Sarah Jungo is an Attorney-at-Law and Senior Policy Advisor at the Swiss State Secretariat for International Finance (SIF). With many years of experience in financial market regulation, she contributes to regulatory projects in the areas of innovation, emerging financial technologies, capital markets, and financial market infrastructures. In her role, she helps shape the regulatory framework for the Swiss financial centre and advises on national and international financial policy matters. Drawing on her extensive regulatory experience, she regularly engages with policy issues at the intersection of innovation, market integrity, and customer protection.
Roundtable Room 1, Ground Floor
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In recent years, the function of popular cryptocurrencies has shifted. While originally designed as payment instruments, they are nowadays more frequently used as highly volatile investment objects by a variety of investors including retail investors. While a BIS Working Paper showed that between 2015 and 2022 an estimated 73-81% of retail investors have likely lost money on their initial investment in Bitcoin, recent reviews by IOSCO and FSB found that investor protection is still underdeveloped in this area.
This raises the question how and to what extent investors, especially retail investors, must be protected. Starting with a discussion on the available data, the panellists will discuss gaps in current regulation and concepts for an appropriate cryptocurrency regulation architecture in the area of (retail) investor protection.