Payment Week’s Regulatory Review Part 2 Recap: Bitcoin and Wall Street

Payment Week hosted its second webinar dealing with bitcoin regulation, this time focusing on the intersection of digital currencies and Wall Street. Our speakers Barry Silbert,Founder and Chairman of SecondMarket, John Beccia, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Circle Internet Financial, and Shaker Rawan, VP of Digital Assets Management with Strevus, discussed the regulatory environment, along with the willingness and readiness of high-level institutional investors to seriously consider digital currencies and their related businesses. Listen in for the answers to these questions:

• How is Wall Street embracing and adopting to the innovations of bitcoin / cryptocurrency products or services? Is Wall Street ready to embrace cryptocurrency innovation?
• Is Wall Street ready for bitcoin exchanges? How will these exchanges operate and what is their impact on the cryptocurrency marketplace? Impact on other business?
• Is the industry ready for bitcoin IPOs? Is Wall Street and Main Street ready for public bitcoin companies? What should investors know about the risk of investing in bitcoin companies?
• Do we see more companies looking at bitcoin lending? Who should regulate bitcoin lending?
• What regulations specific to bitcoin can or will be put in place?