Decentralized Finance Symposium

Björn Flückiger is Head Legal at SDX. He has over a decade of legal expertise in financial market law and fintech regulation. Amongst others, Björn was an integral part in the setup and operationalization of FINMA’s Fintech unit, contributing significantly to various regulatory policies, including the development of FINMA’s ICO and stablecoin guidelines. Most recently, he served as Head of Legal Services and Regulatory Affairs at Crypto Finance Group, where he managed all legal and supervisory matters of Crypto Finance’s FINMA-licensed entities.

Lidia Kurt has extensive experience in the intersection of traditional finance with new technologies. She is the founder of the digital asset business studio vision&. With her company, she is building products and creating ventures in the digital asset industry for her clients. She is also a co-founder of the recently launched Swiss Stablecoin. Previously, she was the managing partner of a consulting boutique for quantitative finance and has worked for J.P. Morgan and Swiss Re in Zurich, London and Hong Kong. Lidia graduated from the University of St. Gallen with a PhD in asset management. Although loving to tackle the challenges of the financial world, Lidia’s actual happy place are technologies – during coding she regularly loses track of time.

Matthias Obrecht is head of the Fintech Desk at FINMA. The Fintech Desk is a centre of competence for fintech topics within FINMA and also authorises and supervises institutions with the so-called Fintech-Licence (Art. 1b BankA) as well as DLT trading systems. He is attorney at law and holds a law degree from the University of Zurich and a MBA from Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul.

Nina Reiser is Associate Professor of Financial Markets Law at the School of Law, affiliated with the HSG Center for Financial Services Innovation (FSI-HSG) and Vice Director at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG) at the University of St. Gallen. Prior to her appointment at the University of St. Gallen, she held various positions at the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority FINMA. She is also a private lecturer in private and commercial law at the University of Zurich and holds an LL.M. from Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA, USA. Nina Reiser researches and teaches in the areas of financial market law and corporate law. She combines basic research with practical insights from her work at FINMA.

Michael is the CEO of Liquity. Previously, he co-founded atpar AG. The startup advised several DeFi projects and has built a digital securities solution for institutional clients. Before joining the crypto space, he consulted enterprises in their digital transformation at Swisscom. He has 20+ years experience in building digital products and a background in computer science and economics.