefit?

Executives and directors from Islamic banks, senior public policy makers and regulators, central bankers, asset managers, and multi-finance companies.

No technical, engineering, or mathematical background is required, but the workshop will ensure attendees finish fully equipped to understand all key concepts, issues, and implications.

Fee

1 participant: RM1,450/$375
2 participants: RM2,900/$750
3 participants: RM4,350/$1,125
4 participants: RM5,800/$1,500
5 participants: RM7,250/$1,875

Early Payment Discount: Payments made on or before 15^th September 2021 will receive a 7.5% discount. Payments received after this date will be re-invoiced for the full amount.

In-house/group training

If you are looking for an in-house training program or wish to send a group to an existing public program, kindly please contact Andrew Tebbutt at [email protected] or +603 2162 7802./p>

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

WHY THIS COURSE?

KEY LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand what is blockchain and what are its potential applications to financial services, from a non-technical perspective
- Analyse crypto-assets, blockchain services and Shariah compliance
- Undertake effective strategic decision making for blockchain products and policy
- Assessing blockchain tokenization for Islamic banks and asset managers, for various product structures and uses

AGENDA AND FORMAT

Each session will be interactive in a seminar format, with participants encouraged to engage with questions throughout.

PLATFORM

This two-part training program will be delivered online through a stable, secure and free-to-access platform. The program itself will be delivered through lectures, worked examples and case studies in order to ensure a detailed and practical understanding of the program content. Participants will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and interact with the program director. Login details and program materials will be sent to participants upon receipt of payment

AGENDA

Part One: 20^th January

Requisite Conceptual Tools for Understanding Blockchain
(90 minutes)

This workshop session genuinely answers the question ‘what is blockchain?’ without generalizations, platitudes, or talking points. This session discusses the collection of closely related technologies that work together to form blockchain and explains precisely how blockchain works through plain language descriptions and interactive Q&A.

Key Topics:

Understand Digital identity and security: public-key cryptography
Evaluate data integrity and efficient verification: hashes and Merkel trees
Assess auditable, tamper-resistant ledger systems: block contents and block verification
Discuss system reliability and resilience using economic incentives/disincentives: proof of work and proof of stake mechanisms
Understand multi-party operating model: network consensus

Break: 15 minutes

Crypto-Assets, Blockchain Services, & Shariah Compliance
(90 minutes)

This workshop disambiguates different types of crypto-based assets and blockchain services while exploring the relevant Shariah compliance issues that must be taken into consideration, especially from an Islamic banking, regulatory, and fiduciary institutional perspective.

Build a working definition of major types of crypto-assets & their common usage
Clarify commonly used industry terms, including their use & misuse
Overview of Shariah parameters of ownable property (mal) and Islamic money
Notable fatwas pertaining to cryptocurrency & group discussion on their merits/weaknesses
Proof-of-work versus proof-of-stake blockchain mechanisms and Shariah compliance implications

Part Two: 21^st January

Strategic Decision Making for Blockchain Products & Policy
(90 minutes)

TThis workshop session applies the conceptual tools acquired in the previous session. Participants will be presented with real-world blockchain use-cases and scenarios, and will discuss and evaluate:

Assess practicality of use-case and identify strengths and weaknesses
Identify various risks including from institutional, regulatory, and compliance perspectives
Discuss Shariah compliance implications and areas for further investigation

Break: 15 minutes

Blockchain Tokenization for Islamic Banks & Asset Managers
(90 minutes)

This session explores specific uses cases for banks and asset managers. Included in the discussion will be details from several of Blossom’s active projects with banks and asset managers.

Overview and explanation of blockchain financial asset tokenization process and benefits
Liquidity management solutions for Islamic banks
Creating retail & cross-border investment products
Unit-linked equity trust/fund tokenization
Unilateral development bank book-running
General group discussion & brainstorming

Course Conclusion

EXPERT COURSE DIRECTOR

Matthew Martin
Founder & CEO, Blossom Finance

Matthew has advised policy makers at central banks and financial services regulators on blockchain technology and has spoken as an educator to international audiences in Bahrain, Indonesia, Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, UAE, and the USA.

Matthew is Founder and CEO of Blossom Finance—a blockchain-based Sukuk platform for social impact investing. Matthew has been an early pioneer in the application of FinTech for Islamic finance with a background including both engineering and product management experience in the digital wallet, payment card, money remittance, mobile payments, and mobile banking sectors at venture capital funded tech startups Xoom, Boku, and Monitise. He has advised policy makers at central banks and financial services regulators on blockchain technology and has spoken as an educator to international audiences in Bahrain, Indonesia, Malaysia, Qatar, Russia, Singapore, UAE, and the USA.

Prior to Blossom, Matthew started his first blockchain related venture in 2013 - back when Bitcoin was less than $100 USD - which allowed instant purchase of Bitcoin in 27 countries using just a mobile phone.

At Monitise, Matthew led the team that pioneered one of the world’s first in-mobile NFC payment product for banks, and fully owned the entire delivery of that solution from technology through to commercial agreements. Prior to that, Matthew was the product architect and team lead for Monitise’s flagship iOS and Android white-label mobile banking platform, which grew to the market leading solution for the US consumer banking market. Under Matthew’s leadership, the team delivered a new platform and architecture that dramatically reduced the overall delivery time of client solutions and reduced ongoing cost of ownership while maintaining a broad range of features and customization capabilities.

At Boku, Matthew was product owner of Boku Accounts: in-person payments using the world’s first Visa PayWave™ NFC sticker. Previously, as Engineering Manager of the Accounts team, Matthew led a team of 10 engineers to build a white-label payments and merchant loyalty product that resulted in a strategic investment by Visa. Before leading the Accounts team, Matthew delivered various proof-of-concepts instrumental in landing key clients such as Disney and Facebook. At Xoom, Matthew evangelized User Experience and User-Centered Design, and championed the first push into mobile; he helped design and run Xoom’s first ever user study. Prior to financial tech, Matthew worked in consumer electronics as a Software Engineer at Logitech as part of their Streaming Media Business Unit and at Benchmark Media Systems as a Software Engineer.

Matthew has studied 8 languages and speaks Indonesian, Farsi, and French at an intermediate level in addition to his native English. Matthew embraced Islam in 2010 and currently lives in Jakarta, Indonesia.

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

Executives and directors from Islamic banks, senior public policy makers and regulators, central bankers, asset managers, and multi-finance companies.

No technical, engineering, or mathematical background is required, but the workshop will ensure attendees finish fully equipped to understand all key concepts, issues, and implications.

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For enquiries please contact:

Mathias Sosovele
Account Manager, REDmoney Seminars
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 25

Normariya Sariman
Account Manager, REDmoney Seminars
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 44

Ramesh Kalimuthu
Events Sales Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 65
Fax: +603 2162 7810

For sponsorship & speaking opportunities:

Andrew Tebbutt
Managing Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7802

For marketing and media enquiries

Anna Rozana Ramli
Marketing Director
[email protected]
Direct Line: +603 2162 7800 ext 22

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

Fee

In-house/group training

Who Will Benefit?

Fee

In-house/group training

PROGRAM INTRODUCTION

AGENDA AND FORMAT

PLATFORM

AGENDA

Part One: 20th January

Part Two: 21st January

EXPERT COURSE DIRECTOR

WHO WILL BENEFIT?

REGISTRATION

Approving Manager

Verification

Part One: 20^th January

Part Two: 21^st January