Mr. Roland Scheinert | PwC

Presentation: Annual Audits 2023: Key Issues and Conclusions

Education/professional career:

• Since 2009 at PwC, since 2019 Partner
• Business Administration, University Cologne

• Financial Risk Management, University Kiel
  

Main topics:

• Financial Risk Management
• FS Risk Consulting
• Capital Markets

Mr. Benjamin Münch | PwC

Presentation: Annual Audits 2023: Key Issues and Conclusions

Education/professional career:

• Since 2019 at PwC, sincec 2022 Partner Financial Services

Main topics:

Mr. Dr Alexander Gebhard | Schalast

Presentation: BaFin’s Supervisory Practice and Strategies with Regard to Fines and Findings – What to Do About It?

Education/professional career:

• Since 2012 Partner Banking & Finance at Schalast
• Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in London

Main topics:

• Advising banks and financial service providers as well as investors in all areas of banking, financial market and investment supervision law
• Licensed financial activities and regulatory compliance
• Structuring financial products, including regulatory capital instruments, and the foundation, structuring and acquisition of financial institutions and payment companies
• FinTechs and joint ventures in the financial services sector

Further information on Mr. Dr Alexander Gebhard can be found here.

Mrs. Dr Anna Izzo-Wagner | Annerton

Presentation: Developments of the Regulatory Requirements for Outsourcing and Digital Operational Resilience (DORA)

Education/professional career:

• Founding partner of Annerton Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH
• Advising banks and financial services institutions as well as FinTech companies in regulatory matters
• Specialised in digitisation projects for institutions
• Regular speaker at specialist lectures and events in the area of finance

Main topics:

• Banking supervisory law
• Compliance
• Investment supervisory law
• Outsourcing
• Payment services supervisory law

Further information on Mrs. Dr Anna Izzo-Wagner can be found here.

Mrs. Josefine Spengler | Annerton

Presentation: Developments of the Regulatory Requirements for Outsourcing and Digital Operational Resilience (DORA)

Education/professional career:

• Counsel at Annerton
• Specialist lawyer in IT
• Many years of experience as Head of Legal at a payment service provider

Main topics:

• IT and FinTech segment
• Supervisory law and data protection as well as on compliance and AML topics
• Data protection

Further information on Mrs. Josefine Spengler can be found here.

Mr. Alexander Kottmann | PwC

Presentation: The Upcoming MaRisk Amendments in 2023

Education/professional career:

Main topics:

Further information on Mr. can be found here.

Mrs. Dr Janina Heinz | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Presentation: CRD 6 and CRR 3: Recent Developments of EU Banking Legislation

Education/professional career:

• Since 2019 Counsel at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
• Former Legal Counsel at the European Central Bank (Single Supervisory Mechanism)
• Secondment to a global bank in London (Regulatory Change Management)
• 2010 admitted to the Bar

Main topics:

• Bank and financial services regulation in Germany and Europe
• Advising clients on non-contentious and contentious proceedings with the ECB and BaFin and on investigations in the financial services sector
• M&A transactions in the financial services sector
• Digitisation in the financial services sector
• ESG

Further information on Mrs. Dr Janina Heinz can be found here.

Mr. Holger Hartenfels | Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer

Presentation: CRD 6 and CRR 3: Recent Developments of EU Banking Legislation

Education/professional career:

• Since 2020 at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
• Study Law at the Universität in Cologne
• 1993: Second State Examination

Main topics:

• Banking supervisory law
• Bank recovery and resolution
• Financial Market Infrastructures (EMIR)
• Securitisations

Further information on Mr. Holger Hartenfels can be found here.

Mrs. Katrin Scheicht | Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law

Presentation: Current HR Topics for Banks: Working Time, Mobile Working and Diversity

Education/professional career:

• 2022: Professional education mediation
• 2018: Partner at Pusch Wahlig Workplace Law, Munich
• 2009: Certified labor and employment law specialist
• 2007-2018: Lawyer at Norton Rose Fulbright LLP, Munich, partner since 2013
• 2004: Admission to the German Bar

Main topics:

• Advising national and international companies on all employment and labor law related matters, in particular on
  – co-determination rights of the works councils
  – whistleblowing
  – restructurings
  – employment contracts and its termination
  – employment and labor litigation

Further information on Mrs. Katrin Scheicht can be found here.