DZ BANK Capital
Markets Conference 2025
8 May 2025
Frankfurt School
of Finance & Management
Frankfurt/Main
Opportunity amid volatility: Capital markets in a new global order
Join DZ BANK, in collaboration with Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) and the Official Monetary and Financial Institutions Forum (OMFIF), for the DZ BANK International Capital Markets Conference in Frankfurt on 8 May 2025.
Our flagship event, held in continental Europe’s principal financial hub, convenes global policymakers, politicians, business leaders and financial market practitioners to discuss the outlook for capital markets in an increasingly multipolar world.
Against a backdrop of declining multilateralism. Europe has entered 2025 with a sluggish economy, transforming transatlantic relationship and divergent global monetary policy. Compounded by risks stemming from the global political climate.
Despite the recent elections in Germany, Europe's policy uncertainty remains in focus given the absence of stable leadership in Europe's largest economies.
Moreover, Trump's second term is serving as a wake-up call for Europe to redefine its global role. Europe will seek to take leadership on climate action, develop a unified strategy to navigate Washington's trade policies and prepare for less defence support.
At the same time, uncertain geopolitics, increasing digitalisation, and greater regionalisation have put the onus on policymakers to create the conditions for the euro – which celebrated its 25th anniversary – to strengthen its international role by advancing capital markets union.
Join us to hear from global thought leaders on the opportunities and challenges as capital markets adapt to a new era of market conditions, shifting and aligning investments towards a more multipolar, digital, and sustainable economy.
Read the key findings from last year’s conference here.
The conference language will be English.
We look forward to welcoming you in Frankfurt.
H.-Theo Brockmann
Global Head of
Capital Markets Institutional Clients
DZ BANK AG
Frank Scheidig
Global Head of
Senior Executive Banking
DZ BANK AG
Agenda
May 8
09:00
Bus transfer to Frankfurt School
09:30
Opening remarks
Frank Scheidig, Global Head, Senior Executive Banking, DZ BANK
Nils Stieglitz, President & CEO, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
09:35
Opening keynote: Leading the future: AI, blockchain and beyond
Isabell Welpe, Professor, Technical University of Munich
09:55
Presentation: Monetary and financial sovereignty: a European perspective on a multi-dimensional problem
Ulrich Bindseil, Director General, Market Infrastructures and Payments, European Central Bank
10:15
Panel: Scaling DLT-based Capital Markets
Recap: Learnings from ECB Exploration Phase
Expectations from the industry – what are the essential next steps
Overcoming digital fragmentation
Disintermediation versus new Intermediaries
Emmanuelle Assouan, Director General, Financial Stability and Operations, Banque de France
Alexandra Hachmeister, Director General, Digital Euro, Deutsche Bundesbank
Christoph Hock, Head, Digital Assets, Union Investment
Stefan Mögelin, Senior Officer, Financial Market Infrastructure, BaFin
Jens Siebert, Partner, Financial Services, KPMG
Tom Wagner, Senior Manager, Capital Markets, Siemens
Moderator:
Tim Armbruster, Treasurer, KfW
11:15
Coffee break
11:45
Panel: From ‘tokenised’ to ‘smart’ - Potential of Smart Financial Contracts
Discussion based on selected use cases
Disintermediation versus new intermediaries
Tackling digital standardisation
Christian Fries, Head, Model Development, Group Risk Control, DZ BANK
Moritz Platt, Capital Markets Technology Manager, Google
Martijn Siebrand, Ecosystem Manager, Digital Assets, ABN AMRO
Bert Staufenbiel, Senior Manager, Digital Transformation, KfW
Moderator:
Peter Kohl-Landgraf, Senior Business Analyst, DZ BANK
12:30
Panel: AI use cases for capital markets
How capital market participants are developing and deploying AI
Risks, issues, and challenges in adopting AI
Regulatory engagement
Markus Ebner, Head, Multi Asset and Alternatives, Quoniam
Ashish Majmundar, Head, Exchanges and Digital Platforms, Google
Ayelet Perlstein, Head, Investor Relations, IFC
Rupert Rebentisch, Head, Digitalisation, KfW
Moderator:
Sascha Steffen, Professor of Finance, Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
13:15
Closing remarks
Frank Scheidig, Global Head, Senior Executive Banking, DZ BANK
Nils Stieglitz, President and Chief Executive Officer Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
13:20
Lunch
Registration
Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Audimax Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Adickesallee 32-34
60322 Frankfurt am Main
Contact
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us:
via E-mail: cmc@dzbank.de
Organisational:
Georg Behrendt
Event Management
Phone +49 69 7447-92894
Content:
Adam Cotter
Senior Executive Banking
Phone +65 64278384
Christian Gärtner
Senior Executive Banking
Phone +49 69 7447-90154