Future of finance: navigating the trust component
Speakers
Chief B2B Officer • Sygnum Bank
Fritz Jost is Sygnum Chief B2B Officer, leading the team that works with our B2B Banking clients. Before joining Sygnum, Fritz built up and led the strategic platform partner initiative at Leonteq, a fintech platform for structured investment products and long-term savings solutions, establishing partnerships with major financial institutions globally. Prior to that, Fritz spent over 20 years in investment banking in New York and London. As Global Head, he was in charge of the build-out of SBC Warburg / UBS’s presence in capital markets and derivatives. He also held various executive positions at the UBS UHNW and Family Office Division. Fritz holds an degree in Economics and Business Management from the University of Applied Sciences in Zurich.
Managing Director, Global Head Investments Private Bank & Wealth Management • Barclays
Founder & CEO • Metaco
Adrien Treccani is an entrepreneur, author and, at core, a software engineer specialized in financial mathematics, confidential computing, cryptography and digital assets. A former hedge fund quant, he has been advising banks and financial institutions on distributed ledger technology for more than a decade, and in 2015 he founded Metaco, a market-leading technology company providing software infrastructure to financial and non-financial institutions looking to integrate digital assets into their business model. In May 2023, Metaco was acquired by Ripple, the leader in enterprise blockchain and crypto solutions. Metaco continues to operate as an independent brand and business unit, with Adrien serving as the company’s CEO, being responsible for setting the strategy and overseeing the growth execution of the firm. Adrien lectured at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) and University of Lausanne (UNIL) in cryptography and the financial applications of blockchain and is a published scholar in leading international peer-reviewed finance journals. Most recently, Adrien co-authored the best-seller book ‘Blockchain and Distributed Ledgers: Mathematics, Technology, and Economics’, a detailed and self-contained introduction to the founding principles behind blockchain, DLTs and cryptocurrencies, for professionals operating in quantitatively oriented fields such as mathematics, computer science and banking. As an established thought leader and regular keynote speaker at large scale events, Adrien covers a broad range of themes spanning blockchain, cybersecurity, digital assets and custody, tokenized securities, DeFi and Web3, with a particular focus on the learnings extracted from engaging on digital asset technology projects with some of the world’s largest banks and corporates.