Cryptocurrencies gave rise to a number of legal, financial and tax issues. In particular, there is a great deal of uncertainty on the taxation of transactions on distributed ledgers and how such transaction should be accounted for by businesses in their financial statements. The advent of democratised coin exchanges and trading platforms enable holders of tokens to buy and sell tokens easily and to convert tokens into fiat. (and vice versa). The huge surge in the valuation of fairly volatile crypto assets has also meant a number of individuals have seen an increase in their personal wealth.

Agenda

7pm - guests arrive

7:30pm - Kiret Singh (Grant Thornton)

7:45pm - Charlie Beach (Lendingblock)

8pm-8:30pm - additional 2 speakers TBC

We will be providing refreshments and catering.



Biographies of speakers

Kiret has over eight years of experience working as a tax professional assisting clients with their UK and international tax requirements with a particular focus on debt capital markets transactions. Kiret advises lenders, arrangers and brokers in the SME and bridge lending spaces and has significant experience in advising closed-ended and open-ended debt funds in relation to leveraged facilities (including CLO/CDO and securitisation transactions) mainly investing in leveraged and corporate loans. Kiret is a Chartered Tax Adviser and holds an Advanced Diploma in International Tax.

Charlie is Lendingblock's Risk and Regulatory advisor. Charlie was the Group Chief Risk Officer at IG Markets, a market leader in providing online trading platforms for retail derivatives traders with cryptocurrency trading capabilities. He led the independent risk function which oversees control of the firm’s market, credit and operational risk exposures, and the firms regulatory capital adequacy. Prior to joining IG, Charlie spent 4 years as Head of Operational Risk Control for UBS Investment Bank, running a team of risk controllers supporting the Investment Bank globally. Prior to this Charlie worked for PwC as a risk management consultant supporting global clients in a wide range of risk, capital and liquidity management projects, including several assignments to assist clients with risk remediation programmes arising from the Global Financial Crisis.

This event is organised by Grant Thornton and Lendingblock.