[Guest Profile] Laurence Yuan, Partner at Fangda Partners, to attend Global Payment in Web3

Laurence Yuan，a partner at Fangda Partners，has confirmed that he will attend the “Global Payment in Web3” forum hosted by PlatON, a digital public infrastructure, on the afternoon of April 13, 2023, and deliver a keynote speech titled “Regulating Stablecoins”.

MR. Yuan works at Fangda’s Hong Kong office.He specializes in Acquisition Finance,Fund Finance,Project Finance,Trade Finance,Bank Compliance and Distributed Ledger Technology(Blockchain).

Mr. Yuan joined Fangda in 2018 as a partner. Prior to joining the firm, he had worked with elite PRC, US and UK firms for over ten years. The “Universal Theme Park Financing” project (PRC law) led by Mr. Yuan was awarded the “Project Finance of the Year” by “Asian Legal Business” in 2019 and nominated for the “Deal of the Year” in banking and finance sector by “China Law & Practice” in 2018. Mr. Yuan was recommended by “Legal 500”in the PRC banking law sector for 2017 and 2019. In addition, Mr. Yuan worked on an USD 850 million export finance facility (New York law) from Export-Import Bank of the United States and a consortium led by JP Morgan Chase to a Mexican petrochemical company, which was selected as the “Deal of the Year” for the year 2013 by “Trade Finance”.

About “Global Payment in Web3” Forum:

With the rapid development of blockchain technology and digital economy, blockchain payment, as an emerging payment method, has stimulated wide attention and research efforts. While bringing revolutionary changes to the global payment system, blockchain payment has also injected great vitality into the financial industry. Globally, blockchain payment has been widely used in fields including cross-border payment, and is becoming a major driving force for the digital economy.

Global Payment in Web 3, a major sub-event of the Hong Kong Web3 Festival 2023, has invited big-name guests from around the world to share their research results and good practices and discuss the technical challenges, business models, compliance and other related issues of payment in Web3. Through thought-provoking discussions between guests from different backgrounds such as the banking industry, acquiring institutions, issuing institutions, and the gaming industry, the forum will explore whether new payment standards based on blockchain ledgers and Payment Tokens will transform our definition of “money”.

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