Arnab Sen

Co-founder, CEO GFO-X

Arnab co-founded Global Futures and Options in 2020. GFO-X is the first UK FCA authorised and regulated centrally cleared trading venue dedicated to digital asset derivatives. GFO-X services the significant unmet need of large global institutional participants who require a highly regulated, institutional-grade trading venue for digital asset derivatives, particularly options.

Arnab has twenty years of investment and asset management experience and a deep understanding of the nuance of global institutions' trading and operations requirements under a licensed regime (trading, risk management, clearing and settlement).

Arnab started his career at UBS and went on to found Harbour Capital, a fully licensed and regulated multi-strategy investment firm in Hong Kong. Previous roles include portfolio manager at Tiger cub, Nezu Asia and investment management firm HSZ Group.

Arnab has spent much of his career investing in and advising disruptive and transformative technology companies. He has an economics degree from Cambridge University.

Day 2 | 15th May

10:25 AM Institutional Provider Keynote: Solving for large scale institutional access to digital asset markets: The Interplay of Market Structure, Investment Banks, Technology and Regulation

The Role of CCPs in Digital Asset: Understanding the function of Central Clearing Counterparties (CCPs) and why GFO-X’s partnership with LCH SA’s DigitalAssetClear is important in solving counterparty and credit risk, bringing large institutions into the market.
Investment Banks and Cryptocurrency: Exploring why digital asset technology cannot disintermediate investment banks, the significance of banks in credit intermediation, and the risks associated with trading significant leverage on current digital asset exchanges.
Exchange Technology: Although digital assets are a technology driven business, current digital asset exchange technology is subpar for large institutions.
Regulatory Jurisdictions and Crypto: Discussing the diversity of regulatory jurisdictions and their impact on the digital asset markets.

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