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Léonard Bôle

Léonard Bôle

Member of Executive Board, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)

Léonard Bôle has been a member of the Executive Board of FINMA since 1 April 2014. Until 31 March 2025, he was responsible for the former Markets division and set up within FINMA cross-divisional functions on different topics, such as anti-money laundering, conduct rules in the investment area, fintech and trading systems. Since 1 April 2025, he has headed the Asset Management and Markets division. This division is responsible for the supervision of asset managers, collective investment schemes and financial market infrastructures. FINMA's Fintech-desk also belongs to this division.

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Roundtable Room 1, Ground Floor

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Wed, 24 Jun   |   04:00PM - 05:30PM

Investor Protection in the Age of Cryptocurrencies: Risk Management at Every Step of the Journey

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.

Jasper Bets

Jasper BetsSenior Supervision Officer MiCAR/Crypto, Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (AFM)
Merion Anggerek

Merion AnggerekDirector & Head of Capital Markets Policy Division, Markets Policy & Consumer Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore
Richard Gabbert

Richard GabbertChief of Staff, Crypto Task Force, US SEC
Ryosuke Ushida

Ryosuke UshidaDirector for International Policy, International Affairs Office, Financial Services Agency of Japan (JFSA)
Sarah Jungo

Sarah JungoAttorney-at-law / Senior policy advisor, State Secretariat of International Finance
Scott Bauguess

Scott BauguessVP, International and Regulatory Policy, Coinbase
Susan Emmenegger

Prof. Susan EmmeneggerProfessor, University of Bern
Léonard Bôle

Léonard BôleMember of Executive Board, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
Matthias Obrecht

Matthias ObrechtHead Supervision New Technologies, Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA)
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