Lawrence Wintermeyer, Elipses

Lawrence Wintermeyer Lawrence Wintermeyer is a globally recognised digital financial advocate, advisor, and investment manager. Based in London, he is the principal of Capstone, an advisory and investment firm focused on digital disruption in business, consumer and government sectors, in a career spanning more than 25 years in financial services, TMT, and energy. He is the former CEO of Innovation Finance, the independent not-for-profit fintech members association, which supported the UK ecosystem into developing into the premier fintech hub in the world. He is a Co-founder and Director at Global Digital Finance, an industry members association convening the ecosystem to design and implement efficient, fair and transparent markets, through industry governance and best practice, to better enable the global formation of capital. Lawrence has worked in the venture capital, private equity and institutional markets and has experience owning, running and advising investment managers and technology start-ups. He sits on a number of commercial, charity, and NGO boards, panels and working groups, often in a pro bono capacity, to promote progressive policies for a transparent, secure and quality digital future for everyone.

Agenda

ALFI Plenary session 3 May
9.25-10.10

Panel discussion - View from the C-Suite

The asset management industry is experiencing a set of unprecedented structural shifts.
These include; a shift in responsibility for long-term savings from state to employer to employee, the value for money of active management being questioned by stakeholders, significant fee compression, an increasing customer propensity to buy products through digital channels, the use of analytics and artificial intelligence to make better investment decisions and increasing expectation that institutional shareholders should exercise greater stewardship over investment decisions.

How should the asset management industry respond?

Three senior Asset Management executives together with the Chairperson of ALFI provide insights into the future of the Asset Management industry
10.10-10.40

Part I - Crypto currencies and their relevance to Asset Management
11.30-11.55

Part III - A checkpoint on reality in assessing whether investor protection lines of defence can keep pace and be more effectively enabled through technology

Transformational technology; what does it mean for control functions
12.05 - 12.35

The evolving role and profile of the Regulator

As Asset Management evolves, embraces new technology and shifts its own paradigms, how is the role of Regulator adapting to these changes? We will hear from experts representing both the CSSF and the FCA, specialising in preparing the regulator for such change and adapting to regulate the Asset Manager of tomorrow