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Demystifying blockchain and assessing risk exposure of virtual assets
Time: 9am – 12pm (3 CPD Hours)
Venue: PwC Centre, Avenue de Telfair, Telfair, Moka
What you’ll gain:
- A solid understanding of blockchain fundamentals and virtual asset business models
- Clarity on the legal and regulatory framework
- Insight into the opportunities, risks and governance considerations when onboarding virtual asset businesses
- Real-world case studies and practical risk assessment strategies
- Insights from market drivers in UAE and the Europe on how they are capturing opportunities
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Managers
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Business Partners
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Client-facing teams
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Compliance officers
Our trainers
Ashveen Gopee
Ashveen is the head of PwC Legal (Mauritius) and is a qualified barrister-at-law. His practice focuses on commercial and tax litigation, corporate and transactional, mergers and acquisitions, financial services and capital markets. Ashveen also has an electro-mechanical engineering background and owing to this, he has a wide portfolio of clients in the construction and engineering fields and also those in the innovation sector. Ashveen is also a regular intervener in the space of Virtual Assets and Blockchain technology, both at the national and international level. He was the chairperson of the Fintech Committee of Mauritius Finance. Ashveen also sits on the Harvey AI Steering Committee.
Priyanka Dwarka
Priyanka Dwarka is a Manager at PwC Legal (Mauritius), with a corporate and capital markets practice and a strong track record advising on complex transactions and regulatory-sensitive matters. She is also deeply involved in the Virtual Assets ecosystem in Mauritius: she has given training to a leading bank on virtual assets and stablecoins, supports Virtual Asset Service Providers with their set-up and operational readiness, and has collaborated in finalising stablecoin guidelines with the regulator. She has also engaged with the Bank of Mauritius to provide an executive-level overview of stablecoins.
Co-facilitators
Dr. Michael Huertas
Dr Michael Huertas LL.M., MBA, is a Partner at PwC Legal in Frankfurt and the Financial Services Legal Leader for Europe within PwC’s Global Legal Network, as well as Head of the Financial Institutions Regulatory Europe (FIRE) Team and Head of Legal Financial Services Germany. He advises banks, asset managers, insurers, financial market infrastructure providers and FinTech/crypto-asset firms on eurozone and EU financial regulation, including the Banking Union, ECB-related topics and Capital Markets Union initiatives, and works extensively on structured finance. His FinTech practice focuses on EU reforms such as MiCAR and DORA and broader matters involving blockchain-based business models, DeFi and crypto-custody. He is a German lawyer and a Solicitor-Advocate (England & Wales), also admitted in Ireland.
Hafedh Ajmi
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Technology impacts the way we work, the way we interact and communicate at work and generally the way we think. Our behavioural patterns are changing.
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For more details about this session reach out to:
Priyanka Dwarka on dwarka.priyanka@pwclegal.mu or 5761 1801
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For more details about this session reach out to:
Priyanka Dwarka on dwarka.priyanka@pwclegal.mu or 5761 1801
