[Industry talk--Actus] Smart Financial Contracts - The Future of Capital Markets

Industry talk HS21 (Actus) ——"Smart Financial Contracts - The Future of Capital Markets".

Speaker: Dr. oec. Willi Brammertz
When: 30.11.2021 18:00
Where: KOL-H-317, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, Switzerland
(A covid certificate is necessary.)
(Hybrid)

Abstract:
We will discuss the concept of smart contracts following the definition of Szabo and compare it to its current use in the blockchain community. From there we will develop the concept of smart financial contracts and relate it to the open-source standard ACTUS (www.actusfrf.org). We demonstrate its wide use independent of any technology, especially their digital nature which makes them the ideal type of digital assets. Finally, we will discuss tokenization and its relationship to smart financial contracts.

BIO:
Dr. oec. Willi Brammertz
Willi Brammertz dedicated more than 30 years to the advancement of financial transparency, inclusion and efficiency as an entrepreneur in finance & banking. Starting with his PhD thesis he worked on the algorithmic nature which led to the “periodic table of finance” which is now part of the open-source ACTUS (https://www.actusfrf.org/dictionary) where he holds the chair of the Users Association.
As an entrepreneur, he was the co-founder of IRIS (successfully sold to Wolters Kluwer) and father of one of the now world’s leading financial analysis systems riskpro™. Today he is the founder and managing director of Ariadne Business Analytics and the main author of the book “Unified Financial Analysis – the missing links of finance” (Wiley, 2009) which underpins his entire theoretical thinking. Furthermore, he’s a lecture at the University of Zurich / ETH Zurich teaching the “The Risk & Finance Lab”. In the last few years he introduced this concept successfully into the world of crypto, blockchain and distributed ledger.

Reading Material
--1. Smart Contracts, Distributed Ledgers, and the Need for an Algorithmic Financial Contract Standard. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3373187

--2. «From digital currency to digital finance: The case for a smart financial contract standard».
http://www.brammertz-consulting.ch/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/JRF-02-2017-0025.pdf

--3. Unified financial analysis – the missing links of finance: https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Unified+Financial+Analysis%3A+The+Missing+Links+of+Finance-p-9781119206071
--4. Smart Contracts, Distributed Ledgers, and the Need for an Algorithmic Financial Contract Standard: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3373187

--5. SME Credit Availability – how Blockchain will solve the Credit Gap: https://medium.com/me/stats/post/42c228167d14

AGENDA:
18:00 - 18:15 Welcome by UZH Blockchain Center
18:15 - 19:00 Lecture by Willi Brammertz
19:00 - 19:30 Q&A Session
19:30 - 20:00 Apéro

We are excited to see you there!