Event: 
This call is part of a series of calls to familiarize Executives, Legal, and Compliance professionals with the implementation of the MiCA regulation.

AFME is a prominent association within Europe's financial policy landscape with members including major EU, UK and global banks. In 2023 the Association contributed to ESMA's consultations on MiCA, as well as covered innovation in European financial services.

PolicyPartner and Talos will host Coco Chen - an Associate Director at AFME's Digital Finance unit to talk about how major financial institutions may approach MiCA, as well as how the framework might accelerate institutional adoption of digital assets.

Topics of discussion: 
- Approach of traditional financial institutions towards MiCA.
- Interplay between MiCA and MiFID regimes.
- DLT and digital assets adoption by FIs.
- Role of DeFI and stablecoins
- Divergence of EU and UK regimes towards digital assets.

About Talos
Talos is a trading technology firm that streamlines the digital asset trade lifecycle for buy-side and sell-side institutions by providing a single gateway connecting them with their various providers across the digital asset ecosystem.

Participants:
This call would be particularly useful for Executives, Legal and Compliance professionals engaged in digital assets that are sifting through MiCA compliance and determining where to domicile: Exchanges, Custody Providers, Wallet providers, Infrastructure Firms, Stablecoin issuers.

About PolicyPartner
PolicyPartner is a Washington, DC-and London based policy research firm.

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